Emerging Artists Theatre New Work Series Annoucnes Week Two Line-up

Emerging Artists Theatre celebrates their 25th season by presenting their bi annual New Work Series. The series opened on February 27 and runs through March 17 at TADA Theater in the Flatiron District. New musical, plays, solo-shows and dance pieces (in varies stages of development), will be presented.

THIS WEEKS LINE-UP

Monday, March 4 @ 7 pm

Closing Time at Graceland

Written by Sarah Kelly - Directed by Kirsten Russell

A guy named Elvis meets a girl named Priscilla, in an unconventional love story inspired by the King of Rock 'n' Roll.

Tuesday, March 5 @ 7 pm

An Armadillo Story

Written and performed by Vanessa Shealy

A short, true story about a new school, a first date, and a dead armadillo.

FLIRTING AFTER FIFTY

Written by Barbara Bellman - Directed by Lori Steinberg

When Lilla turns 50, she gets a double dose of reality in the mail: her divorce papers and a welcome to AARP.

Wednesday, March 6 @ 7 pm

OUT of THE MOUTHS of BABES

Written and directed by Gary C. Walter

What happens when love compels a boy to overcome prejudice, out his gay father, and begin to understand what being a man is really all about.

Wishing You Were Here!

Written by Elizabeth Klemmer - Directed by Aimee Todoroff

Alice and Jack Flood are in Florida when Alice must undergo emergency surgery. Their three grown children arrive, but when they try to take charge, their own chaotic lives get in the way.

Thursday, March 7 @ 7 pm

The Rehearsal

Written by Brad Forenza - Directed by Brian Dashew

During a high-stakes wedding weekend, two families descend on the groom's childhood home.

Friday, March 8 @ 7 pm

Helena's Bird

Written by Fiona Gorry-Hines - Directed by Victoria Gruenberg

Sometimes you just really, really want something...but when Helena brings home a new pet cockatoo out of the blue, her roommates have trouble believing the bird isn't about something else.

swipe

Written and directed by Lizzie Guest - Assistant Director Carlos Garcia

Be careful who you swipe right on...

Friday, March 8 @ 9 pm

ANTOINETTE: Lost In A Changing World

Written by Virginia Woodruff - Directed by Lee Summers - Choreography by Leslie Dockery

A close-knit Pentecostal family is shaken by trauma, as the matriarch, Antoinette, tries to come to grips with healing in a new world.

Saturday, March 9 @ 7 pm

AMUSING WILLIE

Written by Donald Loftus

A British playwright quickly learns that everybody is a critic as he tries to convince his three female muses that his new play about star-crossed lovers is terrific!

Moon Map

Choreographed and performed by Emily "Emla" LaRochelle and Sarazina Joy Stein

Emla and Sarazina present an excerpt of their piece about the progression of their found connection with one another, organizing and jumbling the physicality of their bond with moments of comic levity.

We Seem to Be Conversing

Written by R.W. Schneider - Directed by Patricia Lynn

In the lounge of the Philosophy Department a student and her professor discuss theories of love, but what do they really know about it?

Saturday, March 9 @ 9 pm

Rut

Written and directed by Alexander Perez

A perpetual sentence in a dismal abyss, dust in their eyes and dirt in their teeth. Hell, truly is other people.

Sunday, March 10 @ 2 pm

Rising in Love

Creator/Lyricist/Book by Rory Michelle Sullivan - Dramaturg Anna Jastrzembski - Music by Rory Michelle Sullivan, Moira Lo Bianco, and Jonathan Shanes - Directed by Megan Minutillo - Musical direction by Kristen Lee Rosenfeld

Rising in Love is the modern day coming-of-age story about engaged couple Rosie and Scott, their fears and anxieties surrounding their upcoming marriage, and the friends and family who help them learn what it takes to rise in love.

Sunday, March 10 @ 5 pm

Iron in Your Future

Written & performed by Mindy Pfeffer - Directed by Peter Michael Marino

Mindy is over 40, in theatre, and most decidedly not an athlete. One day she signs up for a triathlon!

Raise Less Corn and More Hell! Annie Diggs: A Prairie Populist

Written by Lavinia Roberts - Directed by Bryn Boice - Performed by Rebecca Gray Davis

A one woman show that explores the life of Annie Diggs, a journalist, orator, poet, advocate of women and black suffrage, temperance worker, and populist advocate in the 1890s.

Sunday, March 10 @ 7 pm

Sincerely Held Beliefs

Written by Bambi Everson - Directed by Rachael Langton

With Andrea Alton, Elizabeth Bell, Lydia Gaston, and Sarah Gaines

Mandy is caught between her two friends. One a grieving mother, and the other a zealous clairvoyant who is convinced she is receiving messages from the other side. Mandy must try to mediate these two relationships, while staying true to her own beliefs.

Sunday, March 10 @ 9 pm

Yell-Low

Directed & choreographed by ?? Jiang Feng

Yell-Low is a provocative manifesto of the low visibility and socio-political status of Asians in the West.

Tickets range between $10 - $20 and are available at www.newworkseries.com. All performances take place at TADA Theater, 15 West 28th Street (between Broadway and 5th Avenue), 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001. Subways: N/R/1/2 to 28th Street, B/D/F/W to 34th Street.

Emerging Artists New Works Series (NWS) began in 2006 and focuses on new works, new talents, and new voices. Since its inception, numerous productions that were workshopped at the series, have gone on to have full productions at the NYMF, FringeNYC & Encores, Edinburgh Fringe, off-Broadway, as well as National and International productions. Paul Adams, Andrea Alton, Scott Klavan, and Vanessa Shealy serve as curators for the NWS series. More info is available at www.newworkseries.com.

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