New Light Theater Project Announces 2017-18 Season

New Light Theater Project (Sarah Norris, Founding Artistic Director; Michael Aguirre, Producing Director) has just announced their 2017-2018 season, featuring six plays, including four world premieres. NLTP will produce two plays at their home base at Access Theater (380 Broadway, at White Street, in Tribeca), in addition to producing work at 13th Street Rep Theatre, and a site-specific play in a Washington Heights apartment. The season also features the company's expansion to Chicago with a world premiere play at Chicago Dramatists. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.newlighttheaterproject.com.

The season kicks off in Chicago, with a co-production at Chicago Dramatists of the world premiere of Jayme McGhan's Still Dance the Stars with direction by Sarah Norris. Still Dance the Stars is a highly theatrical story about the struggles of love in the face of unthinkable loss. The production will run from August 25 - September 16 in Chicago and is the recipient of The Grafting Project. Tickets are on sale now at http://stilldance.brownpapertickets.com/

New Light returns to their home base at Access Theater for the NYC premiere of Dan Giles' Breeders, winner of this year's New Light New Voices Award and the 2016 recipient of the Kennedy Center Award for Comic Playwriting. Breeders is about the cozy cage of mainstreamed queerness, the surprising variety of things that can fit in one's mouth, and the tender savagery of ordinary devotion. The production will be directed by Jaki Bradley and runs September 21 - October 14. Tickets go on sale for Breeders on August 1.

Also slated for 2017 is the world premiere of The Inside Party by Rebecca Crigler with direction by Abby Wylan. This commissioned play features the NLTP ensemble and performs at a site-specific apartment in Washington Heights from October 24 - November 19. Set in a dystopian future where there are two types of people: the doers and the stayers. The doers are the successes and are out in the world, completely free. Except they cannot stop. The stayers are not obligated to do anything. They are just confined to their apartments, not permitted to go out. But they have the life, right? Tickets go on sale for The Inside Party beginning September 1.

In the new year, Jerry Heymann returns to direct his third collaboration with New Light Theater Project. The production will be a revival, to be announced pending rights, and will take place at the 13th Street Rep Theatre from February 8 - February 24, 2018. On sale date for tickets TBD.

In March, New Light teams up with Stable Cable Lab Co. for the world premiere of Hal & Bee, a new play by Max Baker and directed by Sarah Norris, at a theater to be announced. Hal & Bee is a dark comedy about an aging hippie couple trying to hold on to their bohemian roots while dealing with the impending sale of their Upper West Side apartment building and the deadly familiarity of their own relationship. On sale date for tickets TBD.

The season concludes with the world premiere of Liza Birkenmeier's new play, the hollower, with direction by Kristy Dodson. Running from May 10 - June 2 at Access Theater, the hollower is a modern haunt-comedy exploring seventeenth century colonialism and how crowded isolation can be. Tickets go on sale for the hollower on March 15.

Led by Founding Artistic Director Sarah Norris and Producing Director Michael Aguirre, New Light Theater Project (NLTP) is an ensemble-driven theater company that strives to capture the Little Theater Movement (artistry over commerce; producing new and classic works) in the NYC indie theater community. To accomplish this, NLTP places the ensemble at the center of the process, where all members, regardless of artistic role, bear weight and voice to the stories selected to tell. NLTP devises and develops new work, brings classical texts and revivals to life, and creates a spirit of community for all theatrical collaborations. NLTP illuminates other artists and companies through a network of shared resources, such as The Darkroom Series, while cultivating theatrical partnerships around the world. For more information, visit newlighttheaterproject.com.