Jan 2012 - Dec 2012, 30 Plays Celebrate 30 Years

The League of Professional Theatre Women is proud to announce 30 Plays in celebration of our 30th anniversary. 30 brand new plays, musicals and theatre events curated by League members. Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond ~ From site specific theatre on the prairie in central Canada, to the unveiling of a new play in London, from downtown at the New York Theatre Workshop, the Cherry Lane and HERE, from Memphis to a theatrical walking tour in Central Park ~ Join us throughout 2012 to rejoice in the creativity of women theatre artists worldwide!

Rachel Reiner and Deborah Savadge
Coordinators, 30 Plays Initiative

2012 CALENDAR:
Please check the website often as updates will be posted regularly. Remember: those with 30th Anniversary bracelets receive special benefits at each event!  Please book your tickets/reservations with each individual venue.

*Thursday, January 12
7:00pm at HERE
145 6th Ave. (Enter on Dominick St.) NY, NY
Curated by Kristin Marting
HERE and Under the Radar present Chimera, by Suli Holum and Deborah Stein. Welcome to the world of Jennifer Samuels, who has just discovered she is her own twin. A hightech,emotionally arresting new play, inspired by a real-life horror story from the frontiers of modern science, Chimera explores the phenomenon of containing two different sets of DNA within one body. What happens when technology shatters ourideas of who we think we are?
Cocktails and Context with Marting and Kim Whitener,
pre-show, 6:00pm.
www.here.org

*Friday, January 20
2:30pm at NYU London
6 Bedford Square (at Gower St.) London, UK
Curated by Julia Pascal
A staged reading of Woman on the Bridge, by Julia Pascal. Judith, a 50-something London woman, goes to New York to meet her 100 year old great aunt and run
away from her marriage. Her strange journey leads her to the Brooklyn Bridge.Will she jump?
www.pascal-theatre.com
Information: 442073830920, from the UK 020 73830920

*Saturday, January 21
8:00pm at P.S. 69 | 77-02 37th Ave., Jackson Heights, NY
Curated by Jenny Lyn Bader
Theatre 167 premieres Jackson Heights 3am, a
collaboratively-written play by Jenny Lyn Bader, J. Stephen Brantley, Ed Cardona, Les Hunter, Thomas Miller, Melisa Tien, and Joy Tomasko. Conceived and directed by Ari Laura Kreith. A livery cab driver on the night shift yearns for a woman who rises at dawn to bake bread, but he does not speak her language. A beloved dog disappears. A closeted Long Island cop comes to Queens for a date. Car dispatchers, sex workers, drag queens, EMS staffers, gamblers, and insomniacs collide in this colorful after-hours world.
www.theatre167.org

*Monday, February 6
7:30pm at The Speakeasy at the Gin Mill | 442 Amsterdam Ave. (81st - 82nd) NY, NY
Curated by Chelsea Silverman
3Graces Theater Co. presents Sips&Scripts. You are invited to discover a new play by one of our amazing emerging playwrights. Relax in this awesome speakeasy with a drink or two and a burger, listen to a great new play and participate in stimulating discussion afterwards. Doors open at 7:00pm.
www.ThreeGracesTheater.org



*Friday, March 2
7:00pm at The Barrow Group Mainstage
312 W. 36th St., 3rd Floor, NY, NY
Curated by Lenore DeKoven
Our Workshop East presents DOWNSIZING, The Ten Minute Play Project. A program of original 10-minute plays created by members of Our Workshop East
— also celebrating its 30th anniversary. The Workshop is a development gym for professional writers, directors and actors. Lenore DeKoven, Artistic Director. This special evening will be followed by a wine and cheese reception. For reservations contact: downsize10@gmail.com

*Tuesday, March 13
7:30pm at The Drilling Company
236 W. 78th St., 2nd Floor, NY, NY
Curated by Deborah Savadge
The Drilling Co. and Playwrights Gallery present a
staged reading of When Danny Comes Back For Us
by Deborah Savadge. Two couples are stranded while
weekending on a remote Maine island. Rivalries, recriminations and a power failure. Has some darker force intervened to prevent them from ever getting home? Cast includes Lyndsay Becker and Jed Peterson. www.playwrightsgallery.com

*April 12, NY NY
Dress Rehearsal and and reception for LPTW Privilege Bracelet-wearers
Curated by Carrie Robbins
Days of the Giants presents a reading of Dragon
Tales...a Dark Quartet, one-acts by Robbins. A Somewhat UN-comfortable Evening (with visual aides) comprised of The Dragon Griswynd and Dr. Schizo/Boxes Within Boxes (both directed by Deborah Savadge), The Diamond Eater and excerpts from The Death & Life of Dr. Cutter, A Vaudeville, a scene and a song or two (directed by Robert Kalfin). Four short pieces examining the human spirit and assorted ways to die... by old age, by poison gas, by disease, and by choice.

*Saturday, April 14
8:00pm at Interart Theatre
500 W. 52nd St. (corner of 10th Ave.) NY, NY
Curated by Jessica Burr
The Storm by Aleksandr Ostrovsky; Translated and
adapted by Laura Wickens; directed by Jessica Burr.
Called the most poetic of all Russian plays, The Storm is
a dangerous fusion of romance and immorality unleashed
as its heroine attempts to escape her loveless marriage
through forbidden passion while living in a small town
full of hypocrisy and righteousness. The intensity of Ostrovsky’s story and Wickens’ choice of language, rhythm, and scene structure, combine to create a play that is resonant, moving, and surprisingly funny.
www.blessedunrest.org

*April
Time & location TBA
Curated by Patricia B. Snyder and Erika Mallin with
sponsorship and participation from The Creative
Place International.
Sweetie by Gail Kriegel, Directed by Patricia Birch. A Staged Reading of the dramatic new musical, Sweetie taps the energy of a true story about Reverend Dan’s orphanage street band in the midst of the Great Depression in the deep South. A powerful story of love, indebtedness and conflict, illuminated by music of the period; including early jazz and blues, intertwined with the sweet, familiar melodies of church spirituals.

*Tuesday, April 24
6:45pm at The Cell Theatre
338 W. 23rd St. (bet. 8th & 9th Ave.) NY, NY
Curated by Barbara Sutton Masry
KIKA – a staged reading of an original play. The story traces the struggles of a passionately creative young woman from a bourgeois Catholic upbringing who attempts to escape the rigidity of her life through her art, only to be marginalized by the confines of the mid-20th art world. Discussion to follow.
Barbaramasry@hotmail.com

*Thursday, May 10
Time & location TBA
Curated by Paula D’Alessandris
Mind The Gap Theatre will present a new work TBA.
www.mindthegaptheatre.com. Follow us at www.twitter.com/mindthegapny

*Saturday, May 19
2:00pm Central Park, New York, NY
Curated by Anne Hamilton
The Stacy Play − A Love Song-Volume I. Hamilton directs a staged reading walking tour of her modern pageant play. Audience meets at the NW corner of 66th St. and 5th Ave to be led to The Mall. We follow Stacy and Jonathan, her dead teenage friend, to eight stations along Literary Walk, ending at Bethesda Fountain. Bring something to sit on; the audience will walk between locations.
Discussion: hamiltondramaturgy.wordpress.com
RSVP: hamiltonlit@gmail.com

*Thursday, May 24
6:30pm Pre-Show Discount Cocktails at Cucina Di Pesce
87 E. 4th St., NY, NY
8:00pm Preview Performance at NYTW
79 E. 4th St., NY, NY
Curated by Linda S. Chapman
New York Theatre Workshop and Noor Theatre present
Food and Fadwa by Lameece Issaq and Jacob Kader;
directed by Shana Gold. Fadwa Faranesh, known for
delectable cooking and sense of duty to her family, insists on continuing preparations for her younger sister’s wedding, despite constraints of daily life under occupation in the politically volatile West Bank. A humorous and heartbreaking new play melding the fight a Palestinian family wages to hold onto its culture with its celebration of love, joy and hope. Discussion follows.
www.nytw.org

*May
Time & location TBA | Memphis, TN
Curated by Lanie Zipoy
Zipoy will present Theatre Bridge Memphis, two staged readings: one by an American woman dramatist and one by a female dramatist from the Philippines. For more details, visit www.theatrebridgememphis.com

*Tuesday, June 5
7:30pm at Cherry Lane Theatre
38 Commerce St., NY, NY
Curated by Julie Crosby
Women’s Project Theater presents the world premiere of We Play For The Gods, conceived and created by the 16
artists of the WP Lab. This special performance will be followed by a reception for LPTW members. weplayforthegods.com

*Thursday, June 7
7:30pm at Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater
at Symphony Space
Broadway @ 95th St., NY, NY
Curated by Mira Spektor and Carolyn Balducci
Music: Mira J Spektor, Book & Lyrics: Carolyn Balducci, Music Director: Barbara Ames. A new staging of Giovanni the Fearless − a commedia dell’arte Folk Opera based on a classic Italian Fable about an old castle, a ghost, and two lovers. With the Aviva Players performing the music of NY Women Composers.
Box Office: 212-864-5400
Information: mirajspektor@earthlink.net

*Monday, June 25
7:00pm at Manhattan Theatre Club Studios
311 W. 43rd St., 8th Floor, NY, NY
Curated by Rachel Reiner
Resonance Ensemble presents a staged reading of Robin Rice Lichtig’s play Women w/o Walls, inspired by Sartre’s No Exit and Dante’s Inferno. Four strong female characters share a ride on an express subway that turns out to be a frightening and eye-opening trip. Reception to follow.
www.ResonanceEnsemble.org
Reservations: info@resonanceensemble.org

*Saturday, August 11
Time and location TBA | Alberta, Canada or NY, NY
Curated by Lynda Adams
Contributing artists Mieko Ouchi, Bretta Gerecke, Gerry Trentham, Morgan McKee, James Wilson. The Canola Project, Alberta, Can ada, presents Bringing the
Farm to the City with excerpts from four site-specific experiments; Hibernation, Seeding, Growing, and Harvest, held in farm fields of central Alberta, Canada and experienced through text, dance, music, design and projections. For updates and involvement, go to The Canola Project Facebook Page. lynda.adams@rdc.ab.ca

*Monday, September 10
Cherry Lane Theatre | 38 Commerce St., NY, NY
Curated by Harriet Slaughter
Women’s Words, poetry by Anne Hamilton, Dael Orlandersmith, Mira Spektor, Harriet Slaughter and other poets.

*Friday, September 21
Open Source Gallery | 306 17th St., Brooklyn, NY
Curated by Anne Phelan and Cheryl Davis
The Tiger Play, written by Anne Phelan and directed by Tamara Fisch, featuring Jacob Grigolia-Rosenbaum and Cotton Wright. The true-life story of tiger tamer, Mabel Stark: circus, whips and 12 shows a week. Never get between a woman and her tiger! www.annephelan.com/thetigerplay

*September
Time and location TBA
Curated by Janice Poon
New Chinese Women Writing-the Room. As literature devolves and commerce kills art, what will happen to our soul? Exploring the worlds of media, publishing and academia, this story is an exhilarating exploration of the role of intellectual discourse in our  society, illustrating the new writing in contemporary Chinese theatre.

*October
Time and location TBA
Curated by Susan Bernfield
New Georges presents Alicegraceanon by Kara Lee Corthron, directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni. You know what a happening is, right? Good. Cause this is HAPPENING. www.newgeorges.org

*October
Interart Theatre | 500 W. 52nd St., NY, NY
Curated by Glenda Frank
Interart Theatre and Margot Lewitin, director, present
Little Images by Glenda Frank. The artist, Lee Krasner,
struggles to create art, sustain her marriage, and battle
personal demons. Offering advice are some of her closest friends and enemies: her husband, Jackson Pollock, teacher Hans Hofmann and Elaine and Bill De Kooning.
www.glendafrank.com

*Monday, October 8
Time and location TBA
Curated by Ludovica Villar-Hauser
Conceived by Antoinette LaVecchia, directed by Antoinette LaVecchia and Ludovica Villar-Hauser. Village Stories − a tapestry of tragedy, comedy, memories, oral
traditions, songs and music − a collage of Italian ancestry from the small village of San Rufo − proving that the universe can be seen in a grain of sand.
www.tumblr. com/blog/village-stories

*Monday, November 12
7:00pm at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Theatre 2
199 Chambers St., NY, NY
Curated by Yvette Heyliger
A Seat at the Table − An evening of concert readings of 10 minute plays and excerpts, penned by women dramatists of color. This event was created in response to the lack of production opportunities nationally for women in theatre and women of color in particular. A talkback follows.

*Sunday, November 18
7:30pm at Bohemian National Hall
321 E. 73rd St., NY, NY
Curated by Marcy Arlin and Gwynn MacDonald
The Immigrants’ Theatre Project presents a new Czech play by Radmila Adamova from Eastern European Playwrights: Women Write the New, plays from Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic. Admission is free.

*November
Time and location TBA
Curated by Abigail Rose Solomon
Rosalind Productions Inc. presents The Last Seder, a New York Premiere by awardwinning playwright Jennifer Maisel. Faced with their father’s worsening Alzheimer’s,
the four grown Price daughters return home for the final Passover in their childhood home. As the women cope with his disease, their relationships, and the past, Dad
has his first moments of clarity, giving his family the courage to move forward.
www.RosalindProductions.com

*November
Time and location TBA
Curated by Lorca Peress
MultiStages presents its 2011 New Works Winner, The Island of No Tomorrows, a Latina Feminist Fantasia, written by Fengar Gael, directed by Lorca Peress.

*December
Time & location TBA
Co-Curated by Joyce Liao and Melanie Sutherland
7 Sins in 60 Minutes − a high-octane ride through the Seven Deadly Sins, 21st Century style. Developed by seven award-winning playwrights and a director, the
play boasts a playful and provocative mix of comedy, drama, dance, spoken word and original music. In one hour, the characters and audience enjoy a roller coaster
ride from sloth to pride. Conceived & directed by Melanie Sutherland. The writers include: Nicole Bilbrew, Paula Cizmar, Cheryl Davis, Olga de la Fuente, Theresa
Giacopasi, and Anne Phelan. Produced by Lanie Zipoy. Lighting design by Joyce Liao.
7sinsin60.com
www.eljallartsannex.com/multistages.htm

*Date, time and location TBA
Curated by Pat Addiss
A new play.