Michael LoPorto News

BrooklynONE productions (bkONE) and Dialogue with Three Chords (D3C) team up to present 'The Funeral Rites of Country Western Superstars' from playwright Stephen Gracia for brooklynONE's April Reading Series installment. 'Funeral Rites...' includes three plays from Gracia and new material written especially for this event, directed by Anthony Marino and Michael LoPorto. The performance is on April 18th at 8pm at LoneStar Bar at 8703 5th Avenue, Brooklyn. Admission is free and donations are welcome. A live performance by singer Tommy Lombardozzi will open the evening's events.

Dialogue with Three Chords stages an imagined conversation between William Marston, creator of the DC Comics heroine Wonder Woman and Dr. Frederic Wertham, champion of comic book censorship in 'The Last Days of the Brave and Bold ' from playwright Stephen Gracia. The short play is directed by Michael LoPorto as is the curtain raiser monologue, 'A People's History of Super Heroism.' The performance is tonight, March 28 at 8pm downstairs at Mr. Dennehy's pub on 63 Carmine Street in Manhattan. Admission is free with $3 suggested donation.

Dialogue with Three Chords stages an imagined conversation between William Marston, creator of the DC Comics heroine Wonder Woman and Dr. Frederic Wertham, champion of comic book censorship in 'The Last Days of the Brave and Bold ' from playwright Stephen Gracia. The short play is directed by Michael LoPorto as is the curtain raiser monologue, 'A People's History of Super Heroism.' The performance is on March 28 at 8pm downstairs at Mr. Dennehy's pub on 63 Carmine Street in Manhattan. Admission is free with $3 suggested donation.

Dialogue with Three Chords presents 'The Rough and Sweet Quartet' from playwright Stephen Gracia to launch their 2013 season of independent theatre. 'The Rough and Sweet Quartet' includes four new plays from Gracia, all directed by Michael LoPorto. The plays are 'about love, lust, transformation, drinks with the devil, and the stories we tell each other' says Gracia. The performance is tonight, February 28 at 8pm downstairs at Mr. Dennehy's pub on 63 Carmine Street in Manhattan. Admission is free with $3 suggested donation.

Dialogue with Three Chords presents 'The Rough and Sweet Quartet' from playwright Stephen Gracia to launch their 2013 season of independent theatre. 'The Rough and Sweet Quartet' includes four new plays from Gracia, all directed by Michael LoPorto. The plays are 'about love, lust, transformation, drinks with the devil, and the stories we tell each other' says Gracia. The performance is on February 28 at 8pm downstairs at Mr. Dennehy's pub on 63 Carmine Street in Manhattan. Admission is free with $3 suggested donation.

Dialogue with Three Chords presents "Lots" from playwright Sean Meehan as a benefit for the veteran-run charity On Behalf Of a Grateful Nation. Meehan has been a featured actor in previous Dialogue with Three Chords productions. The show also features live music tonight, November 29, 8pm, downstairs at Mr. Dennehy's pub on 63 Carmine Street in Manhattan. Admission is free with $3 suggested donation. All proceeds will benefit On Behalf of a Grateful Nation who raise money for veterans and their families in the New York and New England area.

Dialogue with Three Chords presents "Lots" from playwright Sean Meehan as a benefit for the veteran-run charity On Behalf Of a Grateful Nation. Meehan has been a featured actor in previous Dialogue with Three Chords productions. The show also features live music on November 29, 8pm, downstairs at Mr. Dennehy's pub on 63 Carmine Street in Manhattan. Admission is free with $3 suggested donation. All proceeds will benefit On Behalf of a Grateful Nation who raise money for veterans and their families in the New York and New England area.

Dialogue with Three Chords presents "Lovecraft in Brooklyn" a staged reading of a new work from playwright Stephen Gracia that explores H.P. Lovecraft's tumultuous time living in Brooklyn while newly married. The reading also includes the curtain raiser "When I Dream, I See Strange Men: The Ascension of Elias" which deals with an imagined alien abduction. Both pieces are directed by Michael LoPorto. The show also features live music from Tommy Lombardozzi on October 25 downstairs at Mr. Dennehy's pub on 63 Carmine Street in Manhattan. Admission is free with a $3 suggested donation.

Dialogue with Three Chords hosts readings of short plays by independent playwrights which explore how family histories haunt and inform our lives.

Dialogue with Three Chords presents two brand new short plays from playwright Stephen Gracia: "For the Prettiest One" and "Discomfiture," tonight, April 26 at 8pm, at the 'Den at Dennehy's,' downstairs at Mr. Dennehy's pub on 63 Carmine Street in Manhattan. The performance also features a reading by Jenny Husk, whose newly released poetry book 'Vocalises' provides the theme of the evening: the struggle of the self against the body and live music. Admission is free with a $3 suggested donation.

Stephen Gracia & Michael LoPorto, the writer and director of NEXT, reunite with NEXT actors Kendra Leigh Landon & Ridley Parson for the current monthly installment of DIALOGUE WITH THREE CHORDS on April 26th at 8 p.m.

Dialogue with Three Chords will present two brand new short plays from playwright Stephen Gracia: "For the Prettiest One" and "Discomfiture" on April 26 at 8pm, at the 'Den at Dennehy's,' downstairs at Mr. Dennehy's pub on 63 Carmine Street in Manhattan. Admission is free with a $3 suggested donation.

Dialogue with Three Chords will host a benefit night for On Behalf of a Grateful Nation, an organization that raises funds for wounded veterans and military families.

Dialogue with Three Chords will host a benefit night for On Behalf of a Grateful Nation, an organization that raises funds for wounded veterans and military families.

Abraxas Stage Company will present the World Premiere of NEXT, a dark and dirty WWII prostitution drama by Stephen Gracia. Directed by Michael LoPorto, previews begin February 2 at HERE Arts Center with opening slated for Saturday, February 5th at 7pm. The production will benefit the non-profit organization On Behalf of a Grateful Nation (http://onbehalf.org/about-us).

Abraxas Stage Company will present the World Premiere of NEXT, a dark and dirty WWII prostitution drama by Stephen Gracia. Directed by Michael LoPorto, previews begin February 2 at HERE Arts Center with opening slated for Saturday, February 5th at 7pm. The production will benefit the non-profit organization On Behalf of a Grateful Nation (http://onbehalf.org/about-us).

Abraxas Stage Company will present the World Premiere of NEXT, a dark and dirty WWII prostitution drama by Stephen Gracia. Directed by Michael LoPorto, previews begin February 2 at HERE Arts Center with opening slated for Saturday, February 5th at 7pm. The production will benefit the non-profit organization On Behalf of a Grateful Nation (http://onbehalf.org/about-us).

Abraxas Stage Company will present the World Premiere of NEXT, a dark and dirty WWII prostitution drama by Stephen Gracia. Directed by Michael LoPorto, previews begin February 2 at HERE Arts Center with opening slated for Saturday, February 5th at 7pm. The production will benefit the non-profit organization On Behalf of a Grateful Nation (http://onbehalf.org/about-us).

In NEXT, a mobile whorehouse is brought to an American army encampment in Europe during WWII. It's presence brings to the surface issues of racism, sexuality, and the fear of impending death. Currently seeking the following male roles to begin rehearsal in January.

Barefoot Theatre Company presents 'A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley', an adaptation of the Dickens novel by Israel Horovitz, in a cartoonish and lackluster production.