Manhattan Theatre Source Gives BLOOD TYPE: RAGU Encore Engagement 4/14-18

Manhattan Theatre Source has announced that Frank Ingrasciotta's Blood Type: Ragu will receive a limited encore engagement of six performances, beginning April 14th and closing April 18th. 

Blood Type: RAGU, a one-man show featuring over 20 characters, is based on the life experiences of writer/performer Frank Ingrasciotta. It tells the humorous and poignant story of a Sicilian immigrant family and their cultural struggle in America. The story takes us through four turbulent, yet comical decades as Frank jockeys between two cultures - his parent's old world views and the new world, a.k.a. America. Blood Type: RAGU is not just a comedy, not just a drama - it's family - and we all have one.

You don't have to be Italian to enjoy Blood Type: RAGU. Its universal themes have delighted audiences around the country. The play's twice-extended four-month run at the Belmont Playhouse broke records, becoming one of the longest running shows in the theatre's ten-year history. The show has also been performed at Dixon Place, HERE, Manhattan Theatre Source, Ensemble Studio Theatre (as part of its Octoberfest), Manhattan Repertory, Authors Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Westchester Music Conservatory, Riverspace Arts (Nyack), Metropolis Port Theater Company (Atlanta, GA) as well as Westchester Community College, CUNY Lehman College, SUNY Stony Brook. Blood Type: RAGU was recently featured in Prof. Fred Gardaphe's book From Wiseguys to Wise Men.

Frank Ingrasciotta began his career as stage manager for the original Off-Broadway production of Godspell. His NY stage credits include Valley of the Dolls, Three Postcards, Dinner at 8, Edgar Degas in The Girl in the Blue Armchair and the Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. TV credits include recurring roles on "Guiding Light," "One Life to Live" and "The Equalizer." He was also the director, writer and producer for the annual NY Cable Follies, a live musical satire of the year's events in the cable industry, performing to TV network CEOs and executives. He has directed cabarets, corporate shows and productions regionally and in NYC including Neil Berg's musical The Life & Times of Fiona Gander, A Day in Hollywood, The Prince and the Pauper, Grease, Chicago, Sondheim Tonight, Once on This Island & Fascinating Gershwin. For the NYC Fire Department, he directed & choreographed firefighters in a benefit production of Guys and Dolls, raising over $20,000 for the New York Burn Center.

Evening performances are scheduled for Wednesday through Saturday at 8PM, and matinee performances at 2PM on Saturday and 3PM on Sunday. Manhattan Theatre Source is located at 177 MacDougal Street (bet. 8th Street & Waverly Place in Greenwich Village) in New York, NY. Tickets are available at https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/931/1270166400000/prm/.

For more information visit www.BloodTypeRagu.com. 

Manhattan Theatre Source is a not-for-profit arts service organization with a groundbreaking purpose: to organize and link the disparate communities within New York's vital off-off-Broadway movement, and to provide a "one-stop shop" resource center for independent theatre artists and audiences across the nation. For more information visit http://theatresource.org/.