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The NYTW
2010/11
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THE
LITTLE FOXES
Written by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Ivo van Hove
September 10 - October 31, 2010
Acclaimed director Ivo van Hove returns to NYTW
to take on one of Lillian Hellman’s most
well-known plays, The Little Foxes. Van
Hove’s fresh vision of this iconic play will be a study of
how women of different races and classes contend with male aggression,
power, and domination. Elizabeth Marvel, who has
memorably collaborated with van Hove at NYTW, playing the title
role of Hedda Gabler and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named
Desire, will take on the role of Regina Giddens, the strong
and determined woman at the center of Hellman’s web of deceit.
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THREE
PIANOS
Written, Arranged and Performed by Rick Burkhardt, Alec
Duffy and Dave Malloy
Directed by Rachel Chavkin
December 7, 2010 - January 9, 2011
Three Pianos – The OBIE wining hit
music-theatre event that wowed audiences and critics alike in its
sold-out run at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in March –
is a theatrical explosion of Franz Schubert’s Winterreise
song cycle. Filled with fantastical touches and inventive arrangements,
Three Pianos is a colorful and imaginative evening of chaos
that explores Schubert’s music, life, and times. Written,
arranged, and performed by Rick Burkhardt (Nonsense
Company), Alec Duffy (Hoi Polloi) and Dave
Malloy (Banana Bag & Bodice), the play is set in a
rustic cabin on a blustery winter night where three friends –
each manning a piano – lead the audience through their perspective
passions for Winterreise, Schubert’s famous song
cycle on winter heartbreak. Performing the song cycle while drinking
and grappling with fundamental questions about the nature of music,
the three pianists slip into the skins of Schubert and friends during
one of the famous “Schubertiads.” Compositional mayhem,
shifting rivalries, and some unfortunate butchery of the German
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PETER
AND THE STARCATCHER
A New Play by Rick Elice
Directed by Roger Rees and Alex Timbers
February/April 2011
Rick Elice, co-writer of the Tony Award-winning
Jersey Boys and The Addams Family, along with
actor-director-author Roger Rees, probably best
known for his Tony Award-winning performance in The Life and
Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, and Drama Desk and OBIE Award-winning
director Alex Timbers, founder and artistic director
of les Freres Corbusier and director of the highly-acclaimed production
of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, have created an imaginative
new play based on the New York Times best-selling novel
by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, Peter and the Starcatcher.
In it, a company of 12 actors play some 50 characters on a journey
to answer the century-old questions: How did Peter become The Boy
Who Would Not Grow Up? |
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THE SHAGGS: PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD
Book by Joy Gregory
Music by Gunnar Madsen
Lyrics by Joy Gregory and Gunnar Madsen
Story by Joy Gregory, Gunnar Madsen
and John Langs
Directed by John Langs
A co-production with Playwrights Horizons
May/June 2011
They defined
cult status and were gone in the blink of an eye. Fremont, NH,
the early ‘70s. A working class dad has a vision of rock
n’ roll destiny for his three talentless daughters, convinced
they’re his family’s one-way ticket out of poverty
and obscurity. But the girls have ideas of their own - and as
their father ambition turns to obsession, the price of familial
obligation becomes all to clear. Based on a true story, The
Shaggs: Philosophy of the World is directed by John
Langs and adapted for stage by Joy Gregory,
Gunnar Madsen and John Langs.
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