'Kansas City Or Along The Way' To Play at Access Theater Starting 9/10

Set in Southern Ohio during the Great Depression, a chance encounter between a guitar-strumming hobo and a woman left at the altar changes the course of both of their lives forever. Featuring powerful monologues set against a Woody Guthrie-inspired folk music soundtrack, KANSAS CITY OR ALONG THE WAY is about struggling to find a life worth living and how to find beauty in the challenges life throws you. 

The production, produced by Disgraced Productions as part of The Access Theater Spotlight Series, will play at The Access Theater (80 Broadway, 4th floor - Two blocks south of Canal Street at the corner of White Street). September 10-14, Wednesday through Sunday at 8pm. Tickets ($15) are available by calling 212-868-4444 or online at www.SmartTix.com 

The Access Theater Spotlight Series debuts this September, presenting three original works chosen from the over 200 shows that premiered at this year’s New York International Fringe Festival.  

Each invited participant is awarded exclusive use of Access Theater’s 60 seat Black Box Theater for one week, and a modest supplemental cash stipend. Integrity of vision, strength of script, its promise of potential, and its professionalism of ensemble were all contributing factors for each company’s selection to this inaugural event. 

The Access Theater has a fifteen-year history of producing new work for theater and for supporting NY based theater organizations. It will host each producing organization for a one week, 5 - show extension of its initial run.  Each grant includes use of the Access’s facilities and resources for performance, as well as ample use of the Access space for the daily experimenting, discovery, editing, and fine-tuning that is the essence of this Development Grant.

Robert Attenweiler (Playwright) is a playwright and independent theater producer living in New York's East Village.  He received his M.A. in English from The Ohio State University and his M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied with Arthur Kopit, Doug Wright, and Neil LaBute, among others.  In 2005, he formed his Production Company, Disgraced Productions, through which he has produced five of his plays: Places Like Here (FringeNYC, 2005), Thick Like Piano Legs (The Red Room, 2006), Kansas City Or Along The Way (The Red Room, 2006), The Butterfield Tones (FRIGID New York, 2007), ...and we all wore leather pants (co-produced with Horse Trade Theater Group, UNDER St. Marks, 2007).  His new play, Torrents just ran at the TBG Arts Complex, produced by the Barracuda Theatre Club.  He is a member of the Lark Play Development Center and the Dramatists Guild and he was a recent recipient of a FAR rehearsal space grant from The Field.  He was a semi-finalist (top 25 of 2500) of the 2005 ABC Television Writing Fellowship and ...and we all wore leather pants was recently published in the New York Theatre Experience's Plays and Playwrights 2008.

Joe Stipek (Director) is a New York based actor/director. This is his fourth collaboration with Robert Attenweiler having acted in his plays The Butterfield Tones, ...and we all wore leather pants., and All Kinds Of Shifty Villains. He has also worked with Neil Pepe at The Atlantic Theater Company and Darren Aronofsky, as part of the Montana Meth campaign: montanameth.org.

www.DisgracedProductions.com

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