Summer Play Festival Announces Calendar and Casting

Summer Play Festival (SPF) provides 15 emerging playwrights a chance to present their work at Theatre Row throughout July.   Four plays will be performed on Theatre Row (410 W 42nd St.) during the second week (July 11th through July 16th) of the festival: Hitting the Wall by Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich (the Clurman Theatre), Gardening Leave by Joanna Pinto (The Lion Theatre), Father Joy by Sheri Wilner (the Kirk Theatre), The Butcherhouse Chronicles by Michael P. Hidalgo (the Beckett Theatre).

Week Two Schedule:

Tuesday July 11th:

2:00pm- Hitting the Wall by Barbara Blumenthal- Ehrlich directed by Drew Barr is a dark comedy about a pair of neighbors putting their lives back together after the death of one of their children (at the Clurman Theatre). The cast includes: Leslie Lyles*, Tom Mason*, Kelly Coffield Park*, John Rothman*, Patricia Buckley*, Todd Weeks*.

3:00pm- Gardening Leave by Joanna Pinto directed by Michael Goldfried finds a British man whose life is turned around when a pretty young Iranian woman comes to help with his rooftop garden (at the Lion Theatre). The cast includes: Maha Chehlaoui *, Michael Tomlinson

7:00pm- Father Joy by Sheri Wilner directed by Pam MacKinnon a fantastical comedy about a girl whose father is actually disappearing before her very eyes (at the Kirk Theatre). The cast includes: Lizbeth MacKay*, Reno Roop*, Elisabeth Waterston*, Randall Newsome*

7:30pm- The Butcherhouse Chronicles by Michael P. Hidalgo directed by Thomas Caruso is a darkly comic horror show about four high school students in search of their missing history teacher (at the Beckett Theatre). The cast indludes: Matthew Doyle, Billy Wheelan*, Todd Cerveris*, Carole Monferdini*, Erik Singer*, Vin Knight*, William Youmans*, Kate Chadwick*, Anna Chlumsky

Wednesday July 12th:
2:00pm- Father Joy
7:00pm- The Butcherhouse Chronicles
7:30pm- Hitting the Wall
8:00pm- Gardening Leave

Thursday July 13th:
6:30pm- The Butcherhouse Chronicles
7:00pm- Father Joy
7:30pm- Hitting the Wall
8:00pm- Gardening Leave
9:00pm- SPF/Naked Angels' Thursdays@9 (in The Living Room on Theatre Row).

Friday July 14th:
6:30pm- Father Joy
7:00pm- Hitting the Wall
7:30pm- The Butcherhouse Chronicles
8:00pm- Gardening Leave

Saturday July 15th:
1:00pm- Father Joy
1:30pm- The Butcherhouse Chronicles
2:00pm- Hitting the Wall
2:30pm- Gardening Leave
7:00pm- Father Joy
7:30pm- The Butcherhouse Chronicles
8:00pm- Hitting the Wall
8:30pm- Gardening Leave

Sunday July 16th:
1:30pm- Father Joy
2:00pm- The Butcherhouse Chronicles
2:30pm- Hitting the Wall
3:00pm- Gardening Leave

All Show Tickets: $10 each. TicketCentral.com or 212-279-4200

Naked Angels Seats: Free.

For more information please visit SPF's website www.spfnyc.com