Doug Yeager, Phil Marsh, Stephen Petrus & David Marquez Set for Articulate Theatre's Folk Panel

ARTICULATE THEATRE is pleased to announce the participants in our Articulating the Arts panel discussion on folk music. Articulate Theatre, an ensemble collection of playwrights, actors, directors and designers, is presenting its signature benefit performance - Articulating the Arts: Folk City Scenes. The event includes a discussion after the Saturday show with producer Doug Yeager, musician Phil Marsh, director David Marquez and author Stephen Petrus.

Articulating the Arts: Folk City Scenes Plays Two Nights Only
February 26th @8pm
February 27th @7pm w/panel discussion afterward

At TADA! Theatre, 15 W. 28th Street
Tickets can be purchased at: https://www.artful.ly/articulatetheatre or 917.715.0917
[The Folk City registered trademark is used with permission.]

The AtA series was created as a way to inspire our ensemble to learn from artists in other disciplines, as well as generating new theatrical works. Folk City Scenes is inspired by classic folk songs, such as Turn! Turn! Turn!, Study War No More, Suzanne and more. After the show on Feb 27th, there will be a panel discussion which will include:

PHIL MARSH is a singer-songwriter guitarist based in New York City and Bay Area California. Past musical director and band leader of San Francisco's famous Pickle Family Circus, guitarist for Country Joe McDonald, wrote and performed with the East Bay Sharks, and for the Masked Marauders album, recorded with Folkways, co-founder of Cleanliness & Godliness Skiffle Band, Energy Crisis, and Phil & Phil. http://philmarshmusic.com/

DOUG YEAGER has been an integral member of the folk community for many years as an artist manager, booking agent, record producer, music publisher, concert promoter, and as a stage and film producer. The artists he has managed through the years include Odetta, Tom Paxton, Richie Havens, Josh White, Jr., David Amram, Oscar Brand, Bob Gibson, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Ed McCurdy, John Fahey, and Cliff Eberhart. As an agent, he has booked many artists including Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, The Band, Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey, Mary Travers, Judy Collins, Tom Rush, Eric Andersen, Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, Jean Ritchie, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Mimi Farina, Buffy Ste. Marie, Dave Van Ronk, Roger McGuinn, Melanie, Happy & Artie Traum, and Holly Near. Yeager conceived and produced theatrical productions in America on the life of Josh White (JOSH: The Man & His Music), and in the Soviet Union on the life of Paul Robeson (PAUL ROBESON, The Man); in addition to the tribute touring show, GLORY BOUND, honoring Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie and Josh White (which starred Odetta, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and Josh White, Jr.). He was associate producer and talent coordinator for the PBS-TV concert specials Just Folks, and Woody & Me, and for the PBS concert series Ramblin. He produced the 20th Anniversary FOLK CITY Festival, the annual Bottom Line Folk Festival; and as a record producer and/or executive producer, worked with Odetta, Richie Havens, Tom Paxton, John Fahey, Josh White, Jr., Bob Gibson, Cliff Eberhardt, and David Amram. Doug was a friend and collaborator with many of the key `behind the scene' figures in Greenwich Village who promoted the "folk revival" and maintained it into the 70s & 80s, including Maynard Solomon of Vanguard Records, Jac Holzman of Elektra Records, Art D'Lugoff of the Village Gate, Paul Colby of the Bitter End, Howard Solomon of the Café Au Go Go, Sam Hood of the Gaslight, Alan Pepper and Stanley Snadowski of the Bottom Line, Mike Porco, Robbie Woliver & Marilyn Lash of Folk City, and filmmakers Jim Brown and Murray Lerner; and for years, worked with Art D'Lugoff and Paul Colby to develop the National Museum of Folk Music in Greenwich Village (a dream still to be realized). In 2015, Yeager executive produced the symphonic album THIS LAND: Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie, composed and conducted by David Amram with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra; and the documentary film DAVID AMRAM: The First 80 Years. He is also developing films on the lives of Odetta, and of Josh White (Sr.). From 2013 to 2016, he was consultant to the Museum of the City of New York's exhibition FOLK CITY: New York and the American Folk Revival, and to its companion book, by the same title, written by his good friends Steve Petrus and Ron Cohen. Today, he still manages the careers of Josh White, Jr., David Amram and Oscar Brand, in addition to the Estates of Odetta and of Josh White (Sr.).

STEPHEN PETRUS, curator of the recent "Folk City" exhibit at the Museum for the City of New York, and author of the book Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival. Petrus, a historian and curator, is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow at the New-York Historical Society, where he is working on his second book, a political and cultural history of Greenwich Village in the 1950s and 60s. Petrus has published essays on twentieth-century U.S. urban and cultural history in Studies in Popular Culture and New York History. He received his Ph.D. in history from the City University Graduate Center and taught at Lehman College in the Bronx.

DAVID MARQUEZ is directing a new musical entitled Folk City: The Musical. Broadway choreography includes: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Gershwin's Fascinating Rhythm, Stanley at Circle in the Square (Dance Consultant), as well as The 1994 Gypsy of the Year Contest for which he won the Absolut Theatre Award as "Best of Show" (now known as the Gypsy of the Year) for his entry entitled Galileo. For television he choreographed the PBS Great Performances production of My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies at Carnegie Hall, as well as the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show for CBS television, at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, CA. Direction and/or Choreography: A Chorus Line at the Lyric Theater in Oklahoma City, Glimpses of the Moon for MetroStage, Seussical for The Weston Playhouse; Ticket To Ride: The Ultimate Beatles Experience at the Shubert Theater in New Haven; Andy Prescott: About Face; Dance With Me: An Evening of Original Musical Theater Choreography; and The Great White Way (conceived). He has choreographed several presentations for BC/EFA's annual Gypsy of the Year and Easter Bonnet contests, as well as productions for The Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, Sharon Stage, The Chicago Goodman Theater, Jacob's Pillow, the MeadowBrook Theater Company (Best Choreography in a Musical nomination for Godspell) to name a few. David has appeared on Broadway in Kiss of the Spider Woman and the national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar. He played Bernardo in West Side Story at the St. Louis Muny and can be seen in the film El Cantante (Boogaloo Line Dancer) and the documentary Every Little Step (as himself), as well as C&C Music Factory videos, including the 1990's hit Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now). He has taught Theater Dance in Argentina, Australia, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.

You can learn more on our our website (http://www.articulatetheatre.com/ata---folk-music.html) or on our Facebook event page (https://www.prod.facebook.com/events/471218516411716/).

Articulate Theatre is a theatre ensemble company based on the two concepts of the power of ensemble work, and the fundamental magic of good old-fashioned story-telling. We like stories that riff on "myth, magic & the mundane" and strive to use the theatrical nature of the stage to connect the imagination of the artist with the imagination of the audience. Simply put - we enjoy telling good stories!

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