Just Little Women at IRT Theater

New York, NY- Space Cowgirl Productions and Theatre4thePeople is proud to announce that JUST LITTLE WOMEN written and adapted by Halley Platz is to be performed at IRT Theater on Christopher Street in Manhattan as part of Theatre4thePeople’s Winter Festival.

It's the same story you know, and it's the same girls you know and love, but they're a family rock band and it's 2019. That's right: a punk rock band. Like HAIM meets the Go-Go's meets Tegan and Sarah meets Avril Lavigne.

As they navigate their dreams of music, family, friendship, love, career, and self-actualization, they soundtrack it-- both as a band, and as individuals, creating a cacophony of chaos, passion, love, anxiety, and success. And they take you-- the audience-- with them in an unforgettable, intimate, and immersive concert-play-musical hybrid experience that will bring a classic story to the modern stage in a way sure to be devilish, delicious, dreamy, and full of punk princess rock and roll.

This new musical plays for two performances; 10th February and 11th February. Both performances start at 8:00pm

Tickets can be purchased at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/irt-presents-theatre-4the-peoples-just-little-women-tickets-1980273855409

Runtime: 3 hours including intermission

Written by Halley Platz and directed by Lauren Winnenberg the play will feature Tamara Lechner, Halley Platz, Natalie Zimmerman and Hunter Corbett as the March sisters.

Also featuring:

Darlene Elizabeth Joiner

Lukas Jacob

Kevin Gonzalez

Saturday Lawson

Ann Marie Taglavore

David McDermott

Hila Naus

Band:

Courtney Francis

Madeline (Dylan) Clancy

Emma Helene Campbell

Emily Goggin Murphy

Space Cowgirl Productions is a company dedicated to crafting authentic stories about queer, mentally ill, neurodivergent, and youthful women, while maintaining a sense of humor and wit. We advocate the uncommon ingenue, the unlikely love story, and the girls who never get cast as the lead. We believe in the outcasts, the weird cheerleaders, and the kids who are far too stubborn to quit when faced with rejection.

Our work is driven by questions about love, connection, and belonging. We often focus on mismatched partners and unconventional relationships. May and Jume asks what might happen if you could meet your soulmate in real time, and how certainty might complicate, rather than simplify, intimacy.

We make theatre with actually autistic actors and writers in meaningful creative roles. Their lived experience shapes the work from the inside, influencing how stories are written, rehearsed, and performed. We also center neurodivergent, disabled, and LGBTQ+ voices both onstage and in the room. Every member of our current producing team also identify within one or more of these categories.

We enjoy reworking familiar material in unexpected ways. Just Little Women is a punk-inspired, modern take on a girlhood classic. Across our projects, we focus on characters who are usually overlooked, letting them succeed, fail, and take up space without apology.

Halley Platz was born in Rockwall, TX, but escaped to NYC. She is a writer-producer-performer whose plays have been performed nation-wide and focus on hilarity, love, chaos, recovery, feminine identity, and the “traumedy” of living with a body and mind that do not fit in this world. Her Off-Broadway debut, A Real Bitch, was an ensemble comedy about a bachelorette party gone existential femme identity crisis, which Platz co-produced and starred in, premiered at the Hudson Guild Theatre in Chelsea in December 2019. She then went on to write, produce, and perform in a two-person drama with music, I Can Mansplain, which premiered at the Triad Theatre in January 2020. Since then she’s penned and produced a number of plays alongside Winnenberg, Halz: A Musical Traumedy (Reading ‘23) May and June (ART/NY ‘25) and Just Little Women (The Vino, Nov ‘25)

Lauren Winnenberg is a New York based actor, writer, director, and producer. In 2016 she graduated with her MA in Arts Politics at NYU Tisch where she received a Lew & Edie Wasserman Research Grant. Alongside her creative partner, Halley, she has worked as her Dramaturg and PSM for the Off Off Broadway premiere of her original play, A Real Bitch (NYTFWinterfest'19) , and Directed her in their Off Broadway debut, I Can Mansplain (The Triad). It was then they decided to continue to collaborate together on their musical, Halz: A Musical Traumedy (Reading ‘23) May and June (ART/NY ‘25) and Just Little Women (The Vino, Nov ‘25)

She's an active member of Theatre 68 where she's been featured in their production of String of Pearls by Michele Lowe (Halle/ Zoe/ Kyle) and directed Triangle: Scenes from a Prosecution (Theatre 68, ‘23) and Love or Death Inside a House (Theatre 68, ‘24)

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