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Now in its fifth year, the FringeNYC Encore Series gives theatre lovers another chance to see some of the Festival's favorite shows. Beginning September 9, the FringeNYC Encore Series will present nearly 20 works in rotating repertory at three downtown venues: The Lucille Lortel Theater (121 Christopher Street between Bleecker and Hudson), The Players Theatre (115 MacDougal, between Houston & West 3rd Street) and Soho Playhouse’s Huron Club (15 Vandam Street between 6th Ave & Varick, off the #1 to Houston Street or C, E to Spring). Tickets are $18 at (866)468-7619 or www.FringeNYC-EncoreSeries.com
In 16 days, even the most intrepid theatregoer can only sample a small fraction of the nearly 200 offerings at the New York International Fringe Festival. The FringeNYC Encores Series is an annual showcase of some of the critically acclaimed and most crowd-pleasing shows from the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival. The schedule is as follows:
AT THE PLAYERS THEATRE:
Getting Even with Shakespeare
Writer: Matt Saldarelli / Director: Laura Konsin
Five tragic heroes walk into a bar...and they're pissed. When not dying nightly, Macbeth plays paintball, Juliet deals ecstasy and Lear (unsuccessfully) avoids storms. Enter a lawyer who proves the play is the thing to catch the Playwright King. 1h 30m. 9/21 @ 8:pm, 9/24 @ 9pm, 9/25 @ 7:30pm, 9/26 @ 4pm
Hearts Full of Blood
The New Colony (Chicago, IL)
Writer: James Asmus / Director: Andrew Hobgood
A horrifying secret forever affects the lives of a couple and their two single friends. "Quite the riveting show." (Chicago Tribune). "Gut-wrenchingly tragic and very, very funny." (TimeOut Chicago). 2h. 9/9 @ 9:30pm, 9/10 @ 7pm, 9/12 @ 3pm, 9/14 @ 8pm
How My Mother Died of Cancer, and Other Bedtime Stories
Robert Intile, Jr. & Alina Gutierrez with The Dreamscape Theatre
Writer: Chris Kelly; Director: Laura Moss
Kate Morgan, 25, copes with her mother's death by writing a comedy about cancer and its impact on her family. She's also cast her family and friends as themselves. When they hijack the performance, the results are disastrous. 1h 30m. 9/9 @ 7pm, 9/11 @ 7pm, 9/12 @ 8pm, 9/13 @ 8pm
Over and Over
No Hope Productions
Writer: Tim Aumiller; Director: Tim Aumiller;
In a downtown Manhattan theatre --where relationships, both real and imagined, are forged and broken --Mitch and Jimmie meet. Two former Fordham roommates and best friends, they negotiate the complex and intimate terms of their sexual history. 1h 15m. 9/18 @ 8:pm, 9/22 @ 9:30pm, 9/24 @ 7pm, 9/25 @ 5pm
PigPen Presents The Nightmare Story
PigPen Theatre Co. (Pittsburgh, PA)
Writer: Alex Falberg, Arya Shahi, Ben Ferguson, Curtis Gillen, Daniel Weschler, Matt Nuernberger, Ryan Melia
A boy's beloved mother shows symptoms of the mythical "Nightmare Disease." Now he must journey into the unknown to find a cure... before it's too late. Actors from Carnegie Mellon University; PigPen combines storytelling, music, puppetry, and shadow-play. 45m 9/10 @ 9:30pm, 9/11 @ 5pm, 9/11 @ 9:30pm, 9/12 @ 6pm
Running
The Journey Company
Writer: Arlene Hutton / Director: Beth Lincks & Lori Wolter
His first Marathon just hours away, Stephen needs a good night's sleep. Then his wife's attractive former roommate shows up unexpectedly. Will he be running on empty? A new dark comedy from the award-winning author of Last Train to Nibroc. 1h 30m. 9/16 @ 7pm, 9/18 @ 2pm, 9/19 @ 5:30pm, 9/20 @ 7pm
Saving Throw Versus Love
Rhetorical Question Players
Writer: Larry Brenner / Director: Dann Fink
Carol thinks her fiancee Sam goes to a weekly poker game. But Sam has a terrible secret: he’s a seventh level Elven thief. Will Carol be able to accept Sam’s hobby? And can Grolock the Barbarian slay the evil Werewolf? 1h 40m 9/20 @ 9:30pm, 9/22 @ 7pm, 9/25 @ 9:30pm, 9/26 @ 7pm
South Pathetic
New Conservatory Theatre Center Of San Francisco/Trash de Blanc (New York, NY)
Writer: Jim David; Director: Peter Smith
An unemployed comedian directs North Carolina's worst community theatre in Streetcar Named Desire. Blanche played by "family values" crusader, Stella's a stripper, Stanley's a porn star. Nominee Outstanding Solo Show, San Francisco Theatre Critics. "Hilarious." - SF Weekly "Sidesplitting." - TalkinBroadway.com 1h 15m. 9/15 @ 8pm, 9/17 @ 9:30pm, 9/18 @ 10pm, 9/19 @ 3pm
The Twentieth-Century Way
The Theatre @ Boston Court (Pasadena, CA)
Writer: Tom Jacobson; Director: Michael Michetti;
Based on a little-known incident in Southern California history, this theatrical thrill ride explores the collision of reality and fantasy as two actors juggle various roles to entrap homosexuals for “social vagrancy” in public restrooms in 1914 Long Beach, California. 1h 40m. 9/16 @ 9:30pm, 9/17 @ 7pm, 9/18 @ 5pm, 9/19 @ 8pm
AT THE LUCILLE LORTEL THEATER:
Bunked! A New Musical
Writer: Alaina Kunin and Bradford Proctor, Music by Bradford Proctor; Director: Seth Sikes
Bunked features the exploits of five summer camp counselors as they embark on their first taste of adulthood. Fatal secrets, impassioned jealousy and triangular love trysts entangle the counselors as the bittersweet end of summer approaches. 1h 40m. 9/19 @ 5pm, 9/20 @ 7pm, 9/23 @ 7pm, 9/25 @ 4pm
The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival
Writer: Rob Florence / Director: Dann Fink (New Orleans, LA)
The heartbreak. The humanity. The humor. Five true stories. Their own words. 1h 30m 9/11 @ 8pm, 9/12 @ 5pm, 9/15 @ 7pm, 9/19 @ 8pm
Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical
Writer: Emma Barash, Marshall Pailet, Bryce Norbitz and Steve Wargo; Director: Marshall Pailet.
Boldly re-imagined and retold from the perspective of the dinosaurs, Jurassic Parq is an unflinching meditation on gender, sexual, and racial identity in an evolving landscape destined to stun you with its importance. And you should probably see it drunk. 1h 20m. 9/9 @ 7pm, 9/11 @ 10:30pm, 9/17 @ 9:30pm, 9/18 @ 10:30pm
Just In Time: The Judy Holliday Story
Writer/Director: Bob Sloan
A fast-paced romp through the life of the Original Dumb Blond and one of the funniest actresses of all time. Featuring such exalted cohorts as Orson Welles, Katherine Hepburn, Comden & Green, Gloria Swanson and Jimmy Durante. (90 min) 9/10 @ 9:30pm 9/13 @ 7pm, 9/14 @ 7pm, 9/15 @ 3pm
Lost and Found
Rogue Machine Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Writer: John Pollono; Director: Andrew Block
An embattled Boston cop family. A stranger with a secret. Sit down to dinner with the Broncatos as they grapple with personal demons and search for a place at the table in this savagely comic, emotionally gripping, dysfunctional family portrait. 1h 50m. 9/18 @ 5pm, 9/21 @ 8pm, 9/24 @ 9:30pm, 8/25 @ 7pm
Made in Taiwan
Writer: Michelle Krusiec/ Director: Andy Belser
"A Chinese American Sandra Bullock" (NY Post). Krusiec's comedy-drama entwines dysfunctional family, cultural confusion, and suburban desperation. Pimped out by a Chinese mother, cowed by an American naval father, this coming of age story is both poignant and hilarious. 1h 20m 9/10 @ 7pm, 9/14 @ 9:30pm, 9/17 @ 7pm, 9/18 @ 8pm
Pope! An Epic Musical
Writer: Justin Moran, Music by Christopher Pappas, Lyrics by Justin Moran Director: Greg Moran, Musical Direction by Adam Podd
A popular Pope is framed and exiled from the Vatican, a tyrannical Archbishop seizes power. People are in unrest, armies of robots stalk the streets, the world is crying out for a hero… only one Pope can answer the call! 1h 30m 9/16 @ 9:30pm, 9/24 @ 7pm, 9/25 @ 10:30pm, 9/26 @ 4pm
When Last We Flew
DRD Theatricals & Eric Louie
Writer: Harrison David Rivers/ Director: Colette Robert
After stealing his library's only copy of Angels in America, misfit
teenager Paul begins reading and discovers that his dull Midwestern
life is about to take flight. When Last We Flew was developed at Lincoln Center and Sundance Theater Lab.
2h 0m Local Manhattan, NYC 9/9 @ 9:30pm, 9/11 @ 5pm, 9/12 @ 8pm, 9/16 @ 7pm
The Secretaries
TOSOS Writers: The Five Lesbian Brothers (Maureen Angelos, Babs Davy, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron). Director: Mark Finley
Join this cult of murderous Slim-Fast drinking, high-heel wearing, big-haired secretaries who work the desks of the Cooney Lumber Mill in Big Bone, Oregon. It's just like your office, only with chainsaws. 1h 30m. 9/13 @ 10pm, 9/15 @ 9:30pm, 9/22 @ 9:30pm, 9/23 @ 10pm
Viva Los Bastarditos!
Writer: Jake Oliver
A sublimely ridiculous and heartfelt tale of love, music and revolution. When dastardly villains take over a mysterious realm called Western Massachusetts, three rock heroes emerge to unite The People against the would-be dictators. Join the revolution! 1h 50m 9/19 @ 2pm, 9/20 @ 9:30pm, 9/22 @ 7pm, 9/26 @ 7pm
AT SOHO PLAYHOUSE’S HURON CLUB:
Amsterdam Abortion Survivor
Micha Wertheim. (Holland, Netherlands)
His controversial solo performance earned him praise in the Netherlands and at the 2007/8 Edinburgh festival. Wertheim manages to shock and charm his audiences at the same time. His US debut promises hard-hitting cutting edge comedy with an adorable accent. 1h 9/10 @ 9:30pm, 9/12 @ 8pm, 9/16 @ 10pm, 9/17 @ 8pm, 9/19 @ 8pm
Faye Lane's Beauty Shop Stories
Writer: Faye Lane / Director: Jay Rogers
She grew up in a Texas Beauty Salon... and lived to tell! Come hear the glittered up memories of a Green Bean Queen. "They were howling, crying, falling in love with her." New York Magazine. 55m 9/9 @ 9:30pm, 9/12 @ 6pm, 9/15 @ 3pm, 9/17 @ 10pm, 9/23 @ 9:30pm
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