TIMING OF A DAY Plays Center Stage, Lin-Manuel Miranda to Moderate Talk Back

The Timing of a Day, the award-winning 2010 Fringe Festival production written by Owen Panettieri and directed by Joey Brenneman, will be presented by Mind The Art Entertainment in association with Intimation Productions at Center Stage NY for 18-performances engagement from March 30 through April 17 2011. The cast includes (in alphabetical order): Justin Anselmi, Miguel Govea, Nik Kourtis and R. Elizabeth Woodard. All, except Govea, were in the Fringe production.

The engagement will begin with a Benefit Gala on Wednesday, March 30 at 8 PM which will include a Talk Back with the playwright, director and cast, moderated by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Broadway's In the Heights), and a cocktail reception following the performance. The Opening night Benefit tickets are $100.

To reserve Benefit tickets, visit studios@mindtheartentertainment.com or make a $100 tax deductible contribution at https://www.fracturedatlas.org/s/campaign/253 (in the "contribute" section)
Following a Press Preview on Thursday, March 31, at 8 PM, regular performances will take place Friday, April 1 through Sunday, April 17 as follows: Wed - Fri at 8 PM; Sat at 2 PM & 8 PM; and Sun at 3 PM. Tickets: $18 in advance ½ $20 at the door ½$13 Students. To purchase tickets for The Timing of a Day and to learn more about the play and other Mind The Art Entertainment productions, projects, and divisions, please visit www.MindTheArtEntertainment.com.

The Timing of the Day follows three New York City roommates who share a loving (if cramped) Harlem apartment and a similarly loving (if cramped) triangular friendship. As the play opens, the three find themselves navigating the regular ups and downs of city life, and the unpleasant question of where their adult lives are taking them, when an unforeseeable tragedy rips them from the ordinary and changes the course of their lives and friendships forever. What follows is the reshuffled story of their time living together viewed over the course of a single day. Slices of their future, present, and past weave together in new ways, illustrating what it is that really draws these three people together, as well as what pulls them apart. While examining life, love, and loss from one sunrise to the next, each individual is forced to question if there really is such a thing as "perfect timing" or if all timing is just perfectly flawed.

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