New Light Theater Project Announces 2019/2020 Season

New Light Theater Project announces their 7th season with two NYC premieres and a remount of last spring's sold-out run of IMAGINING MADOFF.

Kicking off the new season is a limited engagement of Deb Margolin's IMAGINING MADOFF, with direction from Jerry Heymann. The production will run October 17 - November 9 at the Lion Theatre at Theatre Row. Called "So engrossing and philosophically lively...exquisite" by The New Yorker, the play finds Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff in prison, determined to control his own narrative for history as he dictates to a visiting biographer stories about his childhood, his family, women, money and an all-night meeting he had with Holocaust survivor and poet, Solomon Galkin. Tickets are on sale now and going fast at: https://www.telecharge.com/Off-Broadway/Imagining-Madoff/Ticket

New Light Theater Project re-teams with Stable Cable Lab Co for the rolling world premiere of EVERYTHING IS SUPER GREAT by Stephen Brown with direction by Sarah Norris. A typical day in the life of Tommy involves triple shot lattes, pining over the manager at Starbucks and arson at Applebee's. Such distractions are therapeutic when your older brother has been missing for months and your mom won't stop force-feeding you Pop Tarts. But when a well-meaning, if somewhat dysfunctional, "art therapist" shows up on his doorstep, Tommy must finally face his loss. EVERYTHING IS SUPER GREAT explores the different ways we cope with grief, and how letting someone in helps us let something go. The play runs November 22 - December 14. Venue announcement and ticketing info will be announced soon.

Winner of the 2019-2020 New Light New Voices Award is Andrew Rincón for his play I WANNA FUCK LIKE ROMEO AND JULIET. With direction by Jesse Jou, the production will run in late spring of 2020, venue to be announced. Snow in July, comets falling from the sky, the world is thrown into chaos as Cupid rips off her wings and gives up on Love. But her old flame Saint Valentine has a plan to bring her spirits back up; and it involves the relationship between two men, Alejandro and Benny. Moving from outer space to Hackensack NJ, I WANNA FUCK LIKE ROMEO AND JULIET is a Queer Love story of epic proportions that investigates God and mortals, realism and fantasy and the shame and joy within Queer love of Color.

Other upcoming events and programming:

New Light Theater Project's HITLER'S TASTERS by Michelle Kholos Brooks with direction by Sarah Norris and choreography by Ashlee Wasmund, will return to NYC for two sold out performances at 59E59's East to Edinburgh Festival before embarking to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The play will run at Greenside Infirmary Street, Olive Studio at 6:35pm and is listed as one of the Top 10 Shows to see from Stagedoor's Lyn Gardner. Tickets on sale now: http://bit.ly/hitlers-tasters

Led by Artistic Director Sarah Norris and Producing Director Michael Aguirre, NLTP is an ensemble-driven theater company that strives to capture the Little Theater Movement (artistry over commerce; producing new and classic works), supporting independent and emerging artists by providing and promoting growth opportunities through exposure to new audiences. Since 2013, NLTP has mounted over 30 productions which have received critical praise including Best of Theater 2014 (The L Magazine for Picture Ourselves in Latvia), TimeOut NY Critics' Pick (The American Tradition, Breeders, and Bubba), resident company of Theatre Row and recipients of The Flea Theater's Anchor Program, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Residency Fellowship, Chicago Dramatists Grafting Project, and the Access Theater Residency Program.

Photo Credit: Jody Christopherson

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