The Mutilated - 2013 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 2

 TW Fest Curator David Kaplan said, "This year, we are thrilled to have one of today's great American playwright with us -- John Guare.   Guare, the world-renown author of Six Degrees of Separation and The House of Blue Leaves, is bringing a staged reading of his new laugh out-loud-play, More Stars Than There Are in Heaven, to our 10th Anniversary celebration of the life and work of Tennessee Williams."

The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (CAC) brings Tennessee Williams home to New Orleans with this hilarious, sexy, New Orleans comedyThe Mutilated. This wild Christmastime romp through the French Quarter begins:     

Announcing the program for Year TENN, Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival (TW Fest), Co-founder and Curator David Kaplan said, "This year's festival celebrates what happened to Tennessee Williams in Provincetown during the last ten years: his plays got performed here. We've rethought his classics, and rethought the plays he wrote that had been ignored or dismissed. The mantra that Williams had lost his mojo was replaced with cheers at the world premieres in P'town of The Remarkable Rooming-House of Madame LeMonde (TW Fest 2009) and The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (TW Fest 2013). So we're bringing those two productions back for our audiences to cheer in 2015, along with eight other hits and variations."

Filled with authentic sea chanties and idealized sailor dances of old Hollywood, Tugboat Collective's interpretation of S.A. Harkham's iconic and nearly wordless graphic novel comes to the stage for the first time.

Filled with authentic sea chanties and idealized sailor dances of old Hollywood, Tugboat Collective's interpretation of S.A. Harkham's iconic and nearly wordless graphic novel comes to the stage for the first time.

THOMAS DEKKER, star of Backstrom on Fox-TV will join RuPaul's Drag Race sensation JINKX MONSOON and San Francisco drag legend PEACHES CHRIST in the New York Premiere of RETURN TO GRAY GARDENS, a theatrical comedy that pays homage to the acclaimed documentary film 'Grey Gardens'.

RuPaul's Drag Race sensation JINKX MONSOON and San Francisco drag legend PEACHES CHRIST will star in the New York Premiere of RETURN TO GRAY GARDENS, a theatrical comedy that pays homage to the acclaimed documentary film 'Grey Gardens'. This original stage show, written and directed by Joshua Grannell, also features MINK STOLE in a cast of 14. It will be performed for one night only, Saturday, April 25 at 7pm at Mason Hall at Baruch Performing Arts Center (17 Lexington Avenue at 23rd Street). Tickets range from $25 - $75 at 212-352-3101 or www.SpinCycleNYC.com.

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Amphibian Stage Productions presents its third main stage production of the 2014 season, The Nosemaker's Apprentice: Chronicles of a Medieval Plastic Surgeon. Jay Duffer, John Forkner, Alexandra Lawrence, Brandon Murphy and Scott Zenreich will star in this comedy, running today, July 10 through Sunday, August 10 at Amphibian's Berlene T. & Jarrell R. Milburn Theatre at 120 S. Main Street. David A. Miller will direct the production.

The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival has announced that Michael Paller, author, dramaturg and educator, will be a participating scholar at the Tennessee Williams Institute (TWI) held during this year's Festival, Tennessee Williams' Circle of Friends, September 25 - 28, 2014.

Amphibian Stage Productions opens its third main stage production of the 2014 season, The Nosemaker's Apprentice: Chronicles of a Medieval Plastic Surgeon by Nick Jones and Rachel Shukert, July 10, kicking off a five-week run of the play. Jay Duffer, John Forkner, Alexandra Lawrence, Brandon Murphy and Scott Zenreich star in this infectious comedy running Thursday, July 10 through Sunday, August 10 at the Berlene T. and Jarrell R. Milburn Theatre at Amphibian Stage Productions

New Jersey Repertory Company, located at 179 Broadway in Long Branch, is proud to present the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of Lucky Me by Robert Caisley, directed by SuzAnne Barabas and starring Dan Grimaldi, Wendy Peace, Michael Irvin Pollard and Mark Light-Orr.

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North America's largest showcase of Japanese film and “One of the loopiest… and least predictable of New York's film festivals” (New York Magazine), JAPAN CUTS: The New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema returns for its eighth annual installment.

Amphibian Stage Productions today announced casting for its third main stage production of the 2014 season, The Nosemaker's Apprentice: Chronicles of a Medieval Plastic Surgeon. Jay Duffer, John Forkner, Alexandra Lawrence, Brandon Murphy and Scott Zenreich will star in this comedy, running Thursday, July 10 through Sunday, August 10 at Amphibian's Berlene T. & Jarrell R. Milburn Theatre at 120 S. Main Street. David A. Miller will direct the production.

ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery has announced selections for the 2014-2015 Season, to run from September 11, 2014 - May 24, 2015. Interim Artistic Director Annie Lareau has chosen a six-show season that focuses on diversity and thought-provoking productions that will challenge the viewer to think, laugh and often to sing-a-long! The 2014-2015 Season is titled Opening Doors.

This tour is quite well done, with strong vocals for the leads. Evans nails 'I Believe' and Ncube shows a lovely soprano in her national tour debut. O'Neill, making his professional debut, shows solid comic ability as the awkward Cunningham

With the reopening of one of the country's oldest community theaters and some unique staging in unexpected venues, New Orleans' historic French Quarter will pulse with productions of Tennessee Williams' works, as well as some inspired by or dedicated to the legendary playwright and his life in the city he considered his "spiritual home."

(Los Angeles, CA) November 2013 - Marten Weber's new novel “Benedetto Casanova: The Roman Diaries” (Street Date: December 1, 2013) is the continuation of the bestselling book, Benedetto Casanova, and the sexual adventures of Casanova's, gay brother, Benedetto.

The St. Louis County Library Foundation is pleased to present acclaimed historian and China expert Paul French for a discussion and signing of his bestselling true-crime thriller, 'Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China' tonight, October 10, at 7:00 p.m. at Library Headquarters, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd. The program is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase at the event from Barnes & Noble.

TheatreLAB has announce dan inaugural season of plays that aim to excite and enlighten! Four productions will be presented - a new American comedy about a young woman hoping that change will bring her happiness, a recent Broadway hit about the painful struggles to balance faith and humanity, a steamy British play with a magnifying glass on the complications of love and lust, and a locally-developed devised piece that manipulates time and place. TheatreLAB is also proud to introduce two exciting new programs that will further their mission to create, collaborate, and cultivate!

The St. Louis County Library Foundation is pleased to present acclaimed historian and China expert Paul French for a discussion and signing of his bestselling true-crime thriller, 'Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China' on Thursday, October 10, at 7:00 p.m. at Library Headquarters, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd. The program is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase at the event from Barnes & Noble.

The Public Theater announced the September line-up today for NEW WORK NOW!, the free reading series that allows audiences an opportunity to experience new work by a diverse selection of established and emerging theater artists. NEW WORK NOW! will run September 9 to September 21 in The Public's Martinson Theater (425 Lafayette Street). Now in its twentieth season, NEW WORK NOW! is an important part of The Public Theater's ongoing commitment to developing and mentoring new voices for the American Theater.

'It may be disappointing to some, but despite the title there is no gore in The Mutilated,' says David Kaplan, curator of the Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. 'Instead we have broad humor, cryptic Christmas Carols, and touching characters seeking redemption in all the wrong places. Altogether a really good time at the theater."

In a recent news article posted by The Guardian UK, Ralph Bulger, the father of James Bulger, the toddler who was kidnapped, mutilated and killed by two ten-year-old kids twenty years ago, shares his heartbreaking revelation of how he still could not find it in his heart to forgive his son's killers. In an interview, he reveals that his marriage and family life has been ripped apart by the pain, which led him to rely on drinking to somehow numb the emotional hurt. This only goes to show the amount of suffering that can plague families especially when they lose one of their members and cannot learn how to overcome their resentments. In line with this, author S.D. Hill's The Wineberg features a tale of triumph over trials as one family struggles through the relics of past experiences and fights its way towards forgiveness, wisdom and enlightenment. Created by author S.D. Hill, this captivating romance fiction paints a journey of courage, strength and endurance amidst times of adversity, regret and immeasurable remorse.