A CROOKED MAN TRU Voices New Plays Reading Series

Players Theatre

Play-reading

by Richard Kalinosk

A callow young man comes to grips with his grandfather's notorious past and discovers unexpected compassion and love on the roof of the old man's house.

(from 16 Jun 2008 to 16 Jun 2008)

A DANGEROUS PERSONALITY

Julia Miles Theater

Drama

by Sallie Bingham

She explored Tibet, fought with Garibaldi, rode across India on the back of an elephant, was friends with Thomas Edison - a terror to the establishment, and a nightmare to the British Raj. Russian-born spiritualist and philosopher Helena Blavatsky lived everywhere from London to India to Hell's Kitchen - and was (and remains) one of the most controversial figures in world religion.

(from 04 Jun 2008 to 20 Jul 2008)

A DOLL'S HOUSE

Gene Frankel Theatre

Drama

by Henrik Ibsen, in a new version by Helene Kvale

It's Christmas Eve and Nora's perfect world is about to explode in a way that it never has before.

(from 06 Jun 2008 to 21 Jun 2008)

A PERFECT COUPLE

DR2 Theatre

Drama

by Brooke Berman

A story about three best friends -- Amy, Issac and Emma -- and their young next door neighbor, Josh. After fifteen years of dating/living together/taking breaks and now, moving upstate, Amy and Isaac are finally tying the knot. Emma, their single best friend, has decided to get out of the city and join them for a summer weekend in the country. Over the long weekend, secrets are revealed and bonds are tested, forcing these friends to discover who they are now, versus who they thought they would become.

(from 09 Jun 2008 to 12 Jul 2008)

A PIECE OF MY HEART

78th Street Theatre Lab

Drama

by Shirley Lauro, adapted from Keith Walker's book of the same name

Centers on a group of young military and civilian women who go to the Vietnam War. Spanning twenty years, their true stories, songs and music call up a tumultuous era that changed them and America forever.

(from 01 May 2008 to 11 May 2008)

A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF TWENTY-FIVE STRANGERS LIVING IN A CITY BY THE LAKE

Algonquin Theater

Comedy

by Matthew Fotis

The lives of 25 strangers are woven together in more ways than they might think . Featuring a scene for every month, see if you can connect the dots between The Sound Of Music and low sperm counts, St. Patrick's Day and ducks, or gay marriage and meteorology.

(from 02 May 2008 to 18 May 2008)

ACCIDENTAL PATRIOT

Milagro Theater at the Clemente Soto Velez Center

Drama

by Kiran Rikhye

Original 1930s-style swashbuckler is set against the tumultuous backdrop of the American Revolution. British privateer Desmond Connelly takes up the colonists' cause when a British admiral murders his best friend, a Bostonian patriot. He abandons his post to become a pirate, seeking his vengeance and sailing towards the destiny that will reveal his mysterious parentage.

(from 25 Apr 2008 to 17 May 2008)

ADVENTURE THEATRE An Interactive, Theatrical Adventure for Heroes of All Ages.

Metropolitan Playhouse

Children's Theatre

by Freestyle Repertory Theatre

The inhabitants of a magical land desperately need our help. A wicked leader has risen to power, and an emissary is sent to the mortal world to seek a hero powerful enough to return peace, happiness and prosperity to the inhabitants.

(from 03 May 2008 to 11 May 2008)

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Under St. Marks

Comedy

by Haberdasher Theatre, adapted from Lewis Carroll

The story of a little girl who falls down a rabbit hole and ends up wandering through the lives of the eccentric inhabitants of Wonderland. In this rendition of the classic tale, Alice is confronted by an array of peculiar characters ranging from a glam rock White Rabbit to the sadistic, whip-toting, gothic Queen of Hearts.

(from 29 May 2008 to 07 Jun 2008)

ALL EYES AND EARS

Theatre Row's Lion Theatre

Drama

by Rogelio Martinez

1961 Cuba. A seamstress is catapulted into a new life, new house, and new government job. But good fortunes quickly change when her new position attracts unexpected guests and reveals more secrets about herself than of political conspiracies.

(from 30 Apr 2008 to 22 May 2008)

ALMOST AN EVENING

The Bleecker Street Theatre

Comedy

by Ethan Coen

Three short plays unsuccessfully tackle important questions. In Waiting, someone waits somewhere for quite some time. In Four Benches, a voyage to self-discovery takes a British intelligence agent to steam baths in New York and Texas, and to park benches in the U.S. and U.K. In Debate, cosmic questions are taken up. Not much is learned.

(from 20 Mar 2008 to 01 Jun 2008)

AMERICAN WHUPASS TRU Voices New Plays Reading Series

Players Theatre

Play-reading

by Justin Warner

A faded football star, an energy kingpin, and a former wrestling champ duke it out for a Nevada Senate seat in a no-holds-barred campaign that takes political warfare to outrageous extremes.

(from 02 Jun 2008 to 02 Jun 2008)

ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER

McGinn Cazale Theatre

Drama

by Rajiv Joseph

When a world renowned origami artist opens her studio to a teenage prodigy and his school teacher, she finds that life and love can't be neatlyarranged in this drama about finding the perfect fold.

(from 15 Jul 2008 to 23 Aug 2008)

APPEARANCE - A SUSPENSE IN BEING

Theaterlab

Experimental theatre

by Carlo Altomare and Orietta Crispino

What is it, about the art of acting, that touches us so deeply? It is, after all, an inherent deceit, in which the actor convinces us that they are someone else. What is the discourse between who we are and what we do? Why is that distance so compelling and moving within the self?

(from 06 May 2008 to 17 May 2008)

ARCADIA

American Theatre of Actors' Berkmann Theatre

Romantic Comedy

by Tom Stoppard

Separated by two centuries, the child genius Thomasina Coverly plots mathematical gold as her tutor Septimus introduces the household to carnal knowledge, while two contemporary historians spar over a potential Lord Byron connection.

(from 08 May 2008 to 11 May 2008)

ARMOR OF WILLS

Under St. Marks

Drama

by Randy Anderson

Kalib is bleeding to death and on the run from his Maker, but before he dies a few people want to talk to him. A race through a purgatorial landscape of loved ones and lost ones.

(from 01 May 2008 to 17 May 2008)

ARTEFACTS Part of the Brits Off Broadway festival

59E59 Theaters / Theatre B

Drama

by Mike Bartlett

Sixteen-year-old Kelly is having a normal Saturday when her unknown father, who is Iraqi, turns up out of the blue. He's smuggled a priceless antique from the Baghdad Museum and wants Kelly to look after it. He's got a plane to catch, but Kelly threatens to smash it unless he stays and gets to know her.

(from 21 May 2008 to 08 Jun 2008)

BABYLOVE

The Green Room at 45 Bleecker

Comedy

by Christen Clifford

Writer-performer Clifford is fearless and often shockingly honest in dealing with her feelings about conception, pregnancy, delivery breastfeeding, and her ever-changing relationship with her husband.

(from 27 Apr 2008 to 08 Jun 2008)

BECKY SHAW

Second Stage Theatre

Comedy

by Gina Gionfriddo

A newlywed couple fixes up two romantically challenged friends: wife's best friend, meet husband's sexy and strange new co-worker. When an evening calculated to bring happiness takes a dark turn, crisis and comedy ensue.

(from ?? Jan 2009 to ?? ?? 2009)

BETRAYED

Culture Project-SoHo theater

Drama

by George Packer

Tells the story of three young Iraqis - two men and a woman - who are motivated by hope to go work for the Americans, until they begin to wonder who, if anyone, can be trusted.

(from 25 Jan 2008 to 28 Jun 2008)

BLINK Part of the Brits Off Broadway festival

59E59 Theaters / Theatre C

Drama

by Ian Rowlands

An examination of the close-knit lives and lies of a small south Wales community, whose secrets start with the rudey club and end with '12 words that ruined a life.'

(from 21 May 2008 to 08 Jun 2008)

BODY AWARENESS

Atlantic Stage Two

Comedy

by Annie Baker

At bucolic Shirley State College in Vermont it is Body Awareness Week, and all must go according to plan. But when radical photographer Frank Bonitatibus shows up with his passel of photographs of naked women, things start to go awry.

(from 28 May 2008 to 22 jun 2008)

BODY OF WATER, A

59E59 Theaters

Drama

by Lee Blessing

The story of Avis and Moss who awake one morning in a house set in the forested hills above a picturesque body of water. The weather's great, the view's magnificent. However, neither of them seems to know whose house this is or who they are. Will a stranger at their doorstep be able to help?

(from 16 Sep 2008 to 25 Oct 2008)

BORDERTOWN

14th Street Theater

Drama

by Steve Ives

In a remote and run-down caf‚, Fate brings nine disparate characters together as a tornado thunders in. But appearances are deceiving, and there is always something stranger hidden beneath. Gangsters, gamblers, waitresses, cops, the damnable and the Damned and maybe even God Himself meet in a dusty little diner on the Calexico border to find out the meanings of Fate and redemption.

(from 24 Apr 2008 to 11 May 2008)

BOUFFON GLASS MENAJOREE

The Green Room at 45 Bleecker Street

Comedy

by Lynn Berg, Audrey Crabtree , Aimee Leigh German and director Eric Davis

Dark comedic parody of the Tennessee Williams's masterpiece, performed in the style of bouffon. Employing this time-honored tradition of undermining the establishment through verbal and physical satire, BGM is a satire not only of traditional American theatre, but of American society, the family unit, and the audience themselves.

(from 29 Apr 2008 to 27 May 2008)

BOXED IN: TWO NEW PLAYS CORNERED / TRANSIT

The Royal Theatre at the Producer's Club

Comedy

Cornered by Kellie Arens and Transit by Jonathan Albert

Cornered: A contemporary absurdist take on being lower than the lowest step on a corporate ladder. Fawn, a young woman drowning in student loans and credit debt, decides to take a cashier position at Corner World to make extra cash. She quickly realizes this casual 'job' will cost her more than she expected. Transit: About two men, Pat and Sam, waiting for change to come in the form of a train, ferry or something less tangible, something to take them away from their stagnant routine. They are stuck, trapped, boxed in by their own life choices and only with the realization that individual strength is the only salvation will anything ever change.

(from 01 May 2008 to 18 May 2008)

BOYS' LIFE

Second Stage Theatre

Drama

by Howard Korder

About three college buddies making their way in the big city. As they maneuver between life and sex in New York, Korder lacerates the prolonged adolescence that often takes the place of modern manhood.

(from ?? Sep 2008 to ?? ?? 2008)

BRIDGE OVER LAND

Interart Theatre Annex

Drama

by Gilbert Girion

Made up of three short plays: In Dark Land a son tends to his father who, embarrassed by his own grief over the death of his wife, steps away from the other mourners. In Tableland, a young man contends with his mother who is becoming unhinged -- but not without her own brand of grace and humor. And in Number Land, a math professor finds himself at the door of one of his former students. As this unlikely pair negotiate this humorous and awkward visit, deeper issues of loss and mourning are revealed.

(from 18 Apr 2008 to 10 May 2008)

BUFFALO GAL

59E59 Theaters

Comedy

by A.R. Gurney

Centers around Amanda, a once successful television personality whose star is now fading. Life imitates art as she returns to her hometown of Buffalo to star in Chekov's The Cherry Orchard. Just as she is connecting with her roots - both on stage and off - she is called back to Hollywood for a role that could recharge her career. Will the love of theater be enough to keep her in Buffalo?

(from 22 Jul 2008 to 30 Aug 2008)

CHASING MANET

59E59 Theaters

Comedy

by Tina Howe

A rebellious painter from a distinguished family in Boston and an ebullient Jewish woman with a huge adoring family form an unlikely bond. Inside the confining walls of Mount Airy Nursing Home, the two plot an escape to Paris aboard the QE2. But can they possibly pull it off amidst the chaos of their surroundings?

(from 24 Mar 2009 to 02 May 2009)

CHERRY DOCS

Workshop Theatre

Drama

by David Gow

A Neo-Nazi Skinhead is on trial for a racially motivated murder and is being defended by a court appointed liberal Jewish lawyer. Over the course of the trial each man finds his belief system challenged as he is forced to delve into his own conscience and to reluctantly examine the limits of his own prejudices.

(from 24 Apr 2008 to 18 May 2008 )

COLORFUL WORLD

78th Street Theatre Lab

Drama

by James Comtois

In 1988, the world discovered a man who was indestructible, imperviousto pain, and able to destroy a tank with his mind. In the early- to mid-nineties, a craze where vigilantes dressed up in flashy costumes and fought crime took the nation by storm. Now it's 2005. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center are still standing. Hurricane Katrina has decimated New Orleans. The Iraq War is coming to a close. And several former costumed crimefighters realize their marks on the world are more akin to those of has-been rock stars.

(from 08 May 2008 to 31 May 2008)

CONSEQUENCES

Michael Weller Theatre

Play-reading

by ML Kinney

As the hour of Wade's execution nears, his brother Denny waits at the prison with attorney Scott Reese. With the death penalty as a lens, the play examines the overlapping events of three men's lives and the consequences of their choices.

(from 05 May 2008 to 05 May 2008 )

DAMASCUS Part of the Brits Off Broadway festival

59E59 Theaters Theater A

Comedy

by David Greig

An English language textbook salesman on assignment to the oldest continuously inhabited city on earth.

(from 08 May 2008 to 01 Jun 2008)

DARGELOS

Bar 13

Drama / Workshop production

by John Kelly

Dargelos is the brother of chanteuse Dagmar, an East Village icon who made a splash in the 1980s performance scene -- including a legendary concert series at Carnegie Hall.

(from 04 May 2008 to 18 May 2008)

DINNER FOR TWO / CENA PARA DOS

Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre

Comedy

by Santiafo Moncada, translated by Charles Philip Thomas

The play centers around Emi - An attractive, introverted woman, a bit shy, hopelessly romantic woman in her 40's, Berta - an extroverted lively, colorful Latina who loves the company of gentlemen and Pedro - A very attractive latino in his early sixties and with a sense of humor. What follows is a comedy of errors with embarrassments, sudden reversals, surprising twists and ultimately, a happy ending.

(from 08 May 2008 to 01 Jun 2008)

DISTRACTED

Laura Pels Theatre

Drama

by Lisa Loomer

A contemporary American mom reaches out to teachers, psychotherapists, and neighbors to figure out if Attention Deficit Disorder is the root of her son's problems.

(from ?? Feb 2009 to ?? ?? 2008)

EIGHTBALLS

The Green Room at 45 Bleecker Street

Comedy

by C. J. Thom

A comedy about 4 twenty-something guys who try to party like rock stars. Friendships (as well as brain cells) are tested & the four end up seeing the world in a very different light. Major drug use, wanton violence, off-kilter rapping & misdirected urination.

(from 15 May 2008 to 31 May 2008)

ELIZABETH REX

Center Stage

Drama

by Timothy Findley

On the eve prior to the dawn execution of Robert, Earl of Essex, for treason, Shakespeare and his company of actors are at court. Under curfew in a barn, with the Queen, through her restless night as she struggles with the decision she has made to behead her beloved 'Robin.'

(from 13 Aug 2008 to 06 Sep 2008)

EVERYMAN

The Looking Glass Theatre

Drama

Author unkown, 15th century morality play

Knock, Knock! Death is at Every's door and she is in not prepared. A Reckoning is the last thing she reckoned on. She's been living the good life, but now confronted by Death, Every's got to find someone or something to take with her to the grave. On her way, she will come face-to-face characters such as Beauty, Knowledge, Good Deeds and Strength.

(from 08 May 2008 to 01 Jun 2008)

EVIDENCE OF THINGS UNSEEN

CAP21

Drama

by Katie Forgette

Abigail deals with her elderly father in the early stages of mental decay, her born-again sister who is committed to having her go on a 'journey in pursuit of healing,' and the ominous presence of deceased family members.

(from 20 May 2008 to 01 Jun 2008)

EXTINGUISH

EJ Studio Theatre

Experimental theatre

by Ezra LeBank

Linguistic ride with a French clown, Irish Nationalist, slam poet, et al, grappling with the edges of life. The performance incorporates clown, mime, slam poetry, and even tai chi, as one person moves on this 27-character 'tour de force'

(from 09 May 2008 to 24 May 2008)

FEVER

The Dionysus Theater's L'il Peach

Drama

by Dave McCracken

Under a relentless sun, two great warriors and mortal enemies, Atrox and Bonitas, have momentarily retired to their corners. Atrox enlists a handsome young soldier to his cause, the seduction and capture of Bonitas.

(from 21 May 2008 to 05 Jul 2008)

FIFTH COLUMN, THE

Mint Theater

Drama

by Ernest Hemingway

The story of the private and political passions of Philip Rawlings, a counter-espionage agent working for the Republic during the Spanish Civil War. At the heart of the play is a romance between Rawlings and Dorothy Bridges, a journalist in over her head professionally and head-over-her-heels personally.

(from 26 Feb 2008 to 18 May 2008)

FIFTY WORDS

Lucille Lortel Theatre

Dark Comedy

by Michael Weller

Something's gone very wrong behind the idyllic fa‡ade of Jan and Adam's Brooklyn brownstone. At 9:10 p.m., they're reveling in the freedom of having waved off their young son, Greg, to a neighborhood sleepover. By 9:15 p.m., they're both in tears. By 9:25 p.m., things are way past tears.

(from 10 Sep 2008 to 25 Oct 2008)

FILM CHINOIS TRU Voices New Plays Reading Series

Players Theatre

Play-reading

by Damon Chua

In Beijing in 1947, at an uneasy time between WWII and the imminent Communist take over, an enigmatic woman known as Chinadoll challenges an idealistic CIA operative to face the truth.

(from 09 Jun 2008 to 09 Jun 2008)

FOUR OF US, THE

NY City Center / Stage 2

Drama

by Itamar Moses

When Benjamin's first novel vaults him into literary stardom, his friend David, a struggling playwright, is thrilled for his newfound success...or is he? Should Benjamin help David by using his new connections? Can David even expect such favors from his friend? And, most importantly, who should pay for lunch?

(from 06 Mar 2008 to 18May 2008)

FREQUENCY HOPPING

3LD Art & Technology Center

Drama

by Elyse Singer

Re-imagines the relationship between film icon Hedy Lamarr (best known for her nude swimming scene in Ecstasy and star turn in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah) and George Antheil ('bad boy' composer of the revolutionary 1924 composition Ballet mecanique).

(from 29 May 2008 to 29 Jun 2008)

FROM UP HERE

NY City Center Stage 1

Comic-Drama

by Liz Flahive

Kenny Barrett did something that has everyone worried. He wishes he could just make it through the rest of his senior year unnoticed, but that's going to be hard since he has to publicly apologize to his entire high school. At home, his family is struggling with second marriages, surprise visits, school dances and forgotten dry cleaning.

(from 27 Mar 2008 to 08 Jun 2008)

FUCK ME, BEAT ME, LOVE ME

Kraine Theater

Drama

by Kevin Podgorski

The story of Travis and Tommy, a gay couple, and how they confuse their own personal problems with the problems in their relationship.

(from 01 May 2008 to 24 May 2008)

GENTLEMAN CALLER Part of Summerworks 2008.

Ohio Theater

Drama

by Ann Marie Healy

The days are so hot and the nights so long and that damn war just keeps going on and on. An aged ingenue, a failed go-getter, and a maid with real big dreams sit and wait and wonder: When will he call? Oh let it be soon. Soon around here is just not soon enough...

(from 08 Jun 2008 to 14 Jun 2008)

GOOD BOYS AND TRUE

Second Stage Theatre

Drama

by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Against a backdrop of 1980's privilege and power, a disturbing scandal at an all-boys prep school forces a mother to confront the truth about her son and herself. As the scandal unexpectedly twists and turns, mother and son find themselves contending with unforeseen and long-concealed secrets that threaten to destroy both school and family.

(from 23 Apr 2008 to 01 Jun 2008)

HAMLET

Public Theater at the Delacorte Theater

Drama

by William Shakespeare

A young man haunted by his father's ghost and driven to the edge of madness in his obsession to avenge his death.

(from 27 May 2008 to 29 Jun 2008)

HOME

The Peter Norton Space

Drama

by Samm-Art Williams

Leaving behind his family's farm in North Carolina, Cephus Miles seeks refuge and prosperity in the North. Three actors portray more than twenty-five characters over the course of Cephus's epic journey from adolescence to adulthood, spanning the 1950's through the Vietnam War and Civil Rights eras.

(from 11 Nov 2008 to 04 Jan 2009)

IN THE LABYRINTH: A SPECTACLE WITH STORIES Soho Rep's Writer/Director Lab Reading Series

Soho Rep

Play-reading

by Dan LeFranc

(from 05 May 2008 to 05 May 2008)

JAILBAIT Part of Mentor Project 2008

Cherry Lane Theatre

Dark Comedy

by Deirdre O'Connor

The story of two fifteen year old girls who spend a night at a Boston club posing as college students. When the girls cross paths with two thirty-something men they must decide how far they are willing to go while playing at adulthood.

(from 06 May 2008 to 17 May 2008)

John Lithgow: STORIES BY HEART

Lincoln Center / Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater

Comedy

by John Lithgow

Invoking memories of his grandmother and father before him, Lithgow traces his own history as an actor and storyteller, a history spanning three generations, culminating in a tour-de-force performance of the P.G. Wodehouse story Uncle Fred Flits By, in which the actor performs a bravura, forty-minute comic monologue, spouting Wodehouse's dazzling language - portraying nine distinct, outrageous characters with zany abandon.

(from 20 Apr 2008 to 02 Jun 2008)

KINDNESS

Playwrights Horizons / Main Stage

Drama

by Adam Rapp

An ailing mother and her teenaged son flee Illinois and a crumbling marriage for the relative calm and safety of a midtown Manhattan hotel. Mom holds tickets to a popular musical about love and redemption. Her son, a gifted student currently enrolled at a prestigious military academy, isn't interested. So Mom takes the kindly cabdriver instead, while the boy entertains a visitor from down the hall, an enigmatic young woman seeking solace after a tumultuous, potentially dangerous evening.

(from ?? ?? 2008 to ?? ?? 2008)

KING KONG Part of Summer Fright Fest

Players Theatre

Drama

Adapted by Dan Bianchi

Takes you from the streets of Depression Era New York City to the high seas of the Far East to the prehistoric jungles of Skull Island! Witness the terrifying creatures from another time battle the great and mighty Kong! And, be there when the proud giant is captured and brought back to civilization where he escapes from his chains to wreak havoc upon our world! All for the love of a woman!

(from 03 Jun 2008 to 29 Jul 2008)

LEGENDS, MYTHS, AND HIEROGLYPHS

The Sonnet Theatre at the Producer's Club

Drama

by Demetrius Wren

Set in a small town in northern Mississippi, the story is told through the wild imagination of a young boy, as he tries to make sense of the world around him without the guidance of a father. His grandmother, after enduring decades of tragedy, tries to hold her failing family together as she enters the twilight of her life.

(from 09 May 2008 to 13 May 2008)

LEN, ASLEEP IN VINYL

McGinn Cazale Theatre

Dark Comedy

by Carly Mensch

Len, a legendary but disillusioned music producer has retreated to a cabin in the woods, comforted by his mountains of records. When his estranged son and an ambitious but self-destructive pop star both arrive on his doorstep, Len finds himself caught between their dreams and his own demons lurking in the woods.

(from 13 May 2008 to 22 Jun 2008)

MARATHON 2008 Series A

Ensemble Studio Theatre

Drama

An Upset by David Auburn Christmas Present by Amy Herzog A Little Soul-Searching by Willie Reale, music by Patrick Barnes Tostitos by Michael John Garc‚s Wedding Picture by Quincy Long

An evening of five short plays

(from 08 May 2008 to 31 May 2008)

MARATHON 2008 Series B

Ensemble Studio Theatre

Drama

The Great War by Neil LaBute Okay by Taylor Mac Happy Birthday William Abernathy by Lloyd Suh Ideogram by David Zellnik October/November by Anne Washburn

An evening of five short plays

(from 23 May 2008 to 20 Jun 2008)

MARATHON 2008 Series C

Ensemble Studio Theatre

Drama

In Between Songs by Lewis Black Japanoir by Michael Feingold Piscary by Frank D. Gilroy Flowers by Jos‚ Rivera A Very Very Short Play by Jacquelyn Reingold

An evening of five short plays

(from 06 Jun 2008 to 28 Jun 2008)

MARK TWAIN'S BLUES

DR2 Theatre

Play with music

Book and music by Walt Stepp and lyrics by Walt Stepp and Mark Twain

A play with music reimagining a different ending for Huck Finn, with Huck, Jim and Mark Twain himself.

(from 02 Apr 2008 to 11 May 2008)

MARKO THE PRINCE

Barrow Group Arts Center

Drama

by Jovanka Bach

Michael, a first-generation American, returns to Sabor (on the border of Bosnia and Serbia) bury his mother in the village of her birth. Michael's plans are derailed when he discovers smoldering religious and ethnic resentments surrounding the ownership of Sabor's tiny village cemetery.

(from 20 Jun 2008 to 13 Jul 2008)

ME

Ohio Theater

Drama

by Kirk Wood Bromley

When Kirk Wood Bromley set out to write a play about himself, the result was something other than a simple autobiography. Bromley starts out looking to write a play about himself and takes detours through his personal relationship with his placenta, the recent extinction of the white river dolphin of the Yangtze in China, and just what exactly he means when he says, 'I am the chosen fish, chosen by me / To save the planet from humanity.'

(from 03 May 2008 to 24 May 2008)

MILL FIRE

Spoon Theater

Drama

by Sally Nemeth

In a late 1970s steel town, 25-year-old Marlene is content with her life. She has a menial office job, but is passionately in love with her husband Champ, who works at the local steel mill. Like most people in town, Marlene trusts the mill owners to take care of their workers. But when they fail to do so and disaster strikes, something inside Marlene changes forever.

(from 07 May 2008 to 24 May 2008)

MR. & MRS. FITCH

Second Stage Theatre

Dark Comedy

by Douglas Carter Beane

Meet gossip columnists MR. & MRS. FITCH. When the social circuit no longer provides any scandalous news, they find that great celebrity can appear out of thin air. A scathing look at who is in, who is out and who may not even exist at all.

(from ?? Mar 2009 to ?? ?? 2009)

MY FIRST TIME

New World Stages / Stage 5

Comedy

by Ken Davenport

A new play in the style of The Vagina Monologues, featuring four actors in stories about first sexual experiences written by real people . . . just like you.

(from 12 Jul 2007 to 30 Aug 2008)

MY MOTHER'S ITALIAN, MY FATHER'S JEWISH & I'M IN THERAPY!

Westside Theatre (Downstairs)

Comedy

by Steve Solomon

Twice the holidays! Twice the hollering! Twice the guilt! .Steve Solomon's tells of his family and all the people in his life whose sole purpose is to drive him into therapy...and they succeeded. One part lasagna, one part kreplach and two parts prozac.

(from 04 May 2007 to 20 Jul 2008)

NEW CENTURY, THE four short plays

Lincoln Center / Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater

Comedy

by Paul Rudnick

A series of four short plays, which feature everyone from a concerned Long Island mother of at least three gay children, to an accomplished Midwestern craftswoman, to Mr. Charles, a flamboyant resident of Palm Beach. Ultimately, all of these delicious and distraught people collide under surprising and comic circumstances, and we discover just where our new century might be heading.

(from 20 Mar 2008 to 08 Jun 2008)

NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS: A modern parable

Roy Arias Studio

Comedy

by Michael Levesque

Once upon a time, there was a man who didn't know who he was. 'Man' was on the same spiritual journey that we all have to make, the journey inward to SELF. A modern parable, tells us of 'Man's experience as he decides which master to serve: love or fear. Interlaced with many colorful characters, including his lonely, manic-depressive wife, Alice, his pot-smoking dominatrix/phony psychic, Ivory, his right-wing, overbearing, racist boss, Mr. Cooper, and many more, this play will take you on a philosophical journey.

(from 01 May 2008 to 10 May 2008)

OCCUPANT

The Peter Norton Space

Drama

by Edward Albee

A portrait of acclaimed sculptor Louise Nevelson and a quest to capture a charismatic and complex artist and persona. What is the relationship between creator and creation? Who was Louise Nevelson? Only she knew.

(from 06 May 2008 to 06 Jul 2008)

ONE OF A KIND

New Victory Theater

Children's Theatre

by Yossi Vassa and Shai Ben Attar

True story about one Ethiopian Jewish family's arduous journey to Israel and search for social acceptance.

(from 02 May 2008 to 11 May 2008)

OUR HOUSE

Playwrights Horizons / Main Stage

Comedy

by Theresa Rebeck

What happens when news and entertainment are interchangeable? In a cautionary tale ripped from today's headlines, a power-hungry TV mogul faced with dwindling ratings installs America's favorite news anchor as host of a popular reality show. When reality suddenly collides with reality TV, we find ourselves front and center in the thorniest hostage drama since Waco.

(from ?? ?? 2009 to ?? ?? 2009)

OUR HOUSE

Playwrights Horizons / Main Stage

Comedy

by Theresa Rebeck

What happens when news and entertainment are interchangeable? In a cautionary tale ripped from today's headlines, a power-hungry TV mogul faced with dwindling ratings installs America's favorite news anchor as host of a popular reality show. When reality suddenly collides with reality TV, we find ourselves front and center in the thorniest hostage drama since Waco.

(from ?? ?? 2009 to ?? ?? 2009)

PALACE OF THE END

Playwrights Horizons / Peter Jay Sharp Theatre

Comedy

by Judith Thompson

Explores the experiences of three key figures of the Middle East crisis: Lynndie England, the U.S. soldier who was convicted of abusing detainees at Baghdad's Alu Gharib prison; David Kelly, the British weapons inspector who allegedly committed suicide after being involved in a government scandal and Nehrjas Al Saffarh, a member of the Communist Party of Iraq who suffered under Saddham Hussein's regime and died when the Americans bombed her home during the initial Gulf War.

(from 11 Jun 2008 to 13 Jul 2008)

PAST HALF REMEMBERED

Duke On 42nd Street

Comic-Drama with music

by International Encounter Visual Theatre

An extraordinary tale in which a band of six madcap actors-cum-musicians put down their instruments long enough to unravel the story of Maria, a 100-year old woman who survived a century of turmoil in Russia.

(from 09 May 2008 to 25 May 2008)

PORT AUTHORITY

Atlantic's Linda Gross Theater

Drama

by Conor McPherson

Set against the backdrop of contemporary Dublin, Port Authority weaves the stories of three generations of Irishmen as they experience loss, failure and the elusiveness of love.

(from 30 Apr 2008 to 22 Jun 2008)

PRAYER FOR MY ENEMY

Playwrights Horizons / Main Stage

Drama

by Craig Lucas

It's a hell of a night for the Noones - father Austin's watching his nature shows and trying to keep from falling off the wagon, mother Karen's keeping an eye on Austin, son Billy's just back from Iraq, and pregnant daughter Marianne's upset about the state of her marriage to Tad, Billy's childhood friend who may still harbor a crush on him. With the Red Sox battling the Yankees for the 2004 AL title, an American family's long-held secrets are dragged to the fore in what may be its final reckoning.

(from ?? ?? 2008 to ?? ?? 2008)

PRISONER OF THE CROWN

The Irish Repertory Theatre

Drama

by Richard F. Stockton

A broad and bitter indictment of judicial abuse, is the story of the trial of Sir Roger Casement, an Irish patriot and one of the world's great humanitarians. A few short years after being knighted, Casement was sentenced to be hanged for treason in what was called, 'The Trial of the Century.'

(from 14 May 2008 to 06 Jul 2008)

PUTTING THE DAYS TO BED Soho Rep's Writer/Director Lab Reading Series

Soho Rep

Play-reading

by Deron Bos

(from 11 May 2008 to 11 May 2008)

RAFTA, RAFTA

Theatre Row's Acorn Theatre

Comic-Drama

by Ayub Khan-Din

The story of two Anglo-Indian families in London joined by the marriage of their children. Newlyweds Atul and Vina are starting their new lives under the groom's parents roof, and Vina's family is also loathe to let her go. How much scrutiny can a new marriage take?

(from 18 Apr 2008 to 21 Jun 2008)

REASONS TO BE PRETTY

Lucille Lortel Theatre

Comic-Drama

by Neil LaBute

Greg's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhanded remarks about a female coworker's pretty face (and his girlfriend's lack thereof) get back to said girlfriend. But that's just the beginning. Greg's best buddy Kent, and Kent's wife Carly also enter into the picture and the emotional equation becomes exponentially more complicated.

(from 14 May 2008 to 05 Jul 2008)

RUINED

NY City Center Stage 1

Drama

by Lynn Nottage

Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, the play follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. But is she protecting or profiting by the women she shelters? How far will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on a human life?

(from 01 Oct 2008 to )

RUNNING

Michael Weller Theatre

Comic-Drama

by Sharon E. Cooper

Three gay men, a widow, and a funeral set the stage to answer the questions - can we escape our past? What happens when we have to confront the lies we tell ourselves? The play not only tackles the issue of coming out about ones sexuality, but also what everyone must face when confronting the truth about ourselves.

(from 02 May 2008 to 17 May 2008 )

SAFE HOME

CAP21

Drama

by Sean Cullen

Safe Home's hero is a Marine killed in the Korean War. Young life cut short, dreams denied, passionate moments, unfulfilled love, and fiery confrontations all tell this story of one family in Buffalo, New York. It illuminates the effects of a country at war on the lives and spirit of the people connected to those who put their lives on the line. The non-linear structure of the play flashes between before and after the death focusing on poignant moments.

(from 10 Jun 2008 to 21 Jun 2008)

SHIPWRECKED! AN ENTERTAINMENT š The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told By Himself)

59E59 Theaters

Drama

by Donald Margulies

A tale of adventure that left England spellbound in the 19th century is the center of attention in Donald Margulies' play. Louis de Rougemont invites you to hear his amazing story of bravery, survival and celebrity. Shipwrecked! examines how far we're willing to blur the line between fact and fiction in order to leave our mark on the world.

(from 27 Jan 2009 to 07 Mar 2009)

SLAVEY Part of Summerworks 2008.

Ohio Theater

Drama

by Sigrid Gilmer

In a not so distant future, Nora and Robert find themselves climbing the steep social ladder of the super rich - big promotion, bigger house, and a brand new slave. But when growing pains kick in and consumer and consumed find themselves on unexpected sides of the table it can only mean one thing - big trouble.

(from 22 Jun 2008 to 28 Jun 2008)

SOME AMERICANS ABROAD

Second Stage Theatre

Comedy

by Richard Nelson

A group of pretentious American college students, accompanied by their professors, embark on a literary tour of England. With a crammed itinerary and barely enough time to digest the sites, their behavior devolves from appreciative to appalling.

(from ?? ?? 2008 to ?? ?? 2008)

SOME KIND OF BLISS Part of the Brits Off Broadway festival

59E59 Theaters

Comedy

by Samuel Adamson

Rachel, a small-time hack and seeker of minor adventure, sets off down the Thames Path to Greenwich to interview British pop legend Lulu for her tabloid's glossy supplement. But between London Bridge and Lulu's mirrored hallway lies a series of unpredicted and comic events.

(from 10 Jun 2008 to 29 Jun 2008)

STEVE & IDI

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

Comedy

by David Grimm

Steve's life is spinning out of control. His work is going nowhere, his lover dumps him, his friendships are strained and, as if that's not enough, the ghost of General Idi Amin, the Ugandan dictator, bursts through his window with a very strange demand.

(from 23 Apr 2008 to 24 May 2008 )

STOMP AND SHOUT (an' Work it All Out)

45th Street Theatre

Drama

by James Carmichael

As the nation stumbles into the heart of the 60's, two dedicated agents probe the mystery of the incomprehensible song, each step bringing them deeper into a tangled web of Governors, record impresarios, R&B men, and a youth culture waiting to explode. While one agent's obsession grows, the other finds the line between his personal and professional lives blurring.

(from 29 May 2008 to 21 Jun 2008)

STREAMERS

Laura Pels Theatre

Drama

by David Rabe

Four young soldiers fresh from boot camp wait anxiously in 1965 Virginia, watching the Vietnam conflict escalate. As they struggle to make sense of their new life in the army, tensions rise over race, sexuality, and class, culminating in an explosive act that changes them forever.

(from 17 Oct 2008 to )

STREET DREAMS: THE INNER CITY MUSICAL

American Theatre of Actors

Drama

Written by Eve Merriam, score by Helen Miller

Follows life on a block in an un-named American city.

(from 09 May 2008 to 18 May 2008)

STRETCH (a fantasia)

The Living Theatre

Comic-Drama

by Susan Bernfield

Imagines the final days of Rose Mary Woods, Richard M. Nixon's longtime loyal secretary, as she observes the presidential election of 2004 from her Alliance, Ohio nursing home. She connects the past with the present while thinking about power, loyalty, and lying.

(from 02 May 2008 to 26 May 2008)

SUBSTITUTION

SoHo Playhouse

Drama

by Anton Dudley

Calvin's Mom is coping with the death of her teenage son as best as she can. When a substitute teacher challenges everything she thinks she knows about Calvin, their volatile bond creates a complex unfolding of revelations. Ultimately, she discovers that the choices we make about how we live and how we love can bring about endless surprises.

(from 26 Apr 2008 to 17 May 2008)

SUNRISE AT THE QUARRY

Payan Theatre

Drama

by Nick Sanzo in collaboration with the Black Door Theatre Company

Follows the lives of five friends through high school into their late twenties.

(from 24 Apr 2008 to 11 May 2008)

THE ACTOR'S NIGHTMARE and THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND

Gloria Maddox Theater at the T. Schreiber Studio

Comedy

The Actor's Nightmare by Christopher Durang The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard

The Actor's Nightmare: George Spelvin, an anxious accountant is thused on stage to replace an ailing actor, but George has no knowledge of the lines or even the name of the play. The Real Inspector Hound: As the Agatha Christie-style play-within-the play begins, two theatre critics place find themselves onstage and deeply involved as the murderer's identity is revealed.

(from 08 May 2008 to 15 Jun 2008)

THE ASPERN PAPERS

The Turtle's Shell Theater

Drama

by Martin Zuckerman

The depths of deceit that an American scholar will go to secure the private letters of a famous poet. Set in Venice in the 1880s, the scholar enlists the help of a dowdy, middle-aged spinster in obtaining the love letters written to her shriveled-up aunt long ago. The scholar wants the papers; the niece wants him; the aunt wants his money.

(from 30 Apr 2008 to 24 May 2008)

THE ATHEIST

Culture Project-SoHo Theater

Comedy

by Ronan Noone

Augustine Early is a crooked reporter who will do anything to get his next front-page story. When Augustine turns a prominent local politician's tawdry predilections into front page news, the scandal threatens to undo the one person Augustine thought was immune - himself.

(from 20 May 2008 to 20 May 2008)

THE BREAK OF NOON

Lucille Lortel Theatre

Drama

by Neil LaBute

Joe Smith's just had an epiphany. In a blinding flash, he's been gloriously transformed from avowed disbeliever to fervent believer. But he quickly finds himself at the center of his own rapidly crumbling life, as those nearest to him kick back against his newfound faith. Suddenly a stranger to those he values most, Joe must find a modern response to the age-old question: at what cost, salvation?

(from 14 Jan 2009 to 28 Feb 2009)

THE CASTLE

New World Stages / Stage 5

Drama

conceived by David Rothenberg and written in collaboration with Vilma Ortiz Donovan, Kenneth Harrington, Angel Ramos and Casimiro Torres

The Castle is the residential facility run by The Fortune Society for ex-convicts re-entering society. In the play four formerly incarcerated people tell their stories from childhood to prison to redemption.

(from 30 Mar 2008 to 18 May 2008)

THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE

The Green Room at 45 Bleecker Street

Drama

by Bertolt Brecht

In a war-torn village, plans are underway for a peaceful reconstruction. In celebration, a famous singer, with the help of the townspeople, performs an epic folktale that culminates in the story of The Caucasian Chalk Circle. The unlikely heroine of this winding tale is a simple maid who makes countless sacrifices to raise a child that is not her own.

(from 26 Apr 2008 to 11 May 2008)

THE COCKTAIL HOUR

Theatre Row's Kirk Theatre

Comic-Drama

by A.R. Gurney

A writer returns home to ask permission of his parents to produce a show that he has written about them. Over cocktails, the family rehashes old slights and reopens old wounds but, with humor, they look toward the future.

(from 24 May 2008 to 29 Jun 2008)

THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE Part of Project Shaw

Players Club

Play-reading / comedy

by George Bernard Shaw

We find ourselves in 1777 New Hampshire where Dick Dudgeon opens his heart to life. Along the way, everyone else goes through profound changes of discovery, hope and strength.Set against the backdrop of the American Revolution.

(from 19 May 2008 to 19 May 2008)

THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE

Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre

Drama

by Tennessee Williams

In Glory Hill, Mississippi, Alma Winemiller, a sensitive and lonely yoiung woman hemmed by her stern minister father and deranged mother, makes a final desperate attempt to win the man of her choice.

(from 27 Apr 2008 to 24 May 2008)

THE FEVER CHART: THREE VISIONS OF THE MIDDLE EAST

Public's Shiva Theater

Drama

by Naomi Wallace

Uses muscular and poetic writing to find beauty in the unimaginable, and explores political tensions by grounding them in the human issues of love, life, and death.

(from 26 Apr 2008 to 11 May 2008)

THE FIRST BREEZE OF SUMMER

The Peter Norton Space

Drama

by Leslie Lee

The struggles of three generations of the Edwards family collide over the course of one sweltering weekend in June. Gremmar, the family matriarch, looks back on her past and considers its legacy for her children and grandchildren as they confront the choices that will define their futures.

(from 05 Aug 2008 to 28 Sep 2008)

THE FRAMER

Michael Weller Theatre

Dark Comedy

by Edward Allan Baker

A tragic-comedy set in a picture framing shop in a New England mill town. A dying man ceaselessly toils in order to leave his once-abused wife some post-mortem financial security while retracting the emotional brutality of his past but he's side-tracked due to a request from his high-strung brother in-law.

(from 31 May 2008 to 22 Jun 2008 )

THE GHOST DANCERS

Sanford Meisner Theater

Drama

by Adam Hunault

South Dakota, 1890. South Dakota, 1973. For the Lakota Sioux, time has stood still in a stand-off for the earth at Wounded Knee. What happens when progress engages the past and forces the inhabitants of Wounded Knee to redefine borders and cross bloodlines.

(from 08 May 2008 to 24 May 2008)

THE GOOD NEGRO

Public's Shiva Theater

Drama

by Tracey Scott Wilson

A trio of emerging black leaders tries to conquer their individual demons as the local KKK fights for its old way of life and everyday black men and women must overcome their fears - all under the ever-watchful eye of the FBI.

(from 20 May 2008 to 01 Jun 2008)

THE ISLAND OF DR.MOREAU! Part of Summer Fright Fest

Players Theatre

Drama

by H.G. Wells, adapted by Dan Bianchi

On a remote island in the South Seas, a mad geneticist creates a tribe of mutants who look to him as their god. They obey him willingly or face torture in the House Of Pain. When they discover that he is a mere mortal, rebellion follows.

(from 03 Jun 2008 to 29 Jul 2008)

THE MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO

Laura Pels Theatre

Comic-Drama

by Christopher Durang

A dark comedy that takes a look at the complex marriage of Bette and Boo. Three decades of marriage, divorce, alcoholism, nervous breakdowns and death are played out in 33 quick scenes.

(from 12 Jun 2008 to 07 Sep 2008)

THE SET UP

Arclight Theatre

Comedy

by James Lindenberg

Terminally single thirty-somethings experience a train wreck of a blind date that suddenly derails their matchmaker/friends' marriage. Even an auspicious second encounter leaves cupid stymied, so the matchmakers must reunite for one last 'set up.'

(from 25 Apr 2008 to 22 May 2008 )

THE SMALL OF HER BACK

Times Square Arts Center

Drama

by Russell Leigh Sharman

Piper, a self-diagnosed bi-polar shut-in with OCD spends much of her time in Internet chat rooms. Six months ago, Piper met Mollie online, and Mollie changed everything. Now, a knock on the door jolts Piper into the world of flesh and bone. John Sharp, Mollie's brother, was sent to talk Piper out of the things she is threatening. But John may not be who he claims to be...

(from 09 May 2008 to 19 May 2008)

THE SOUND AND THE FURY (APRIL SEVENTH, 1928)

New York Theatre Workshop

Drama

based on part one of the novel by William Faulkner, created by Elevator Repair Service

Tells the story of the decline of the Compson family of fictional Yoknapatawpha county, Mississippi. A once noble clan descended from a Civil War hero, the family falls victim to many of the shortcomings Faulkner believed were the problems of the reconstructed South-racism, greed, selfishnesss-thereby showing how the ideals and life of the old South could not easily be maintained or preserved in the post-Civil War era.

(from 15 Apr 2008 to 18 May 2008 )