PREMIERES (Paulette Haupt, Artistic Director/Producer), in association with Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Founder & Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director), presents the special 4-week presentation of Inner Voices: Solo Musicals, with the premieres of two new one-act solo musicals: Mosaic with Book & Lyrics by Cheri Steinkellner and Music & Lyrics by Georgia Stitt, featuring Heidi Blickenstaff as Ruth, and Whida Peru: Resurrection Tangle with Book & Lyrics by David Simpatico and Music by Josh Schmidt, featuring Judith Blazer as Whida Peru. Jonathan Butterell directs both musicals, with musical direction by Andy Boroson, J. Oconer Navarro and Steve Marzullo. Inner Voices: Solo Musicals is part of Primary Stages Spring Celebration celebrating 25 years with 25 days of events. Performances began April 2, 2010 for a limited engagement through Saturday, April 24, 2010 at Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues).
Inner Voices: Solo Musicals, a 95-minute presentation, has four remaining performances: Thursday & Friday at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
Mosaic, by
Cheri Steinkellner &
Georgia Stitt, is a multi-media, real-time half hour in the life -and on the MacBook - of Ruth, a woman blogging at the crossroads of birth, death, love and Diet Coke. Featuring
Heidi Blickenstaff as Ruth with musical direction by
Steve Marzullo.
Whida Peru: Resurrection Tangle, by
David Simpatico &
Josh Schmidt, brings us into the chambers of a rare creature, as she is forced to evaluate the quality of life, death and what lies in between for her. Featuring
Judith Blazer as Whida Peru with musical direction by
Andy Boroson and
J. Oconer Navarro.
The creative team includes
Dane Laffrey (Set & Costumes),
Jennifer Schriever (Lights),
Toby Algya (Sound), and Rocco DiSanti (Video). The Production Stage Manager is
Robert Bennett.
Single tickets are priced at $30 with $20 tickets available to
Primary Stages subscribers and 59E59 Members and may be purchased by calling Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200, online at www.ticketcentral.com, or in person at the
59E59 Theaters Box Office. Group Tickets (10+) are available by calling (212) 840-9705, ext. 219. Please visit the website at www.primarystages.org, or call (212) 840-9705 for additional information.
PREMIERES is a non-profit theater organization whose mission is to create new partnerships among exceptional writers and composers and commission, develop and present their works on the non-commercial stage. Since 2001, it has supported and presented new works by
Ed Dixon,
Darrah Cloud,
Kim D. Sherman, Noa Ain, Gerard Edery,
Maryrose Wood,
Andrew Gerle, Daniel Frederick Levin, Jonathan Portera,
Sam Carner,
Derek Gregor and
Lauren Robert at various performance venues in New York City. To learn more about PREMIERES, please visit our website at www.premieresnyc.org.
Primary Stages was founded in 1984 as a New York State non-profit theater company with the mission of producing new plays and nurturing the development of playwrights. In our 25 seasons we have produced over 100 world and New York premieres of plays by such playwrights as
Brooke Berman,
Lee Blessing,
Charles Busch,
Constance Congdon,
A.R. Gurney,
Michael Hollinger,
Willy Holtzman,
Tina Howe,
David Ives,
Julia Jordan,
Romulus Linney,
Michele Lowe,
Donald Margulies,
Melissa Manchester,
Terrence McNally, Connor McPherson,
John Henry Redwood,
Lanie Robertson,
John Patrick Shanley and
Mac Wellman. We seek to provide a supportive environment where writers are encouraged to explore the scope of their creative vision. Our productions and our artists have received considerable critical acclaim including Tony, Obie, AUDELCO, Outer Critics Circle,
Lucille Lortel (Outstanding Body of Work), Drama League, Drama Desk, Helen Hayes (Washington, DC), L.A.
Stage Alliance Ovation and
Joseph Jefferson (Chicago) awards and nominations.
Lincoln Center Theater, by special arrangement with
Primary Stages, recently produced
Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate on Broadway at the Booth Theatre.
Primary Stages continues to nurture playwrights through commissions, our weekly PrimeTime Reading Series and our emerging playwrights development program, The Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, now in its 14th year. We offer a wide array of classes and workshops at
Primary Stages School of Theater, host free matinee performances for NYC public high school students, and enhance student appreciation of the theater through in-school programming with our Primary Voices program. Since 2004,
Primary Stages has been honored to be the Resident Theater Company of
59E59 Theaters, a state of the art theater center on Manhattan's East side which provides a home to numerous visiting companies, theater festivals, and artists throughout the year.
www.59e59.org. To learn more about
Primary Stages please visit our website at
www.primarystages.org.
