The Bald Soprano & The Lesson's Tina Howe on NY-1's "On Stage" September 25
By: BWW News Desk Sep. 24, 2004
Playwright TINA HOWE's world-premiere translations of Eugene Ionesco's double bill of THE BALD SOPRANO & THE LESSON, directed by Carl Forsman, is currently playing a limited engagement at Atlantic Theater Company through Sunday, October 17th. Ms. Howe sits down with NY-1 "On Stage" host Patrick Pacheco to discuss her devotion to the absurdist playwright and the inspiration behind presenting her new translations of her idol's work.
"On Stage" airs on NY-1 in the Manhattan area on Time Warner Cable throughout the weekend on Saturday, September 25th @ 9:30a.m. & 7:30p.m., Sunday, September 26th at 9:30a & 7:30p and Monday, September 27th at 9:30 p.m. and early morning Tuesday, September 28th @ 12:30 a.m.
The ensemble cast features John Ellison Conlee, Michael Countryman, Seana Kofoed, Maggie Lacey, Jan Maxwell, Robert Stanton, Maggie Kiley, Christa Scott-Reed and Steven Skybell.
Eugène Ionesco's comic masterpiece, THE BALD SOPRANO celebrates the verbal mayhem that erupts when proper English people lose their ability to communicate. In THE LESSON, a professor tries to teach his student the basics of arithmetic and philology, but things go terribly wrong as his pronouncements escalate into inspired gibberish.
THE BALD SOPRANO & THE LESSON plays Tuesday-Saturday evenings at 8pm, with matinees on Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 3pm. For tickets, call Tele-Charge at (212) 239-6200.
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