Horse Trade Theater Group Announces their Spring 2011 Season

Horse Trade Theater Group (Erez Ziv, Managing Director, Heidi Grumelot, Artistic Director) announces their 12th season spring lineup, which will include Horse Trade Encores, the 2nd Annual Fire This Time Festival, the 2011 FRIGID New York Festival, and productions by Horse Trade's newest resident artists, Little Lord, Wide Eyed Productions, and Animal Parts.

Horse Trade Encores
January 7-15
The Kraine Theater & The Red Room (85 East 4th Street)
Featuring encore performances of Legs and All, Summer Shapiro's In the Boudoir, Martin Dockery's Wanderlust, Tanya O'Debra's Radio Star, Michael Birch's One Man Hamlet, Radiotheatre's The Time Machine, John Clancy's The Event, and Man 1 Bank 0.

The Fire This Time Festival
January 17-30
The Red Room (85 East 4th Street)
The African American experience is not represented solely by one voice or one style. The Fire This Time Festival provides a platform for talented early-career playwrights of African-American descent to explore these new voices, styles and challenging new directions for 21st century performing arts, and move beyond common ideas of what is possible in "black theater."

A Girl Wrote It
An Evening of One-Act Plays by Female Playwrights
Presented by Wide Eyed Productions
February 3-20
The Red Room (85 East 4th Street)
Because just 17% of America's main stage productions are written by women, Wide Eyed attempts to tip the scales and expose eager audiences to more fantastic theatre. A Girl Wrote It is an ambitious evening of four dark, dangerous, and humorous plays with universal themes.

The 2011 FRIGID New York Festival
February 23-March 6, 2011
The Kraine, The Red Room (85 East 4th Street) & UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)
An open and uncensored theater festival that gives back 100% of box office proceeds directly to the artistS. Boasting over 150 performances and 30 shows over 12 days in 3 theaters, FRIGID New York will kick off the annual North American Fringe Circuit with a bang!

FRIGID Hangovers
March 7-12
The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street)
Here's your second chance to catch the best and the brightest shows from this years FRIGID New York Festival.

JewQueen
Presented by Little Lord
March 17-April 2
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)
Little Lord turns an irreverent eye towards the beautifully sincere but awkward rawness of faith-based community theater with a wild and wooly adaptation of the biblical Book of Esther. Probably not suited for the little ones

Hobo Grunt Cycle
Presented by Lone Wolf Tribe
April 7-24
The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street)
A war and peace epic colliding connections between wounded soldiers, illegal dog fighting, and the hierarchies of circus performers and military personnel.

The Drafts Fest
May 5-14
The Red Room (85 East 4th Street)
The Drafts Fest is the collaborative effort of six playwrights, six directors, and ten multifaceted actors. Playwrights receive randomly compiled cast lists and create stories tailored to The Drafts and their invited Guests based on this year's theme, Accidental Discharge Impossible.

Dirty Little Machine
By Miranda Huba
Presented by Animal Parts
May 19-June 4
The Red Room (85 East 4th Street)
Dick and Jane have found themselves in an unfortunate turn in their relationship. Unable to afford couples counseling or pay the rent financial desperation spawns a low budget pornography project to help with their looming bills. Before they know it they are making big budget pornos and finding themselves moving further and further away from true intimacy. Dirty Little Machine is an investigation of sexual relationships and intimacy in an increasingly voyeuristic culture.

No Poem, No Song
By Jesse Alick
Presented by Subjective Theatre Company
May 31, June 1, 7, 8 , 14, & 15
The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street)
No Poem, No Song explores the religious meeting place between West Indian folklore and East Indian Religion as we follow the lives of two sons - Mike (a 26 year old west Indian reincarnation of the ancient Indian poet Vyasa) and his patron saint, the Hindu god Ganesh.

Tickets to all shows are available online at www.horseTRADE.info or by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444.

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work, it has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade's Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent Theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York - the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

"If it's fun, funky, artsy, absurd and original, chances are it's probably from the folks at Horse Trade Theater Group" The Villager

 

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