April 28,29&30,2016
8:00PM
LATEA THEATER
107 Suffolk St.
ww.teatrolatea.org
Featuring:
HIROKO YONEKURA
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| Hiroko Yonekura |
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Hiroko Yonekura stars in "SOULMATES or NADA" by Iris Silverio, April 28,29 and 30, 2016 @8PM
April 28,29&30,2016
8:00PM
LATEA THEATER
107 Suffolk St.
ww.teatrolatea.org
Featuring:
HIROKO YONEKURA
Monday, March 14, 2016
SANTA BÁRBARA ES UNA FEMME FATALE" AT THE FIRST FESTIVAL DE COMEDIAS feat EDNA LEE FIGUEROA
SANTA BÁRBARA ES UNA FEMME FATALE by Camila Monclova & Mariana Monclova
THREE SHOWS ONLY: APRIL, Wednesday 13 at 7:30pm / Sunday 17 at 4pm / Friday 22 at 8pm
NYC, March 2016– On April 13th, 17th and 22nd “Karla” and “Cristina” will get together in an apartment to talk (and dance) about relationships, women empowerment and life with “brutal honesty, silliness, and a shared sense of self-deprecating humor and hope” as Mariana Monclova reflects on how her and Camila Monclova wrote this comedy.
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| Edmi De Jesus and Edna Lee Figueroa |
“Two friends talking about their dead illusions in a decadent night, where they find midpoints to be a
little happier. I mean, what we did at least one night a week. The process of writing was almost in unison with each night we got together to write. It was like transcribing the moment”, says Camila.
This is not a play for kids, say the actresses Edna Lee Figueroa and Edmi De Jesús (both also direct the 45minute play); it’s an unapologetic, raw with foul language and unequivocally smart-funny comedy.
“We wanted to work together, we know each other since college (University of Puerto Rico) and I got
invited to the festival (1st Festival de Comedias TEBA which runs April 10-24, 2016) and I told Edmi about it. It only made sense to do Camila and Mariana’s play, we share the same sense of humor, we are all fan of each other. Solidarity united us. It just simply made sense”, affirms Figueroa.
Santa Bárbara lived during the reign of the emperor Maximian (305-311). Her father, a rich man devoted himself to his only daughter after the death of his wife. Seeing Bárbara’s extraordinary beauty, he decided to hide her from strangers and built a tower for her. The fame of her beauty spread throughout and many sought her hand in marriage. Despite the entreaties of her father, she refused all of them.
Bárbara warned her father that his persistence might end tragically and separate them forever. De Jesús adds that when they sent her the script she read it with suspicion and praying that she’d liked it. "When Edna Lee told me of the festival I accepted without having in mind any particular play, I told Mariana and she offered me Santa Bárbara (is a femme fatale) just like that. I liked it and couldn’t stop laughing. Not only was the laughter that won me over was also the power of friendship, touching the topic of grief and the precarious situation of our country (Puerto Rico) and a subtext behind the laughter shows how powerful a friendship and the will of two "fatale" gals can be."
If you want to enjoy this comedy make sure to RSVP, it’s required. The Broadway Blackbox Theater is a
small space located at 4111 Broadway, 2nd floor (173 & 174 St.) with limited seating, first-come, first-served. Tickets are $15 cash only and the three performances are in Spanish with English translation.
About Edmi De Jesús and Edna Lee Figueroa being the ones bringing life to their words, Mariana
Monclova doesn’t hesitate, “It would make me proud and giddy in equal parts (as should be, always) to think a couple of jokes, followed by a couple of serious beats about life and youth, turned out to speak to awesome women. In the end this was an experiment, a statement against artistic surrender and pessimism, a play about friendship and a crazy intergalactic voyage of laughter, love and creation”.
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SANTA BÁRBARA ES UNA FEMME FATALE by Camila Monclova & Mariana Monclova
THREE SHOWS ONLY: APRIL, Wednesday 13 at 7:30pm / Sunday 17 at 4pm / Friday 22 at 8pm
PG13 (Foul Language)
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To RSVP, please contact Edna Lee Figueroa or Edmi De Jesús at 718.551.4900, 917-239-0246 or email at
santabarbaraesunafemmefatale@gmail.com
Friday, March 11, 2016
J.B. Alexander as KING CLAUDIUS in William Shakespeare's HAMLET @TeatroCirculo
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| J.B. Alexander as King Claudius |
HAMLET
By William Shakespeare
adapted and directed by Celeste Moratti
Directed by Celeste Moratti, performed by a mixed American- Italian company, brings to New York the culminating production of Milan, Italy's 2013 "Hamlet Marathon."
WHERE AND WHEN
March 4 to 20, 2016
Teatro Circulo, 64 East 4th Street (betw. Bowery & 2nd Ave., E. Village)
Presented by First Maria LLC
Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 PM, Sundays at 2:30 PM
Added performance Monday, March 14 at 7:30 PM
$18 gen. Adm., $13 seniors and students
Box office: Smarttix (212) 8868-4444,
Show's website:www.HamletFirstMaria.com
Running time: two hours with intermission.
Teatro Circulo, 64 East 4th Street (betw. Bowery & 2nd Ave., E. Village)
Presented by First Maria LLC
Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 PM, Sundays at 2:30 PM
Added performance Monday, March 14 at 7:30 PM
$18 gen. Adm., $13 seniors and students
Box office: Smarttix (212) 8868-4444,
Show's website:www.HamletFirstMaria.com
Running time: two hours with intermission.
To share an outstanding production of the 2013 Hamlet Marathon in Milan, Italy with a wider audience, First Maria LLC will present Shakespeare's "Hamlet," directed by Celeste Moratti and performed by a mixed American-Italian company, March 4 to 20, 2016 at Teatro Circulo, 64 East 4th Street, Manhattan. The production trims politics out of the plot in order to emphasize each character's role as either a child or a parent, highlighting mistakes of mothers and fathers and the conflicts in children between filial duty and the emergence of conscience. The performance is entirely in English.
The production is set in late '70s to early '80s, during the wave of hedonism that abruptly ended with AIDS. That's meant to frame the play in an awakening of conscience—especially in Hamlet, played by Alexander Sovronsky, but also in everyone else. The elders of the play are either overwhelmingly present or, in the case of Hamlet's father, absent to the point of being a ghostly image of himself. It's meant to be seen as a coming-of-age tale for a sheltered child who in a critical instance receives from his father an impossible order. There is a five-person greek-style chorus and live music by two Italian musicians, Francesco Santalucia and Papaceccio.
The production was originally produced by Milan's Teatro Franco Parenti in September, 2013 as the final production in the theater's "Hamlet Marathon" which featured Hamlets from around the world. Corriere Della Sera (Maurizio Porro) reported that Moratti's production echoed Peter Brook's essential "Hamlet." La Repubblica (Sara Chiappori) called it "A coming of age tale, a young man so far devoid of responsibilities who has to deal with the terrible consequences that becoming a man entail." Giornale Metropolitano (Vincent Sardelli) called it a metaphor of human development, zeroing in on "the most a-temporal and universally relatable aspect of the play: parents and children, the former either too present or micromanaging or absent to the point of becoming ghosts; children who pay with their skin for their parents' mistakes." That 2013 "Hamlet" was a production of Hyperion Theatre Company, of which Moratti was co-producer at the time. Hyperion had presented a "Midsummer Night's Dream" at Teatro Franco Parenti in 2011, directed by Michael Pauley, in which Moratti played Titania. Moratti's goal in re-mounting "Hamlet" in New York is to test her unusual adaptation on an American audience while most of her original cast could be reassembled. She is launching her own theater company, First Maria LLC, with this production.
The actors are Alexander Sovronsky* as Hamlet, Celeste Moratti as Gertrude, Michael Samuel Kaplan* as Polonius, J.B. Alexander* as Claudius, Doria Bramante* as Ophelia, Giacomo Rocchini as the Ghost, Tristan Colton* as Laertes, Nina Ashe* as Rosencrantz/ Marcella/ Player Queen, Ross Hamman as Guildenstern/Barnardo/Player King/Gravedigger and Collin Mcconnell as Horatio. Additional chorus work is by Markus Weinfurter. Live music will be performed by Francesco Santalucia and Papaceccio.
Thursday, March 10, 2016
THE BACCHAE @LAMAMA, till March 20,2016, feat. AARON SCOTT
THE BACCHAE
March 03 - March 20, 2016
Thursday to Saturday at 7:30pm; Sunday at 2pm
First Floor Theatre | 74a East 4th Street
BUY TICKETS
By The Faux-Real Theatre Company
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| AARON SCOTT |
UN CHIEN DE WESTMINSTER (a staged reading) By: Epod Theater Company, March 18 and 19, 2016
- WHEN
Alberto gonzalez,jr - WHERE
- H B Playwrights Theatre - 122 Bank Street, New York, NY 10014
- Tickets are free and can be reserved at,
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
"Bombs, Gods & Revolutionaries"
"Bombs, Gods & Revolutionaries"
written by Joel Shatzky & Jack Aguerosdirected by David Gild & Oliver Conant
Two Double Lives
written by Joel Shatzky
directed by David Gild
Completely Clara performed by Beth Griffith
The Education of Machiavelli performed by Mark Gering
Three By Jack: Short Plays from the Auto-Sacramental Cycle
written by Jack Agueros
directed by Oliver Conant
Awoke One
Ye Tragical Historie of Doctor Pedro Albizu Campos
Nojary Sojac
written by Joel Shatzky
directed by David Gild
Completely Clara performed by Beth Griffith
The Education of Machiavelli performed by Mark Gering
written by Jack Agueros
directed by Oliver Conant
Awoke One
Ye Tragical Historie of Doctor Pedro Albizu Campos
Nojary Sojac
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| David Elyha |
with Chris Brandt, John Cencio Burgos, Kiebpoli Calnek, Dariel Cruz, David Elyha, Felix Gardon, James Jaworski, Richard Keyser, Clinton Powell, Michael Shannon, Jason Torres, & Perri Yaniv
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