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JUNE 19 TO JULY 6, CENTER STAGE
"STILL THE RIVER RUNS"
(LIST: OFF-OFF BROADWAY)
A hilarious and moving portrait of two estranged brothers on a mission to heist their deceased Paw Paw's body and put him to rest in the wilds of their old hunting grounds. New York premiere. Written by Barton Bishop, directed by Matthew J. Nichols, presented by Zootopia Theatre Company.

COMPLETE INFO: http://www.jsnyc.com/season/river.htm

JUNE 19 TO JULY 13, THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
"BRUCH AT THE LUTHERS"
(LIST: OFF-OFF BROADWAY)
The simple act of having someone over for brunch taps a torrent of artificial excitement, crisscrossed language and Burlesque in "Brunch at the Luthers," the newest play by activist playwright Misha Shulman. The author, a former Education officer in the Israeli army and now an American citizen, has received high critical praise for his realistic, layered and eloquent plays appealing for understanding behind Israelis and Palestinians. With "Brunch at the Luthers," he has forsaken dramatic realism for Dada to explain the Western consciousness. The piece will be acted by DADAnewyork, one of the most comedically-muscular troupes now working.

COMPLETE INFO: http://www.jsnyc.com/season/luthers.htm

JUNE 19 TO JULY 13, THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
PRESENTED BY MAKING LIGHT AND LITTLE RASCALS PRODUCTIONS
"MAKE IT SO"
(LIST: OFF-OFF BROADWAY)
"Make it So" by Edward Miller is a lively tale of humor and intimacy set in Memphis, TN. Lester Morgan, the eldest sibling in an estranged middle-class Black family, struggles to reunite his brothers and sisters in time for their father's funeral. His obstacle is the family matriarch, Bertha, whose vindictive and controlling behavior stifles any hope for relationships among her children. Directed by Sharon Fogarty.

COMPLETE INFO: http://www.jsnyc.com/make_it_so.htm

AUGUST 2 TO SEPTEMBER 14, IN NYC STREETS, PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS
"IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID, OR SCANDALE!"
(LIST: OOB AND EVENTS)
Theater for the New City's award-winning Street Theater Company opens its 32nd annual tour August 2 with "It's the Economy Stupid! or The Turning Point," a rip-roaring musical which will tour City streets, parks and playgrounds throughout the five boroughs through September 14. The production, free to all New Yorkers, has book, lyrics and direction by Crystal Field and musical score composed by David Tice. The piece recounts the New Yorkization of the misfit angel Gabriel, who rides earthward on a bad dream to warn the inhabitants that the fate of their planet is in their hands. He must overcome the villainous Electric Man, messenger of the Dark Force, and save the world.

COMPLETE INFO: http://www.jsnyc.com/season/street_theater.htm

OCTOBER 3 TO NOVEMBER 9
HUDSON MAINSTAGE THEATER, LOS ANGELES
(NOT FOR NEW YORK LISTINGS)
After multiple sold-out limited engagements in New York and Sydney, Australia, "Angry Young Women In Low-Rise Jeans With High-Class Issues," the raucous comedy written and directed by filmmaker turned playwright Matt Morillo, will open a six-week run at the Hudson Mainstage on Hollywood's Theater Row on October 3, 2008.

In the last two years, "Angry Young Women" has had three sold out runs in NYC (two Off Off Broadway and one Off Broadway) and two separate four-week runs in Sydney, Australia. It is making its title an idiom in New York and Australia and has amassed an enthusiastic fan base on two continents. The play, Morillo's first, was published this spring by Samuel French, along with Morillo's second play, "All Aboard the Marriage Hearse."

The play, a light-to-serious look at the psychology of nervous urban goddesses, parades a series of foxy, witty and anxious women who bear the expectations of the world like an itchy muffler. They go head to head with such issues as Electra complexes, bikini waxes, low-rise jeans, oversexed mothers, thongs, brazen teenagers, men's sexual fantasies, side effects of birth control drugs, mean teenagers on the subway, sympathy sex and the artistic integrity of penises and vaginas in independent films. The show bills itself as "An Outrageous Comedy," and its postcards declare "Even though it's a play, it doesn't suck."

SHOW'S WEBSITE: www.angryyoungwomen.net
COMPLETE INFO: www.jsnyc.com/season/AYW.htm

OCTOBER 3 TO 19,
LA MAMA E.T.C.
"ROOM TO PANIC"
(LIST: OFF-BROADWAY)
"Room to Panic" is the final section in a three-part theatrical work exploring the many dimensions of the immigrant experience. Loco 7, led by Federico Restrepo, started this trilogy in 2002 with a piece entitled "9 Windows," which was a portrait of the displaced immigrant - a man fleeing his homeland and entering the USA for the first time. The second piece, "Open Door," premiered in 2006. It framed current political and social realities of immigrants in New York City and the United States around a theatrical cavalcade of extreme social behavior danced and expressed with bigger-than-life puppetry, music and video art.

In "Room to Panic," the company will look toward the future and explore popular youth culture and the allure to become American. The resonating impact of immigration will be staged with the language and imagery of a comic strip. There will be giant puppets, dance, video, a multilingual narrative, and music by prominent composer Elizabeth Swados incorporating text and lyrics written by famed novelist Elias Khoury of Lebanon. The central theme of the text will the journey of immigrants and the feelings they experience as they journey towards their new lives. The trials they pass through as they struggle to hold on to their memories and history as they head inevitably towards assimilation.

COMPLETE INFO: www.jsnyc.com/season/room2panic.htm

NOVEMBER 6 TO 23,
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
"LYSISTRATA'S CHILDREN"
(LIST: OFF OFF BROADWAY)
To share an outstanding show of last season with a larger audience, Theater for the New City will present a return engagement of "Lysistrata's Children," a Brechtian comedy written and directed by Philip Suraci, from November 6 to 23, 2008.

Inspired by Aristophanes, "Lysistrata's Children" is an original work conceived by Suraci and devised for and with the teenage cast. Like "The Me Nobody Knows" and Broadway's current "Spring Awakening," it is a play performed by young people for adults to see. It explores issues of war and peace, violence and non-violence through the power dynamics of child/parent relationships. In Aristophanes' original, Athenian wives denied their husbands sex in order to persuade them to make peace. In Suraci's ingenious adaptation, children withhold love from their parents until they sign an oath of "Victory over violence" and join the children's quest for peace. There is sly comedy in the children's manipulation of their parents' behavior and in the parents' responses to their children's demands.

The play was originally workshopped and produced in 2006 with students of Friends Seminary on Stuyvesant Square. It was presented by Theater for the New City last fall.

COMPLETE INFO: www.jsnyc.com/season_lysistrata_children.htm

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