Off-Broadway's OFFICE POLITICS Set for WBAI's 'Arts Express' Tomorrow

WBAI Radio's "Arts Express" will feature a special interview with the playwright of the upcoming Off-Broadway play OFFICE POLITICS tomorrow (Thursday) between 2 & 3 PM. The broadcast can be heard on 99.5 FM or online at www.wbai.org.

OFFICE POLITICS, an explosive new play by Marcy Lovitch, is set to begin performances this Friday, June 5th at the June Havoc Theatre, 312 West 36th Street (just west of Eighth Ave.) The official Opening Night will be Thursday, June 11th at 7:30 PM. Under the direction of Aimee Todoroff, the cast of OFFICE POLITICS features Patrice Bell ("Six of One"), Josh Doucette (Irreversible), Philip Guerette ("American Genius"), Carson Lee (The Water Children), Molly Lovell (And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little), Maria Wolf (The Balcony), and Nicholas De Sibio (Working Out with Leona).

In OFFICE POLITICS, when a white male co-worker makes an off-the-cuff racially insensitive remark to his boss's black female assistant, what seems like a harmless joke snowballs, suddenly catapulting the ad sales office of a women's magazine into turmoil. Threats are made, loyalties tested and contrasting beliefs about power, race and class surface, resulting in an explosion of shocking reveals, lies and accusations, ultimately leaving their department in utter shreds.

Playwright Marcy Lovitch wrote and acted in her one-woman show, Dirty Laundry, which she performed in the first and second New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), at New York's Independent Art HERE, the Womankind Festival of One-Woman Shows (One Dream Theater, NYC), and Philadelphia's Womenspeak Festival (Walnut Street Studio Theater). Her plays A Brooklyn Romance and Ode to Brad premiered at Ensemble Studio Theater. Other plays include A Hollywood Ending (developed at Primary Stages' Einhorn School of Performing Arts, ESPA), The Girl with No Mazel and screenplays Rini's 40th Birthday and Media Darling.

The playing schedule for OFFICE POLITICS will be Tuesday through Thursday at 7:30 PM, Friday & Saturday at 8 PM, with matinees Saturday at 3 PM and Sunday at 2 PM for a limited engagement through June 20th. Tickets are $18 and are available through www.OfficePoliticsThePlay.com.

OFFICE POLITICS is being presented Off-Broadway by the Long View Theater Company.

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