Kane, Raviv & Manix Join Tartaglia & Comtois in THE HOT MONTH Reading, 4/12

The Boomerang Theatre Company (Tim Errickson, Artistic Director; Sue Abbott, Managing Director) will conclude The Legacy Reading Series with THE HOT MONTH by Taylor Mac on April 12th, 2010 at 7pm. The cast will feature John Tartaglia (Bway's SHREK and AVENUE Q), Rebecca Comtois (Off-Bway hit VIRAL), Carol Kane (LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE, WICKED), Joanthan Raviv, and Roger Manix. The reading series features plays previously produced or premiered by the company. For more information, please visit www.boomerangtheatre.org.

In an effort to celebrate The Boomerang Theatre Company's rich history, 2010 marked the debut of The Legacy Reading Series, a new annual event featuring readings of plays from Boomerang's past seasons. These events focus on keeping the spirit of these plays alive, and allow those who might have missed them the first time around a chance to experience them. Proceeds from The Legacy Series benefit Boomerang's new play development programs.

The final reading in the series will be Taylor Mac's THE HOT MONTH, featuring John Tartaglia and Rebecca Comtois. A totemic necklace of teeth and the otherworldly beep of a heart monitor bind three central characters (a woman, her brother, and his lover) in a comic and heartbreaking play the addresses the weighty issues of time and love.

Boomerang produced THE HOT MONTH as part of the company's 2003 season. The original production starred Drama Desk nominee Vince Gatton and television actress Pamela Dunlap.

The reading will take place on Monday April 12th, 2010 at 7pm at The Actors Company Theatre studio, 900 Broadway, suite 905 in Manhattan's Flatiron District. Boomerang Associate Artistic Director Christopher Thomasson will direct the reading. Additional casting will be announced shortly.

Tickets for the reading of THE HOT MONTH will be $25, and will include a reception afterwards. Tickets are available online at https://www.ovationtix.com or by phone at 212-352-3101. For further information, please visit www.boomerangtheatre.org or call 212-501-4069.

Taylor Mac is a playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, and sometime director and producer. TimeOutNY has called him "one of the most exciting theater artists of our time", while American Theater Magazine says, "Mac is one of this country's most exciting, heroic, and disarmingly funny playwrights". Taylor's most recent play THE LILY'S REVENGE is a 5-hour, 36 cast-member theatric that he wrote, starred in, and co-produced (with HERE Arts Center). It was rated the best play in 2009 by TimeOutNY and Paper Magazine and was put on the top ten lists of many other publications including The New Yorker and The New York Post. Other recent plays he's written and performed in include THE YOUNG LADIES OF, RED TIDE BLOOMING, and THE BE(A)ST OF TAYLOR MAC.

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.

 

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