October 24, 2011; New York, NY: The First Annual Times Square International Theatre Festival (TSITF) is officially accepting submissions for the January 16-22, 2012 season. TSITF will kick off the New Year with stimulating National and International theatrical performances in the most exciting city in the World; New York City! The Time Square International Theater Festival is dedicated challenging the status quo, presenting work that exhibits artistic excellence and invention and innovation in all of it's aspects, and work that offers new ways of seeing and being, as both artists and as global citizens.

TSITF fosters reciprocal collaboration of art by encouraging participants to join forces and learn from each other. TSITF produces projects that integrate genres and art forms, break with traditional forms of representation, and develop democratic and cross-cultural conversation. We believe that through the practice of collaboration, a group of artists working together can have a significant impact upon both contemporary theater and the world at large. Join us as we re-imagine the theater district.

TSITF will make it possible for an assortment of plays and performance pieces to be seen in the heart of Broadway that might not have had the opportunity otherwise. TSITF will offer companies of limited resources, but great artistic merit, the opportunity to show their art in the heart of the theatre capital of the world!

Applications will be accepted through November 17th, 2011. The application, which is available at www.tsitf.com includes a $20 fee, cover letter, company biography, a copy of the script, and a DVD/video tape (if available).  For more information visit www.tsitf.com.

Festival Dates: January 16-22, 2012

Festival Location: Roy Arias Studios and Theatres, 300 West 43rd St., New York, NY

Tickets: $18 in advance and $20 at the door.   Tickets will be available after the show line-up is announces at www.royariasstudios.com.

Double Play Connections and Doing Life Productions
Jane Dubin, Executive Producer

are pleased to invite you into the studio of the artist
where painting and poetry ignite

"A tour de force.Rap, poetry, painting and beguiling recitations are the hallmark of this gifted artist." - Herb Boyd, Amsterdam News

"Seeing a person trying to be honest about himself and his life is always riveting, but to see someone who is immensely talented do so is beyond amazing." - Caribbean Life

"Mandingo also demonstrates his abilities as a singer, dancer, performance artist, standup comedian and storyteller...Mandingo combines his talents and produces a multimedia performance that is entertaining, thought-provoking and truly beautiful." - Show Business Weekly

unFRAMED

A Man in Progress

Written and Performed by Iyaba Ibo Mandingo

Directed by Brent Buell

SPECIAL NEW YORK ENGAGEMENT
Thursday, November 17 at 9:00pm
Sunday, November 20 at 1:00pm

THE ALL FOR ONE THEATER FESTIVAL

THEATRE 80 St. Marks

The nation misread him, the prison enraged him, his art expressed him,
his woman believed him, his poetry saved him.Winner of the 2011 Award for Excellence in Theatre from the DC Black Theatre Festival, "In unFRAMED writer and performer Iyaba Ibo Mandingo tells the story of his journey from Antigua to America. It wasn't without tribulations; navigating treacherous times without a father, Mandingo turned to art. unFRAMED puts the art front and center: Mandingo uses painting, poetry, prose and song to tell a story that echoes the lives of many."- Times Herald Record.

unFRAMED plays the following schedule:
Thursday, November 17 at 9:00pm
Sunday, November 20 at 1:00pm

Running Time: 85 minutes, no intermission

Tickets are $20

Tickets are available online at www.AFOfest.org or http://bit.ly/unFRAMEDtixatAFO
For unFRAMEDwebsite/photos/videos, visit http://www.unFRAMEDthePlay.com


Click here to get your $20 tickets now!

FRESHLY SQUEEZED CREATIVE JUICES THEATRE COMPANY
Proudly Presents the World Premiere of

GUTS
A multi-media fantasia

Performed by LIAT RON

Directed by SHOSHONA CURRIER

NOVEMBER 3 – 20, 2011 AT THE 9TH SPACE
Hellthy is a superwoman--smart, savvy, Israeli-American-New Yorker…she should have it all, why is it so hard?

When Hellthy moves back to Israel, after an exhausting breakup, she is the center of attention for her over-bearing parents. Hellthy battles with a dangerous obsession to fit into a size 0, at any cost. Her heart never seems to be in sync with her brain and her diary is her only real confidante.

How does she overcome it all? -- She has GUTS!

Written and performed by Liat Ron, GUTS is a multi-media fantasia that uses Middle Eastern dance and a shockingly honest comedic narrative to tell Hellthy's story. It’s the story of womanhood, testing ones internal strength, and making a way in two very different worlds.

GUTS plays the following schedule through Sunday, November 20:
Wednesdays at 8 p.m. | Thursdays at 8 p.m. | Fridays at 8 p.m. | Saturdays at 8 p.m. | Sundays at 5 p.m.

Tickets are $20 and are now available online at www.9thspace.org or by calling 866-811-4111. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the Theatre Box Office, 30 minutes prior to the performance.

Running Time: 60 minutes

Website: www.gutstheplay.comClick here for your $20 tickets! 

MAIEUTIC THEATRE WORKS

Proudly Presents the World Premiere of

“[Rich Rubin]brings surprising humor..and sensitivity” to Alzheimer’s Disease. – Oregonian (Assisted Living)

“Hilarious, moving and Simonesque.”– Neil Simon Festival (Assisted Living)

“Quick-witted and fecking hilarious.” –Off-Off-Off Theatre (Hamlet in Hiding)

“Wicked Twist of a play.” –Sydney Short & Sweet Festival (Maid/Man)

“A great play … frank, funny and timely.”– Trustus Theater Company Playwright Competition (Costa Rehab)

COSTA REHAB
“I dunno who the fuck I am anymore. And then it gets worse … ‘cause sometimes I do know.”– Davis (in Costa Rehab)Written by RICH RUBIN

Directed by SHELLY FELDMAN

NOVEMBER 3 – 19, 2011THE WORKSHOP THEATER, 312 W 36th St, 4th Floor


Wheeler and Corso, two injured Iraq War veterans, recuperate in the rehab unit of a stateside Army hospital. Their friendship is based on a profane camaraderie and a shared, if unstated, experience of war. Both men, however, are bored and sliding towards burnout, worn down by the weight of their injuries and the impersonal face of the Army bureaucracy. The arrival of Davis, a third injured vet, serves to rejuvenate the other two soldiers, providing them with a fresh, if unconventional, mission to focus on. Their subversive quest on Davis’ behalf leads to a renewed sense of hope for all three of them.

Featuring Nicholas Urda* (Kidnapping Laura Linney) and MTWorks Company Members Peter Cappello*, Sarah Chaney*, Louise Flory, Rachel McPhee* (Vieux Carre, directed by Tony Award nominee Austin Pendleton) and Jacob Thornhill* (Mr. Roberts alongside Tony Award nominee Hunter Foster, directed by Tony Award nominee Robert Longbottom).



COSTA REHAB plays the following regular schedule through Saturday, November 19:

Tuesdays at 7 p.m. – Talk-Back Tuesdays with Special Guests leading a panel

Wednesdays at 7 p.m.

Thursdays at 7 p.m.

Fridays at 8 p.m.

Saturdays at 8 p.m.

Ticketsare $18 (veterans $12; students/seniors $15) and are now available online at www.mtworks.org or by calling 866-811-4111. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the theater’s box office ½ hour prior to performance.

Running Time:90 minutes, no intermission

Website: www.mtworks.org

HARRY DIESEL PRODUCTIONS
Proudly Presents

BOY GETS GIRL

Written by REBECCA GILMAN

"One of the finest, most disturbing American plays in years. (...) Gilman has a tragic vision of a society in which men and women cannot see each other as human beings. Yet her social comment grows organically out of credible, unexpected characters (...) Boy Gets Girl grasps at big ideas, but reaches the heart and the head with equal force." - Richard Zoglin, Time

"One of the most conspicuous members of a breed of rising dramatists who don't shy from the social problem play(...) The play is first-rate (…) [Gilman] is a connoisseur of self-consciousness (…) Ms. Gilman has it in her to create characters with the richness of ambiguity that lets actors bloom."– Ben Brantley, The New York Times

“It is an effective play (...) The characters are cannily drawn, the dialogue is witty, idiosyncratic, and incisive. There is genuine suspense and mounting terror."- John Simon, New York

"Gilman -- an acute and wiry writer -- puts her ideas into the structure rather than the speeches of her plays (...) But everyone performs unpredictably: one of the points of this penetrating drama is that the gap between motive and effect is enormous." - Susannah Clapp, The Observer

Directed by MICHAEL MENGER

NOVEMBER 3 – 20, 2011 AT THE ACCESS THEATRE



Theresa Bedell is an independent literary journalist living in New York City. Utterly devoted to her work, she struggles to find a meaningful relationship. When set up on a blind date with Tony, a handsome man new to town, with humor and suspense her life is turned upside down.

What defines a stalker? How tenuous is one woman's control over her own life, when someone refuses to take no for an answer?

BOY GETS GIRL plays the following regular schedule through Sunday, November 20:
Thursdays at 8 p.m. | Fridays at 8 p.m. | Saturdays at 8 p.m. | Sundays at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $18 and are now available online at www.theatermania.com or by 866-811-4111. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the theater ½ hour prior to performance.

Access Theatre, 380 Broadway @ White Street. (2 blocks South of Canal) on the 4th Floor.

Running Time: 120 minutes

Website: www.boygetsgirltheplay.com


Click here to purchase your $18 tickets.

THE ASTORIA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
11th SEASON
Recipient of Best Musical 2010 NYIT Award forChildren of Eden
proudly presents the World Premiere of

A HARD WALL AT HIGH SPEED
And then the world went crazy.

Written by ASHLIN HALFNIGHT

“Mr. Halfnight has a gift for punchy, coarse dialogue; an interest in bittersweet detail; and an ear for the inarticulate angst of young people stuck in limbo.”-The New York Times

“A playwright who bears watching.”- Village Voice

“[Halfnight has] a finesse that is rare for a new writer.”-The New York Times

Directed by MAY ADRALES

NOVEMBER 3 – 19, 2011

THE GOOD SHEPHERD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

Donnie Cole is a Floridian with the ideal existence: he’s a charter pilot who loves to fly planes – he has the perfect family, owns his home, and basks in the respect of his community. But when he misjudges a situation at work, an unexpected burst of media attention turns an uneasy community against him. A play about one man's mistake, and how it changed the nation, A HARD WALL AT HIGH SPEED asks how we heal, how we forgive, and how far we've come.A HARD WALL AT HIGH SPEED features Tom O’Keefe*(“CSI”, Riverside Theatre) as Donnie,Sarah Kate Jackson* (Bride Wars, Ashlin Halfnight's God's Waiting Room) as June, Johnny Pruitt*("30 Rock", Dead Man Walking premiere at NYC Opera) as Trout and Ryan Templeton(NYC debut, web series "Dank and Nank") as Marcy. *appears courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

A HARD WALL AT HIGH SPEED plays the following schedule through Saturday, November 19:
Thursdays at 8 p.m. | Fridays at 8 p.m. | Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Tickets are $18,available online at www.apacny.org or by calling 866-811-4111. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the Theatre Box Office, 30 minutes prior to the performance.

PERFORMANCE VENUE
Good Shepherd United Methodist Church 30-44 Crescent St (@30th Rd) Astoria, NY 11102

Running time:120 minutes (with one ten minute intermission)

Website: www.apacny.org

Click here for your $18 tickets to a World Premiere.

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THE CELL

Proudly Presents the Encore Production of

WINNER of FRINGENYC 2011 OVERALL EXCELLENCE AWARD

“Entertaining as hell... compelling script and excellent performance”

 –Joanna Bowzer, New York Theater Review

 

“Understated but brilliant... beautifully cinematic”

 –Michael Mraz, NYTheatre.com

HEROES AND OTHER STRANGERS

San Francisco. 1971. A tale of mystery, adventure, and running away.

Written by and Starring

ZAC JAFFEE

Directed by CHRISTIAN HAINES

LIMITED ENGAGEMENT

NOVEMBER 1 – NOVEMBER 19, 2011 AT THE CELL

OPENING NIGHT IS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3 AT 8 P.M.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT THECELLTHEATRE.ORG

It's 1971. Lenny is perfectly content with his life. He works at a camera shop in New York's Greenwich Village. He's not in the war, not fighting against it, not tuning in, turning on, or dropping out. He's not doing anything but standing on one side of a camera watching it all pass him by. But when a neighborhood girl disappears, Lenny finds himself searching for two runaway teenagers in San Francisco, where he finds hippies, revolutionaries, lovers, killers, heroes and other strangers, and, as it turns out, himself.

A noir tale told through a psychedelic lens.

HEREOES AND OTHER STRANGERS plays the following regular schedule:

 Thursdays at 8 p.m.

 Fridays at 8 p.m.

 Saturdays at 8 p.m.

There will be an added performance on Tuesday November 1.

Tickets are $15-18 and are now available online at www.thecelltheatre.org or by calling 1-800-838-3006. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the cell, ½ hour prior to performance

Running Time: 75 minutes

Website: www.thecelltheatre.org

Click here for $10 tickets the first weekend $15 all other performances with code: kampheroes 

Neighborhood Productions
presents
Austin Flint’s
Prison Light
directed by Alice Reagan
Oct. 20-30, 2011
HERE
145 6th Ave. (Enter on Dominick, 1 Block South of Spring)

For Tickets & Information at: here.org or call 212-352-3101

Parker is a man who feels trapped until he hears the voices of two tortured prisoners calling out to him and only him. Will Parker’s quest to free them be a descent into madness or just what he needs to find the light? With wit and grace, PRISON LIGHTis a drama about the everyman inside us all.

SMALL POND ENTERPRISES is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Sarah Ford’s GEORGIA & ME, directed by Zoya Kachadurian. GEORGIA & ME will play a Limited engagement at the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre (312 West 36th Street, first floor, NYC, Between 8th & 9th aves.) Performances begin Sunday, July 17th and continue through Wednesday, July 27th.

A woman who thinks she has it all, is awakened by the spirit of renowned painter, Georgia O’Keeffe, who challenges her to pick up an abandoned project. It’s never too late to find out who you thought you were.

The Midtown International Theatre Festival’s 2011 Season runs from July 11 – 31 at the June Havoc Theatre, 312 W. 36th Street, 1st floor; the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre, 312 W. 36th Street, 1st floor; the Main Stage Theater, 312 W. 36th Street, 4th floor; and the Jewel Box Theater, 312 W. 36th Street, 4th floor. Tickets are $18-15 and are available at www.midtownfestival.org or by phone at 866-811-4111.

GEORGIA & ME plays the following schedule:

July 17 at 7:30 p.m.
July 23 at 1:30 p.m.
July 24 at 5:30 p.m.
July 27 at 7:45 p.m.

Tickets are $18 (students/seniors $15) and are now available online at https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/834715 or by calling 866-811-4111. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the theatre’s box office a half-hour prior to performance.

Running Time: 70 minutes

Website: www.georgia-and-me.com

THE CELL and THE HIVE THEATRE COMPANY are pleased to announce their gender-bender production of William Shakespeare’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, directed by Matthew A.J. Gregory. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM will play a limited engagement at the cell (338 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10011). MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM will be playing in rep with BAD EVIDENCE,as part of the cell’s Summer of Lust.  Performances begin Tuesday, July 5 and continue through Sunday, July 31. Opening Night is Saturday, July 9 (8 p.m.). 

The Hive and the cell have joined forces to present a modern re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, which casts Hermia and Lysander as lesbian lovers with Demetrius and Helena as a gay couple. This is not your grandmother’s MIDSUMMER, but a MIDSUMMER for 21st century NYC.  This production exposes contemporary America's sexual hang-ups and resistance to gay marriage.   Concepts of what constitutes gender, sexual-orientation and power will be explored and exploded!

MIDSUMMER, the inaugural performance of Shakespeare in the Rear @ the cell, has audiences follow Shakespeare’s lost lovers in and out of doors as they make their way through an urban wilderness. From the cell’s magnificent townhouse interior to its brand new outdoor garden salon, we join the lovers as they journey from a lavish if oppressive high-society gala to a wild outdoor bacchanal of every fetish imaginable--filled with delectable and dangerous fairies straight out of everyone’s fantasies and fears.

The production features scenic design by Justin Couchara (Recent:  Asst. Scenic Designer for Peter and the Starcatcher, Lead Props Sculptor for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), costume design by Christina Kim, and lighting design by Nick Gonsman (Recent:  Field Project Coordinator for ETC). Justin Stasiw is the sound designer and Lauren Williams is the stage manager.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM plays the following schedule through Sunday, July 31: 

July 5, 6, 9, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, 23, 28, 29 and 31 at 8pm
July 10, 16, 24 and 30 at 2pm 

Tickets are $18 (student/senior $15 with code “summeroflust”)and are now available online at www.brownpapertickets.com or by calling 1-800-838-3006. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the theater ½ hour prior to performance.

Running Time: 90 minutes

Website: thehivetheatre.com/midsummer and thecelltheatre.org