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Fall 2009

East Village Theater Festival
August 3 - 23

A celebration of the life and lore of the East Village, including 6 new Alphabet City Monologues, 8 new East Village Chronicle plays, plus a panel discussion on the changing neighborhood, exhibitions of the art of James Romberger and Little Annie, and a reading of Judy Chicurel's "Tales from Beautiful Pearl's."


The Contrast
by Royall Tyler
October 2 -
November 1

In 1787, The Contrast became the first play by an American to ever receive a professional production. But it is because the play is a sophisticated, subversive, and dead funny piece of theater that it truly merits the title of First American Play, and that it is very worthy of a new look today.


Adventure Theater
December 5, 6, 12, &13
For Families and Children
 ADVENTURE THEATER is an interactive, theatrical experience designed for family audiences, and especially for children age 5 – 13. The audience is an intrinsic part of the show. Led by the improvisers, they invent the plot, provide the sound effects, become the scenery, and play important characters – including the Hero!


Under the Gaslight
by Augustin Daly
November 20- December 19
An earnest lover, a poor but honest heroine,
a dastardly villain,

and a good man tied to the railroad tracks

The play that defined the genre....


Its a
Wonderful Life

December 20


Our annual Act Along Christmas special


January 2010 - Living Literature


Another Sky
January 18 - 31

In January, Metropolitan celebrates our literary heritage with --a festival of new works by many companies, all inspired by the life and writing of women of the 19th century.

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Spring 2010


The Festival of the Vegetables
By: Michael and Rachael Kosch
February 6 - 21

 
New and FDA approved: The Metropolitan's popular family fare has been rinsed and polished off for 2010. Set in a huge supermarket where a toddler nods off to sleep and dreams dreams of bravery, and bounciness in Brussels (sprouts), the Festival is a music-dance-theater piece featuring a series of witty poems set to music and dances that reveal the secret life of vegetables. Our props are crops!


Give and Go
Learning from Losing to the
Harlem Globetrotters
by Brandt Johnson
February 11 - 27

He was a basketball star and a Wall Street Wiz, but he never really won until he lost....
Every Day.
Brandt Johnson's semi-autobiographical journey is a touching and funny discovery of a man's perspective following a young boyhood dream.


The Return of Peter Grimm
by David Belasco


March 13 -
April 11

From the vivid theatrical imagination of the greatest impressario of the age:
A tale of a good hearted man whose blind eye to the hopes of the ones he loves may lead them to ruin, unless he can save them from themselves....after he has died.
A sentimental ghost story and a marvelous work of the theater.
Directed by Alex Roe



Dodsworth
by Sidney Howard and Sinclair Lewis
May 2 - 31
 From Lewis' novel, a man of affairs looks forward to a peaceful retirement, but his wife (and fate) have some very different plans.
A story of finding a second life, against all expectation.


Family Fare
IVAN ULZ
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Ivan Ulz--troubadour and author brigns his unique blend of humor and music to the Metropolitan Stage.
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* Schedule subject to change. Metropolitan reserves the right to substitute alternate productions for any scheduled programs.
 
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Now in its Eighteenth Season, Metropolitan Playhouse is devoted to the exploring and enriching America's theatrical legacy and the discovery of that tradition's place in world theater. Metropolitan focuses on three types of production: forgotten American masterpieces like Inheritors, The Scarecrow, The Melting Pot, and past seasons'
Metamora, The City, Fashion, Sun-Up, The Faith Healer, The Woman, The Easiest Way, Whatever Happened to Jones, and The Streets of New York; new plays based on America's history and literature, such as the East Village Chronicles, Salem, The O. Henry Conspiracy, Washington Irving's Sketchbook, and History Lessons; and works from around the world that put these American works in context, such as Arden of Faversham, Bacchus, Oedipus Rex and Dom Juan.