Kevin Gilmartin News

On Thursday, October 3rd Art of Warr productions celebrated the opening night of its production, Stupid F**king Bird by Aaron Posner, at  13th Street Repertory Theater (50 W. 13th Street) in Manhattan. 

Strike back at the Empire! The Trade Federation: Or, Let's Explore Globalization Through the Star Wars Prequels, a new political comedy by Andy Boyd, will make its world premiere September 20-28 at IRT Theatre in the West Village. Allen MacLeod directs the allegorical farce about global trade, the International Monetary Fund, and (of course) Star Wars. Tickets are on sale now at www.irttheatre.org.

Playwright Penny Jackson packs generations of family drama into this one-act 90-minute "jukebox" play, which has some memorable moments, lots of laughs, but an all-too-familiar feel where love, loss and liquor seep into every scene of Irish turmoil.

The World Premiere of Penny Jackson's The Battles of Richmond Hill, directed by Kathy Gail MacGowan, began performances at HERE (145 Sixth Avenue, enter on Dominick Street, one block south of Spring Street) on Friday, April 26 at 8:30pm. 

91 Central Productions in association with Anemone Productions will present the World Premiere of The Battles of Richmond Hill a new comedy by Penny Jackson

91 Central Productions in association with Anemone Productions will present the World Premiere of The Battles of Richmond Hill a new comedy by Penny Jackson (I Know What Boys Want at the Lion Theatre; A Different Place in the 2017 FRIGID Festival), directed by Kathy Gail MacGowan (Kentucky Cantata at HERE; In the Summer Pavilion at 59E59) at HERE (145 Sixth Avenue, enter on Dominick Street, one block south of Spring Street), April 26-May 11.

Suzanne Mernyk is on a mission. As the author of the new play, SYMPATHY in C: A Symphonic Play, opening next month at the historic 13th Street Rep Theatre in the West Village, the New York City Playwright is looking forward to reintroducing her play to a broader audience after a successful run in last Summer's 2017 inaugural Broadway Bound Theatre Festival. The October dates (October 3 - 14th) of this Off Off Broadway incarnation were chosen to coincide with National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. From there, she is looking to take the work either on tour, or perhaps on an Off Broadway run if she could raise the capital.

Suzanne Mernyk is on a mission. As the author of the new play, SYMPATHY in C: A Symphonic Play, opening next month at the historic 13th Street Rep Theatre in the West Village, the New York City Playwright is looking forward to reintroducing her play to a broader audience after a successful run in last Summer's 2017 inaugural Broadway Bound Theatre Festival. The October dates (October 3 - 14th) of this Off Off Broadway incarnation were chosen to coincide with National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. From there, she is looking to take the work either on tour, or perhaps on an Off Broadway run if she could raise the capital.

Suzanne Mernyk is on a mission. As the author of the new play, SYMPATHY in C: A Symphonic Play, opening next month at the historic 13th Street Rep Theatre in the West Village, the New York City Playwright is looking forward to reintroducing her play to a broader audience after a successful run in last Summer's 2017 inaugural Broadway Bound Theatre Festival. The October dates (October 3 - 14th) of this Off Off Broadway incarnation were chosen to coincide with National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. From there, she is looking to take the work either on tour, or perhaps on an Off Broadway run if she could raise the capital.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces Adele's Way, part of The 2018 TRU Voices New Plays Reading Series on June 18, 2018 at 7pm at the Soho Playhouse, 15 Vandam St., New York, NY.

From January 25-28, Matt Trucano's (Columbia Directing 2017) new take on Tennessee Williams' classic, yet oft-untold story, CAMINO REAL, will light up The Connelly Theater (220 East 4th Street).

Stable Cable Lab Co.'s production of "Live from the Surface Of the Moon" is certainly far out like the radical 1960s decade in which it takes place…but not necessarily in a good way. Written and directed by Max Baker, this new play takes audiences to a blue-collar home in 1969 Cleveland, Ohio. In this moment, a bizarre cast of characters gathers to view the moon landing on television. Don (Ian Patrick Poake), an ice cream truck driver, and his extremely pregnant wife, Carol (Kate Garfield) have invited over their friends, the pseudo-feminist June (Breanna Foister), and her decidedly sexist, creepy husband Wendell (Brian Edelman). Carol's slightly senile father, Joe (Kevin Gilmartin) and the young, pitiful, and awkward Holly (Lisa Anderson) also join the party.

Stable Cable Lab Co. (Shariffa Ali and Vera Khodasevich, Producers) will present Live From the Surface of the Moon, a new play written and directed by Max Baker, tonight, April 2-11 at The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street between Avenue A and B).

Stable Cable Lab Co. (Shariffa Ali and Vera Khodasevich, Producers) will present Live From the Surface of the Moon, a new play written and directed by Max Baker, April 2-11 at The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street between Avenue A and B).

Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, professional Theatre in Residence at the Oakes Center in Summit, will present its annual Meet the Artist free new play reading series on Wednesday May 21 and Wednesday May 28 at 7 pm at the Oakes Center.

Cast members of Joe Beck's drama A Homecoming, which heartbreakingly details the emotional devastation of Alzheimer's on one already-fractured family, and which was most recently presented as a staged reading at the Lott Center for Assisted Living on October 5th, will reunite once more for another staged reading of their work at the Frederick Loewe Room at The Dramatists Guild, located at 1501 Broadway (between 43rd and 44th Streets), Suite 701, today, November 5 from 7-9pm.

Cast members of Joe Beck's drama A Homecoming, which heartbreakingly details the emotional devastation of Alzheimer's on one already-fractured family, and which was most recently presented as a staged reading at the Lott Center for Assisted Living on October 5th, will reunite once more for another staged reading of their work at the Frederick Loewe Room at 1501 Broadway (between 43rd and 44th Streets), Suite 701, on Tuesday, November 5 from 7-9pm. Admission is free, and on a first-come, first-seated basis.

The first public reading of an original horror/comedy with music... ACKERMAN & ASSOCIATES Meet DRACULA, a live radio show, is set for tonight, October 27th, 2013 at Pearl Studios.

If Halloween brings to mind thoughts of trick or treating, friendly neighbors distributing candies to lovely children in costume, or crisp autumn leaves crunching beneath your feet on a brisk October night... snap out of it!!!! Bring on the ghosts, ghouls and vampires!!!! And, why not the most notorious vampire of all? Dracula, himself, moves to Hollywood in his quest to conquer the movie business and attract talented, nubile starlets-to-be. Will he succeed? Will he suck blood? Find out for yourself as we bring this tale of horror, passion and show-biz to life with a comedic slant in a live reading performed for radio format.

Cast members of Joe Beck's drama A Homecoming, which heartbreakingly details the emotional devastation of Alzheimer's on one already-fractured family, and which had its world premiere at the New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) this past August, will reunite to present a staged reading of their play for the residents of the Lott Residence for Assisted Living on Saturday, October 5th. The event will take place at 2:15pm at the Lott Residence facilities on 1261 5th Avenue (between 107 and 108th Streets) in Manhattan.