More Casting Announced for Seaport Summer Theatre Fest

Twelfth Night, Snapshots '07 and Late Night Comedy will launch the first annual Seaport Summer Theatre Festival.  The Festival will run from August 2nd through August 26th at the S-P-A-C-E Gallery and Performance Space (a project of the Seaport District Cultural Association), 207a Front Street at Beekman Street, South Street Seaport, NYC. 

The performance schedule is as follows:

Twelfth Night – Thursdays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm.
Snapshots – Fridays and Sundays at 7pm, Saturdays at 3pm.
Late Night Comedy – Saturday nights at 11pm.

Twelfth Night "is the ideal Shakespeare play for the Seaport and Gallery setting.  The comedy of love and longing begins with a tragic shipwreck off the coast of the seaport town of Illyria.  The S-P-A-C-E Gallery's eclectic collection of painting, sculpture and photography by Downtown Manhattan artists creates the perfect scenic environment for Illyria, a 'Through-The-Looking-Glass' world that is, to quote the Bard, 'high fantastical,'" state press notes.  The Twelfth Night cast is led by Stephen Largay (The Last Night of Ballyhoo) as Sir Toby Belch.  Also featured in the cast are Danny Bruckert, Gene Gallerano, Jesse Gavin, Adam Hirsch, Mari Howells, Margaret Nichols, Patrick Pizzolorusso, Joli Tribuzio and Maxwell Zener.  The ensemble cast features Sarah Bowles, Madeleine Burns, Rosalynd Darling, Jane Elliot, Manuel Fihman, Christopher Gooley, Jenna Harder, Rachael Hip-Flores, Claire Kenny and Tracy Weiler.
 
Snapshots '07 continues the popular Snapshots series of One Acts presented by the Worth Street Theater Company that included notable work by Richard Greenberg, John Patrick Shanley and Tom Disch and featured premieres of work by Keith Reddin and Robert O'Hara.  The 2007 edition will include world premieres of: First Date by Patrick Blake (featuring Hilary Bettis), two monologues by acclaimed playwright and novelist Clay McCleod Chapman, Bridesmaid and The Interstate and On (featuring Kira Sternbach and Tracy Weiler), and Jeff Cohen's In These Times – scenes from the aftermath of September 11 (with Madeleine Burns, Rosalynd Darling, Jenna Harder, Gabrielle Maisels and Mark M. Thomaseiler.

First Date "is a series of first dates as an aspiring actress gets sucked into the vortex of New York City life." Bridesmaid and The Interstate and On "can best be described as contemporary Southern Gothic.  The former is a drunken wedding reception send-off where some particularly unsavory bridal secrets are revealed, the latter is a rumination on a prom-night tragedy." In These Times is "a collection of snapshots depicting New York  life in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks."

Late Night Comedy will take over the Festival every Saturday night, "featuring some of New York's most exciting established and up and coming comedy acts."

Artistic Director Jeff Cohen (Artistic Director of Worth Street Theater Company, founder of Tribeca Playhouse) continues to have an indelible association with Downtown and the events of 9/11.  
 
Tickets are $18 per show, or all three shows for a special Festival Pass of $30. Tickets can be purchased by calling Smarttix.com at 212/868-4444.