Abe Goldfarb News

Theatreworks USA (Barbara Pasternack, Artistic Dir.; Ken Arthur, Producing Dir.),the nation's leading not-for-profit professional theatre for family audiences, is pleased to announce that Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond will serve as Opening Night Co-Chairs for its 22nd Annual Free Summer Theatre Program.

Theatreworks USA (Barbara Pasternack, Artistic Dir.; Ken Arthur, Producing Dir.),the nation's leading not-for-profit professional theatre for family audiences, is pleased to announce that Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond will serve as Opening Night Co-Chairs for its 22nd Annual Free Summer Theatre Program.

Theatreworks USA (Barbara Pasternack, Artistic Dir.; Ken Arthur, Producing Dir.),the nation's leading not-for-profit professional theatre for family audiences, is pleased to announce that Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond will serve as Opening Night Co-Chairs for its 22nd Annual Free Summer Theatre Program. This summer's featured production is the world premiere of the new musical WE THE PEOPLE: AMERICA ROCKS!

Theatreworks USA (Barbara Pasternack, Artistic Dir.; Ken Arthur, Producing Dir.),the nation's leading not-for-profit professional theatre for family audiences, is pleased to announce that Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond will serve as Opening Night Co-Chairs for its 22nd Annual Free Summer Theatre Program.

Following the final performance of The Pumpkin Pie Show: commencement at 8pm, stick around for a special Halloween edition of The Pumpkin Pie Show featuring Clay McLeod Chapman, Abe Goldfarb and Hanna Cheek performing some of their favorite scary Halloween stories from Pumpkin Pie Shows past. Plus special burlesque performances from Madame Rosebud, Nasty Canasta, Sapphire Jones, and Bea B. Heart, The BTK Band, $5 cups of beer from our scary Halloween monster keg, and the FRIGID 2010 drawing!

From Nosedive Productions and the Brick Theater The Blood Brothers Present...The New Guignol, Written by Danny Bowes, James Comtois & Mac Rogers, Directed by Pete Boisvert, Rebecca Comtois, Stephanie Cox-Williams, Abe Goldfarb, Matt Johnston & Patrick Shearer

Following the final performance of The Pumpkin Pie Show: commencement at 8pm, stick around for a special Halloween edition of The Pumpkin Pie Show featuring Clay McLeod Chapman, Abe Goldfarb and Hanna Cheek performing some of their favorite scary Halloween stories from Pumpkin Pie Shows past. Plus special burlesque performances from Madame Rosebud, Nasty Canasta, Sapphire Jones, and Bea B. Heart, The BTK Band, $5 cups of beer from our scary Halloween monster keg, and the FRIGID 2010 drawing!

A father locks his daughter away because he can't bear to share her with her mother, or anyone else. A man holds a busload of passengers hostage with no demands, and one woman does the unthinkable to attempt escape. And a scorned husband offers his wife a ghastly maternity gift.

From Nosedive Productions and the Brick Theater The Blood Brothers Present...The New Guignol, Written by Danny Bowes, James Comtois & Mac Rogers, Directed by Pete Boisvert, Rebecca Comtois, Stephanie Cox-Williams, Abe Goldfarb, Matt Johnston & Patrick Shearer

Nosedive Productions (http://www.nosediveproductions.com ) and The Brick Theater, Inc. present 'THE BLOOD BROTHERS PRESENT...THE NEW GUIGNOL' Written by Danny Bowes, James Comtois & Mac Rogers (writer of 'VIRAL', winner of the FringeNYC 2009 Outstanding Play Award!)

New York's OBIE Award-winning Epic Theatre Ensemble (Zak Berkman, Melissa Friedman, Ron Russell, Founding Executive Directors) has announced the lineup for the fifth annual Sunshine Series 2009, a play reading festival nurturing new political plays.

New York's OBIE Award-winning Epic Theatre Ensemble (Zak Berkman, Melissa Friedman, Ron Russell, Founding Executive Directors) has announced the lineup for the fifth annual Sunshine Series 2009, a play reading festival nurturing new political plays. The free staged-readings begin May 28th at the East 13th Street Theatre (136 East 13th Street, between 3rd & 4th Avenues, just southeast of Union Square) where Epic is currently presenting the World Premiere of A More Perfect Union by Vern Thiessen.

Bristol Riverside Theatre presents the World Premiere of What You Will, a BRT original interpretation of Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night from February 10 through March 1, 2009. A daring and bold take on the classic comedy that combines the language of Shakespeare with contemporary rhythms and movement, What You Will is conceived and co-directed by BRT Artistic Director Keith Baker and Donald Byrd, acclaimed choreographer of Broadway's The Color Purple and Artistic Director of Seattle's Spectrum Dance Theater. Music direction and original music by hip hop producer Justin Ellington completes the marriage of text, high-energy movement and heart-pounding music. What You Will begins previews February 10, opens February 12, and closes March 1, 2009. Tickets are $29 - $37, with $10 student tickets, and are available by calling the Box Office at (215) 785-0100 or visiting the theatre at 120 Radcliffe Street in Bristol, with information online at www.brtstage.org. [A full performance schedule follows on page 4.] In this new interpretation, Shakespeare's original text is heard with a distinctively contemporary American voice as the worlds of modern urban and classical theatre are fused. In What You Will (Shakespeare's full title for the play was Twelfth Night, Or What You Will), the social center of Illyria is Club 12th Night - a place where pranks and disguises, playful games and folly rule. A shipwrecked woman stumbles into the club, beginning a chain of events leading to an astonishing conclusion. Mistaken identities, intrigue, music, a beautiful heiress, drunken partiers, and a spiteful servant merge with a hip-hop rhythm in Shakespeare's enchanting tale of revelry and love.

Bristol Riverside Theatre presents the World Premiere of What You Will, a BRT original interpretation of Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night from February 10 through March 1, 2009. A daring and bold take on the classic comedy that combines the language of Shakespeare with contemporary rhythms and movement, What You Will is conceived and co-directed by BRT Artistic Director Keith Baker and Donald Byrd, acclaimed choreographer of Broadway's The Color Purple and Artistic Director of Seattle's Spectrum Dance Theater. Music direction and original music by hip hop producer Justin Ellington completes the marriage of text, high-energy movement and heart-pounding music. What You Will begins previews February 10, opens February 12, and closes March 1, 2009. Tickets are $29 - $37, with $10 student tickets, and are available by calling the Box Office at (215) 785-0100 or visiting the theatre at 120 Radcliffe Street in Bristol, with information online at www.brtstage.org. [A full performance schedule follows on page 4.] In this new interpretation, Shakespeare's original text is heard with a distinctively contemporary American voice as the worlds of modern urban and classical theatre are fused. In What You Will (Shakespeare's full title for the play was Twelfth Night, Or What You Will), the social center of Illyria is Club 12th Night - a place where pranks and disguises, playful games and folly rule. A shipwrecked woman stumbles into the club, beginning a chain of events leading to an astonishing conclusion. Mistaken identities, intrigue, music, a beautiful heiress, drunken partiers, and a spiteful servant merge with a hip-hop rhythm in Shakespeare's enchanting tale of revelry and love.

'Colorful World', the new play by James Comtois, presented by Nosedive Productions, is a sometimes confused - sometimes intriguing look at the neuroses of former costumed superheroes in an alternate world.

Clay McLeod Chapman and Kyle Jarrow's new indie-rock musical 'Hostage Song' is an intense and meaningful exploration of the people involved in and affected by a hostage situation.

Horse Trade Theater Group presents Hostage Song, the new indie-rock musical with music and lyrics by Kyle Jarrow, stories and book by Clay McLeod Chapman and directed by Olivier Butler. Associate Producer: The Thursday Problem

DREAD AWAKENING, the hit collection of four new horror-influenced plays by some of theatre's most exciting up-and-coming playwrights, will have to close its doors following the Sunday, April 23rd performance at the 45th Street Theatre (354 West 45th Street).

Casting has been announced for Dread Awakening, a new work of four world premiere horror one-acts that will be headlined by 'The Sopranos' star Robert Funaro

Jean Cocteau Repertory (Ernest Johns, Artistic Director) announces the creation of the Off Off Bowery Festival, a new festival designed to offer support for emerging Off Off Broadway theatre companies by offering selected organizations free space at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre during its summer hiatus.