65 Theatres Announced for Public's '365 Days/365 Plays'

The Public Theater, in association with Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks' and Producer Bonnie Metzgar's 365 Days/365 Plays National Festival, have announced that 65 theater companies in New York City have been selected to participate in the year-long production of Parks' "365 Days/365 Plays."

In November 2002, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog) sat down and committed to writing a play a day for the next 365 days.  The world premiere of this play cycle will be performed in major cities and communities around the country as a yearlong national festival.  From November 13, 2006 to November 12, 2007, simultaneous and separate performances of the play cycle by over 600 theaters will take place in New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Washington D.C., Chicago, Minneapolis, Texas, the Southeast, and university campuses, creating the largest theater collaboration in U.S. history

Spearheading the New York component of "365 Days/365 Plays," The Public has gathered together a diverse cross-section of New York City's theater companies to participate in this project. "The selected theaters - curated by The Public and the 365 Days/365 Plays National Festival - will perform these brief, brilliant snapshots from the imagination of one of America's leading playwrights in numerous locations throughout the city," state press materials.

Each week one participating theater will produce one week (seven plays) in the "365 Days/365 Plays" cycle. Participants will produce their work in traditional theater spaces or site-specific locations. They may be staged readings or fully produced – but all will be in the spirit of celebrating the vibrancy of New York's theater tradition with audiences and artists from every corner of the city.  At the end of each month, participants will be invited to share their work at First Sundays, a free public performance series at The Public the first Sunday of every month that will showcase the previous month of the play cycle.

"Impressed by the overwhelming response from the theater community and the talent and scope of the applications, and committed to a mission of inclusiveness, the curators of the New York component of 365 Days/365 Plays have decided that for the month of July only, each week of the month's plays will be performed by up to five theaters. With a spotlight on over 20 up-and-coming theater companies and artists, The July Festival will increase from 52 to 65 the total number of theaters participating in '365 Days/365 Plays.'  All July participants will be invited to perform at The Public's First Sundays series."

The 65 participating theaters (borough residence) are:

3-d (Manhattan), Alec Duffy (Brooklyn), Ars Nova (Manhattan), Atlantic Theater Company (Manhattan), Banana Bag and Bodice (Brooklyn), Barrow Street Theatre (Manhattan), blessed unrest (Manhattan), Blue Box Productions (Manhattan), Boomerang Theatre Company (Manhattan), Clubbed Thumb (Manhattan), CollaborationTown (Brooklyn), Desipina & Company (Manhattan), Dixon Place (Manhattan), Drama League Directors Project (Manhattan), duende arts (Queens), Engine 37 (Neal Freeman) (Manhattan), Epic Theatre Center (Manhattan), Galapagos Art Space (Brooklyn), Gansfeld Theatre Company (Manhattan), Genesius Theatre Group (Manhattan), Guerrilla Girls On Tour (Manhattan), HERE Arts Center (Manhattan), Hip-Hop Theater Festival (Brooklyn), Hourglass Group (Manhattan), INTAR Theatre (Manhattan), LAByrinth Theater Company (Manhattan), LightBox (Brooklyn), Lucid Theatre (Queens), Ma-Yi Theater Company (Manhattan), MUD/BONE (Bronx), Naked Angels (Manhattan), New Dance Group Arts Center (Manhattan), New Georges (Manhattan), New York Theatre Workshop (Manhattan), Partial Comfort Productions (Brooklyn), Pig Iron Theatre Company (Manhattan), Polybe + Seats (Manhattan), Pregones Theater (Bronx), Queens Theatre in the Park (Queens), RACCA's Seaport Salon (Brooklyn), Rebel Theater Company Inc. (Brooklyn), Rising Phoenix Repertory (Brooklyn), Robot Vs. Dinosaur (Brooklyn), Salt Theater (Manhattan), scenedowntown (Brooklyn), SITI Company (Manhattan), SLANT Theatre Project (Manhattan), TADA! Youth Theater (Manhattan), Temporary Theatre Company (Manhattan), The 52nd Street Project (Manhattan), The Brick Theater Inc (Brooklyn), The Civilians (Manhattan), The Classical Theatre of Harlem (Manhattan), The Faux-Real Theatre Company (Manhattan), The Foundry Theatre (Manhattan), The H.A.D.L.E.Y. Players (Manhattan), The New Group (Manhattan), The New York Neo-Futurists (Manhattan), The Public Theater (Manhattan), The Tank (Brooklyn), The TEAM (Manhattan), Universes (Bronx), Untitled Theater Company #61 (Manhattan), viBe Theater Experience (Manhattan), and Vortex Theater Company (Manhattan).  

For more information visit:  www.publictheater.org/365