Labyrinth Theater Company Announces NEWYORKNEWYORK FESTIVAL Featuring Stephen Adly Guirgis, David Henry Hwang and More
By: Kelsey Denette Mar. 06, 2013
The Company Members of LAByrinth Theater Company, the award-winning, downtown ensemble, has announced its NEWYORKNEWYORK Festival, a week-long festival of free readings and discussions curated around different New York themes - iconic playwrights, vibrant cultures, urban ideals, and more - which will culminate in a marathon weekend of forty-eight straight hours of round-the-clock theater at the Bank Street Theatre (155 Bank Street).
The festival is an effort to pay tribute to the rich tradition of New York plays that have helped shape and continue to inspire Labyrinth as a Company. The goal is to give every New Yorker the chance to see their hometown from Labyrinth's perspective - as our canvas, as our characters, as our muse.
The schedule of readings (subject to change) is as follows:
Monday, March 18th at 8pm
The Indian Wants The Bronx
By Israel Horovitz
The reading will be followed by a discussion about the Off-Broadway
movement in the late 60's moderated by playwright Israel Horovitz.
Tuesday, March 19th at 8pm
In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings
By Stephen Adly Guirgis
The reading will be followed by a discussion about Labyrinth's deeply rooted
connection to NYC and will be moderated by Stephen Adly Guirgis.
Wednesday, March 20th at 8pm
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
By John Patrick Shanley
The reading will be followed by a discussion moderated by
John Patrick Shanley about NY Theater in the 1980s.
Thursday, March 21st at 8pm
Dutchman
By Amiri Baraka
The reading will be followed by a discussion about NY Theater through
the African-American lens moderated by playwright Amiri Baraka.
Friday March 22nd at 7pm through Sunday, March 24th at 9pm
A Marathon of NY Plays
Curated by the Members of LAByrinth Theater Company
The marathon will feature work by Edward Albee, James Baldwin, Maria Irene Fornes,
John Guare, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, David Henry Hwang, Jack Kerouac,
Sidney Kingsley, Kenneth Lonnergan, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, Clifford Odets,
Dawn Powell, Miguel Pinero, Sam Shepard, and more.
Along with Labyrinth Company Members and Guest Artists, audience members
will be cast to play parts in each play throughout the marathon weekend.
Free tickets for the weeknight readings and discussions will be available via online lottery each day. Audience members will be able to submit their names between 10am - 3pm on our website.
Free tickets for the marathon will be available on a first-come, first-served basis prior to each reading.
Visit labtheater.org or text NYNY to 95997 for festival details throughout the week, and exclusive, real-time updates of play titles and casting throughout the Marathon Weekend.
Labyrinth offers extensive recognition, placement and visibility opportunities to corporate and local partners for the NEWYORKNEWYORK Festival. For more information, call (212) 513-1083.
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