Seldes and Cumpsty To Perform With Diversity Theater

Andrew Bergh's KISSES Starring Tony Award Winner Marian Seldes, directed by Steven Ditmyer and Maxine Kern's EMILY'S WILL 
Michael Cumpsty (Copenhagen, Sunday in the Park), directed by Obie Award Winner Ching Valdes Aran will both play at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, 2nd Floor

July 14th @ 7PM
KISSES by Andrew Bergh
directed by Steve Ditmyer
Starring Tony Award Winner Marian Seldes (Deuce, A Delicate Balance)

What happens when three terminally ill elderly women, waiting to die, cross a stranger who offers peace through a kiss?

EMILY'S WILL by Maxine Kern
directed by Ching Valdes-Aran
Starring Michael Cumpsty (Copenhagen, Sunday in the Park with George), Anita Hollander, Eileen Rivera, Chris Johnson, Michael Rosette, Cassandra K. Escobar, Catherine Rogers

A story of a female artist and her struggles to become a woman in a Victorian society that cannot tolerate her unique sensibilities. With the help of poems by Walt Whitman, a feisty and amorous French trader, a North West Indian village, a parrot named Joseph and a dog named Sam, she achieves her place as artist and a reconciled woman. Soon after, her father dies leaving his diary to Emily who goes to great lengths to bury the diary and the dreaded story of her severed heart.

July 21st @ 7PM
DAUGHTER by Cassandra Medley
directed by Carlos Armesto

Summer 2005. An African American mother in Detroit, Michigan is forced to cope with her guilt, helplessness, and outrage when her daughter returns as a physically maimed and psychologically broken veteran of the Iraq War.

THE LAST STANDING PROTESTER by Lydia Stryk
directed by Jessi D. Hill
Starring Amy Warren (Drama Desk Award Nominee, Adding Machine)

A woman stands alone outside the White House. She has something to ask of all who pass her by—before it's too late.

August 24th @ 7PM
BULLDOG WHISKEY by James Mcmanus
directed by Johanna McKeon
The Beckett Theatre, 412 West 42nd Street

The death of his mother causes Eamon to re-evaluate his life. He asks his long-time girlfriend, Kusha and his unwed, pregnant daughter, Candy to move into his house. 

Admission is FREE. For more information please visit www.diversecitytheater.org

Photo by Peter James Zielinksi

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