59E59 Theatres Announce Their Fall 2009 Season With BRITS OFF BROADWAY & More

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) is proud to announce the 2009 Fall Season. All performances take place at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues). Tickets for shows beginning in September go on sale on July 15. Tickets to shows beginning in October go on sale August 1. The On Sale date for tickets to Brits Off Broadway will be announced at a later date. For tickets, call Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 or online at www.ticketcentral.com. For more information visit www.59E59.org.

September 1 - October 4
THE PRIDE OF PARNELL STREET
Written by Sebastian Barry
Directed by Jim Culleton
Starring AiDan Kelly and Mary Murray
Produced by Fishamble: The New Play Company (Dublin, Ireland)
Part of 1st Irish at 59E59 Theaters
$35 (59E59 Members $24.50)
Ireland's leading new writing powerhouse, Fishamble: The New Play Company presents the New York premiere of the internationally acclaimed original production of THE PRIDE OF PARNELL STREET by award-winning writer Sebastian Barry (2008 Costa Book of the Year Award-winner; shortlisted twice for the prestigious Man Booker Award). Starring leading Irish actors, AiDan Kelly and Mary Murray, this is an intimate, heroic tale of ordinary and extraordinary life on the streets of Dublin. Called "exquisite" by The Guardian and "superb" by The Times (4 stars).

September 2 - September 20
SPINNING THE TIMES
5 World Premiere One Acts
With plays by Geraldine Aron, Lucy Caldwell, Rosalind Haslett, Rosemary Jenkinson and Belinda McKeon
Directed by M. Burke Walker
Produced by Origin Theater Company
Part of 1st Irish at 59E59 Theaters
$25 (59E59 Members $17.50)Five influential Irish playwrights tackle five stories that made the news in New York-from an Irish point of view. Five world-premiere plays in one evening.

September 23 - October 11
LUCK
Devised by Megan Riordan, Dodd Loomis and Shawn Sturnick
Performed by Megan Riordan
Produced by Making Strange Theatre Company
Part of 1st Irish at 59E59 Theaters
$25 (59E59 Members $17.50)
Direct from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and based on performer Megan Riordan's own life as the daughter of a professional Las Vegas gambler, LUCK powers its way through questions of destiny, free will and faith against a background of casino games of chance in which the audience is invited to play. LUCK takes the shape of a quiz show cross-bred with a Vegas-style cocktail party, chock full of interrogations, luck rituals, blackjack boot camp, old school Vegas tunes and loads of cheeseballs.

October 8 - November 8
GOOD BOBBY
Written by Brian Lee Franklin
Directed by Pierson Blaetz
Produced by Greenway Arts Alliance
$35 (59E59 Members $24.50)
GOOD BOBBY recounts the formative adult years of Robert F. Kennedy, one of history's greatest "what ifs." From his battles with Jimmy Hoffa to his stint as Attorney General to the assassination of his brother, President John F. Kennedy, RFK struggles to find his own voice and step out of the enormous shadows created by his family.

October 14 - October 31
GHOST LIGHT
Written by Desi Moreno-Penson
Directed by Jose Zayas
Produced by Immediate Theatre Company
Two artists arrive at a motel room for an afternoon of clandestine sex. One is successful, the other is struggling. Their tryst is interrupted by a security guard with alarming news about the room they're in. GHOST LIGHT is a thriller about celebrity and invisibility and the fine line that separates them both. The perfect play to usher in Halloween!

November 4 - January 3
BRITS OFF BROADWAY
The 2009 Holiday season is even more jolly this year as the Brits descend upon 59E59 Theaters for the 6th Annual Brits Off Broadway festival, now in its new time slot! Seven fabulous shows-topical, quirky, transporting, outrageous, mysterious and downright funny-are premiering on our side of the Pond. Titles for Brits Off Broadway will be announced soon!

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