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Sixteenth Season, 2007-2008



Tales of the Wind and Sun
Written by: Diego Carvajal, 
Jon Levin, Corina Bardoff.

Alphabet City ...IV
Directed by: Derek Jamison
Avenue A:
Theresa Byrnes - Painter and Author
Bill DiPaola - Environmental Activist
Tamara Hey - Singer/Songwriter

Avenue B:
Evelyn Milan of the The Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center
Mary Lee Kortes - Leader of Mary Lee's Corvette
Blake - chinchilla raiser

Avenue C:
David Ores, MD - Dr. Dave
Jim Power - Lamp Pole "Mosaic Man"
Miguel Algarin - Co-founder of Nuyorican Poet's Café


Margaret Loesser Robinson and Todd Woodard

Margaret Fleming
by James Herne
Directed by Alex Roe
photo by Alexandra Corazza
REVIEWS
Fifteenth Season, 2006-2007





Martin Novemsky and Suzanne Toren


Denial
by Peter Sagal
Directed by Alex Roe
photo by Michelle DeBlasi
REVIEWS

Nicholas Richberg

Andre
by William Dunlap
Directed by Elfin Vogel
photo by Michelle DeBlasi
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Zoe
Margaret Loesser Robinson

The Octoroon
by Dion Boucicault
Directed by Alex Roe
photo by Noam Galai
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Becky and Tom
Christy McIntosh and Jeff Pucillo

The Truth
by Clyde Fitch
Directed by Yvonne Conybeare
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Festival of the Vegetables
Music and Poems by Michael Kosch
Choreography and Costumes by Rachael Kosch

East Village Chronicles


Evening A

60 Guilders Worth
by Anthony P. Pennino
Stars Over the East Village
by Nathanael Chura
Unresolved
by Page Hearn
 Apologies to Vietnam
by C. S. Hanson
The Old New World
by J. P. Chan

, Vol. 4


Evening B

Parkhurst's Descent

by Trav S.D.

Triangles Everywhere
by Kimberly Wadsworth
 Quiet Howl

by Laura Livingston

 Age of Discovery
by Carlos Jerome

Sheila Mom

by Richard Sheinmel

Twainathon

Huck Finn

Adapted by N. G. McClernan
The War Prayer
Adapted by Michael Durkin
Directed  by Monica Hayes Anderson
Extracts from Adam's Diary
Adapted by Anthony P. Pennino
The Report of My Death
by Adam Klasfeld
The Californian's Tale
adapted from Mark Twain’s short story by Andrew Firda
Henry's Lunchroom
by Dan Evans  A LuLu LoLo Production

An Inconvenient River
by Laura Livingston





The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
An adaptation by Michael Bettencourt

Anhedonia Road
Adapted by Chris Harcum
Fennimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
by Mark Twain, read by Mikel Sarah Lambert
A Marvelous Curiosity
compiled by Jeremy X. Halpern
The Hadleyburg Project
 A Musical Reading ~ Music by Adam Cohen, Book & Lyrics by Kevin Laub
beTwixt, beTween & beTWAIN
Stories and text: Mark Twain
Music, Lyrics and Adaptation: Danny Ashkenasi










Fourteenth Season, 2005-2006

Vera and David
Margaret Loesser Robinson and Daniel Shevlin

The Melting Pot
by Israel Zangwill
Directed by Robert Z. Kalfin
Photo by
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Inheritors

David Fraioli and  Margaret Loesser Robinson

Inheritors
by Susan Glaspell
Directed by Yvonne Opffer Conybeare
Photo by Michelle DeBlasi
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Genie
Charlotte Hampden

Haunted
by Alex Roe
REVIEW


Dickon
Ian Gould

The Scarecrow
by Percy MacKaye
Directed by Alex Roe
Photo by Alex Roe
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Alphabet City ...III
More Monologues from the neighborhood

Unchartered Journey - Marilyn Appleberg by Latarsha Rose
Collage - Dennis Giron by Abraham Sparer
Dr. Dave
- David J. Ores by Chris Harcum
Photographs Live Forever
- Marlis Momber by Todd Lawson
Grand Tour
- Terry Towery by Tod Mason
Ya Get the Picture
- Pastor Diane by Mario Quesada
Everybody Got to Give Some Crumbs
- Billy Lyles by Deborah Johnstone
The Lower East Side Saved My Life
- Irma St. Paule by Andrea McCullough
Little Geniuses
- Michelle Grasso by Jenne Vath
Un Parajo Enjaulado -
Miladys Ramirez by Lisa Barnes

Thirteenth Season, 2004-2005
Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
adapted by Christopher Moore
Directed by Alex Roe
Photo by Sara Forest


Mike Durkin and Jenni Tooley

Missouri Legend
by E.B. Ginty
Directed by Yvonne Conybeare
Photo by Rachel Lipsitz
Crusader
Melanie Rey and Sidney Fortner

Children's Crusader
by Anthony P. Pennino
Directed by Alex Roe
Photo by Cindy Ord


East Village Chronicles Vol. 2

The First Generation--Newcomers
Commedia della Poca Italia  by Anthony P. Pennino
Floating Home  by Adrian Rodriguez
Ukrainian Blues  by Saviana Stanescu
The Irish Melodrama  by Trav S. D.

Generation Next--The Followers
East Village Kaddish  by Anthony P. Pennino,
Beat  by Renée Flemings
Bicycle Wreck  by Qui Nguyen
The Pigeon Tree  by Gino DiIorio
Kwaku Driskell and Arthur Acuña in Bicycle Wreck
Photo by Alex Roe



Matthew Trumbull and Lian Marie Holmes
Photo by Mary Blanco


Metamora
by  John Augustus Stone
Directed by Alex Roe


susannah mackintosh and Alex Roe


The Devil's Disciple
by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Yvonne Opffer ConybearePhoto by Cindy Ord