True Light Productions is pleased topresent the world premiere of award-winning playwright Steve Sherman’s ON CAMPUS, directed by Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab member Marc Santa Maria. ON CAMPUS will play a 3-week limited engagement at the LABA Theater at 14th Street Y (344 East 14th Street between First and Second Avenues, NYC). Performances begin Thursday, March 10th through Saturday, March 26th.

On Campus reflects the pressures put upon university students who try to establish various relationships despite social and cultural differences.  Meanwhile, a precarious affair between a student and professor throws all characters into a downward spiral, forcing everyone to help each other overcome the challenges of college life.

With Caitlin Gold, Jake Millgard*, Osvaldo Plasencia*, Sarah Saunders, Steve Sherman*, Ed Stelz and Chloe Tuttle. Hana Kalinski and Steve Sherman are the producers. Set design by Daniel Zimmerman and lighting design by Chad Lefebvre. Estie Sarvasy is the production stage manager.

ON CAMPUS plays the following schedule through Saturday, March 26th:

Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays at 2pm
Extra performance Monday, March 21st at 8pm

Tickets are $18 ($12 with valid student I.D.) and are now available online at www.Theatermania.com or by calling 212-352-3101. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the theatre’s Box Office, half-hour before the performance.

Running time: 1 hours and 45 minutes including one intermission

For more information visit www.oncampustheplay.com

*Appearing Courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association.

RED FERN THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to announce the World Premiere production of Donna Fiumano-Farley’s A SHOT AWAY, directed by Melanie Moyer Williams.  A SHOT AWAY performs in a three-week limited engagement at the LABA Theatre at the 14th Street Y (344 East 14th Street between First and Second Avenues). Performances begin Thursday, March 31 and continue through Sunday, April 17. Opening Night is Saturday, April 2 (8 p.m.). 


Tina Priest is dead. Is it suicide? Or, is it because, just weeks before, this American soldier reported she had been raped on her Army base in Iraq. Her mother and twin sister are left with many doubts and unanswered questions.

Priest is not alone; six other soldiers recount their experiences as survivors of military sexual trauma. A Shot Away is a docu-drama about sexual assault in the US military, based entirely on interviews with American soldiers who have been sexually assaulted by their "fellow" soldiers. In their own words, the soldiers explore this ongoing epidemic in our military and examine what can be done to address and prevent instances of sexual assault and rape in the military.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.  According to a 2009 U.S. Department of Defense report, there were over 3,000 reported cases of sexual assault committed by soldiers against soldiers. This number does not represent the estimated 80% of unreported cases of sexual assault. 

On Tuesday, February 15th, more than a dozen U.S. veterans filed a class-action suit in federal court, attempting to force the Pentagon to change how it handles cases of military sexual trauma. 

Panayiota Bertzikis, a Coast Guard veteran, is a plaintiff in the lawsuit and one of the veterans interviewed for A Shot Away."The problem of rape in the military is not only service members getting raped, but it's the entire way that the military as a whole is dealing with it," says Bertzikis. "From survivors having to be involuntarily discharged from service, the constant verbal abuse, once a survivor does come forward your entire unit is known to turn their back on you. The entire culture needs to be changed." http://tinyurl.com/APMilitarySexualTrauma

The production features scenic design by Katherine Akiko Day and lighting design by Marie Yokoyama. Ken Hall is the dramaturg.




A SHOT AWAY plays the following regular schedule through Sunday, April 17: 

Thursdays -Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. |  Sundays at 3:00 p.m.   
There will be an additional performance Monday April 11 at 7:00 pm

Tickets are $25 and are now available online at www.theatermania.com or by calling 866.811.4111. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the theater box office 1⁄2 hour prior to the performance.

Running Time: 90 minutes

Website: www.redferntheatre.org

More information on the lawsuit is available at http://servicewomen.org/

Location:  LABA Theatre at the 14th Street Y
344 East 14th Street between First and Second Avenues
4/5/6/N/R/Q to Union Square; L to First Avenue

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Our 2010-2011 Season is also made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency. 

The Dramatist Guild Fund, The Josephine Foundation, and The Puffin Foundation, Ltd, have also made generous grants to make the 2010-2011 Season possible.

Red Shark Productions and White Rabbit Theatre are pleased to present William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, directed by Andrew Rothkin. Macbeth will play a three-week limited engagement at the Wings Theatre (154 Christopher Street). Performances begin Thursday, March 10 and continue through Sunday, March 27. Opening Night is Saturday, March 12 (8 p.m.).
Set in the 1930s, with influences from the Hollywood Golden Age of Glamour, Universal Horror Films and Film Noir, Macbeth 2011 explores the darkness of classic Shakespeare work.

What would you do for power, riches and worldwide glory?  For Macbeth and his wife, nothing will stand in their way.  After all, on the path to greatness, what’s one more murder, more or less?
Follow the deadly duo on their dark, spiraling journey through the occult, transcendental bloodlust and murder… and ultimately…to madness. March 2011…something wicked this way comes.

The production features scenic design by Jara Belmonte, costume design by Kerry Gibbons, props design by Elisa Beth Abatsis and lighting design by Crystal M. Lee. Howard Fredrics is the original music composer and sound designer, Anthony Jonesis the special effects designer Andrea Andresakis is the choreographer, Nicholas Santasier is the fight choreographer and Katy Moore* is the stage manager. Clara Barton Green is the assistant director and dramaturg.

MACBETH plays the following regular schedule through Sunday, March 27:
Wednesdays-  Saturdays at 8 p.m.  | Sundays at 3 p.m.

Please note there is no performance on Wednesday, March 23rd.

Tickets: $18 and are now available online at www.smarttix.com or by calling (212) 868-4444. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the theatre ½ hour prior to performance.

Running Time: 2 hours with intermission

Website: http://www.macbeth2011.com/

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KDNY DANCE
2011 Season Proudly Presents Three World Premieres in

GOING

Choreography by KATHLEEN DYER

MARCH 18 – 20, 2011 AT THE AILEY CITIGROUP THEATER
Tickets are $20 ($15 students and seniors) 
www.kdnydance.com or  866-811-4111

The examined journey is as important as the destination; changing even the view of the destination.  KDNY’s Going is an evening of traveling encounters, which encourage us to embrace both the light and dark aspects of our true nature. In KDNY’s three premieres, Vinegar Hill, Formula and Going, choreographer Kathleen Dyer uses oscillating environments, tensions in camaraderie, and honest anticipation of the journey to uncover powerful realizations about oneself as a part of a whole and as whole, apart.

Vinegar Hill (Premiere) mysterious and aggressive, set against a mountainous backdrop, a quartet of women wrestle and clamor over each other in a competitive bid for control. Vinegar Hill glimpses the souring of camaraderie as the desire for autonomy erodes the relationships that once bound them together. 

Going (Premiere) While traveling along a bucolic road, created through projected video, we meet a series of individuals, each with a story to tell.  How did they come to be on this road at this moment?  Where do they hope to end up?  Amidst the twists and turns of the road ahead, the intimate details of their stories are revealed.

Formula (Premiere) is an escalating layering of duets set to Zoe Keating’s optimistic looping cello composition “Sun will Set.” Insistent melodies and inventive links reinforce the necessity of allies as the best medicine for progress.

Evergreen (2009) Inspired by a painting of a violent storm brewing over a single blade of grass, Evergreen considers the potent resiliency in nature and pursues this elusive quality, harnessing the power that it can bring to one’s life.