Gene Frankel News

THE IMAGINARY INVALID: BY PRESCRIPTION ONLY, based on LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE by Molière and written and directed by NYIT award winner ALIZA SHANE, will be presented as part of the world premiere of the PLANET CONNECTIONS THEATRE FESTIVITY.

The Subjective Theater Company is proud to announce its last play of the 2009 season, PARALLAX - a fantastical exploration of narrative and memory.

The Subjective Theater Company is proud to announce its only play of the 2009 season, PARALLAX - a fantastical exploration of narrative and memory. While covering a labor movement in Argentina, PJ and Mick find themselves in the middle of a shootout that leaves their friend and contact dead.

The Subjective Theater Company is proud to announce its only play of the 2009 season, PARALLAX - a fantastical exploration of narrative and memory.

LIARS is a collection of eight brand-new comedic plays about deceiving, falsifying, fibbing, and stretching the truth. Join us as we set fire to the pants of Hollywood agents and other sleazy hucksters, and expose cons from tofu to Santa Claus. Playwrights featured will include Jesse Jones, Jeremy Mather, Daniel McCoy, Lindsey Moore, Joe Musso, Caroline O'Hare, Matt Sears, and Jeff Sproul.

The Subjective Theater Company is proud to announce its only play of the 2009 season, PARALLAX - a fantastical exploration of narrative and memory. While covering a labor movement in Argentina, PJ and Mick find themselves in the middle of a shootout that leaves their friend and contact dead.

LIARS is a collection of eight brand-new comedic plays about deceiving, falsifying, fibbing, and stretching the truth. Join us as we set fire to the pants of Hollywood agents and other sleazy hucksters, and expose cons from tofu to Santa Claus. Playwrights featured will include Jesse Jones, Jeremy Mather, Daniel McCoy, Lindsey Moore, Joe Musso, Caroline O'Hare, Matt Sears, and Jeff Sproul.

The Barrow Group Theatre Company will present a studio theatre production of WHO YOU SEE HERE by Matt Hoverman, directed by Stacy Shane, with performances starting on Friday, March 6, 2009 (Opening is Saturday, March 7th, 2009). WHO YOU SEE HERE is a four-character comedy about a small town couple whose love is tested when a charismatic but troubled movie star stumbles into their local AA meeting.

What if you could confront the one person who has hurt you worst of all, or the one you're most ashamed to face? Rodney E. Reyes looks at these questions of responsibility and redemption in his powerful drama WHO AM I. Written by Reyes and presented by Cuchipinoy Productions, WHO AM I will be performed at the Gene Frankel Theatre, located at 24 Bond Street, beginning on March 19th. The play will be directed by Reyes and Mario Corrales.

I ATE WHAT? THEATRE, in conjunction with The Looking Glass Theatre Space Grant Program, is pleased to announce the return of Simona Berman’s acclaimed JUST SHUT UP & SMILE!, directed by Diana Basmajian. JUST SHUT UP & SMILE! will play a special limited engagement at The Looking Glass Theatre (422 West 57th Street, btw 9th/10th Ave). Performances begin Monday, March 16 and continue thru Friday, April 3.

The Barrow Group Theatre Company will present a studio theatre production of WHO YOU SEE HERE by Matt Hoverman, directed by Stacy Shane, with performances starting on Friday, March 6, 2009 (Opening is Saturday, March 7th, 2009). WHO YOU SEE HERE is a four-character comedy about a small town couple whose love is tested when a charismatic but troubled movie star stumbles into their local AA meeting.

Legendary Late Night TV personality Joe Franklin was always one to do things his own way. So why should his birthday be any different. This year Franklin will be celebrating his birthday - what he is calling his 39th birthday! - by attending an invitation only, industry reading of Charles Messina's new play 'A Room of My Own' at the Players Theater in Greenwich Village. The play is being presented by NahNotOutsideMyHouse! Productions Inc. in association with Shortened Attention Span and producer Al Messina.

NahNotOutsideMyHouse! Productions Inc. in association with Shortened Attention Span Theater and Producer Al Messina is proud to announce the World Premiere Staged Reading of Charles Messina's new play A Room of My Own at the The Players Theatre Main Stage. A Room of My Own is a comedy set in the late 1970s and revolves around one wacky Italian-American family living in a small tenement apartment in Greenwich Village. Headed by a conniving, thieving matriarch, a gambling addicted patriarch, and an uncle with a secret that everyone knows, The Morelli Clan of Thompson Street is one outrageous bunch. Their struggles with debt, poverty and a Nun who they welcome into their lives is seen through the eyes of little 10 year old Carlo Morelli, a would-be writer, whose vocabulary consist mainly of four letter words. Playwright/Director Messina is best known for his work on the critically acclaimed, off-Broadway hits Mercury, about the life of rocker Freddie Mercury, and Cirque Jacqueline, about former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. He is also directing Richard Vetere's musical Be My Love, about the life of legendary tenor Mario Lanza, which is being produced by Sonny Grosso and Phil Ramone. The cast of A Room of My Own features Tony ?n Tina's Wedding stars Johnny Tammaro, Gina Ferranti, Chris DePierro, Gina Musumeci, and Carlo Rivieccio. Rounding out the stellar cast is Monica Arazi, who was last seen in John Guare's Cop Out and Talking Dog at The Gene Frankel Theater, and young John Barbieri, who starred in Messina's play Klepto last season at The Players.

The Barrow Group Theatre Company will present a studio theatre production of WHO YOU SEE HERE by Matt Hoverman, directed by Stacy Shane, with performances starting on Friday, March 6, 2009 (Opening is Saturday, March 7th, 2009). WHO YOU SEE HERE is a four-character comedy about a small town couple whose love is tested when a charismatic but troubled movie star stumbles into their local AA meeting.

I ATE WHAT? THEATRE, in conjunction with The Looking Glass Theatre Space Grant Program, is pleased to announce the return of Simona Berman’s acclaimed JUST SHUT UP & SMILE!, directed by Diana Basmajian. JUST SHUT UP & SMILE! will play a special limited engagement at The Looking Glass Theatre (422 West 57th Street, btw 9th/10th Ave). Performances begin Monday, March 16 and continue thru Friday, April 3.

What if you could confront the one person who has hurt you worst of all, or the one you're most ashamed to face? Rodney E. Reyes looks at these questions of responsibility and redemption in his powerful drama WHO AM I. Written by Reyes and presented by Cuchipinoy Productions, WHO AM I will be performed at the Gene Frankel Theatre, located at 24 Bond Street, beginning on March 19th. The play will be directed by Reyes and Mario Corrales.

Legendary Late Night TV personality Joe Franklin was always one to do things his own way. So why should his birthday be any different. This year Franklin will be celebrating his birthday - what he is calling his 39th birthday! - by attending an invitation only, industry reading of Charles Messina's new play 'A Room of My Own' at the Players Theater in Greenwich Village. The play is being presented by NahNotOutsideMyHouse! Productions Inc. in association with Shortened Attention Span and producer Al Messina.

On February 18 and 19, La MaMa will host an open house, 'New Voices Heard,' featuring a sampling of eight plays that were developed during the summer of 2008 in the La MaMa Umbria International Playwrights Retreat. This free event will take place at La MaMa La Galleria, 6 East First Street, Manhattan (between Second Avenue and Bowery), Manhattan. Admission is free. Excerpts of eight plays will be presented. Seven will be staged readings and one will be fully acted.

On February 18 and 19, La MaMa will host an open house, 'New Voices Heard,' featuring a sampling of eight plays that were developed during the summer of 2008 in the La MaMa Umbria International Playwrights Retreat. This free event will take place at La MaMa La Galleria, 6 East First Street, Manhattan (between Second Avenue and Bowery), Manhattan. Admission is free. Excerpts of eight plays will be presented. Seven will be staged readings and one will be fully acted.

Four hunters, lost in the Canadian woods, begin losing their minds and battling a gigantic, unseen creature in this adaptation of Algernon Blackwood's classic tale of supernatural horror. One of Blackwood's best stories is the magnificent THE WENDIGO, written in 1908. On the surface, this is a classic story of man versus nature but on a spiritual level the story forces us to question our position and purpose in the universe, to wonder if perhaps there are some places, as the narrator says, that 'no human foot was meant to trod.'