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A Perfect Couple
Now thru July 19 at the DR2
A PERFECT COUPLE is a story about three best friends -- Amy, Issac and Emma -- and their young next door neighbor, Josh. After fifteen years of dating/living together/taking breaks and now, moving upstate, Amy and Isaac are finally tying the knot. Emma, their single best friend, has decided to get out of the city and join them for a summer weekend in the country. Over the long weekend, secrets are revealed and bonds are tested, forcing these friends to discover who they are now, versus who they thought they would become. Brooke Berman's newest play raises pressing questions about loyalty, partnerships, and modern love.
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NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL
12th Annual Festival runs August 8- 24
This year, 20 of New York City's most prominent downtown performance venues will host productions from around the globe as part of FringeNYC 2008. Participating venues, ranging in size from 50 to 700 seats, include Pace University’s Schimmel Center & Schaberle Studio, Soho Playhouse, Theatre 80, The Deluxe at Spiegelworld, Cherry Lane Theatre, Players Theater, The Connelly Theater, The Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street, Barrow Street Theatre and The CSV Cultural and Educational Center. FringeNYC is a production of The Present Company, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Elena K. Holy. In November 2007, Michael Bloomberg presented FringeNYC with the prestigious Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture.
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The Passion Project
June 19 -- July 19 at 3LD Art & Technology Center
THE PASSION PROJECT explodes the film into the three dimensions; placing the audience inside the film, sitting next Joan, subjecting them to her interrogators and the relentless rhythm of 30mm film projection. Using a single live actor and multiple projection surfaces, THE PASSION PROJECT explores the intersection of performance and film. It uses Dreyer’s classic film as the main narrative along with the history behind the making of the film, a discussion with a Danish archivist, the story of making this project, and Joan’s story; her trial, torture, and execution.
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Marko The Prince
June 20th at Barrow Group Theater
MARKO THE PRINCE is set in Sabor, a village on the border of Bosnia and Serbia, at the start the 90s Balkan War. Michael, a first-generation American, returns to Sabor to bury his mother in the village of her birth. Michael’s plans are derailed when he discovers smoldering religious and ethnic resentments surrounding the ownership of Sabor’s tiny village cemetery. Gossip, innuendo, passion, and politics cause uneasy alliances and dangerous conflict.
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CONFESSIONS OF A PRAIRIE BITCH
August 13 at The Cutting Room
Comic, former child star, outspoken activist, and TV Land Award winner ALISON ARNGRIM makes her annual return to New York with CONFESSIONS OF A PRAIRIE BITCH for one performance only, August 13 at The Cutting Room. Best known as acid-tongued, pre-Midol meanie Nellie Oleson from "Little House on the Prairie", Alison Arngrim presents an uproarious evening of storytelling and stand-up about life as everyone's favorite toxic pre-teen brat, complete with petticoats and ringlets. Never afraid to dish the dirt on TV land, she let all the secrets loose of "Little House on the Prairie", Hollywood and much more -- including backstage gossip for the TV Land Awards and the Broadway-bound musical version of Little House on The Prairie (starring close friend Melissa Gilbert). Recalling her life and career as bitchy Nellie Oleson, Arngrim startles audiences internationally with off-color jokes about child stars and TV icons of the 1970’s and 80s.
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undergroundzero Festival
July 8 - August 2
undergroundzero Festival was founded by Collective:Unconscious, a longtime presenter of cutting edge performance and curated by Paul Bargetto, the artistic director of East River Commedia. Seeking to create new opportunities outside the traditional curatorial venue system, this festival was created to promote new theatrical work in progress chosen by and for artists. The goal is to create an ongoing series of festivals that will establish an alternative system of presentation for Independent Theater.
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YAZ LIVE!
July 16 @ Terminal 5, July 19 @ Beacon Theatre
Legendary 80's duo Yaz, composed of Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet, are doing a reunion tour and are playing New York for the first time in 25 years! The influential duo, famous for songs like "Situation" and "Don't Go," also have a new four CD box set out July 9th. Clarke, of course, also founded both Depeche Mode, Erasure, and the Assembly, while Moyet went on to solo stardom with hits like "Invisible" and "Love Resurrection." The July 17 show is already sold out --- don't delay! Order tickets online or call 212-307-7171.
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HOSPITAL 2008
June 5 - July 19 at Axis Theatre
New York runs on water. From the steam system that heats and electrifies the five boroughs, to the water that flows from millions of taps, without water there is no city. Currently, only two tunnels provide all this water; Tunnel #1 was completed in 1917 and even the newest sections of Tunnel #2 are at least 73 years old. Begun in 1970, Water Tunnel #3's projected completion date is in 2020. As far underground as the Chrysler Building is tall, teams of "sandhogs" risk their lives digging the path for this tunnel. Every day, far down beneath the feet of all New Yorkers, below the subway and the sewer, the sandhogs live their days in a dangerous, subterranean universe.
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