Metropolitan
Playhouse
The American Legacy
The American Legacy
220
East Fourth Street ~ New York,
New York 10009
(212) 995 8410
(212) 995 8410
"One
of my favorite downtown theaters"
~ Martin Denton, nytheatre.com
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Metropolitan
Playhouse
The American Legacy 220
East Fourth Street ~ New York,
New York 10009
(212) 995 8410 "One
of my favorite downtown theaters"
~ Martin Denton, nytheatre.com
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| Fall 2008 | |
| Alphabet City V August 13 - 24 |
Begun in 2004, the Alphabet City Project creates new solo-performances based on first person interviews with the artists, activists, entrepreneurs, and neighbors of the Lower East Side. 9 actors portray 9 residents in three different shows... |
| Nowadays By: George Middleton September 27 - October 26 |
Written
by a leading voice in the women’s suffrage movement, Nowadays pits a
head-of-the-household kind of father with a daughter who wants to
support herself. But when his wife reveals she has a secret career of
her own, the complacent world of the whole family is turned upside
down. From the hide-bound patriarch to his iconoclastic daughter, from
the rabble-rousing newspaperman to the quiet girl next door, everyone
gets a comeuppance in this smart and funny look at the conventions that
bind us all. Far more than a mere political appeal, Nowadays is a
meaningful look at our self-imposed limitations and our best
possibilities. |
| Adventure
Theater! November 29 & 30 December 6 & 7 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! |
| Anna Christie By: Eugene O'Neill November 14 - December 14 |
O'Neill's tenderest tale of fallen angels looking for land. Anna has left a life in the streets to find her estranged father working a coal barge, and to fall in love with a bold and brazen man who cannot accept her past. Three hard headed lovers of the sea are tossed in a storm of their own desires in an ironic and hopeful story of human frailty. |
| Its a Wonderful Life December 20 |
Our annual Act Along Christmas special |
| January 2009 - Literary Moralist | |
| Melvillapalooza January 12- 25 |
In
January, Metropolitan celebrates our literary heritage with
Melvillapalooza--A festival of new works by many companies, all
inspired
by the life and writing of Herman Melville. |
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| The Festival of
the Vegetables January 31 - Feburary 15 By: Michael and Rachael Kosch |
New and FDA
approved: The Metropolitan's popular family fare has been expanded and
revised
for 2008-2009. 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! |
| Power By: Arthur Arent March 14 - April 12 |
Metropolitan
turns on the first revival of Arthur Arent’s Power, a “Living Newspaper” created
for the WPA’s Federal Theater Project in 1937. A mix of documentary and
vaudeville, this fast-paced, many-character play, hums out of the Great
Depression with panache and surprising resonance today. Power’s subject is a power struggle
over control of the electricity supply. The question of urgent
moment: Is power a private commodity or a public good? A topical work of art from a bygone era, the play is a fascinating artifact of America’s theater history. But as we always find at Metropolitan, this piece of the past has a great deal to tell us about our present. The questions that provoked the Living Newspaper Unit seem very current indeed. Spurred by manipulations of commerce and capital, misuse of political clout and economic influence, and disparities in the lives of thosewho have and those who need, the artists who created Power crafted a savvy and pointed indictment of business as usual. |
| It Pays to Advertise by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter Hackett May 2 - 31 |
How do you sell what you don't
have? Advertise. In Megrue and Hackett's quick-witted 1914 comedy, Rodney Martin has a problem: to please his industrial giant father and win the enterprising girl of his dreams, he has to make something of himself. But with no experience, he only has will without way. Welcome old chum Ambrose Peale, a fast-talking pitchman for a Broadway flop who can always spot an opportunity where it isn't. Together, they hatch a foolproof scheme: found a company, promote that company, sell that company, and never make anything at all. We are proud to revive a funny, maybe too-timely, comedy-romance from the treasure-trove of American theater. |
| Cosmic
Brew! May 16 -24 |
New theater for children and
families, COSMIC BREW! takes us on a musical journey guided by a three
headed being, "The Great Even". Come play a game of song and sounds as
you join the onstage musician/actors in transforming a chaotic world
into a place of sonorous harmony. For all aged children and adults. Musically educational! |
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EAST VILLAGE THEATER FESTIVAL
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Chronicles Vol. 6 and Alphabet City VI |
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Schedule subject to change. Metropolitan reserves the right to
substitute alternate productions for any scheduled programs. |
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