Beth Griffith News

You wouldn't expect a 1937 Broadway musical that satirized American profiteering from wartime rumblings in Europe and was written to showcase the unique comedy talents of 'The Perfect Fool' Ed Wynn to be especially playable in the year 2008, but The Medicine Show, on their tiny stage way out west on W. 52nd Street, do a bang-up job with Hooray For What!

The Flea Theater presents the World Premiere of 'Kaspar Hauser: a foundling's opera', a music-theater piece by Tony-nominee and Obie-winner Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney of 13P.

The Flea Theater presents the World Premiere of KASPAR HAUSER: a foundling's opera, a music-theater piece by Tony-nominee and Obie-winner Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney of 13P. Commissioned by The Flea in 2006, the piece marks Swados return to The Flea, where she previously wrote, composed and directed the long-running hit JABU. Performances of KASPAR HAUSER begin previews on February 13th, with opening night set for February 28th.

The Flea Theater presents the World Premiere of KASPAR HAUSER: a foundling's opera, a music-theater piece by Tony-nominee and Obie-winner Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney of 13P. Commissioned by The Flea in 2006, the piece marks Swados return to The Flea, where she previously wrote, composed and directed the long-running hit JABU. Performances of KASPAR HAUSER begin previews on February 13th, with opening night set for February 28th.

The Flea Theater presents the World Premiere of KASPAR HAUSER: a foundling's opera, a music-theater piece by Tony-nominee and Obie-winner Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney of 13P. Commissioned by The Flea in 2006, the piece marks Swados return to The Flea, where she previously wrote, composed and directed the long-running hit JABU. Performances of KASPAR HAUSER begin previews on February 13th, with opening night set for February 28th.

Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble has announced its revival of 'MR. SHAKESPEARE & MR. PORTER,' the melding of the plays of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE with the music and lyrics of COLE PORTER. The production features two different evenings of mini-musicals: Volume 1 ('Hamlet,' 'Macbeth' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream') runs from November 13th through the 23rd; Volume 2 ('Measure for Measure,' 'Richard III' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream') runs from December 4th-December 21st.

Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble has announced its revival of 'MR. SHAKESPEARE & MR. PORTER,' the melding of the plays of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE with the music and lyrics of COLE PORTER. The production features two different evenings of mini-musicals: Volume 1 ('Hamlet,' 'Macbeth' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream') runs from November 13th through the 23rd; Volume 2 ('Measure for Measure,' 'Richard III' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream') runs from December 4th-December 21st.

Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble, one of NYC's longest-running experimental theatres will present Frank & Stein and Friends, an evening of short verse plays featuring the World Premiere of The Houses At Falling Hanging, a newly-discovered work by famed poet Frank O'Hara, as well as plays by Gertrude Stein, Edna St. Vincent Millay and others.

The Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble will present a concert staging of composer Morton Feldman's piece Three Voices on June 17th and 18th

The Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble's Republic of Poetry suite will run throughout June at the Medicine Show Theatre