Urban Stages 07 - 08 Season.

Urban Stages has announce the schedule for their upcoming season, which will include two world premieres and one New York premiere. Casting, Directing and creative team to be announced The Three productions are:

• New York Premiere
  The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion
  Written by: Stephen Massicotte
  Synopsis: A fictionalized tale of a true event � the meeting of poet Robert Graves and T.E. Lawrence, also known as Lawrence of Arabia, at Oxford University after the First World War. Lawrence has recently been cast out of the Paris Peace talks of 1919, and Graves has barely survived the trenches of the Somme. Now that these two great men have survived the war, neither one of them can sleep, nor can they write or share their incredible experiences with anyone.
  Dates: 12 Oct - 18 Nov 2007

Stephen Massicotte's award winning plays include 'A Farewell to Kings', 'Pervert', 'The Emperor of Atlantis' and 'Star Wars' inspired Boy�s Own Jedi Handbook. The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion recently received the 2007 Canadian Author's Association award for Best English-Language Play For Adults.

• World Premiere
  The Blue Bird
  Written by: Stanton Wood, adapted from the play by Maurice Maeterlinck
  Synopsis: About a materialistic Staten Island girl who goes on a fantastical journey with some magical household companions to find the fabled 'blue bird of happiness'.
  Dates: 11 Dec 2007 - 13 Jan 2008>

Mr. Wood is currently the Playwright-in-Residence at Offworld Theatre Company, and has received developmental support from Manhattan Class Company, Primary Stages, New York Theatre Workshop, City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and the Carnegie Mellon Showcase of New Plays. This is the third year in a row that Stanton has written Urban Stages' annual Holiday Show.

Book by by Ted Sod, music and lyrics by Lisa Koch

• World Premiere
  27 rue de Fleurus
  Book by: Ted Sod
  Muic & Lyrics by: Lisa Koch
  Synopsis: A new musical derived from the imagination of Alice B. Toklas. Alice tries to set the record straight about being Gertrude Stein's 'wife' for nearly 40 years. Gertrude grows tired of Alice's lack of panache for telling her perspective of their story and attempts to hijack the play as only the author of such lines as 'sugar is not a vegetable' can.
  Dates: 28 Feb - 6 Apr 2008

Ted Sod�s work has been primarily produced in Seattle, including 'Stealing' (O�Neill Theatre Center Music Theatre Conference; Seattle Group Theatre), 'The Kiss', and 'Not Sunset Boulevard '(Alice B. Theatre). He is dramaturge for the education department at The Roundabout Theatre Company and teaches directing at Brooklyn College.

Lisa Koch is a singer, songwriter and performer whose work blends comedy, theater, and music with dysfunctional characters. She produces, writes, and performs all over the country and is based in Seattle.