INTAR Presents World Premiere of 'All Eyes An Ears' 5/5

INTAR (Eduardo Machado, Artistic Director/John McCormack, Executive Director/Alina Troyano, Associate Artistic Director), will present the World Premiere of ALL EYES AND EARS a new play by Rogelio Martinez, directed by Eduardo Machado. ALL EYES AND EARS will begin previews on Wednesday, April 30th, with Opening Night set for Monday, May 5th at the Lion Theater on Theatre Row.

1961 Cuba. A seamstress is catapulted into a new life, new house, and new government job. But good fortunes quickly change when her new position attracts unexpected guests and reveals more secrets about herself than of political conspiracies. Eduardo Machado directs a cast that features Terumi Matthews (Madonna in the Fox TV movie,  Madonna: Innocence Lost) along with Martin Sola (Coram Boy, La Boheme, The King And I), Christina Pumariega,  Liam Torres, Maria Helan and Ed Vassallo. ALL EYES AND EARS will have set and lighting design by Maruti Evans.

Mr. Machado explains that "as Cuba experiences its first major change since 1959, All Eyes And Ears shows us how it all began.  It takes place at the moment when the Revolution decided to become all-powerful and omnipotent in the control of its citizens.  Everyday people were given the power to become all eyes and ears for the Revolution.  This is the story of one woman who found herself in a position of power that she would not have imagined in her wildest dreams before 1959."

INTAR, one of the United States' longest running Latino theatres producing in English, works to:
- Nurture the professional development of Latino theater artists.
- Produce bold, innovative, artistically significant plays that reflect diverse perspectives.
- Make accessible the diversity inherent in America's cultural heritage.

Through an integrated program of workshops, productions of works in progress, and mainstage productions, INTAR continues to raise standards of the theater arts.  INTAR brings to the public vital and energetic voices of both promising and accomplished Latino theater professionals, replacing stereotypes while giving expression to the diversity and depth of today's Latino-American community.

Rogelio Martinez's previous play, Fizz, developed with an NEA/TCG grant at INTAR, was produced at the Ohio Theater last September.  Learning Curve premiered in February 2005 at Theatre Row and was subsequently published in May 2006 by Smith and Krauss in New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2005. Displaced had a world premiere in May 2006 at the Marin Theater Company in the Bay Area.  Arrivals and Departures was produced as part of the First Annual Summer Play Festival.  I Regret She's Made of Sugar, commissioned by South Coast Repertory, earned Rogelio a Princess Grace Award.  He is also a recipient of an NEA/ TCG Residency Grant, a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and is an alumnus of New Dramatists.  His play My First Radical was workshopped at the Ojai Playwrights Conference.  Union City, NJ…, produced at E.S.T. and starring Rosie Perez, won the James Hammerstein Award. Illuminating Veronica, a play about the early years of the Revolution, will soon be published by Broadway Play Publishing. His new play, Will in Space, has been developed over the past year at Primary Stages.  In addition, Rogelio's work has been developed and presented at the Public Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, and the Magic Theater, among others.  He has been commissioned to write a new play by the Denver Center Theater and the Atlantic Theater Company. Rogelio is part of the Dorothy Strelsin Writer's Group at Primary Stages.  He teaches playwriting at Montclair University, Lincoln Center Theater, Primary Stages, and INTAR.  Rogelio was born in Sancti-Spiritus, Cuba, and came to the U.S. in 1980 on the Mariel boatlift.

Eduardo Machado is the author of over forty plays including The Cook, Havana is Waiting, A Burning Beach, The Floating Island Plays, Cuba and the Night, Once Removed, and Stevie Wants to Play the Blues. His plays have been produced at Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf Theatre, Hampstead Theatre in London, American Place Theatre, The Cherry Lane Theatre, and Repertorio Español, among many others. Mr. Machado has served as an Artistic Associate at The Public, the Flea Theatre/Bat Theatre Company and The Cherry Lane Alternative, and he was playwright in residence at The Mark Taper Forum. He has received four National Endowment for the Arts grants, two Rockefeller Foundation Playwriting grants, and grants from The TCG Pew Charitable Trust and The Berrilla Kerr Foundation. His plays have been published by the Theatre Communications Group and Samuel French. Mr. Machado is an alumnus of New Dramatists and member of Ensemble Studio Theater and the Actors Studio. He is currently INTAR Theatre's Artistic Director, and began teaching at NYU in fall 2007. "Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home," a food memoir by Eduardo Machado and Michael Domitrovich, was recently released by Gotham Press.

ALL EYES AND EARS will begin performances at The Lion Theatre on Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street, between 9th – 10th Avenues) on Tuesday April 29th and continue through Thursday May 22nd. Opening Night is set for Monday, May 5th. Tickets for all performances will be $25/$15 students & seniors, and can be purchased by calling TICKET CENTRAL at (212) 279-4200 or online at www.ticketcentral.com.