Colt Coeur Announces Virtual Fall/Winter 2020 Season

In honor of the play's 10th anniversary Adrienne Campbell-Holt and Steven Levenson are joined by an all-star cast for a one-night only livestream of SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN.

The cast features Nic Ashe (Queen Sugar), Natalia Dyer (Stranger Things), Leah Lewis (The Half of It), Justin Linville (Crashing), Dallas Liu (PEN15), and Odeya Rush (Lady Bird), with stage directions read by Sidikha Ashraf. The event streams live on Saturday, September 26 at 8pm ET.

Seven Minutes in Heaven is a hilarious and emotionally raw play that follows six high school freshman caught in the absurd, aching, terrible ecstasy of being young on a splintered night of dysfunctional party games, fumbling first kisses, ruined reputations, broken promises, and raw, raw fun. Set in 1995, the play is charged with the manic exhilaration and stultifying terror of adolescence and explores familiar territory with a unique, brash sense of theatricality. In his 2010 review Ben Brantley commented on how "the play is so real that you almost believe it was written by one of the characters."

This reading is presented by special arrangement with Actor's Equity through Theater Authority, Inc. Proceeds will benefit Colt Coeur's Education and Mentorship programs. The online event, scheduled for Saturday, September 26th at 8pm ET, is ticketed with access starting at $5 and available at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seven-minutes-in-heaven-10th-anniversary-reading-tickets-119660095567 and at coltcoeur.org.

Subsequent events in the fall series include:

Sendhil Ramamurthy And Kavi Ladnier Reunite For

Hatef**k

By Rehana Lew Mirza

Directed By Adrienne Campbell-holt

October Date Tba Soon

Original World Premiere Cast Reunites For

America V. 2.1

By Stacey Rose

Directed By Logan Vaughn

November Date Tba Soon

Holiday Craptacular:

A Variety Show To Close Out 2020

Curated By Sidikha Ashraf & Adam Harrington

December Date TBA Soon

Hatef**k was a 2019 world premiere by Richard Rodgers-Award winning playwright Rehana Lew Mirza. Just beneath the couple's pheromone-spiked banter lurks a feeling discussion about representation and identity." Passions ignite when Layla, an intense literature professor, accuses Imran, a brashly iconoclastic novelist, of trading in anti-Muslim stereotypes. But as their attraction grows into something more, they discover that good sex doesn't always make good bedfellows. Conflicting cultural identities collide in this thornily clever antidote to a "meet-cute" romance.

America v. 2.1 is a day in the life of a troupe of historical re-enactors charged with telling the tragic story of what was once was the American Negro, a woeful race once featured prominently in the American landscape, but whose time has been extinguished at own foolish hand. The troupe finds themselves at odds with the state of their own existences while being painfully oblivious to the parallels and intersections their lives draw to that of the very Negroes whose story they are bound to tell. As this oblivion fades and they are faced with their stark reality, this day in the life of actors, becomes a day of reckoning.

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