Seaport Summer Theatre Festival Plays NYC Aug. 2-26

Twelfth Night, Snapshots '07 and Late Night Comedy will launch the first annual Seaport Summer Theatre Festival.  The Festival will run from August 2nd through August 26th at the S-P-A-C-E Gallery and Performance Space (a project of the Seaport District Cultural Association), 207a Front Street at Beekman Street, South Street Seaport, NYC. 

The performance schedule is as follows:

Twelfth Night – Thursdays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm.
Snapshots – Fridays and Sundays at 7pm, Saturdays at 3pm.
Late Night Comedy – Saturday nights at 11pm.

Twelfth Night "is the ideal Shakespeare play for the Seaport and Gallery setting.  The comedy of love and longing begins with a tragic shipwreck off the coast of the seaport town of Illyria.  The S-P-A-C-E Gallery's eclectic collection of painting, sculpture and photography by Downtown Manhattan artists creates the perfect scenic environment for Illyria, a 'Through-The-Looking-Glass' world that is, to quote the Bard, 'high fantastical,'" state press notes.  The Twelfth Night cast is led by Stephen Largay (The Last Night of Ballyhoo) as Sir Toby Belch.  Also featured in the cast are Mari Howells, Margaret Nichols, James Rana, Jesse Gavin and Adam Hirsch.  
 
"Snapshots '07 continues the popular Snapshots series of One Acts presented by the Worth Street Theater Company that included notable work by Richard Greenberg, John Patrick Shanley and Tom Disch and featured premieres of work by Keith Reddin and Robert O'Hara.  The 2007 edition of Snapshots will include two world premieres by acclaimed playwright and novelist Clay McCleod Chapman, Bridesmaid and The Interstate and On.  Mr. Chapman's first book of short stories, Rest Area, was published in 2002 and his novel, Corpus, was published in 2003 by Hyperion.  His plays have been performed at the Culture Project, PS 122, The Red Room, and The Fringe Festival.  Jeff Cohen's In These Times – scenes from the aftermath of September 11, will comprise the second half of Snapshots.  It is a rueful meditation on the subtle ways that New Yorkers coped with the weeks following the tragedy of 9/11, and is an especially poignant tribute to the cultural life of the Seaport and its proximity to Ground Zero as that day's 6th anniversary approaches."
 
Late Night Comedy will take over the Festival every Saturday night, "featuring some of New York's most exciting established and up and coming comedy acts."

Artistic Director Jeff Cohen (Artistic Director of Worth Street Theater Company, founder of Tribeca Playhouse) continues to have an indelible association with Downtown and the events of 9/11.  
 
Tickets are $18 per show, or all three shows for a special Festival Pass of $30. Tickets can be purchased by calling Smarttix.com at 212/868-4444.