MADISON STREET PRODUCTIONS in association with BOO-Arts PRODUCTIONS are pleased to announce their production of the 2008 Midtown International Theatre Festival nominated play, PENANG by James L. Larocca, directed by Donya K. Washington. PENANG will play a 3-week limited engagement at The Workshop Mainstage Theater (312 West 36th Street, New York, NY 10018) Performances begin Thursday, November 5 and continue through Sunday, November 22. Opening Night is Saturday, November 7 (8 p.m.).
Press are cordially invited to attend Thursday, November 5; Friday, November 6; and Saturday, November 7. (Unofficial press dates will be accommodated, upon request.)
Their hearts and minds torn by fear, pain and grief, two young American officers in Vietnam have lost faith in themselves, their families, their country and their God. When they meet in Penang in a brief respite from the Mekong Delta, they learn what every soldier comes to know: In war, the only thing that truly matters is the guy next to you. But is this truth enough to save them?
Penang earned five nominations at the Midtown International Theatre Festival, including Outstanding Overall Production of a New Drama Play, and won the Playwrights First Award at The Players in Gramercy Park.
Advisory: Penang contains full frontal nudity.
The production features Ray Chao, Jacqueline Gregg*, Yoriko Haraguchi, Rushi Kota, Chris LaPanta, Scott Raker*, Peter Sabri* (2008 MITF Nominee for Best Supporting Actor, Penang), Jeffrey Evan Thomas* and Kurt Uy*.
Dana Monagan and Kathleen O'Neill are the associate producers. Set design by Craig Napoliello, lighting design by Zach Blane, sound design by David Schulder (2008 MITF Nominee for Best Sound Design, Penang). Michelle Kelleher* is the production stage manager.
PENANG plays the following schedule through November 22nd:
Wednesdays at 8 P.M.
Thursdays at 8 P.M.
Fridays at 8 P.M.
Saturdays at 2 P.M. and 8 P.M. (no 2 P.M. performance on November 7)
Sundays at 2 P.M.
Tickets are $18.00. Advance tickets can be purchased online at www.theatermania.com, or by calling 212-352-3101. Tickets may also be purchased at the theatre's box office half hour before the performance.
**120 minutes.**
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BIOGRAPHIES
JAMES L. LAROCCA (Playwright) is a playwright and director. Plays include Jimmy Chen (presented by The Naked Stage at The John Drew Theater), The Night of The Seventy-Five Stars (directed by Larocca, the cast included Alec Baldwin, Bob Balaban, Joy Behar, Dina Merrill, Mercedes Ruehl, Harris Yulin, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Larry Pine, Paul Heckt, Steven Bradbury, Kristen Lowman, Ronald Guttman, Josh Gladstone, Cornelia Sharpe, and Joan Copeland at The John Drew Theater), 44 Sunset Park (with Joan Copeland, The John Drew Theater; also presented by The Players, NYC), and Penang (2008 Midtown International Theatre Festival, NYC (5 Nominations); Playwrights First Award Winner-The Players in New York City; staged reading at The John Drew Theater).
Director credits include, Visiting Mr. Green (reading starring Eli Wallach, The Players in New York City; second reading at The John Drew Theater), Harry and Eddie: The Birth of Israel (starring Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Rik Colliti, Dick Horwich and Ed Schiff, at The John Drew Theater), Love Letters (starring Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson at The John Drew Theater); In Persons, Miller in Love, Shadows in the Sun, Whatever, and A Farewell To Tanya, at the Neighborhood Playhouse; Sacrifice to Eros (starring Cornelia Sharpe and Anthony Roth Constanzo). Mr. Larocca is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
DONYA WASHINGTON (Director) New York credits: Dear Diary by Alicia Ramsay (MCC Youth Company FreshPlay), Bear Market by Kara Manning (Women's Project Lab), Cold Keener (Target Margin), The Minstrel Show of Minstrel Shows! (Brown/Trinity Consortium), Poof by Apples Vargas (MCC FreshPlay), Penang by James L. Larocca (NY Midtown Int'l Theatre Festival), 30 Patriot Actors by Erin Browne (Columbia); a reading of Menders by Erin Browne (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre); an excerpt from Busoni's Faust (Target Margin). Brown/Trinity Consortium: The Cure At Troy; Taming of the Shrew; Cloud 9. Brown New Play Festival: Forever Never Comes by Enrique Urueta, Cipher by Cory Hinkle. Williamstown: Before Breakfast, Unwrap Your Candy, Sorry Wrong Number. Work with The Civilians as Assistant Director (Nobody's Lunch, This Beautiful City) and Research Dramaturg (This Beautiful City). Training: MFA, Directing - Brown University/Trinity Repertory Consortium; BFA, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Member of the 2008/2010 Women's Project Lab. Van Lier Directing Fellow 2009, Second Stage Theatre.
BOO-Arts Productions is a production company born of the combined experience of artist-producers working in several aspects of theatre & live staged productions. With an eye on provocative social topics that encourage conversation and debate, the directive of BOO is to present that which you have not imagined, making you ask yourself why you have not imagined it before. BOO-Arts is a resident company at Manhattan Theatre Source in Greenwich Village, NYC
