The Drunken City Plays Shelter Studios 4/27-5/7

Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions (Jake Lipman, Artistic Director and Producer) is pleased to announce its spring 2011 production of The Drunken City by Adam Bock. Brock H. Hill directs the New York City revival. The Drunken City marks Tongue in Cheek Theater's twelfth production.
Set over the course of a night out in the city, The Drunken City examines what happens when two groups of friends collide unexpectedly. When Linda (Shelley Little) and Melissa (Shana Wiersum) planned a bachelorette party for their friend Marnie (Jake Lipman), they never expected she'd kiss a handsome stranger, the recently jilted Frank (A.J. Heekin). When Marnie and Frank run off together, Frank's best friend Eddie (Michael Gene Conti) and Marnie's best friend Bob (Reiss Gaspard) join Melissa and Linda in their pursuit. Originally premiered in New York at Playwrights Horizons three years ago, The Drunken City follows six friends stumbling towards love and independence.

The Drunken City is stage managed by Allison Lemel. Meagan E. Miller-McKeever is the scenic designer. Philip Rothman is technical advisor and sound designer. Playwright Adam Bock works include The Thugs (Obie Award winner), Swimming in the Shallows (3 BATCC Awards), Five Flights (Glickman Award), The Typographer's Dream, The Shaker Chair and Three Guys and a Brenda (Heideman Award). His plays have been commissioned, developed and produced in NYC by MTC, Playwrights Horizons, Rattlestick, Clubbed Thumb, among others.

During the dark nights of Dead White Males, Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions is pleased to present the fourth Plus One Solo Show Festival, featuring four original solo shows on both nights, on topics as diverse as a woman handling a series of unfortunate events (Swamp Girl by Debra Castellano), letters to an absent friend (Evidence by Zelda Knapp), a teenager's quest to get laid (Pipelayer's Union by Glynn Borders) and the many roads two women travel to sing onstage (The Glory of Love by Sarah Aili). Singer-songwriter Emily Earle will also perform her latest songs.

Tongue in Cheek Theater is an independent theater company dedicated to producing seriously funny theater. Its mission is to tell stories which resonate with universal truth and which make its audiences laugh in recognition of those truths. About the company's recent New York premiere of William Missouri Down's Dead White Males, NYTheatre.com raved, "Tongue in Cheek Theater's sterling production is a trenchant critique of America's education system in crisis...The ensemble is first-rate."
Dead White Males runs for eight performances, April 27-30 and May 4-7, 2011, Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. at the Bridge Theatre @ Shetler Studios. The Plus One Solo Show Festival runs Sunday and Monday, May 1 and 2, 2011 at 8 p.m.

Bridge Theatre @ Shetler Studios at 244 West 54th Street, 12th Floor, between 7th and 8th Avenues in New York City, is accessible from the B, D, E train to 7th Avenue, N, Q, R, W to 57th Street, and the A, C, 1 to 59th Street/Columbus Circle. Tickets are $17 online ($20 at the door) at www.tictheater.com or by telephoning 212-868-4444.