Shows Announced for AMERICAS OFF BROADWAY

AMERICAS OFF BROADWAY returns with a line up of nine New York premieres. Presented by 59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer), AMERICAS OFF BROADWAY launches on Wednesday, April 28 and runs through Sunday, July 3. The single ticket price for each show ranges from $15 - $65 ($10.50 - $45.50 for 59E59 members). Single tickets to AMERICAS OFF BROADWAY are available by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 or online at www.59E59.org.

Love in all its complicated, touching, infuriating and messy glory is the clear trend of this year's AMERICAS OFF BROADWAY. The festival launches with John Kolvenbach's Olivier Award-nominated comedy LOVE SONG, a charming comedy about a young misfit who falls hopelessly in love. TRIANGLE explores the love affair surrounding the Triangle Factory fire and a lost love grieved for a lifetime with JULIA. A love affair with post-9/11 NYC is on display in WORLD TRADE CENTER VIEW (that was also a film, starring Michael Urie, which aired on LOGO), while CITY LOVE SONG explores a love affair with journeying the world. Prospect Theatre Company introduces us to Wyatt Earp's love in I MARRIED WYATT EARP. Former US Marine Jeff Key is torn between his love of this country and "Don't Ask Don't Tell" while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom in EYES OF BABYLON.

Tuesday, April 5 - Sunday, May 8
LOVE SONG written and directed by John Kolvenbach
Produced by Jaimie Mayer Phinney/Don't Eat The Pictures Productions in association with Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
The 2007 Olivier Award-nominated comedy makes its New York debut! Beane is an exile from life - an oddball. His well-meaning sister, Joan, and brother-in- law, Harry, try and make time for him in their busy lives, but no one can get through. Following a burglary on Beane's apartment, Joan is baffled to find her brother blissfully happy and tries to unravel the story behind his mysterious new love, Molly. Funny, enchanting and wonderfully touching, John Kolvenbach's offbeat comedy is a rhapsody to the power of love in all its forms.

Thursday, April 14 - Saturday, April 30
TRIANGLE written by Jack Gilhooley and Daniel Czitrom, directed by Stephan Morrow
Produced by Big Tim Productions in association with The Great American Play Series
Turn-of-the-century New York's political underworld and immigrant energy come to life in this new play focused on the tumultuous love affair between the legendary political boss "Big Tim" Sullivan, roguish and colorful "King of the Bowery," and the beautiful actress and reformer Margaret Holland. After years of an adulterous affair that produced a daughter, the notorious Tammany Hall power broker and the Seven Sisters' graduate find themselves inextricably bound by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911.

Tuesday, April 19- Sunday, May 15
JULIA by Vince Melocchi, directed by Guillermo Cienfuegos
With Haskell Vaughn Anderson III, Richard Fancy, Marley McClean, Justin Preston Roses Prichard and Keith Stevenson
Produced by Pacific Resident Theatre
JULIA is a touching and tender examination of a 50-year-old-love -- lost and reclaimed -- set against a modern urban backdrop.

Tuesday, May 3 - Sunday, May 15
CITY LOVE SONG written and performed by Jack Finnegan, directed by Tralen Doler
Produced by four fins ink
CITY LOVE SONG is an evolving story in three cycles: first a tale about New York was presented in 24 American cities, and now a spoken portrait of America is to be presented in 13 international cities, which in turn will be the subject of the third and final story.

Thursday, May 19 - Sunday, June 12
WORLD TRADE CENTER VIEW written by Brian Sloan, directed by Andrew Volkoff
Produced by WTC View Onstage
On the night before 9/11, a young man living in SoHo places an ad for a roommate online. Then, the world changes. A surprising and intimate glimpse of life in lower Manhattan during the strange days of September 2001.

Friday, May 20 - Sunday, June 12
I MARRIED WYATT EARP book by Thomas Edward West and Sheilah Rae, lyrics by Sheilah Rae, music by Michele Brourman, directed by Cara Reichel
Suggested in part by the book I Married Wyatt Earp by Glenn G. Boyer
Produced by Prospect Theatre Company and New York Theatre Barn
Young Josie Marcus is nothing like the girls back home. Passionate and fearless, she leaves behind her upper class Jewish family for the adventure of Tombstone, Arizona-home of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp. Eleven gutsy women give voice to the untold story of the American frontier in this compelling new musical.

Thursday, June 16 - Saturday, July 2
PLAY ABOUT MY DAD by Boo Killebrew, directed by Lee Sunday Evans
Produced by CollaborationTown
As Boo writes about her dad, Larry, and the hurricane that almost drowned their Mississippi hometown, the story becomes about an entirely different storm.

Tuesday, June 14 - Sunday, July 3
EYES OF BABYLON written and performed by Jeff Key, directed by Yuval Hadadi
Produced by Babylon To Broadway, LLC/The Mehadi Foundation
U.S. Marine Jeff Key transforms his Iraq journal into a gritty, humorous and poetic solo-performance about going to war as a 34-year-old gay man at the heady start of the Iraq invasion only to find the war is not what it seems and the greatest battle is with himself.

Plus one more May/June show to be announced soon!

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