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Theatre at Saint Peter's
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619 Lexington Ave.
Lower Level
New York, NY 10022
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Box Office Phone:
(212) 935-5820
Box Office Hours:
Mon-Fri: 12pm-6pm
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Open:
Apr-29 2013
Close:
May-19 2013
In his most personal and gripping show, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, internationally acclaimed and multi-award winning entertainer Mark Nadler explores the depths of the European expatriate experience. Using songs by German and French artists - Kurt Weill, Friedrich Hollaender, Lotte Lenya and Marlene Dietrich (to name a few) - who through their music express the declarations of identity, the resistance in the face of terror and the hopes for survival. Nadler examines the lives of these artists as... |
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Silk Stockings
Open:
Mar-22 2013
Close:
Mar-24 2013
Based on Ernst Lubitch’s brilliant romantic comedy, Ninotchka, where “Garbo Laughs” was the tag line, Silk Stockings uses the plot and characters of this film to launch a Hot Romance during the height of the cold war. The plot of Silk Stockings provides a humorous look at the stereotypical Soviet psyche, and Ninotchka’s attempt to resist the temptations of Paris while valiantly carrying out her political mission, developed with logic and wit in this 1955 musical gem. This new adaptation... |
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Happy Hunting
Open:
Mar-15 2013
Close:
Mar-17 2013
Mama Rose meets “The Hostess With The Mostes’ On The Ball” in Happy Hunting, the 1956 musical that was a star vehicle written for the incomparable Ethel Merman. A huge, flamboyant, bubbly, light-hearted romp, Happy Hunting features a gag-filled book by the authors of Anything Goes and a delectable score featuring the Merman classics“Mutual Admiration Society” and “Gee, But It’s Good to Be Here.” When Liz Livingstone--rich, widowed Philadelphia hostess with a heart of gold--perceives... |
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Hollywood Pinafore
Open:
Mar-01 2013
Close:
Mar-03 2013
Hollywood Pinafore is George S. Kaufman’s 1945 transplant of Gilbert & Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore” from the world of British maritime to a Hollywood movie studio. Arthur Sullivan’s sparkling score is wed with Kaufman’s canny, hilarious lyrics, making for a merry trip through the glamour and absurdity of Hollywood. Kaufman translates the original story of a naval captain’s daughter, in love with a lowly sailor while promised to “The ruler of the Queen’s na-vee”, to that of a... |
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Two By Two
Open:
Feb-15 2013
Close:
Feb-17 2013
The legendary composer Richard Rodgers entered his seventh decade of writing for the theatre with Broadway’s 1970 Two by Two starring Danny Kaye. The story of Noah and the Ark is a musical adaptation of Clifford Odets' play The Flowering Peach and is retold with Noah and his family characterized in modern Jewish vernacular. It seems that the building of the ark was only the first of Noah's many daunting challenges in a journey that wasn't always smooth sailing. By turns inspirational and hilarious,... |
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Starting Here, Starting Now
Open:
Dec-02 2012
Close:
Dec-16 2012
Join us for a very special once-in-a-lifetime reunion concert performance of Starting Here, Starting Now, an intimate revue from the creators of Closer Than Ever, Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire. Using songs from their various early musicals (produced or otherwise), from tender ballads to hysterical husband-hunting laments, from wry comments on trendy marriages to ecstatic shouting-from-the-rooftop celebration, Starting Here, Starting Now, a bold journey through the maze of relationships, debuted... |
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Man with a Load of Mischief
Open:
Oct-01 2012
Close:
Oct-02 2012
A wayside inn – The Innkeeper is about to close for the night, for lack of customers. Suddenly an accident to a coach brings to this humble setting of a handsome Nobleman and his Lackey, a beautiful Lady and her Maid. But the Nobleman isn’t noble, the Lackey is no lackey, the Lady is no lady, and the Maid is no maiden. The stage is set for romance – and intrigue -- in Man with a Load of Mischief. And we are set for a banquet of gloriously melodic and witty songs that prompted once critic to... |
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Last Dance
Open:
Sep-20 2012
Close:
Sep-23 2012
Those who missed the days of Studio 54, didn’t miss their Last Dance!! This exciting new show is a tale from the 70s when enough was never enough. A joyful celebration of disco dreams, glitter balls and dangerous delights. It’s a story about a time, not so long ago, when a man wrote songs for the woman he thought he’d never lose… “Disco Forever!” |
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Closer Than Ever
Open:
Jun-05 2012
Close:
Nov-04 2012
Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire's musical treasure, CLOSER THAN EVER is back Off-Broadway at the York Theatre Company with an exciting new cast and fresh additions to the timeless score. When it premiered in 1989, the show spoke to a generation of theater-goers and featured "one of the half-dozen finest American theater scores of the last decade" (New York Times). An intimate musical about love, friendship, security, happiness – and holding onto those essentials in a world that pulls us in... |
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The Game of Love
Open:
May-11 2012
Close:
May-13 2012
With book and lyrics by Tom Jones, music by classical composer Jacques Offenbach, and arrangements and additional music by Nancy Ford (I’m Getting My Act Together…), The Game of Love is based The Anatol Plays by Arthur Schnitzler. This deliciously romantic musical about the frivolities and foibles of love takes place in 19th-century Vienna. At the center of the piece is Anatol, a playful Lothario, whose rendezvous with five unique women unfold over the course of this sensuous, melodic romp.... |
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Colette Collage
Open:
Apr-27 2012
Close:
Apr-29 2012
The joys, fears and loves of the celebrated French writer Colette are at the center of the poignant and insightful Colette Collage. Sensual, witty and entirely unconventional, this intimate, highly theatrical musical captures the essence of one of the most liberated women of all time. The life of the legendary author unfolds over a period of sixty years in this classic bio-musical from Jones and Schmidt, which premiered Off-Broadway at the York in 1983. |
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Harold and Maude
Open:
Apr-13 2012
Close:
Apr-15 2012
The musical adaptation of the 1971 cult-classic film Harold and Maude comes to life on the York stage in a new version by Jones and Thalken. In what some call the quintessential May-December romance, death-obsessed teenager, Harold, meets Maude, 79, at a funeral and thus begins one of the most unusual, yet truly touching romantic sagas in American pop-culture history. |
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Ionescopade
Open:
Jan-23 2012
Close:
Feb-26 2012
Ionescopade, "A Musical Vaudeville," premiered Off-Broadway in 1974. To continue our season "York Celebrates Off-Broadway," York presents a new look at the works of the prolific and influential absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco, famous for his plays The Bald Soprano, Rhinoceros, The Chairs and Exit the King (which recently enjoyed a hit revival on Broadway). Plays, playlets, and poetry by this master of the absurd transport us into a zany musical vaudeville, where humor is the antidote to the... |
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I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road
Open:
Jun-19 2011
Close:
Jun-26 2011
I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road by Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford (The Last Sweet Days of Isaac, Shelter) is one of the most enduring and empowering Off-Broadway musicals of all time. The show premiered in the late 1970s Off-Broadway at the Public Theater and ran for years, becoming a sensation for all theatre-goers. The story follows a fictional cabaret singer, Heather Jones, as she evolves her traditional act of romantic pop tunes to a bold new act full of emancipating, feminist... |
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Still Getting My Act Together
Open:
Jun-19 2011
Close:
Jun-26 2011
The never-before-seen-or-heard sequel, Still Getting My Act Together, takes place 30 years after the original and will also be presented Mufti-style for the first time ever onstage. In this new show, Heather and her daughter take center stage and will uncover just what happened in the three decades since Heather got her act together and took it on the road... And, in a real treat for music theatre aficionados, the sequel will feature three cast members from the original production: Gretchen Cryer... |
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