'Alfred Kinsey: A Love Story' Begins Performances 9/5

Previews for The New York Theatre Collective's Alfred Kinsey: A Love Story by Mike Folie, begin on Wednesday, September 5 at the Michael Weller Theatre. Opening is next Monday, September 10 at 8PM.  This new play is directed by Craig J. George and stars Jessica Dickey, Wayne Maugans, Carter Roy and Melinda Wade.

"Alfred Kinsey: A Love Story is a highly theatrical and fictionalized biography that places Kinsey's own erotic voyage under examination; revealing the raw, hot emotions that often hide beneath his seemingly cold search for scientific knowledge. Through the wreckage of his memories and hallucinatory fragments, the play dissects the unreliability of objective truth and lays bare one man's obsessive fascination with sex and sexual orientation. This comic and erotic search for the truth through his subjects' sex lives ultimately leads him full circle to shattering discoveries about himself," state press notes.

Mike Folie's plays have been produced off-Broadway, around the US and internationally, winning several awards.  The Adjustment was produced off-Broadway by Jewish Repertory and at several regional theatres. The play also enjoyed a successful tour of England starring Stefanie Powers.  Other plays of Mike's that have been produced include: Naked By The River; Panama; Lemonade; and Love In The Insecurity Zone.

Craig J. George was a director and producer of The Hamptons Shakespeare Festival for six years, and recently brought his adaptation of Taming of the Shrew off-Broadway to the Duke on 42nd Street, which received critical acclaimed.  Some of the other productions he has directed are M4M, an all-male adaptation of  Measure for Measure; Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, The Nerd, and Into The Woods.

Performances of Alfred Kinsey: A Love Story are Monday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 8PM; and Sunday 7:30PM.  There will be special performance Wednesday September 5 at 8PM and a matinee on Sunday September 9 at 3PM.  Tickets are $18 and are available by calling 212-352-3101 or toll-free 866-811-4111 or through  www.Theatermania.com.