Flying Machine Productions News

Our New York summer will get started with a humid blast of music and rhythm from master Southern storyteller Minton Sparks, appearing for her first sitdown New York City run fresh from being awarded the 2011 Spoken Word Award by The Fellowship of Southern Writers. This was the first Spoken Word Award given in the 22-year history of The Fellowship.

Stephen Schwartz, composer and lyricist of such Broadway classics as Wicked, Pippin, and Godspell makes his theatrical producing debut with Jim and Ruth Bauer's The Blue Flower, calling the production, 'one of the most creative and original pieces of musical theatre that I've ever encountered in my life.'

Actor/Playwright Frank Ingrasciotta plays over 20 characters in his tour de force performance of Blood Type: RAGU. This hilarious & tender coming-of-age story explories the first-generation Americans' delicate dance between culture and identity! Anyone who has a family will resonate! No Goombah, No Mafia! 100% heartfelt and natural! Produced by Flying Machine Productions and directed by Ted Sod.Theatre Source)

Actor/Playwright Frank Ingrasciotta plays over 20 characters in his tour de force performance of Blood Type: RAGU. This hilarious & tender coming-of-age story explories the first-generation Americans' delicate dance between culture and identity! Anyone who has a family will resonate! No Goombah, No Mafia! 100% heartfelt and natural! Produced by Flying Machine Productions and directed by Ted Sod.Theatre Source)

Stephen Schwartz, composer and lyricist of such Broadway classics as Wicked, Pippin, and Godspell makes his theatrical producing debut with Jim and Ruth Bauer's The Blue Flower, calling the production, 'one of the most creative and original pieces of musical theatre that I've ever encountered in my life.'

Blood Type: RAGU, the Off-Broadway critically-acclaimed hit, is a hilarious and poignant ride through the Italian immigrant experience based on the life of writer/performer Frank Ingrasciotta. This one-man show features more than 20 characters who live, love and laugh as they struggle to thrive in a new culture.

Blood Type: RAGU, the Off-Broadway critically-acclaimed hit, is a hilarious and poignant ride through the Italian immigrant experience based on the life of writer/performer Frank Ingrasciotta. This one-man show features more than 20 characters who live, love and laugh as they struggle to thrive in a new culture.

Flying Machine Productions today announced that the Off-Broadway premiere of BLOOD TYPE: RAGU, a new play written and performed by Frank Ingrasciotta, and directed by Ted Sod, will conclude its run at the newly restored Actors' Playhouse (100 Seventh Avenue South) after the matinee on Sunday April 5th. At that point it will have played thirty performances and fourteen previews.

Frank Ingrasciotta, writer and star of Off-Broadway's 'Blood Type: RAGU,' is set to appear on WFAS Radio's 'Tutto Italiano!' (Everything Italian) this Sunday, March 29th at 10:20 a.m. 'Tutto Italiano!' is broadcast live from the Westchester Italian Cultural Center on WFAS (1230 AM) throughout Westchester, the Bronx and Rockland County. The program can also be heard at www.wfasam.com.

Frank Ingrasciotta, writer and star of Off-Broadway's 'Blood Type: RAGU,' is set to appear on WFAS Radio's 'Tutto Italiano!' (Everything Italian) this Sunday, March 29th at 10:20 a.m. 'Tutto Italiano!' is broadcast live from the Westchester Italian Cultural Center on WFAS (1230 AM) throughout Westchester, the Bronx and Rockland County. The program can also be heard at www.wfasam.com.

Accomplished actor, director, producer and distribution executive Paul Borghese has joined Off-Broadway's Blood Type: RAGU as co-producer. Written and performed by Frank Ingrasciotta, Blood Type: RAGU is also presented by Flying Machine Productions at the newly renovated Actors' Playhouse, where the production opened on March 5th to rave reviews.

Flying Machine Productions presents the Off-Broadway premiere of BLOOD TYPE: RAGU, a new play written and performed by Frank Ingrasciotta. Preview perfomances began February 20th with the official Opening Night on Thursday, March 5th at 7:30 p.m. at the newly restored Actors' Playhouse (100 Seventh Avenue South).

Flying Machine Productions presents the Off-Broadway premiere of BLOOD TYPE: RAGU, a new play written and performed by Frank Ingrasciotta. Preview perfomances began February 20th with the official Opening Night on Thursday, March 5th at 7:30 p.m. at the newly restored Actors' Playhouse (100 Seventh Avenue South).

Flying Machine Productions cordially invites you to the Off-Broadway premiere of Blood Type: RAGU, a new play written and performed by Frank Ingrasciotta, and directed by Ted Sod. Performances will begin February 20th. Blood Type: RAGU is a hilarious and poignant exploration of the Sicilian immigrant experience based on the life of writer/performer Frank Ingrasciotta. This one-man show features more than 20 characters, who live, love and laugh as they struggle to thrive in a new culture, while nurturing the traditions of the old. It's not drama . . . it's just family! And we all have one. You don't have to be Italian to enjoy Blood Type: RAGU.

The newly renovated Actors' Playhouse will reopen next month with 'Blood Type: RAGU', Frank Ingrasciotta's single-actor, multicharacter show about four decades of a Sicilian family's experiences in the U.S. Actors' Playhouse is located at 100 Seventh Avenue South (between Bleecker & Christopher Streets). Preview peformances begin on February 20th, with an official opening night scheduled for March 5th, 2009. The production is the first to play the downtown space since filmmaker Lawrence Page bought it last year.

Flying Machine Productions cordially invites you to the Off-Broadway premiere of Blood Type: RAGU, a new play written and performed by Frank Ingrasciotta, and directed by Ted Sod. Performances will begin February 20th. Blood Type: RAGU is a hilarious and poignant exploration of the Sicilian immigrant experience based on the life of writer/performer Frank Ingrasciotta. This one-man show features more than 20 characters, who live, love and laugh as they struggle to thrive in a new culture, while nurturing the traditions of the old. It's not drama . . . it's just family! And we all have one. You don't have to be Italian to enjoy Blood Type: RAGU.

The newly renovated Actors' Playhouse will reopen next month with 'Blood Type: RAGU', Frank Ingrasciotta's single-actor, multicharacter show about four decades of a Sicilian family's experiences in the U.S. Actors' Playhouse is located at 100 Seventh Avenue South (between Bleecker & Christopher Streets). Preview peformances begin on February 20th, with an official opening night scheduled for March 5th, 2009. The production is the first to play the downtown space since filmmaker Lawrence Page bought it last year.