PolitiKos 2015 Set for the Kraine Theater, 11/5-8

FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade in association with Moonlight Theatre Productions will present the first annual politiKos 2015 (founding Artistic Director, Israela Margalit), a new political theater festival of drama, comedy, satire, songs, and opinions from left, right and center, that gives voice to celebrated as well as to emerging playwrights, poets, and performers. This year's festival will feature work by Arthur Kopit, Dominique Morisseau, Brian Dykstra, Michael Bradford, Libby Emmons, Israela Margalit, Colin Greer, Darian Dauchan, Up and Down Theater, and The Living Theater, under directors John Eisner, Margarett Perry, John-Martin Green, and Christina Russos. politiKos is about politics in the broadest sense of the word, hence the "K" from the Greek: of, for, or relating to citizens.

The festival will run November 5-8 at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery). Tickets ($0-$18) may be purchased in advance atwww.horseTRADE.info.

WINNING THE FUTURE CABARET

Thursday, November 5 @ 7pm $12; $15 including Open Mic

A satirical musical comedy cabaret about social and economic issues in American society, comprised of original sketches and songs about what it means to be American in 2015, presented by Up & Down Theater - Lindsey Hope Pearlman, Robin Holloway, and Kate Chavez.

OPEN MIC

Thursday, November 5 @ 8pm $5 (free beer with admission!)

An evening of the unpredictable hosted by Darian Dauchan (winner of New Word Artist for Urban Word NYC) with special guest poets alongside anyone who signs up to present a blistering opinion, an extraordinary poem, an amusing anecdote, a moving tale, or an enticing song.

EDUCATION

Written by Brian Dykstra, Directed by Margarett Perry

Friday, November 6 @ 7pm FREE

A presentation of Brian Dykstra's Education, an edgy, thought-provoking, new full-length play about two young people who fight for their right to express themselves in a society hostile to any change in the status quo.

TEN FOR THE PRICE OF ONE

Saturday, November 7 @ 7pm & Sunday, November 8 @ 2pm $18

Drama, comedy, satire, poetry, and songs by Arthur Kopit (a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist), Dominique Morisseau (Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History), Michael Bradford (the Manhattan Theatre Club Playwright fellowship), Libby Emmons (winner the Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission), Brian Dykstra (Fringe First Award Edinburgh Festival), Israela Margalit (Emmy Nomination), Colin Greer (the American Library Association's Eli M. Oboler Intellectual Freedom Award), Up and Down Theater, and The Living Theater's The Plague, under directors John Eisner, Margarett Perry, John-Martin Green, and Christina Russos.

FRIGID New York is a theater development group with a focus on new work that produces a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater every season. FRIGID's Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. FRIGID New York grew out of the annual FRIGID Festival, the first and only festival of its kind in New York City to offer artists 100% of their box office proceeds, and Horse Trade Theater Group, a self-sustaining theater development and management group.

Moonlight Theatre Productions, under Artistic Director Israela Margalit, is an award-winning New York based company devoted to the presentation and production of new works (Mothers, Night Blooming Jasmine, Get me a Guy, Say it as you See it, NAP Reading Series under Kelley Girod.)