MILKMILKLEMONADE Hosts APAC Talk-back 11/6

ASTORIA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (APAC) is proud to continue its series of post-performance discussions with our audience, the APAC Talk-Backs. Following the Saturday, November 6th 2pm performance of Joshua Conkel?s MILKMILKLEMONADE, directed by José Zayas, APAC Artistic Director, Tom Wojtunik, will moderate a panel featuring playwright, Joshua Conkel, and members of the cast, creating a dialogue with the audience about the performance they have just seen.

APAC's MILKMILKLEMONADE is currently playing a limited engagement at the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church (30-44 Crescent St, Astoria, NY 11102. Entrance on 30th Road.) Performances will continue through Saturday, November 13.

APAC's MILKMILKLEMONADE stars Jess Barbagallo (2010 IT Award Nominee), Nikole Beckwith (2010 IT Award Nominee), Michael Cyril Creighton* (Winner! Best Web Series for Jack In A Box at the 2010 New York Television Festival and 2010 IT Award Nominee), Jennifer Harder (2010 IT Award for Best Featured Actress in The Management Company?s MilkMilkLemonade), and Andy Phelan*.

?MilkMilkLemonade, Joshua Conkel?s bawdy queer fantasia... Seething just beneath the play's ridiculous surface are the anger and despair of growing up gay in America's heartland, where escapist fantasy is key to survival. Of course it's subversive fun, but with the recent spate of queer youth suicides and election-year gay-baiting one can't help but realize that this batch of MilkMilkLemonade tastes especially bittersweet." - Time Out New York (4 Stars)

"Perfect for the play's purpose: using childishness to tell a very adult story about childhood. If John Waters were to make an after-school special, it might look like this...all the right comic notes in a camp-infused style that is rarely seen, or so effectively employed, on stage these days!" - Back Stage (Critic's Pick)

?Its hip influences, which range from John Waters films to Charles Busch spoofs to Pee-wee?s Playhouse, with some pop musical interludes. But Conkel does this better than most, and he is helped by a uniformly excellent cast of five!" - The Faster Times

Emory is an effeminate 11-year-old boy who lives on a farm with his chain smoking Nanna and his only friend, a depressed chicken about to be processed. Nanna wishes Emory would get his head out of the clouds, stop choreographing ribbon stick dance numbers, and be more like Elliot, the boy down the road with a penchant for burning things. But Emory and Elliot have a relationship -- just not one Nanna would expect or approve of. With absurd, poignant dialog and brutal characterizations, APAC's MilkMilkLemonade is a bitterly funny exploration of gender, sexuality, life, death, and the human body.

APAC's MILKMILKLEMONADE plays the following regular schedule through Saturday, November 13:
Thursdays at 8 p.m. | Fridays at 8 p.m. | Saturdays at 2 p.m. | Saturdays at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $18, available online at www.apacny.org or by calling 866-811-4111. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the Theatre Box Office, 30 minutes prior to the performance.

Directions to the theatre: Take the N or Q Subway to 30th Avenue. Walk down 30th Ave. to Crescent St. (Mount Sinai Hospital is on the corner.) Walk one block South to 30th Road.

Running time: 75 minutes

Website: www.apacny.org

The production features scenic design by Jason Simms, costume design by Sydney Maresca, and lighting design by Bruce Steinberg (2009 IT Award for Best Lighting Design for Kate McGovern's Blue Before Morning). Choreography is by Nicole Beerman, David Margolin Lawson is the sound engineer and Alex Mark* is the stage manager.

In 2009 The Management and Horse Trade Theatre Group premiered MilkMilkLemonade, directed by Isaac Butler. That production was the recipient of a 2010 IT Award for best featured actress, was nominated for four IT Awards, and was voted Best Off-Off Broadway Show in 2009 by New York Press. Since that time, productions of MilkMilkLemonade has been seen at Empire Stage Theater (Ft. Lauderdale, FL), Rogue Machine Theatre (Los Angeles, CA), Impact Theatre (Berkeley, CA), Shrewd Productions (Austin, TX) and will be at Standing Room Only (Ithaca, NY) in December.

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