Boomerang’s FIRST FLIGHT includes work by Keyes, Calhoon, Rothstein 11/18-21

The Boomerang Theatre Company (Tim Errickson, Artistic Director; Sue Abbott, Managing Director) will present the 10th annual FIRST FLIGHT festival of new plays at New Georges' The Room from November 18th-21st. The festival features readings and workshops of new plays and works in development. Check out www.boomerangtheatre.org for more information.

FIRST FLIGHT serves as one of the premiere play development festivals in New York City, and previous festivals have included work by Kelly McAllister, Colin McKenna, Isaac Rathbone, Mike Folie, Lila Rose Kaplan, E.M. Lewis and Sharyn Rothstein.

The 2010 festival schedule includes:

Thursday Nov 18th at 7pm
AGGRESSIVE SNEEZING by Sharyn Rothstein, directed by Kate Pines
Three wannabe actors meet at an Applebee's to rehearse an earnest historic drama about Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and the birth of American partisanship... but the rehearsal devolves into bitter political arguments, unexpected sex and interpretative dance numbers in this laugh-out-loud satire about the current state of American politics.

Saturday Nov 20th at 2pm
HARDBALL by Michael Bettencourt, Robert E Ozasky and Dean B. Kaner, directed by Jonathan Raviv
In 1922, semi-pro Jewish pitching phenom Henry Kaner gets an offer from the St. Louis Browns -- if he'll play on Shabbos. What to do with this version of the American dream?

Saturday Nov 20th at 4:30pm
OBAMAVILLE by Zack Calhoon, directed by Philip Emeott
James and Jenny, after losing their home, join a tent community not knowing it sits on top of a political powder keg run by a dangerous and charismatic leader bent on revenge

Saturday Nov 20th at 7pm
REBEL HEARTS written and directed by Cailin Heffernan
In a single log cabin outside Tucson, Arizona in the fall of 1872, a young virginal Irish woman opens her home to entertain her friends visiting from the East. The guest list includes three murderers, a bastard, a whore, an alcoholic, an adulterer, a liar and a love sick actor

Sunday Nov 21st at 2pm
SPRING TIDES by Melissa Gawlowski, directed by Michael Criscuolo
Jane, newly pregnant, escapes onto a beach through a closet door and finds a strangely familiar world under attack. As she, a greaser, and a Spanish nun battle monsters and brandish swords and stones, the line between real and imaginary blurs, and to save them all, Jane will have to make the decision of her life.

Sunday Nov 21st at 5pm
TENDER by Jeffrey James Keyes, directed by Adriana Baer
Deception, adultery, and alcoholism clutter the rich history of Robert and Clara's tumultuous relationship. They are obsessed with their work but have become distracted by life and the complications of living together. Late one night, they reach a place where they are able to come back to the same page and rekindle their love for one another. In that moment, Sam barrels in and complicates their homeostasis.

The readings will be held at New Georges' The Room, 520 Eighth Avenue, 3rd floor. No tickets or reservations are required. Donations of $5 per reading are suggested.

The Boomerang Theatre Company is an award-winning Off-Off-Broadway theatre company based in New York City. Boomerang annually produces a season composed of three programs: free outdoor Shakespeare productions in parks throughout NYC; an indoor repertory series of new, classic and neglected plays; and FIRST FLIGHT, a new play development festival of workshops and readings.

In the past eleven years, the Boomerang Theatre Company has produced 42 full productions, including six world premieres, seven New York City premieres and reinvented producing in repertory for small theatres. In 2008, the company was the recipient of the Caffe Cino Fellowship from the New York Innovative Theatre Awards for consistent production of outstanding work. Boomerang has been awarded two New York Innovative Theatre Awards for Burning the Old Man by Kelly McAllister (out of six nominations), a 2002 OOBR Award for The Misanthrope by Moliere, and was selected as a September 2005 recipient of The STAR Initiative from WNYC radio. The company also presented the United States premiere of Irvine ("Trainspotting") Welsh's You'll Have Had Your Hole in the NYC International Fringe Festival. Two plays produced by Boomerang have been published in annual Plays and Playwrights anthologies. The 2010 season is supported by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

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