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2008 - 2009 Season Seventeen:
Work
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Welcome to our
Seventeenth Season: Work
Starting the Season will be...
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Alphabet
City V
August 13 - 24
9
solo-performances based on first person
interviews with the
artists, activists,
entrepreneurs, and neighbors of the Lower East Side.
AEA Approval Pending
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Season
Seventeen will also include:
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Its a Wonderful Life! Our
Christmas ActAlong!
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and
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Melvillapalooza
A festival of
new works celebrating the
life and work of Herman Mellville
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and
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East Village
Chronicles VI
Our series of
short plays about the Lower East Side
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Stay
Tuned for more information about our upcoming Season: Work
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Our
Previous season 2007-2008
Season Sixteen: Virtue
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Alphabet
City IV
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August 8 - August 19, 2007
9 new solo
performances
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Margaret
Fleming
by James A. Herne
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September
21 - October
21, 2007
"...
speak[s] to the ages."
- Robert Windeler, BackStage.com
A
play well worth knowing
- Michael Feingold, The Village Voice
"...
fascinating."
- Martin Denton, nytheatre.com |
Tales
from the
Wind and Sun
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October 6 - 14, 2007
Saturdays and Sunday
at 11 am
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The
Pioneer
Five short
plays by
by
Eugene O'Neill
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November 9 - December 9, 2007
"Wonderful"
-Rachel Saltz, New York Times
"What
a treat"
-Martin Denton, nytheatre.com
A
Back Stage "Pick"
Podcast
on nytheatrecast.com:
Discussion
with
Director and excerpt from The Pioneer
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It's A
Wonderful
Life |
December
15, 2007
The
Annual Holiday Actalong
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Hawthornucopia
A series of new works celebrating the
life and genius of
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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January 14 - 27, 2008
Exhilarating... I wish I
could see them all.
- Martin Denton, nytheatre.com
Featured in
American Theatre Magazine
- January 2008
nytheatre.com
podcast |
The
Festival of the Vegetables
by
Michael and Rachael Kosch
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February 2 - 17
The second year of
a family friendly festival |
Mortal
Decisions:
a Diary of the
Donner Party
by Stu Richel
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February 8
- 16
A one man odyssey
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Year
One of
the Empire
by
Elinor Fuchs and
Joyce Antler
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February
29 - March 30
"Enlightening, entertaining ...
engrossing"
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The New York Times
"Essential
viewing....rousing good drama....the best kind of documentary theater"
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nytheatre.com
"Theatrical savvy ... passion ...
conviction ...engrossing"
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Back Stage
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Adventure
Theater
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May
3, 4, 10, 11
11 am
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The Devil
and Tom Walker
A New Musical
Washington
Irving's tale
conceived by Yvonne Conybeare
adapted by Anthony P. Pennino
original and adapted music by Rob Kendt |
April
18 - May 18
"This
engaging new play with music from Metropolitan Playhouse might just
initiate a first-time category: the morality musical"
Read Karl Levett's review at Back Stage.com
"one of the finest new
musical comedies of the season
The show is a treat....a
treat with a message that's clear, pertinent, and unimpeachable."
Martin Denton's review at nytheatre.com
Highlighted
in Martin Denton's Theatre Season
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Village Chronicles, Vol. 5 |
June
5 - June 22
All new plays about the places that make the East
Village
"Not
to be missed" - nytheatre.com
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