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Meet at the entrance to Central Park @ West 103rd Street and Central Park West.

No tickets or reservations are required—just show up!  And it’s FREE (really!)

Take the subway (B or C to 103rd Street) or bus (M10) right to the park gates.

With: Elena Araoz*, Bob Armstrong, Michael Carlsen, Stewart Carrico*, Janis Dardaris*, Torsten Hillhouse*, Ingrid Kullberg-Bendz,

Michael E. Lopez*, Vince Nappo*, Taylore Mahogany Scott* & Jeffrey Woodard*

(*courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association/Equity Approved Showcase)

Jay Paul Skelton (Director), Victoria Tzykun (Production Designer),

Stephanie Klapper (Casting Director), Barbara Adrian (Voice/Speech Coach),

Jeremy Wilcox* (Stage Manager) & Stephen Burdman (Artistic Director)

Questions? (212) 252-4531 or newyorkclassical.org

Coming up!

Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller – at Castle Clinton in Battery Park  (July 2-3 previews and July 5 & July 7-12 at 7:00 pm)

And

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare – in Central Park (August 3-27 at 7:00 pm)

This isn’t off-off Broadway, but the title is funny and some of the artists involved started there (Charles Busch, for example). And Jenn Harris was in Silence! The Musical, as in Silence of the Lambs, but a musical. That’s about as off-off as it gets. And it’s a benefit for The Actor’s Fund, who offer services and support for entertainment industry folks (click here to learn more). Expensive of course, but you can write most of it off.
DIE MOMMIE DIE! – One Night Only! — The Actors’ Fund of America

ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Monday, June 19th at 7:30pm
The Hudson Theatre – Millennium Broadway Hotel, NYC

starring
Charles Busch
Jenn Harris (Silence! The Musical)
Jayne Houdyshell (Tony nominated star of Well)
Tom Mardirosian (Law and Order/Oz/Wonderful Town)
Christopher Meloni (Law and Order:SVU/Oz)
and many more!
Directed by
Carl Andress

The Most Wonderful Love from the Blue Coyote Theater Group. Click here for more info, and click on the image below to see the e-flyer.

The subtitle is actually the best. Read on:

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Absence of Magic (Quest for the Glove of Never Ending Awesomeness)
Venue:  Ensemble Studio Theatre
521 W. 52nd Street
West of 10th Ave on 52nd St.

Dates/Times:
Wed, July 5th  8 PM
Monday, July 10th 8PM
Tuesday, July 11th  8PM
Admission:  $7

Reservations:  212- 2471 4982

http://www.redbastard.com/

Critically acclaimed clown,  Eric Davis, stars in

Absence of Magic (The Quest for Never Ending Awesomeness)
Performed by Eric Davis
Created by Eric Davis and Sue Morrison
Directed by Sue Morrison

Eric Davis is…
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The Brick Theater, Inc.
presents
a Gemini CollisionWorks production

That’s What We’re Here For (an american pageant)

written, designed, and directed by Ian W. Hill

as part of The $ellout Festival

With That’s What We’re Here For (an american pageant), noted NYC
independent theatre creator and artsy curmudgeon Ian W. Hill joins the
spirit of the $ellout Festival by creating a peppy original (and
sincere, really!) patrotic revue focusing on the history of America
from 1945 to now. A celebration of freedom. A 1970s TV variety show.
A collision of art, industry, irony, and wide-eyed musical numbers.
Robert Wilson meets Up With People. An original play about America,
Money, and God is in there underneath it all, but that’s not important
if you just want to listen to the pretty songs and look at the pretty
pictures . . .
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A summer New York institution, Shakespeare in the Park(ing) Lot, where performers present works by the Bard free of charge, while competing with the various sounds of the city (including a passing garbage truck), will return this July with two of Bard’s most popular works, THE TEMPEST and AS YOU LIKE IT.
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Some readings from the good folks at Reverie Productions. The last two plays to come out of their contest were good: HAVANA BOURGEOIS and PING PONG DIPLOMACY.

Here’s the latest batch (text from their email newsletter):
We’ve got a guy who tatoos advertising on his forehead (Billboard), a funny twist on war profiteering (Your Army), A tour guide imprisoned for burning down his place of employment (Guided Tour), an unwitting moment of racial violence (Luck), and an isolated matriarcal society in the hills of New Jersey (Humans Remain). In other words – fun for the whole family.

All Readings will take place in the Bruce Mitchell Room

at the ART/New York Spaces at 520 8th Avenue (at 36th St) on the 3rd floor.

Admission: Pay What You Can
Reservations and Info: http://www.reverieproductions.org/contest-readings.htm

Saturday June 10th @ 7 pm

Guided Tour

by Peter Snoad ~ directed by Ivanna Cullinan

A graduate student interviews a prison inmate convicted of burning down the Newport mansion where he was a tour guide in the 1950’s, and digs up more than she bargained for.

Luck

by Josclynne Grier ~ directed by Jocelyn Sawyer

Two Police investigators question a man arrested for assault uncover the unthinking act of racism that set off the attack.

Monday, June 12th @ 7 pm
Humans Remain

by Robin Rice Lichtig ~ Directed by Chris Harcum

A reclusive community, the desecendants of escaped slaves, comes into contact with mainstream society when a troubled student seeks solace in the woods.

The contest winners will be announced at our July fundraiser – stay tuned for details!

After a series of sold-out regional productions Mindy Nirenstein brings Robert W. Cabell’s acclaimed one-woman show I, SARAH, to New York for three performances only to launch a national tour. Portraying “The Divine Sarah Bernhardt,” (a title bestowed by Oscar Wilde), Nirenstein presents a warts-and-all look at the woman who was the greatest actress of her generation and, to many, the greatest of all time. Written by Robert W. Cabell and directed by Joe Zingo, the show will be performed at the Where Eagles Dare Theatre, located at 347 West 36th Street, from June 22nd – June 24th.

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NACL THEATRE CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

GET INVOLVED in the MAKING of an ORIGINAL PLAY, “AMERICAN VALUE”
To be presented at The NACL Catskill Festival of New Theatre on JULY 14 and 15, 2006
A joint production of Sojourn Theatre, NACL, Carpetbag Brigade, and YOU!

AMERICAN VALUE
NACL is looking for people from all sides of the political spectrum— Democrats, Republicans, Socialists, Libertarians…. Anyone!
Get involved as a performer OR be interviewed with questions like: “What does being an American mean to you?” “What are your core values?”
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CAP21 Premieres New John Pielmeier Comedy

June 1 – 17, 2006

A Developmental Production

CAP21’s fully staged developmental production of THE CLASSICS PROFESSOR, a new comedy by John Pielmeier, starts tonight (June 1) and runs through June 17 at CAP21’s THE SHOP located at 18 West 18th Street, New York City.
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