Bad Play Festival Hosts 'Best of Fest' Sept. 23 & 30

The Bad Plays Festival presents an extra showing of the winning plays by audience vote each week, on Sundays at 8PM, September 23 & 30.  This Sunday feature The Devil & His Sunglasses, The Mexican Cleaning Lady or How I Almost Offended the Dalai Lama, Goebbels! Live from Hell! One Night Only!

The Bad Plays Festival is in its second year, this time at the Players Theatre at 115 MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village.  Each night starting at 8PM, there's a unique theme of 3-5 new plays for one all-inclusive ticket price.  This year's festival also features a special Brown Bag Lunch Series (including snacks & beverage) of staged readings on Wednesdays at noon and Ebony Black, a new children's musical on Saturdays at 3PM.

Closing night brings presentation of the Fruit Cup Awards: Golden Pineapple, Silver Tomato, and Bronze Banana.  Wild and woolly comedy and singing acts entertain nightly during set changes and intermissions, including Bronze Fondue, a rock band of nutty university professors, and East Village favorites Jessica Delfino, Zero Boy, Rosie Rebel, and more.

Bad Plays Festival 2007 presents 6 THEME NIGHTS of fun and exciting plays on a rotating basis:

SEX, THUGS AND ROCK 'N ROLL (9/24) featuring: Revenge Is Best Served Cold by Samuel Toll, God's Pants Too Huge by George Holets, Artist vs. Landlord by Doron Braunshtein, Sexual Perversity in Connecticut by Mike Folie, The Age Game by Joan Blake and Tia Maria, and Perfect Pitch by Patricia Lee Stotter.

SOMETHING TO OFFEND EVERYONE (9/21 & 25) featuring: Hollywood Saves Africa by K. Knapp, The Mexican Cleaning Lady or How I Almost Offended the Dalai Lama by Leslie Bramm, The Hootens of Hollerville by Michael Paul Girard, and The Jewish Roaches by Richard Ravits.

IS THAT A GUN IN YOUR POCKET? (9/22 & 26) featuring: Aphrodite's Nightie by Frank O'Donnell, Berry Season by Rosemary Toohey, Down Goes Rocky by Reid MacCluggage, The Devil and His Sunglasses by Csaba Teglas, and Time Went by but Slowly by J. Boyer.

LITTLE BOXES MADE OF TICKY-TACKY (9/27) featuring: Going Postal by George Holets, The Greatest in the Whole Wide World by David Kosh, A Fake Fiasco by Frederick Timm, and The Canary by Don Chan Mark.

POKING AT SACRED COWS (a faux classical romp) (9/28) featuring: The Moor's Pastiche by Jean Hart, Come Again? by Richard J. Budin, and The Queen's Privy by Michael Paul Girard.

SWINGTIME FOR HITLER (& Friends) (9/29) featuring: Goebbels! One Night Only! Live From Hell! by Scott Munson, Better Than Hitler by Jon Brooks, and God Bless America by William Morton.

BEST IN FEST (9/23 & 30) featuring: The Devil & His Sunglasses, The Mexican Cleaning Lady or How I Almost Offended the Dalai Lama, Goebbels! Live from Hell! One Night Only!, The Queen's Privy, The Greatest in the Whole Wide World, and others TBA.

Saturdays, September 22 & 29 at 3PM, the company's original children's musical Ebony Black, a multicultural take on Snow White, will perform for children and family audiences.  Tickets are $7/children & $10/adults.

Wednesday, September 26 from 12PM-2PM, the Brown Bag Lunch Series of staged readings will feature eight new plays with brown bag snacks and beverages included in the $10 admission.  Readings include Long Night's Journey into Day by Stuart Boyce, An Acute Triangle by Rosemary Martino, 60 Guilders' Worth by Anthony Pennino, Chunnel by Paavo Tom Tammi, Don't Wait/'Til It's Too Late by Lenore Blumenfeld, Woman-Bomb/de Sade by Allan Graubard and Caroline McGee, Vilification by Laura K. Emack, and Red November, Charlie December by Penelope Prentice.

Directors for this year's festival are:  Maria Benedek, Kelly Campbell, Kristofer Holz, Court Sweeting, Thomas Amici, Kenny Wade Marshall, Mary Lee Kellerman, Karen Raphaeli, Will Nunziata, Charles Major, David Sheppard Jr., Jason Weiss, Catherine Lamm, Robyne Parrish, Paul Nicholas, Elyzabeth Gorman, Paula J Riley, and Melba LaRose.

NY Artists Unlimited is a 25 year old nonprofit organization that provides theatre and art to under-served audiences.  The company is supported in part by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Nancy Quinn Fund, Puffin Foundation, corporate and individual contributors.

Tickets $25 at door on day of performance; $20 advance sales (includes 3-5 short plays per night).  Reservations for the festival are strongly suggested.  For more information or reservations, please call 212-242-6036 or visit www.nyartists.org. For online ticketing: www.theatermania.com. The Players Theatre is at 115 MacDougal St. (betw. Minetta Lane & West 3rd St.), Greenwich Village.

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