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Daynaland
Open:
Mar-01 2013
Close:
Mar-10 2013
Daynaland is an exciting one woman show which takes you on an unforgettable, fun-filled ride! Dooley embodies eight, distinctly different characters, displaying her comic genius and timing. A true multi-media experience, Daynaland merges the power of digital media with the intimacy and spontaneity of live theater. Daynaland tackles wide-ranging dimensions of urban life through moving portrayals. Dooley presents "ordinary" people just trying to make sense of the intense roller coaster that has become... |
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The Santaland Diaries
Open:
Nov-16 2012
Close:
Dec-16 2012
“SANTALAND” is an outrageously funny one-man play (from NPR’s David Sedaris) about the author’s experiences as an unemployed writer taking a job as an elf at Macy’s. At first the job is simply humiliating, but once the thousands of visitors start pouring through Santa's workshop, he becomes battle weary and bitter, occasionally taking out his frustrations on the children and parents alike. For those who like a little spice with their Christmas sugar, this tale of mass marketing, stressed... |
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Onassis: The Play
Open:
Sep-14 2012
Close:
Oct-21 2012
The Stella Adler Theatre presents the world premiere of Onassis, a one-man show that illuminates the triumph and tragedy of Aristotle Onassis, one of the most fascinating figures of the past century. From his childhood as a refugee in war-torn Asia Minor, to his rise to prominence as the "richest man in the world," director Bruce Katzman brings this historical larger-than-life persona to the American stage. Actor Anthony Skordi has exhaustively researched the life of Onassis and discovered a man... |
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Tiger Tiger Burning Bright
Open:
Apr-14 2011
Close:
May-22 2011
Upward Bound Productions presents Peter S. Feibleman's powerful 1962 drama, based on his own novel A Place Without Twilight. The play tells the story of a troubled African-American family in 1950s New Orleans, one of whom has spun a web of lies that threatens to tear his close-knit clan apart. |
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The Cradle Will Rock
Open:
Feb-05 2011
Close:
Mar-20 2011
Corporations and churches use their influence to shape laws to their favor, unemployment hits new heights, and millions of Americans are losing their homes. Sound like the New Millennium? In 1937, Mark Blitzstein’s musical called these issues into question with his scathing satire of greed, corruption and politics in the U.S. of A. So scandalous, in fact, was “The Cradle” that the U.S. Government tried to shut it down. But Blitzstein’s humor, music and agitprop parody ruled the day and the... |
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The Santaland Diaries
Open:
Nov-19 2010
Close:
Dec-19 2010
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Nicholas Brendon (Criminal Minds, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) brings his critically-acclaimed performance of THE SANTALAND DIARIES back to The Blank this holiday season. “SANTALAND” is an outrageously funny one-man play (from NPR’s David Sedaris) about the author’s experiences as an unemployed writer taking a job as an elf at Macy’s. At first the job is simply humiliating, but... |
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The Good Negro
Open:
Aug-12 2010
Close:
Sep-19 2010
"The Good Negro" establishes the confluence of events that told a specific story while also analogizing the entire Civil Rights Movement. This show, being produced at this time in history, is particularly apt. There are an abominable amount of Americans just coming to accept racial diversity, and an even more humiliating amount of Americans still clinging to the ideals of ignorance. There is still racial inequality, and there are, now, additional civil rights/liberties that still need to be fought... |
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Young Playwrights Festival 2010 - Week 4
Open:
Jun-24 2010
Close:
Jun-27 2010
18TH ANNUAL YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
WEEK FOUR June 24 – 27
DISTANCE by Erik Mattos Mill Valley, CA Age 17
Mentor: Hilly Hicks Jr. Director: Barry Primus
Grief can lead the brain down confusing pathways. As Nora mourns the tragic death of her beloved pet dog, we learn that there is something far more distressing plaguing her family.
A SNAPSHOT OF MY FAMILY by Elyse... |
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For the Special Ones
Open:
Jun-23 2010
Close:
Jun-23 2010
From The Artist who brought you the world’s 1st ticketed on-line Fringe Show (Edinburgh ‘09).
Featured on the BBC.
Mikhail Tank’s ‘For The Special Ones‘, with original music composed by Daniel Levin.
A show about unbinding oneself from all that restricts the heart.
”Dedicated to all those who feel like they’re sitting in the corner.”
Read more about this show HERE |
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Burton
Open:
Jun-22 2010
Close:
Jun-22 2010
“I WAS PUT ON THIS EARTH TO RAISE SHEER HELL”
BURTON vividly presents the life of the great Welsh actor in his own words from humble beginnings to Hollywood mega-stardom. Beautiful women (not least Liz Taylor), alcohol, wealth, stage and screen are the threads woven into this sad, happy, exuberant often hilarious one-man show. Drink was the only real anodyne to his deteriorating health and mental state, his doomed tempestuous relationship with Taylor and his constant guilt over the... |
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That Great & Dreadful Day…Tall Tales from the American Swamp
Open:
Jun-21 2010
Close:
Jun-24 2010
This all acoustic “Swamp Operetta” entitled: “That Great & Dreadful Day…Tall Tales from the American Swamp” is a play of the musical theatre variety, it employs the classic combination of storyteller and song with a cast of seven in period costume staged on a sharecropper’s cabin set.
The “Tall Tale” is spun in the first person by the “Storyteller” in the Hear & Now with songs and dialogue by the other cast from the There & Then…that take the audience on a journey... |
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King Famous Presents: Olvidados, Masters of the Stage - An Adventure through Space and Time (Part 1)
Open:
Jun-17 2010
Close:
Jun-17 2010
American classical guitar Storytelling, Beats and Rhymes.
Based on James Dalton’s Shanghai to Memphis, which was originally performed at the Edinburgh Fringe.
“King Famous Presents Olvidados, Masters of the Stage, An Adventure through Space and Time” highlights the world wide adventures of The Musical Warrior and his coming to discover the location of the last stage on Earth.
Learn more about King Famous at http://www.kingfamous.com |
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Young Playwrights Festival 2010 - Week 3
Open:
Jun-17 2010
Close:
Jun-20 2010
18TH ANNUAL YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
WEEK THREE June 17 – 20
SOPHISTICATED BROADWAY by Danny Barry Buffalo Grove, IL Age 17
Mentor: Dean Mitchell Director: Jane Lanier
Musical theatre – ya either love it or you hate it! Annabel definitely HATES it and she delves into just why there are so many toe-tapping, Fosse-fingered lovers of Broadway out there…but does the lady protest... |
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Young Playwrights Festival 2010 - Week 2
Open:
Jun-10 2010
Close:
Jun-13 2010
18TH ANNUAL YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
WEEK TWO June 10 – 13
RUDE AWAKENING by Marissa Bohrer Buffalo Grove, IL Age 17
Mentor: Gary Tieche Director: Warren Davis
When an angel appears at his bedside and warns him he’s going to hell if he doesn’t change his ways, Jeremy’s got only a few short hours to redeem himself– can he make things right with the world before his number... |
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Crazy is What Crazy Does & The Oblivion Series
Open:
Jun-05 2010
Close:
Jul-18 2010
CRAZY IS WHAT CRAZY DOES - Written and Performed by Ruthy Otero
Comedian Ruthy Otero, author/performer of the hit one woman shows, “Oops! I killed my mother” “Dancing with my Demons” and “Losin’ My Religion”, brings her newest piece of comic genius to the stage, “Crazy is What Crazy Does” - After a lifetime of making “right” choices that didn’t lead her to the “right” life, Ruth begs God to end her life. Unable to trust her heart, Ruth goes to LAX in hopes... |
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