SHARON TATE QUADRILOGY Plays Come To NYC For Special Performances This April

SHARON AND MIA created by and Featuring Jen Danby* and Jessica Marie Smith. Directed by Austin Pendleton

To kick off the run of SHARON AND MIA, a SHARON TATE IN HEAVEN solo performance special version Monday April 9 fundraiser for Panthera USA will play at 6:30pm. Panthera is a four star charity and 100% of the ticket sales to this night's play will help Panthera's Tigers Forever program and the preservation of earth's big cats.*

This special version will include a story about Sharon making a recording for, ironically and relevantly, an NRA-produced album, released in 1968, about conservation, wildlife, environment, plus a related Lion encounter.

Single show tickets are $17 and 2, 3, and 4 show packages range from $30 - $48. Tickets may be purchased online, at the door, or by phone: http://sharontateplays.brownpapertickets.com / 1-800-838-3006

SHARON AND MIA, the newest of the Sharon plays, makes its NYC debut after playing in Long Beach, LI. It is a story of a friendship in four scenes, beginning on the set of ROSEMARY'S BABY in the summer of 1967. Mia Farrow, born of Hollywood royalty and married to Sinatra, the most famous singer in the world, and Sharon, an "Army Brat", in love with Roman Polanski, directing his first picture in America, meet and strike up a friendship that will prove to be deep and true. The scenes sweep from the summer of '68 and the deaths of MLK and Robert Kennedy Jr, when Mia has just returned from India and Sharon is studying Kung Fu with legendary Bruce Lee, to New Year's Day 1969 at Joshua Tree in the California desert, with bright futures ahead, to Connecticut in the 1990s, when Mia is trying to figure out her life and how to best care for her children after her turbulent break up with Woody Allen. The play is an honest, frequently funny, heartfelt look at the quest for happiness in good and bad times and the value of "girl time" and true blue bonds.

SHARON TATE IN HEAVEN, the solo play, returns to NY after also playing on Long Island, in Key West, in Daytona Beach, Miami, and Los Angeles over five tours, most recently in January 2018. Beginning moments after Sharon Tate's murder in the summer of 1969 by members of the Charles Manson family, Sharon has a TV interview in Heaven. Dubbed "Future Girl" in HORROR FANTASY magazine, this "Million Dollar Baby" had a deep love affair with and then married director Roman Polanski. This Heavenly interview focuses on family, love, and Hollywood, as Sharon teases out the possibilities of what does she do now? A play for fans and for those new to Sharon. "A wonderful First-Person Trip Down Celluloid Memory Lane...captivating performance...charismatic" - Broadway World LA

CHARLIE AND SHARON returns to New York after playing in Long Beach, Long Island, and after making its Los Angeles debut this past winter. This is an imagined encounter in four scenes spanning 1969 to the present day, when Sharon confronts Charles Manson, the mastermind behind her murder in his "Helter Skelter" (when she was murdered by Manson Family members) plan for world domination. With dark and light sides, intensity, and humor, Sharon puzzles through what is happening with help from the still living Charlie, in turn making him, literally, face his crime. Not a zombie, not exactly a ghost, she just is and needs to connect with Charlie, leaving him rattled as well as tantalized by her. Taking on love, desire, dreams, and death, this version that played in LA times with the recent real-life death of Manson, placing Charlie and Sharon, in the end, on the same plane where life and death meet. "A beautiful piece of acting that you won't soon forget. Kudos to all." - Thom Racina, ABC

SHARON AND ROMAN, also returns to New York after playing in Long Beach, Long Island, and after making its Los Angeles debut along with Charlie and Sharon. This love story of Sharon Tate and genius director Roman Polanksi began when Sharon met Roman on a comic horror film project they did together in London and Italy. She's the All-American army brat from Texas, who fell in love with acting when she played Juliet in High School. He's the haunted survivor of the Holocaust in Poland, who made his first movies from camera parts found in garbage cans as a young boy. They fell in love, lived together and she brought him back to LA. They married in 1968. Then - Helter Skelter. Sharon was 8 1/2 months pregnant when she was murdered in their LA home at 10500 Cielo Drive. That night Roman was in London working on the DAY OF THE DOLPHIN script for her and Jack Nicholson. In five scenes taking place from 1967 to 1980 on Sharon's birthday, this story of love between two artists living a life of movie making fame and being with love's challenges, dreams, passions, demons, and better angels unfolds full circle. "Love, deceit, romance and raw emotion will keep you gripped to your seats." - Headout.com

Together, this Quadrilogy of Four Sharon Tate plays tells the story of Sharon Tate relationally, and takes on the most infamously violent murder in American history, with the bright light moments of life, too. The plays can be watched alone for storytelling, or together, in a full circle immersion experience. Timeless, these plays speak to America and Hollywood in 2018, when we are all reflecting on compassion, power, and "Me Too."

The running time for SHARON AND MIA is roughly 1 hour and 45 minutes without intermission. SHARON TATE IN HEAVEN roughly runs 90 minutes, and CHARLIE AND SHARON and SHARON AND ROMAN, run roughly 1 hour 45 minutes each.

The special version SHARON TATE IN HEAVEN solo performance that will play on Monday April 9 @ 6:30pm to raise money for Panthera USA has a ticket price of $20 to help wildlife - 100% goes to the charity.

SHARON AND MIA New York debut performance times: Tuesday April 10 @8pm, Wednesday April 11 @8pm, Thursday April 12 @8pm, Friday April 13 @8 pm, Saturday April 14 @2 pm and @7:30 pm. CHARLIE and SHARON also plays Saturday April 14 for a single performance, @4:30pm AND Sunday April 15: THE SHARON TATE QUADRILOGY (The solo play that started it all and three duo plays) @11:30 SHARON TATE IN HEAVEN with Bagels & Beverages (@11AM), @2 SHARON AND MIA, @4:30 SHARON AND ROMAN, @8 CHARLIE AND SHARON

Sunday Only - The final show will be followed by a special Talk Back with the cast and director Austin Pendleton. Free of charge for those who have purchased show tickets!

Sharon and Mia tickets $17, Charlie and Sharon single performance $17. To see both plays on Saturday April 14, special price of $30 attending either the matinee or evening shows. Sunday April 15 each play single admission price of $17. 2 plays package $30 (any two plays), 3 plays package $42 (any three plays). All four plays (recommended) special price of $48. The special talkback is free of charge to those who purchase a ticket to the show(s). Tickets may be purchased online, at the door, or by phone: http://sharontateplays.brownpapertickets.com / 1-800-838-3006

AEA Showcase code production and SHARON TATE IN HEAVEN produced by special permission AEA

*ABOUT Panthera USA, the organization the Monday April 9 performance is helping: Panthera is the only organization in the world that is devoted exclusively to the conservation of the worlds 40 wild cat species and their ecosystems.

Utilizing the expertise of the worlds premier cat biologists, Panthera develops and implements global strategies for the most imperiled large cats: tigers, lions, jaguars, snow leopards, cheetahs, pumas, and leopards.

Representing the most comprehensive effort of its kind, Panthera partners with local and international NGOs, scientific institutions, local communities, governments around the globe, and citizens who want to help ensure a future for wild cats. www.panthera.org