Three New Plays Showcased in Triple Threat, Feb. 7-26

Fresh off the success of its EATFest-Fall 2005 new works festival, Emerging Artists Theatre and Artistic Director Paul Adams will present Triple Threat from February 7th - 26th at Theatre 5 (311 W. 43rd Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues, fifth floor). 

For three weeks, three emerging playwrights will premiere three new works with three performances a week on Tuesdays through Sundays.  A list of shows follows:

Edenville: Tuesdays and Fridays at 7:00 pm, Saturdays at 5:00 pm
Written by Gregory Fletcher and directed by Tom Wojtunik, the show "is a romantic comedy that follows Jules on his rollercoaster ride towards that promised paradise: life with Mr. Right.  Just when he thought it was safe to celebrate his first anniversary with Mr. Right, he finds himself back on the single's scene in search of a concept: does Mr. Right really exist, and if so, how does one meet him exactly?"

Fletcher is an award-winning playwright whose works have appeared at Emerging Artists Theatre, Intar 53, Manhattan Theatre Source, Greenwich Street Theatre, Boston Theatre Marathon, Edward Albee's Last Frontier Theater Conference, Provincetown Fringe Festival and Provincetown Theatre Company.  Credits include Stairway to Heaven (Winner, 2004 National Ten-Minute Play Award), Cow-Tipping and Other Signs of Stress (Winner, 2005 Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting), Roast Beef and the Rare Kiss (2005 Nominee for Outstanding Original Short Script, New York IT Awards), Tom and Huck: The Love Story and the upcoming spring production of The Riddle of the Sphinx.  He is currently a playwright-in-residence at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.  For more information, please visitwww.gregoryfletcher.com.

The Kitchen Table: Wednesdays at 7:00 pm, Saturdays at 8:00 pm, Sundays at 2:00 pm
Written by Peter Levine and directed by Troy Miller, the play chronicles one man's coming of age between the 1950s and the present.  This nostalgic 90-minute memory play, told through flashback, canvasses a life full of funny and rich memories of his Jewish childhood in Brooklyn as well as those about the sudden loss of his entire family."

Levine has been a member of Emerging Artists Theatre for the past three years, last appearing in this season's Reunion (EATFest-Fall 2005) and Man on Dog and last season's Unfinished Business.  Other acting credits include The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Front Page, Art, Angels in America, Indians and Inherit the Wind.  He has also appeared in a short film entitled Things That Go Bump in The Night, which recently received a special jury mention at the Palm Beach International Film Festival.  A former historian, Levine has authored a number of non-fiction books and a novel.  The Kitchen Table is his first full-length play.

Rock The Line: Thursdays at 7:00 pm, Saturdays at 2:00 pm, Sundays at 5:00 pm
In the play, by Kathleen Warnock, directed by Steven McElroy, "seven hardcore fans meet in the parking lot of a club in a Rust Belt town to renew their faith in rock and roll and its patron saint, Patti Roxx.  Having traveled long and hard to be at the show, their love of her music is the best thing in most of their lives.  But before the doors even open, they must first face each other."

Warnock is also the author of Grieving for Genevieve, which premiered at the Midtown International Theater Festival (NYC) in July 2005 and To the Top, which won the South Carolina Playwrights Festival.  Her plays have also been produced regionally, in New York and London, and she has published in several anthologies, fiction and non-fiction.  She is a contributing editor to ROCKRGRL magazine, a founding member of En Avant Playwrights, a Dramatists Guild member and a member of TOSOS2 Theater as well as one of the directors of its Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwright Project.

Tickets are $15.00 for general admission and $10.00 with student ID.  TDF accepted.  For reservations please call (212) 247-2429 or visit www.eatheatre.org to purchase tickets online.