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THIRD YEAR PRODUCTIONS
Gem of the Ocean
by August Wilson
directed by Benny Sato Ambush
In Pittsburgh, 1904, the reverberations of slavery are still felt in the home of the legendary 287-year-old matriarch Aunt Ester. When a rebellion at the local mill sparks a racial conflict, Aunt Ester, and the souls who pass through her parlor, must undergo a spiritual journey that will allow them to embrace their future by accepting their past.
Fifth Floor Theatre; 111 2nd Ave, 5th Floor
Tuesday, October 2-Saturday, October 6 @ 8pm (w/ matinee on 6th at 2pm)
The Plough and the Stars
by Sean O’Casey
directed by Michael Sexton
Set during the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, O’Casey’s tragicomedy investigates the human cost of civil war with compassion, patriotism, and skepticism. Jack Clitheroe devotes more passion to the cause of Irish independence than to his wife, causing a rift in the lives of the denizens of a Dublin tenement and exposing the emotional paradox of human and political commitment.
Atlas Room Theatre; 111 2nd Ave, 3rd Floor
Wednesday, October 3-Sunday, October 7 @ 8pm (w/ matinee on 7th at 2pm)
Rocket to the Moon
by Clifford Odets
directed by Kenneth Washington
The oppressive heat of a Manhattan summer bubbles up the repressed passion of a middle-aged dentist for his attractive young receptionist. A complex and compassionate portrait of people caught in the realization of their faded dreams, Odets’ play is a brilliant and wistful look at lost souls and lost chances.
Shubert Theatre; 721 Broadway, 5th Floor
Tuesday, November 27-Sunday, December 2 @ 8pm (w/ matinee on December 1st and 2nd at 2pm)
Smash
by Jeffrey Hatcher; an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s novel, An Unsocial Socialist
directed by Victor Pappas
Sidney Trefusis is the most annoying kind of paradox: a millionaire socialist. His attempt to spark a socialist rebellion from inside a girls’ public school leads to a hilarious farce, where the slings and arrows of political injustice are no match for the arrows from Cupid’s bow. This will be an East Coast premiere of this comedy.
Atlas Room Theatre; 111 2nd Ave, 3rd Floor
Wednesday, November 28-Sunday, December 2 (w/ matinee on 2nd at 2pm)
Rabbit Hole
by David Lindsay-Abaire
directed by Cigdem Onat
The 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama, Rabbit Hole is a poignant and probing look at loss and recovery. A middle-class suburban couple must wrestle with their young son’s sudden and accidental death, and how his absence needs to be filled with a renewed presence of affection and understanding in their own lives.
Atlas Room Theatre; 111 2nd Ave, 3rd Floor
Tuesday, January 29-Sunday, February 3 (w/ matinee on 3rd at 2pm)
Our Lady of 121st Street
by Stephen Adly Guirgis
directed by Michael Sexton
A contemporary look at a dozen urban souls seeking for spiritual absolution admidst the debris of the racial, economic, and sexual bonds that hold them back. Gritty, intense, hilarious, and almost unbearably human, Guirgis’ work (our first production of his plays) reaches audiences like a modern Gorky, plumbing the lower depths of our uptown underclass.
5th Floor Theatre; 111 2nd Ave, 5th Floor
Wednesday, January 30-Sunday, February 3 (w/ matinee on 2nd at 2pm)
FREEPLAY
An eclectic and exciting festival of projects created and produced by members of the Third Year Acting Class.
Walker and Shubert Theaters, 721 Broadway, 5th Floor
Tuesday, March 4-Sunday, March 9
The Winter’s Tale
by William Shakespeare
directed by Barry Edelstein
This romance is one of the bard’s greatest examinations of redemption and faith, borne out in a fantastical world of court intrigues, oracles, shepherds and shepherdesses, resurrections, and pursuing bears. King Leontes’ inability to accept his wife’s fidelity leads to a crisis of conscience that engulfs his entire kingdom and comes close to extinguishing his human heart—until a miracle occurs….
Atlas Room Theatre; 111 2nd Ave, 3rd Floor
Wednesday, April 16-Saturday, April 26 (2pm matinee on the 19th )
No performance April 21st and 22nd
SECOND YEAR PRODUCTIONS
Bus Stop
by William Inge
directed by Pamela Berlin
A recent snowstorm has made the roads impassable, so the waitresses of a small bus stop near Kansas City put up a stranded group of riders. They include a love-sick cowboy and a down-on-her-luck night club singer whom he has abducted with the hope of changing her life. A moving, ironic, and engaging “ship of fools”, who display their dreams and failures while waiting for the snow to clear….
Walker Theatre; 721 Broadway, 5th Floor
October 24, 28, 30, November 1, 3 (8pm shows w/ matinees on October 26 and 27 at 2pm)
Picnic
by William Inge
directed by Janet Zarish
In a small Kansas town, a young handsome stranger passing through ignites a spark of passion, resentment, frustration, and release among the women of town during the summertime picnic season. Great characters, caught in the suffocating atmosphere of a small-town’s morality and hypocrisy.
Shubert Theatre; 721 Broadway, 5th Floor
October 25, 26, 29, 31, November 2, 4 (8pm shows w/a matinees on October 27 at 5pm and October 28 and November 3, 4 at 2pm)
THE CABARET
directed by Deb Lapidus
musical direction by Larry Yurman
A fun evening of song, dance and comedy, my friend.
Student Lounge, 721 Broadway, 5th Floor
December 6, 7 at 8pm; December 8 at 7pm and 10pm
La Ronde
by Arthur Schnitzler
directed by Martha Clarke
Actors in a new project that challenge and explore the art of the physical theater.
Walker Theatre; 721 Broadway, 5th Floor
February 6, 8,10, 12, 14, 16 at 8pm (matinees on 9th and 16th at 2pm)
Canticle
written and directed by Ruben Polendo
Actors in a new project that challenge and explore the art of the physical theater.
Walker Theatre; 721 Broadway, 5th Floor
February 7, 9,11, 13, 15, 17 at 8pm (matinees on February 10th and 17th at 2pm)
Hobson’s Choice
by Harold Brighouse
directed by Gus Kaikkonen
One of the most popular comedies in English stage history, this is a late Victorian gloss on King Lear, as Hobson, an imperious and uncharitable businessman, learns to let his daughters express and find their own freedoms, as he himself must accept the changing wheel of fate and time.
Walker Theatre; 721 Broadway, 5th Floor
April 23, 25, 27, 29, May 1, 2 at 8pm (matinees on April 26th and 30th at 2pm)
The Constant Wife
by W. Somerset Maugham
directed by Scott Alan Evans
Constance Middleton has the perfect antidote to her wealthy husband’s philandering: complete acceptance. Her blithe reactions to a high society scandal reveal her to be an emancipated and forward-thinking woman in this deliciously written comedy of manners, set in London in the mid-1920s.
Shubert Theatre; 721 Broadway, 5th Floor
April 24, 26, 28, 30, May 2 at 8pm (matinees on April 27th and May 3rd at 2pm)
