New Ohio Theatre presents a Bug Company production of
THE EYES OF OTHERS

September 6-28

Written by Ivan Dimitrov
Translated by Angela Rodel
Directed by Sam Buggeln

Production Staff:

Scenic Design: David L. Arsenault

Costume Design: Katja Andreiev

Lighting Design: Max Doolittle

Sound Design: Anna-Lee Craig

Stage Manager: Becca Pickett*

Press Representation: David Gibbs, Darr Publicity

Graphic Design: Andrea Lee

Featuring: Matt Frazier, Michael Frederic*, Danielle Skraastad*, Zoë Winters*, Evan Zes*

*Appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

It's another lunch hour in the main square, and two white-collar wannabe sharks are heading back to the office hustle. They have some concerns, though: Who's watch is more prestigious? Is it possible to eat from a street vendor without looking like a hick? (Is that why they never manage to actually eat lunch?) And where did all the people go? Also: who is that man who watches them every day, and why does it feel so damn reassuring? Old-school Absurdism meets The Office, in a play about anonymity, surveillance, and global consumer culture.

 

The Eyes of Others won the Shumen new play contest in Bulgaria and was selected from among hundreds of international plays to be read at the Lark Play Development Center's 2012 hotINK Festival. The Eyes of Others was developed, in part, at IRT Theatre.

Blue Coyote Theater Group presents
CONEY

October 27 - November 17

By David Johnston
Directed by Gary Shrader

Production Staff:

Set Designer: Kerry Chipman

Lighting Designer: Nick Houfek

Stage Manager: Samantha Davis.

Featuring: Frank Anderson, Eboni Booth, Alex Carmine, John DiBenedetto, Andrea Gallo, Tracey Gilbert, Jillaine Gill, George C. Hosmer, Boo Killebrew, David Lapkin, PJ Sosko, Stephen Speights, Amy Staats

 

With cold weather and the threat of gentrification looming, a group of Coney Island die-hards take to the boardwalk for one last summer fling. A panoramic tribute to a world that is "all going away," CONEY presents a diverse cast of twelve characters spanning in age from 13 to 73. Between the Sideshows at the Sea Shore, the Wonder Wheel, Nathan's Hot Dogs and Shoot the Freak, dreams are conjured and hopes are dashed in acclaimed playwright David Johnston's love letter to America's original national playground.

Performance Space 122 + New Ohio Theatre presents SEAGULL (THINKING OF YOU) January 9 - 19
Written and directed by Tina Satter A Half Straddle Production Part of 2013 COIL Festival   Production Staff: Set Designer: Andreea Mincic Lighting Designer: Zack Tinkelman Composer/ Sound Designer: Chris Giarmo Production Manager: Liz Nielsen Stage Manager: Randi Rivera Costume Designer: Enver Chakartash   Featuring: Eliza Bent Becca Blackwell Emily Davis Julia Sirna-Frest Susie Sokol Jess Barbagallo   Writer/director Tina Satter draws on Chekhov’s letters, translations, and perverse sense of comedy to consider anew the darkness, beauty, and history of Chekhov’s iconic play The Seagull and its resonances with her Half Straddle ensemble. Seagull (Thinking of you) is a personal look at performance, failure, and attempted love -- ultimately an unexpected meditation on why we ever try to say something out loud. With a Russian folk metal-influenced score.	“Full to the brim with killer talent … launching a particularly coordinated goal-line drive to a new feminist form.” – Time Out New York
Made possible with commissioning support from PS122 and Jerome Foundation. Developed in residences at MASS MoCA (December 2012), the New Museum (September/August 2012), and Abrons Art Center (April 2012). Early stages of the work were shown at Prelude Festival (October 2011).

 

New Ohio Theatre presents
Godlight Theatre Company's production of
WILL ELLIOTT'S PILO FAMILY CIRCUS

January 31 - February 23

Adapted by Matt Pelfrey
Directed by Joe Tantalo

The sold-out hit of ICE FACTORY 2012 returns for its World Premiere

Production Staff: Production Design: Maruti Evans Sound Design: Ien DeNio Fight Choreography: Rick Sordelet Choreography: Maiysha Cade Costume Design: Orli Nativ Masks: Brendan Tay & The Puppet Kitchen Featuring: Chris Cipriano Dre Davis Brett Glass Lawrence Jansen Adam Kee Gregory Konow Nick Paglino Michael Shimkin Jenny Stulberg Jarrod Zayas

"You have two days to pass your audition. You better pass it, feller. You're joining the circus. Ain't that the best news you ever got?”

The Pilo Family Circus is recruiting and whether he likes it or not, Jamie is auditioning. He never dreamed of running away to join the circus, but you just don't say no to a troupe of exuberantly sadistic clowns out headhunting. Darkly funny and gleefully macabre, Will Elliott's The Pilo Family Circus, adapted by Matt Pelfrey, follows Jamie's furious descent into the nightmare world of a centuries-old carnival where amid the acrobats, clowns, dwarves, freaks and fortune tellers, you may lose more than just your way. Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself. When he applies the white face paint, he is transformed into JJ – the most vicious clown of them all. And JJ wants Jamie dead...

Will Elliott's THE PILO FAMILY CIRCUS was commissioned by Godlight Theatre Company, New York, NY Joe Tantalo, Artistic Director, and is produced by exclusive arrangement with Australian Literary Management, 2-A Booth Street, Balmain NSW 2041, Australia.

THE PILO FAMILY CIRCUS received funding and developmental support in 2012 from the Drama League Director's Project's New Directors/New Works Program.

New Georges presents GOLDOR $ MYTHYKA: A HERO IS BORN April 3 - 27

a new play by Lynn Rosen developed with and directed by Shana Gold   Design by: Lenore Doxsee Nick Francone Piama Habibullah Jared Mezzocchi Tristan Raines Shane Rettig   Featuring: Ben Beckley Jaspal Binning Christopher Gerson Kristin Griffith Jenni Meador Bobby Moreno Garrett Neergaard Rob Leo Roy Jenny Seastone Stern Bubba Weiler   Watch, if you dareth, as love and hunger collide most fantastically with the elusive American dream. In hearty games of Dungeons & Dragons, young Bart and Holly escape the dreary reality of hauling money all day in armored transport vehicles. When jobs are lost and the boss starts looking at Holly funny, escape becomes reality, releasing Goldor & Mythyka upon the world. Thusly, lucre shall be heisted! Throngs shall cheer their criminal exploits! And Have Nots will rule the day! Until… reality regenerates with a vengeance.

“If you only see one show this month, see this one. TWICE.” – New York Theatre Review   “Exuberant… taps into the desire so many of us feel for lives more intrepid, more exciting, and certainly better funded than the ones we’re stuck with. ” – The Village Voice

 

The Play Company presents The New York premiere of THE GOLDEN DRAGON May 8 - June 9

Written by Roland Schimmelpfennig Directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar Translated by David Tushingham Production Staff: Set designer: Mimi Lien Costume designer: Loren Shaw Lighting Designer: Nicole Pearce Sound Designer: Katie Down Movement Director: Erica Fae Featuring: Noah Galvin Peter Kim K.K. Moggie Stephen Duff Webber Welker White An agonizing toothache launches a tragicomic tale set in your local Pan-Asian takeout. Five actors play 15 characters as the tooth magically weaves together the stories of the immigrant kitchen workers, their customers and neighbors in the heat and frenzy of the dinner rush. This high-energy, kaleidoscopic play by one of Europe’s most popular and adventurous writers explores how intertwined our lives really are.