Romulus Linney's HOLY GHOSTS To Open Theatre East's Tenth Season; Lineup Announced!

Theatre East announces its 2018-2019 Season.

The 10th season will open with Romulus Linney's masterful play, Holy Ghosts after a 40-year absence from the New York Stage. Set in present-day rural Tennessee, a group of broken, Pentecostal outcasts find solace, understanding, and strength in one another as they wrestle with their own serpents and discover their divinity. The production will run at Urban Stages, 259 West 30th Street, September 21st through October 6th.

The Neighborhood Reading Series, sponsored by O'Lunney's Times Square Pub, will host four readings this year including a special Halloween installment on October 29th, A Christmas Carol on December 10th, Lori Fischer's new musical Memory of Damage on February 11th, and Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich's new play The Captives on April 22nd.

Theatre East officially joins NYC Pride with work celebrating the LGBTQ community in this fourth annual 5X5 Drama Series: Gay Shorts. The series brings new works to your neighborhood with our special Pride edition. Utilizing non-traditional spaces such as bars, breweries, rooftops, and schools, Theatre East visits all 5 boroughs to bring you 5 new plays by 5 different playwrights and 5 different casts.

Theatre East stirs the human side of current issues by fostering new plays of social relevance through New York and World Premieres. The 501(c)3 non-profit theatre company's mission is to advance the dialogue of the shared human experience through works that utilize simple storytelling, providing their community with a platform to deepen their understanding of themselves, each other and the world they share.

The company was founded in 2008 by husband-and-wife producing partners Judson Jones (Artistic Director) and Christa Kimlicko Jones (Associate Artistic Director), along with Joseph Mitchell Parks, after producing such hits as the premiere of Christopher Durang's The Vietnamization of New Jersey (NY Times Critic's Pick), and the premiere of Texas playwright David W. Crawford's Harvest (BackStage Critic's Pick, Smith & Kraus Best New Plays of 2008), as well as earning a spot as producers to watch in 2008 on PBS's Theater Talk. Since its founding, Theatre East has mounted such critically acclaimed New York and World Premieres as Tim Blake Nelson's Eye of God, Lori Fischer's Petie, Cyndi Williams' A Name for a Ghost to Mutter, Daniel McIvor's The Soldier Dreams, Bennett Windheim's Normalcy, Megan O'Brien's The Jungle Book, and Devil and the Deep with original music and lyrics by Air Supply's Graham Russell.

For more information visit www.theatreeast.org.