Drama League New Directors/New Works
presents a reading of
MAMA’S BOY
By Rob Urbinati
Directed by Michael Goldfried
With Ian Bell, Jessica Crandell*,
Andrea Gallo* and Corey Noble
*Actor’s Equity Association
Stage Directions: David Rubin
Production Associate: Katie Carter
Mentor: Emily Mann
Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, fierce defender of her son's innocence, and self-proclaimed "mother in history,' struggles to keep her family together in the shadow of momentous events.
Three Performances Only!
Thursday, March 12 @ 4pm and 7:30pm
Friday, March 13 @ 7:30 pm
Abingdon Theatre
312 West 36th St. (between 8th and 9th)
Reservations recommended: mamasboyndnw@gmail.com
"If you research the life of Jesus Christ, you'll find that you never did hear anything more about the mother, Mary, after He was crucified. And since Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered, nobody has worried about my welfare either."
Mrs. Marguerite Oswald
Lark Play Development Center
presents
A Roundtable Reading of
CUSTOMARY MONSTERS
by Kyle T. Wilson
directed by Rob Urbinati
Thursday, May 15 6:30pm
939 Eighth Avenue, Suite 301
(between 55th and 56th)
Frederick Furnivall, a "Scholar Gypsy" of Victorian letters, moves a young Shakespeare enthusiast into his home in order to educate and seduce her. Meanwhile, his friend and colleague, London diarist Arthur Munby, begins a secret romance with his servant, who happily continues to sweep his floors and clean his boots. How long can these two educated men balance their progressive ideals and their romantic desires? Customary Monsters is a history play about the limits of love, equality, and biography
Dramatists Guild of America
Friday Footlights Series
presents
 Body of Words
By Vincent Sessa
With
Christian Baskous and Jeremiah M. Maestas
Stage Directions: David Arthur Bachrach
Directed by Rob Urbinati
Friday, April 11
7:30 pm.
Dramatists Guild
1501 Bway, 43/44th Streets
The Frederick Loewe Room, 7th Floor, Suite 710
Reservations not required
At sunset on a deserted stretch of beach, two strangers meet; one weary with labor and travel, one fleeing the confines of adolescence and home. A sexual contract is negotiated and put into effect. In the ensuing hours together until first morning light, violence is the ever-present undertow. But it is the unspoken word between them that will change their lives forever.
EPIC THEATRE ENSEMBLE
invites you to the final two readings of
SUNSHINE SERIES 2008
A Reading Festival Shining Light on New Political Plays
Sponsored by Bill & Kumi Martin, Duane Morris LLP, and Jack Sharkey
Thursday, MAY 22, 2008, 7pm
MINSTREL SHOW, or THE LYNCHING OF WILLIAM BROWN by Max Sparber
Directed by Rob Urbinati
with Jacob Ming-Trent and Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr.
Bruce Mitchell Room @ ART/NY, 520 Eighth Avenue, 3rd Floor (*please bring picture ID for Security)
This searing and provocative play is based on a true story: in 1919, a black man accused of molesting a white woman in Omaha, Nebraska is dragged from the courthouse by a riotous mob of 5000, and lynched. A week later, two black minstrel performers who shared the cell with William Brown are called to testify. They are forced to decide whether to tell the truth and suffer the consequences or hide behind the subversive entertainment of minstrelsy. They discover that the techniques of minstrelsy are inadequate to tell the story, and are forced to transform their craft, and their lives.
MINSTREL SHOW, or THE LYNCHING OF WILLIAM BROWN received a critically-acclaimed production at New Jersey Repertory Company in October 2007.
Readings are FREE. LIMITED SEATING - RESERVATIONS ARE NECESSARY.
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