Urban Stages Presents 'Blizzard the Wizard' 12/14-1/18

Urban Stages is stepping up its game as far as family productions are concerned. Dan Kitrosser is a wonderful story teller that makes kids laugh while keeping their parents entertained.

Celebrating its 25th Season, Urban Stages (Frances Hill, Founder/Artistic Director, Lauren Schmiedel, Managing Director) is proud to present show for the whole family, Blizzard the Wizard starring story teller Dan Kitrosser. Blizzard the Wizard is written by Dan Kitrosser and Andrew Davies. Urban Stages is located at 259 West 30 Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues). Tickets will be $10 urbanstages@gmail.com or call 212-695-5131.

Blizzard the Wizard*is a wonderful adventure, told by the amazingly entertaining Dan Kitrosser. Filled with music, costumes and audience interaction, every child and parent will be transported into the magical

North Pole world of Blizzard the Wizard. Normally surrounded by his best friend The Snow, Blizzard the Wizard wakes one day to find his frozen friend missing. For the first time ever, Blizzard the Wizard will venture south to find out why there is no Snow. Meeting and making friends along the way (all played by Kitrosser), this hilarious, environmentally conscious show will have the whole family rolling in the aisles. The winter has never been so warm (or fun) than it is with Urban Stages and Blizzard the Wizard. Blizzard the Wizard is directed by Urban stages Artistic Director Frances Hill.

Dan Kitrosser (writer/performer) is a storyteller, actor, and writer who was most recently seen at Urban Stages with his show Grizelda's Halloween Party. Dan busted on to the storytelling scene in 2006, and is now the resident storyteller at both Bryant Park (as Flaubert Frog) and Central Park. He has had two one-man children's shows commissioned by Urban Stages, Grizelda's Halloween Party (dir. Frances Hill) and Around the World for Magda Magellan (dir. Edward Elefterion). He is a resident actor for Rabbit Hole Ensemble, for which he appeared in A Rope in the Abyss, BIG THICK ROD and the upcoming Neal Bell premiere of Shadow of Myself. With Andrew Davies he starred in the long-running sketch duo, Bicklesby and Habersforth" which played at Rififi, Parkside Lounge and The Green Room. His plays include be here now (Winner-2002 Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival), The Happiest Girls in the World and The Mumblings. Also a composer, Kitrosser's musical, Night of the Butterfly will premiere at The Bleecker Street Theatre in March of 2009. Andrew Davies (writer) is a writer and actor living and working in New York City. Andrew, along with Dan Kitrosser wrote, directed, and starred in the comedy Bicklesby and Habersforth's Evening of Frivolity, Merriment, and Mirth. The show, about two bumbling British Servants, ran from October 2007 to September 2008 at theaters around the city including The Green Room, and The Parkside Lounge. Andre has acted in original films and plays around the city including Blue Ground, Slices and The Windsor Knot.

Blizzard the Wizard

Co-written by Andrew Davies and Dan Kitrosser; performed by Dan Kitrosse, directed by Frances Hill

SUNDAYS at 1PM beginning December 14 - January 18

Urban Stages is located at 259 West 30th Street (between 7th & 8th Avenues)

Tickets will be $10 urbanstages@gmail.com or call 212-695-5131.

Running Time is 60 minutes, ages 3 - 10

URBAN STAGES (producer) is an award-winning, not-for-profit Off-Broadway Theatre Company founded in 1983 by current Artistic Director Frances Hill. Over the past 25 years, Urban Stages has produced over 70 productions (mostly world premieres) including Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Eisa Davis' Bulrusher (2007), two Drama Desk nominations, an Outer Critic's Circle Award, an Obie nomination, and eight Audelco nominations. Our productions of Men On The Verge Of A Hispanic Breakdown, by Guillermo Reyes, and Minor Demons, by Bruce Graham subsequently moved to commercial theatres. Chili Queen, a play by newscaster Jim Lehrer, transferred to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. (1989). Chungmi Kim's Comfort Women moved to Seoul, Korea and is being translated into Chinese to be produced in Asian communities in Vancouver and Toronto, Canada. The majority of works developed at Urban Stages have had further productions commercially, regionally, and abroad. Numerous projects developed at Urban Stages have been adapted into film and television projects, including Scar, by Murray Mednick, Conversations with the Goddesses, by Agapi Stassinopoulos, and Cotton Mary, by Alexandra Viets. Urban Stages has a consistent history of discovering new writers to the theatre community and introducing their plays into theatrical repertory.

Last season Urban Stages presented the creative family production The Blue Bird called "irresistible" by nytheatre.com and an acclaimed production of The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion by Stephen Massicotte, which the NY Times called " this riveting play could not be more timely...excellent... first-rate performances," "These 95 minutes are among the most sophisticated and absorbing currently on a New York stage... it glows with an uncommon intelligence." raved Backstage.Theatermania.com called 27 rue de Fleurus by Todd Sod and Lisa Koch "A production that has zest that matches its unbridled creativity."