Stable Cable Lab Co. to Host 2nd Annual LIVEWIRE, 1/25; Lineup, Casts Set
By: Tyler Peterson Jan. 19, 2015
Stable Cable Lab Co. has announced the cast and plays for the second annual LiveWire: An Evening of New Short Plays at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, 407 West 42nd Street, NYC on Sunday, January 25. Doors will open at 5:30pm for food and drinks and the performance will begin at 7pm. The evening will feature five world premieres of ten-minute plays by Nat Cassidy, Breanna Foister, Stephen Gracia, Collin McConnell, and Christopher Gabriel Núñez, and will take you from the 1960s through the 2000s, with live music by YouTube sensation, Taylor Fererra. Dressing up in attire from your favorite decade is encouraged (but not required) and tickets can be purchased for $15 at www.livewire2014.brownpapertickets.com, with a $20 food and drink minimum.
The second annual LiveWire: An Evening of New Short Plays will launch and serve as a fundraiser for Stable Cable's 2015 Season, featuring new works by Max Baker, Ken Urban, Arethusa Speaks, and more. Details on the company's upcoming season can be found atwww.stablecablelabco.org.
ABOUT THE PLAYS
The Man that Preceded the Flood
By Christopher Gabriel Núñez
Directed by Bridget McKevitt
Featuring Jade Eshete, Jinn S. Kim & Sara Kim
In 1965 the Hart-Cellar Act was passed in the United States, abolishing the National Origins Formula which barred Asians and Africans from entering the United States.
The man that preceded the flood is a play about a ghost.
By Nat Cassidy
Directed by Gretchen van Lente
Featuring Jeremiah Maestas and more
The apocalyptic emptiness of the 1970s is made all too clear for one unlucky Northwesterner...
By Stephen Gracia
Directed by Michael LoPorto
Featuring Danielle Beckmann, Zak Kamin, Samantha Strelitz, & Kara Young
Washington D.C., 1985. The Punk scene moves from Hardcore to Revolution Summer as artists, activists, and musicians meet to discuss racism, misogyny, poverty, gay rights, street level manifestos, and the best way to fit all of it into a Rock song. The Last Ten Minutes
By Collin McConnell
Directed by Jonathon Musser
Featuring Alice Johnson, Brian Edelman, & Gillian Rougier
It's the end of the world, and the last ten years of the 1990s have sucked. So what can we do in the last ten minutes? I Voted
Written & Directed by Breanna Foister
Featuring Emmanuel Elpenord & Prentiss Standridge
The 2000s. Vote for your favorite idol, vote for your favorite president. Did it make any difference? Politics, Identity, and Spawn of Reality TV in the Burgeoning Millennium.
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