Save the dates! Upcoming readings and shows! sorry if you already got this. :)
Lanna Joffrey
by Sevan Kaloustian Greene
Directed by Sharon Lennon
Abingdon Theatre
312 W 36th St
Produced by The Claque www.theclaque.org
To make a reservation: n...@theclaque.org
This family drama/comedy focuses on three generations of a Lebanese-Armenian family in New Jersey trying to heal old wounds while opening new ones on the eve of their patriarch’s funeral. Not all goes as planned when the prodigal son returns and cultural obligations give way to personal agendas.
OverRuled
November 11th & 12th at 5pm & 8pm
(November 11th at 5pm is an invited dress, since no one gets comps and I think the paid performances are mostly sold out. So email ty...@performa-arts.org to reserve your seat. They will go fast since the cast is kinda giant.)
Cedar Lake Theater
547 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
http://11.performa-arts.org/event/shirin-neshat-performa-commission
Shirin Neshat will present OverRuled, a highly stylized performance set in a courtroom which references historical and contemporary Iranian and Arab uprisings against various forms of dictatorship and theocracy. Drawing from her previous works Turbulent (1998), a musical duet between a male and female singer, and The Last Word (2003), a trail of a poet, OverRuled will feature actors, singers, and musicians including the Iranian actor Mohammad B. Ghaffari and Mohsen Namjoo, one of the most celebrated Iranian musicians today. OverRuled is directed by Neshat and written by Shoja Azari. Neshat's Performa Commission will also marks the tenth anniversary of RoseLee Goldberg commissioning the artist to create her first live work, Logic of the Birds, in 2001, an experience that eventually led to Goldberg establishing Performa.
The Strangest
by Betty Shamieh
Directed by May Adrales
November 14th @ 7:30pm
Midway through Camus's classic, The Stranger, an unnamed Arab is killed. Leaping from this moment and working backwards through possible histories of tangled romance, ethnic conflict and random violence, playwright Betty Shamieh crafts a new play inspired by this unknown character. Set in French Algiers, The Strangest is an absurdist murder mystery about three Algerian brothers who vie for the love of the same woman. Their bitter rivalry ends with one brother being inexplicably gunned down by a French stranger.
83 East 4th Street, btw 2nd Ave & Bowery
(Locations subject to change.)
Events are free but reservations are strongly suggested: RS...@noortheatre.org
FULL DISCLOSURE
Allison Davis - "Michael & Lily"
WIll Purpura - "Cab Drivers: A Love Story"
Erin Wagoner - "What To Do When Your Grandmother Loses Her Arms"
Luisa Parnes - "Best F'ing City In The World"
*Feature Films DRUID PEAK w/ Spencer Treat Clark & Andrew Wilson dir. Marni Zelnick & FISHING NAKED w/ Elaine Miles & Bronson Pelletier