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Friday, August 23, 2013
'Mercy Killers' Wins Fringe First Award at The Edinburgh Festival
The Stella Adler Studio of Acting’s Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company reports that Michael Milligan’s Mercy Killers is the recipient of The Scotsman Fringe First Award at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Milligan’s one-man play is inspired by America’s horror stories of the uninsured, many of whom suffer financial tragedies on top of chronic illnesses. The festival performance featured the debut of Mercy Killers outside of the U.S.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world and takes place every August for three weeks in Scotland’s capital city. The prestigious Scotsman Fringe First Awards celebrate the best new writing at the festival, as judged by the team of critics from Scotland’s national newspaper, The Scotsman.
Over 60% of all bankruptcies in the U.S. are the result of medical debt. “What most people don't realize is that in the majority of those bankruptcies, the person involved actually had insurance at the onset of their health crisis,” says Milligan. “Mercy Killers is my attempt to translate those statistics into the actual human experience indicated by those numbers.”
The play explores these themes through Joe, a man being interrogated by the police over the death of his terminally ill wife. A red-blooded American man, Joe is sympathetic to the Tea Party and the libertarian convictions of self-reliance and the free market. However, when his cancer-stricken wife has her health insurance revoked and they become trapped in the labyrinth of the health care system, Joe’s faith in the American Dream is put to the test when he is driven to make a fateful act.
Milligan has appeared on several Broadway shows including August: Osage County, La Bete, and JerusalemWhile studying at Juilliard he won the John Houseman Prize for excellence in classical drama. A reading of his verse play, Phaeton, featured Mark Rylance, David Hyde Pierce and Joanna Lumley. He has previously received Four Stars for his performance of Lanford Wilson’s one-man show, Poster of the Cosmos, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Milligan can be seen in New York City on September 19 at the Lucille Lortel Theater, where he will take part in a conversation about writing and performing in one-man shows. He will be joined by poet, spoken word artist and actor Lemon Andersen.
The date and location for the event at the Lucille Lortel Theater is as follows:September 19, 2013 Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher St.,
New York, NY 10014
Thursday, August 22, 2013
The Roundabout's 2013-14 seven play schedule
IT’S ABOUT WHAT YOU CHOOSE TO BELIEVE WHEN YOU’RE CHOSEN.
After a sold out run last season at the Black Box Theatre, the uproarious family feuding continues as Roundabout Underground’s world premiere hit comedy Bad Jews moves upstairs to the Laura Pels Theatre! Daniel Aukin (4000 miles) directs the full original cast in Joshua Harmon’s “biting and brilliant” (Variety) play about family, faith and legacy.IT’S ABOUT THE CHOICES YOU MAKE FOR THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE.
Tony Award® nominee Michael Cumpsty (End of the Rainbow), Tony nominee Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (Man of La Mancha), Alessandro Nivola (A Month in the Country) and Tony winner Roger Rees (Indiscretions) star in Terence Rattigan’s classic. Lindsay Posner (Noises Off and Carousel) directs this captivating new production from The Old Vic in London. Learn more and buy tickets IT’S ABOUT CLOSING ONE DOOR SO YOU CAN OPEN ANOTHER.
Now in its seventh season, Roundabout Underground presents a vibrant New York premiere by up-and-coming playwright Meghan Kennedy. Tony Award nominee Sheryl Kaller (Broadway's Next Fall) directs this bittersweet, poignant and touchingly funny drama about the walls we build to protect our hearts––and deciding when it’s time to break them down.Learn more.
IT’S ABOUT THE CHOICES YOU DON’T GET TO MAKE.
Golden Globe nominee Rebecca Hall (The Town,Vicky Cristina Barcelona) stars in this inventive new production of Sophie Treadwell’s gripping drama helmed by acclaimed British director Lyndsey Turner. Inspired by the infamous 1927 murder trial of Ruth Snyder, Machinal is a riveting look at the danger that can come from a life unlived. Currently available only to subscribers and donors.
IT'S ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CHANGE,
BUT YOUR LOVED ONES DON'T.
The Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Donald Margulies (Time Stands Still) returns to the New York stage, directed by Tony winner Pam MacKinnon (...Virginia Woolf?, Clybourne Park). This wryly funny and richly layered masterpiece is about two couples who do everything together, until one marriage crumbles and their lives veer in opposite directions. Currently available only to subscribers and donors.IT’S ABOUT THE MOMENT YOU STOP THINKING AND START FEELING.
The Real Thing returns to Broadway in a stirring and sensual new production helmed by Sam Gold (Roundabout’s Picnic, Seminar). Delectably witty and deeply affecting, this Tony Award–winning play by Tom Stoppard (The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia) takes a daring glimpse at relationships, fidelity, and the passions that often blur our perception of love. Currently available only to subscribers and donors.IT’S ABOUT REALIZING THAT YOU ARE IN A BIT TOO DEEP.
In this incisive and surprising world premiere, a married man and financially strapped young woman begin a purely uncomplicated relationship that becomes anything but. Evan Cabnet (The Dream of the Burning Boy) directs Bekah Brunstetter’s (Oohrah!) stunning play about the choices we make that change our lives in ways we never expected. Currently available only to subscribers and donors.ROUNDABOUT ON THE ROAD
The Anything Goes National Tour set sail on October 2 at the Palace Theatre in Cleveland with Rachel York, best known for her critically acclaimed Broadway performances in City of Angels, Les Misérables, Victor/Victoria (Drama Desk Award) and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, as Reno Sweeney. Anything Goes will cruise into more than 21 other cities during the 2012–2013 season, including the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. For the full tour schedule and other information, click here.Broadway's big money winners last week
Here are the Top-grossing Broadway shows for the week ending Aug. 18.
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World premiere production of 'Julian and Romero' by Theater for the New City
Theater for the New City will present the world premiere production of 'Julian and Romero.' Written and directed by Alex Perez. (De La Guarda, Ultimate Drag Off, Oz). "J&R" will play a limited engagement at Theater for the New City from September 3-8th, 2013. (rehearsal photo above)
Julian and Romero is A fabled story of two young Cuban men in the 1960's, one communist soldier under Castro's revolution, and one closeted gay young man- who were both best friends growing up but are now at odds with each other's beliefs, politically/religiously and culturally.
The story is told in scenes, dance and monologues within the play at a UMAP prison camp with subplots and relationship issues that arise between the prisoner and the soldier. It is an agonizing look at a rich cultural history, filled with music of Cuba's yesteryear, American dreams and the will to survive against all odds.
The production stars Gonzalo Trigueros (Romero), Sebastian Stimman (Julian), Julian Juaquez (Raul), EdnaLee Figueroa (Bertha) and Daren Flemming (Sgt. Cruz). Written and Directed by Alex Perez. Tech Director Libby Jensen, Costume Designer Peter King, Associate Stage Manager Bryan Campo.
Julian and Romero plays the following schedule:
Julian and Romero plays the following schedule:
Tuesday Sept 3 9:00 pm
Wednesday Sep 4 6:30 pm
Thursday Sep 5 9:00 pm
Saturday Sep 7 5:00 pm
Sunday Sep 8 8:00 pmTickets are $12
www.Smarttix.com or 212-868-4444
Theater for the New City
155 First Ave
New York NY 10003For more info please visit the show's Web page:
www.facebook.com/JulianandRomero
Wednesday Sep 4 6:30 pm
Thursday Sep 5 9:00 pm
Saturday Sep 7 5:00 pm
Sunday Sep 8 8:00 pmTickets are $12
www.Smarttix.com or 212-868-4444
Theater for the New City
155 First Ave
New York NY 10003For more info please visit the show's Web page:
www.facebook.com/JulianandRomero
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Equity Auditions in New Jersey
Lunch break will happen between 12:45 pm-1:30 pm. The production will run Oct. 4-20th, with the first rehearsal on September 16 and will be directed by Artistic Director Carl Wallnau.
Seeking both Equity and Non- Equity performers.
CHARACTERS:
· SIDNEY BRUHL: Cast
· MYRA BRUHL: Late 30’s to 50’s, Wealthy wife of author Sidney Bruhl. Nervous and high strung with a heart condition.
· CLIFFORD ANDERSON: 20’S – 30’S, Young author of potential hit play and former student of Sidney Bruhls.
· HELGA DEN TORP: Cast
· PORTER MILGRIM: 40’s-60’s Sidney’s friend and lawyer
Performers should bring a photo and resume, stapled back-to-back. Actors may read sides from the script or perform a monologue for the audition. Visually-impaired performers may request an advance copy of the sides when making an audition appointment. Actors can call 908-979-0900 ext 8 to schedule an appointment.
Send resumes if unable to attend to CSC, 400 Jefferson Street, Hackettstown,NJ 07840 or fax to 907-979-4297, or email them to Wallnauc@centenarystageco.org.
Seeking both Equity and Non- Equity performers.
The roles of Sidney Bruhl and Helga Ten Dorp have been cast. Also seeking equity stage manager.
CHARACTERS:
· SIDNEY BRUHL: Cast
· MYRA BRUHL: Late 30’s to 50’s, Wealthy wife of author Sidney Bruhl. Nervous and high strung with a heart condition.
· CLIFFORD ANDERSON: 20’S – 30’S, Young author of potential hit play and former student of Sidney Bruhls.
· HELGA DEN TORP: Cast
· PORTER MILGRIM: 40’s-60’s Sidney’s friend and lawyer
Performers should bring a photo and resume, stapled back-to-back. Actors may read sides from the script or perform a monologue for the audition. Visually-impaired performers may request an advance copy of the sides when making an audition appointment. Actors can call 908-979-0900 ext 8 to schedule an appointment.
Send resumes if unable to attend to CSC, 400 Jefferson Street, Hackettstown,NJ 07840 or fax to 907-979-4297, or email them to Wallnauc@centenarystageco.org.
CSC operates under a SPT Actor’s Equity contract, with a weekly salary of $322.00 for union actors, with a stipend for non-union actors and Stage Managers receive a weekly salary of $377.00.
New Jersey: McCarter Theatre in Princeton to open season with 'Proof'
McCarter Theatre Center (photo) will open its 2013-2014 Theater Season with David Auburn’s Proof, directed by Artistic Director Emily Mann. The production will run from September 6 through October 6 (Opening Night: September 12).
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Proof is an elegant and engaging story of passion, genius, and family bonds. Catherine has inherited her late father’s mathematical brilliance, but does she also share his madness? When one of his graduate students discovers a groundbreaking proof among the professor’s notebooks, Catherine must face the legacy her father has left behind.
The cast of Proof features Michael Braun (Hal), Kristen Bush (Catherine), Jessica Dickey (Claire), and Michael Siberry (Robert).
The creative team includes three-time Tony Award winner Eugene Lee (set designer), Jennifer von Mayrhauser (costume designer), Stephen Strawbridge (lighting designer), and Mark Bennett (sound designer).
About the play, Ms. Mann said, “I knew I wanted to select a contemporary American play because I thought it would complement the rest of the season. When I thought about plays from the last 15 years that I loved, Proof immediately came to mind. We have never produced it at McCarter and I felt that I had a special connection to the play, being a University of Chicago faculty child myself and having had a very close bond with my father. I went back and read the play and it leaped off the page at me. It’s such a good play. It’s so sparely, beautifully written and the motor is sort of unusual for a relationship play. It almost feels like, not exactly a detective story, but there is suspense involved in a way that’s really interesting to me and deeply imbedded in the character relationship.”
David Auburn’s plays include The Columnist with John Lithgow (Manhattan Theatre Club/Broadway); The New York Idea (adaptation; Atlantic Theater); Proof (Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, New York Drama Critics' Circle Award); An Upset and Amateurs (EST Marathons); and Skyscraper. Films include The Girl in the Park (writer/director) and The Lake House. Recent directing credits include Michael Weller’s Side Effects for MCC Theatre and A Delicate Balance for the Berkshire Theatre Festival. His short plays have been collected in the volume Fifth Planet and Other Plays (Dramatist Play Service). His work has been published in Harper’s, New England Review, and Guilt and Pleasure; and he was a contributing editor to the Oxford American Writers Thesaurus. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he lives in New York City.
Michael Braun (Hal) most recently appeared in Lincoln Center’s production of War Horse on Broadway. With The Bridge Project, he performed The Winter’s Tale and Uncle Vanya, directed Sam Mendes, at BAM, world tour, and London’s Old Vic. His other credits include The Front Page, On The Razzle, The Indian Wants the Bronx, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Liddy Plays, andBloody Mary (Williamstown Theatre Festival); The Breach (Seattle Rep); Lulu and All's Well That Ends Well (Yale Rep). Film: Incoming, Dare, Igby Goes Down. TV: The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie,Law & Order, Awkward Situations for Men. MFA: Yale School of Drama. He is a member of The Actor’s Center Company and is the recipient of a Princess Grace Award.
Kristen Bush (Catherine) has appeared in The Common Pursuit, directed by Moises Kaufman (Roundabout Theatre); Kin, directed by Sam Gold (Playwrights Horizons); Isaac's Eye and Photograph 51(Ensemble Studio Theatre); and, King Lear with Kevin Kline (The Public Theater). Her regional credits include Saturn Returns (South Coast Rep); Passion Play (The Goodman Theatre); The Violet Hour(The Old Globe). Film/TV: Liberal Arts, directed by Josh Radnor; Synecdoche, New York, directed by Charlie Kaufman; Ashborough (NBC/ Chiller); Elementary, Law & Order: SVU, The Good Wife,Blue Bloods, Suits, Person of Interest, Unforgettable, Medium, Numbers, NCIS, and the post-Hasselhoff Knightrider. Ms. Bush trained at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Jessica Dickey (Claire) made her Broadway debut in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of Wit starring Cynthia Nixon. She is best known for her one-woman show The Amish Project, which had its world premiere at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater after a run at Cherry Lane and the New York Fringe Festival. Her other credits include the Off-Broadway revival of The Fourposter (Keen Company);Detroit (Playwrights Horizons), Three Sisters (Denver Center); Our Town (Dallas Theatre Center); Magnetic North (Portland Stage Company), and multiple productions with the Huntington, George Street Playhouse and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Television/Film: the Lifetime movie Amish Grace, the indie film Dogs Lie, several episodes of Law & Order, The Education of Max Bickford, and the pilot Cop Shop.
Michael Siberry (Robert) returns to McCarter Theatre where he was seen in Candida, and Emily Mann’s production of Uncle Vanya with Steven Skybell and Amanda Plummer. His many theater credits include Man and Boy with Frank Langella, Death Takes a Holiday opposite Rebecca Luker, and Mrs. Warren’s Profession with Cherry Jones,(all for Roundabout Theatre); The Merchant of Venice with Dustin Hoffman (Broadway); When the Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center Theater); Spamalot (Broadway and National Tour); Journey’s End (London); The Frogs (Lincoln Center Theater); A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Jemma Redgrave (London); The White Devil with the Sydney Theatre Company (BAM); House and Garden (National Theatre of Great Britain); Chicago (London); The Sound of Music opposite Rebecca Luker (Broadway); Nicholas Nickleby with the Royal Shakespeare Company ( Broadway). His numerous television credits include Rosemary and Thyme, The Grand, Silent, Witness (BBC); Jeeves and Wooster; and House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey. Mr. Siberry is an alumnus of England's Royal Shakespeare Company.
Emily Mann (Director/Resident Playwright) is in her 24th season as Artistic Director of McCarter Theatre where she has overseen over 125 productions. Under Ms. Mann’s leadership, McCarter was honored with the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater in 1994 and celebrated the 2013 Best Play Tony Award win for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang – a play commissioned, developed, and premiered at McCarter. Most recently at McCarter, Ms. Mann directed Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance and the world premiere of The Convert by Danai Gurira (also at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and CTG in Los Angeles; six Ovation Awards, including Best Director of a Play and nominated for thirteen; also nominated for three Jeff Awards for Best Production),Phaedra Backwards by Marina Carr, Sarah Treem’s The How & The Why, and Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I (also at Playwrights Horizons). In spring 2012, Ms. Mann directed A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway with Blair Underwood, Wood Harris, Nicole Ari Parker and Daphne Rubin-Vega. Her plays include Execution of Justice, Still Life, Greensboro (A Requiem), Meshugah andAnnulla, An Autobiography. Ms. Mann wrote and directed Having Our Say, adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations); NAACP and Joseph Jefferson Awards; Peabody and Christopher Awards for the screenplay. Her last play, Mrs. Packard, was the recipient of the 2007 Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award and was published by TCG. A winner of the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award and The Edward Albee Last Frontier Directing Award, Ms. Mann is a member of the Dramatists Guild and serves on its council. She is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Princeton University and was named the 2011 Person of the Year from the National Theatre Conference.
Ticket Information and Performance Schedule
Tickets for Proof start as low as $20, and can be purchased online at www.mccarter.org, by phone at (609) 258-2787, or in person at the McCarter Theatre Ticket Office, located at 91 University Place in Princeton.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Beatles tribute show 'Let It Be' to close September 1st
Let It Be, the concert experience of The Beatles' greatest hits, will conclude its Broadway run Sept. 1 at the St. James Theatre.
The show began previews July 16 and officially opened July 24. It had previously been scheduled to run through Dec. 29.
Upon its closing, Let It Be will have played 9 previews and 46 performances.
The cast features Graham Alexander, Roberto Angelelli, Jimmy Coburn, Tony Coburn, JT Curtis, Tyson Kelly, Chris McBurney and Luke Roberts, with John Korba and Daniel A. Weiss.
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