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Duncan Pflaster Duncan Pflaster is an award-winning playwright whose plays have been produced all over. He also has been known to direct, write music, play the ukulele, and (if his arm is twisted) act. He won second place in the 2009 Stage and Cinema's New York City Theater Review Contest. www.duncanpflaster.com






Native Speech: Radio Ga Ga
Native Speech: Radio Ga Ga
November 25, 2008

Boomerang Theatre company presents a grittily realized revival of Eric Overmyer's neglected 'Native Speech', which features a virtuosic performance by Vinnie Penna, as part of Boomerang's 10th Anniversary repertory season.

Summer and Smoke: Body and Soul
Summer and Smoke: Body and Soul
November 25, 2008

Boomerang Theatre Company presents a beautifully realized production of the classic Tennessee Williams play 'Summer and Smoke', as part of their 10th Anniversary Repertory Season.

2008 Fall EATfest Series A
2008 Fall EATfest Series A
November 13, 2008

Emerging Artists Theatre?s 2008 Fall EATfest continues with Series A: 6 one-act plays by Patrick Gabridge, Wayne Paul Mattingly, Staci Sweeden, Ted LoRusso, Kathleen Warnock, and Chris Widney.

Twelfth Night (TQC): The Fool Has An Excellent Breast
November 12, 2008

The Queens Company, an all-female acting troupe, presents a rollicking slapstick version of William Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night'.

Sleepwalk With Me: Bedtime Stories
November 12, 2008

Nathan Lane presents Mike Birbiglia's hilarious one-man show "Sleepwalk With Me"- the stand-up comedian's first foray into theatre.

2008 Fall EATfest, Series C: Old Flame
2008 Fall EATfest, Series C: Old Flame
November 11, 2008

Emerging Artists Theatre's Fall EATfest continues with Series C: 'Old Flame' by Richard Ploetz, a rather tepid romance about love among the elderly.

2008 Fall EATfest, Series B
2008 Fall EATfest, Series B
November 10, 2008

Emerging Artists Theatre presents 13 new plays in three Series as part of their 2008 Fall EATfest. Series B includes 6 new short plays by Eric Appleton, Lisa Romeo, Andrew Rosendorf, Greg Frier, John A. Donnelly, and Sara Jeanne Asselin.

Missa Solemnis, or The Play About Henry: By Their Fruits
Missa Solemnis, or The Play About Henry: By Their Fruits
November 6, 2008

Roman Feeser's play 'Missa Solemnis, or The Play About Henry' is a cliché and plodding (based on a true story) look at one Gay Mormon's doomed fight to reconcile his religion with his same-gender attraction.

Twelfth Night (T. Schreiber): Cogs and Dissonance
October 20, 2008

T. Schreiber Studio presents their first Shakespearean production since the mid-70s: a visually stunning, but verbally muddled, steampunk-styled 'Twelfth Night'.

The Blood Brothers Present... The Master of Horror
October 18, 2008

Nosedive Productions, for their third installment of their spooky theatre series 'The Blood Brothers Present…' present new stage adaptations of Stephen King short stories (authorized by The Master).

Bedroom Farce: Too Many Beds, Too Little Rest
October 14, 2008

Alan Ayckbourn's comic romp 'Bedroom Farce' hasn't been given a real New York revival since its seven month Broadway run came to an end in 1979. Who better to revive it than The Actors Theatre Company (TACT), who specialize in reviving underappreciated plays from days gone by?

Chekhov Lizardbrain: Iguana be Sedated
October 10, 2008

Pig Iron Theater Company returns to New York with the hilarious and brilliant 'Chekhov Lizardbrain', a comedy inspired by Anton Chekhov's 'Three Sisters' and autistic author Temple Grandin's inquiries into the evolving contortions of her own brain.

NYMF: Jason & Ben: Savior Behavior
October 6, 2008

Matthew Loren Cohen's new 2-person musical 'Jason & Ben' is an intriguing look at manipulative mind games in a burgeoning Gay relationship. Part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

Lilli Marlene – A Sigh is Just a Sigh
October 5, 2008

Linn Maxwell's one-woman show 'Lilli Marlene' explores the music of WWII from the perspective of three friends living in America, England, and Germany.

NYMF: Fancy Boys Follies: Losing My Grind
October 3, 2008

'Fancy Boys Follies' is a rather tired, but fitfully amusing, vociferously Gay musical revue by David Pevsner, one of the creators of 'Naked Boys Singing'. An official selection of the 2008 New York Musical Theatre Festival.

Flip Side - The Water's Always Wetter
September 30, 2008

The Talking Band presents Ellen Maddow's new experimental multimedia play 'Flip Side', in which 6 actors play two sets of very different people whose lives are barely separated.

NYMF: The Jerusalem Syndrome: Milk and Honey
September 29, 2008

Laurence Holzman, Felicia Needleman, and Kyle Rosen's new musical 'The Jerusalem Syndrome' spins an unusual mental delusion that afflicts visitors to the holy land into a rollicking and joyous original musical.

Small Craft Warnings: Things that Float
September 24, 2008

White Horse Theater Company delivers up an excellent production of Tennessee Williams' rarely-performed classic 'Small Craft Warnings', playing through October 5th at the Workshop Theater Company.

NYMF: Bedbugs!!! The Musical: Once Upon a Mattress
NYMF: Bedbugs!!! The Musical: Once Upon a Mattress
September 22, 2008

Paul Leschen and Fred Sauter's new musical about a futuristic plague of mutant hair metal bedbugs is a hilarious romp with some kickass tunes. Currently part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF).

Zombie Joe's 'Masque of the Red Death': Joe on Poe
September 12, 2008

Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre comes to New York (from their native Los Angeles) to present their Poefest: theatrical adaptations of three Edgar Allen Poe pieces - 'The Masque of the Red Death', 'The Bells', and 'The Tell-Tale Heart', employing their 'tastefully macabre' story theatre style.



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