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HOSPITAL 2009
June 11- July 25 at Axis Theater
Axis Company's episodic multimedia play HOSPITAL examines the interior life of a man in a terminal coma. Entering this state in a different way every year, the audience travels with him as he lives out his last few days roaming the vast, dark interiors of his own brain. Although HOSPITAL is a serial play, each evening can be viewed separately as a self-contained, short play.
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TWELFTH NIGHT
June 17-27 at The Flea Theater
One of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies, TWELFTH NIGHT tells the story of Viola, a young woman shipwrecked in the country of Illyria who chooses to go incognito as a boy eunuch. She comes to serve the lovesick Count Orsino in his courtship of Lady Olivia, who instead falls for the fetching young go-between. This sets a series of events into motion that creates a tangled knot of romance and confusion that only time and fortuitous appearances can untie. Along the way, we meet Sir Toby Belch, Feste, and other riotous court characters, as well as that officious steward, Malvolio. With raucous antics, ravishing language and rich characters, Shakespeare creates a bittersweet tale of laughter and longing.
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THE JOYS OF FANTASY
July 8 - 25 at Twelve21
THE JOYS OF FANTASY is the story of one woman's search for independence. Grover's Corners has been terrorized and its inhabitants are working to survive as their lives have been thrust into the 21st century. Under the guidance of a narrator, THE JOYS OF FANTASY engages acts of gratuitous violence, imagination, memory, love, and sacrifice as the ironic billboards left over from the industrial garbage heap of the twentieth century. It creates a stage experience that approximates watching life go by with a remote in your hand.
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CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY: IN THEIR OWN WORDS
June 26 at The Gramercy Theater
CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY: IN THEIR OWN WORDS, which originated in Los Angeles to great acclaim and was later adapted for a Bravo-TV special, features actors reading selections from the autobiographies of the famous and infamous. The production recently won a 2009 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience. Among the actors currently scheduled to perform in CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY: IN THEIR OWN WORDS -- GAY PRIDE EDITION are B.D. Wong, Michael Urie, Kristen Johnston, Jackie Hoffman, Rachel Dratch, Frank DeCaro, Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel.
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DIXIE'S TUPPERWARE PARTY
Saturday, June 27 at 7:30pm
DIXIE'S TUPPERWARE PARTY is hosted by the incomparable and outspoken Dixie Longate, an Alabama housewife with a unique take on just about any topic. The evening is presented just like a traditional Tupperware party, but fast-talking Dixie just can't stop telling anecdotal stories from her colorful life -- from her failed marriages, to tips on child rearing, to stints at various women's correctional facilities. Loaded with the most up-to-date products available for purchase, Ms. Longate will share how she became the number one Tupperware seller in the world. as she educates her guests on the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products.
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PAVED PARADISE REDUX: The Art of Joni Mitchell
June 18 - 27 at Abrons Arts Center
After an eight-year absence, two-time Obie Award winning artist John Kelly once again inhabits the persona of Joni Mitchell in an entirely new evening of songs and stories. Conceived and performed by John Kelly, produced by TWEED TheaterWorks in association with Robbi Kearns, and directed by Kevin Malony, PAVED PARADISE REDUX: The Art of Joni Mitchell runs for 7 performances only beginning June 18 at Abrons Arts Center.
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DR.C (OR HOW I LEARNED TO ACT IN EIGHT STEPS)
June 2-14 at 3LD Art & Technology Center
Imagine you awoke one morning and didn't know who you were. You felt healthy, and all the material trappings of your life surround youÑexcept memories. Your task becomes to construct a life using the evidence that you can find. Such is the work of the actor. Juxtaposing the 1919 silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari against a new text created from the words of eight of history's leading acting theorists, DR.C (OR HOW I LEARNED TO ACT IN EIGHT STEPS) investigates the history of acting through athletically precise movement, live music, innovative projections and songs.
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STRANGERS
May 28 - June 13 at The Ontological Theater
In STRANGERS, Ella wants to throw a party celebrating the 5-year anniversary of her "green card marriage" to Wes. When unease about the relationship surfaces, the lovers separately seek advice on how to handle their growing anxieties. This sets off a chain reaction that forces their friends -- and even some complete strangers -- to confront their fears about how they choose to live and love in this age of paranoia.
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JACKIE BEAT: WITHOUT ME YOU'RE NOTHING!
Fri & Sat, June 26 & 27 at The Gramercy Theatre
The ego has landed! Big and ballsy drag icon JACKIE BEAT is bullying her way into New York just in time for Gay Pride, and the forecast calls for blustery tunes and windy monologues. Look forward to a spectacular night of self-involved "entertainment!" Showtime is 7:30 PM; tickets are $25 for orchestra cabaret table seating, $20 for mezzanine seats. The Gramercy Theatre is located at 127 East 23rd Street in Manhattan.
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MEL & EL: SHOW AND TELL
May 6-30 at Arts Nova
Mel & El are real life best friends who have been inseparable since meeting in advanced jazz class in seventh grade. In MEL & EL: SHOW AND TELL, the riotously funny duo employs sharp wit, infectious songwriting and unparalleled stage chemistry to escape meddling mothers, wedding mania, ticking biological clocks and much more. Join the eighties fab / nineties glitz / aughts pop pair as they uncover and untangle their true selves.
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THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND: THE MUSICAL
May 24 - August 2 at The Kraine Theater
In THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND: THE MUSICAL, four women over 60 (Blanchette, the varicose-veined vixen; Dorthea, the brainy ball-buster; Roz, the lovable airhead; and Sophie, the wisecracking spitfire) are spending their golden years together in a bungalow in Miami. But when gay pop superstar Lance Bass moves next door, his loud outdoor sex parties keep the quartet of cheesecake-loving retirees awake. The solution pits the gays against the girls at the annual Shady Oaks Retirement Home Talent Show: if the women win, then no more sex parties; if the gays garner top prize, the sassy seniors must serve as the party's clean-up crew. Singing, dancing and hilarity ensues!
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HE WHO BURNS
July 10-12, 2009 at The Ailey Citigroup Theater
HE WHO BURNS is a dance-theater piece exploring the nature of humanity's relationship with the divine, the eternal quest for unity, and the illusion of duality in the human experience. It takes our notion of good and evil, the divine and the satanic, and turns it on its head. Staged as a trio, He Who Burns takes us on a journey from the time before time, through the suffering of Iblis in his separation from his Beloved, and his quest for the same, through to his ecstatic annihilation. The performance at once parallels the Sufi quest, as outlined in the great Sufi text, "Conference of the Birds," and the structure of the Bharata Natyam performance. The text, from the Persian, Arabic and Urdu of Al-Hallaj, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Mohammed Iqbal, Al Ghazzali, Hafiz and Maulana Jelaluddin Rumi, is performed in Urdu, English and Korean.
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