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readings, deals, etc.), in New York City, visit www.clubfreetime.com.
The history of Equity Library Theater can be read here!
Video
selections from past virtual play festivals have been used in the Creative
Writing Program (instructor Gary Duehr) at Bunker
Hill Community College in Boston.
Equity
Library Theater
of New York
(And the Woodside Players
of Queens, and The Fifth Avenue Theatre)
Since 2013, ELT has been presenting
a festival of short plays (comedy, drama and musicals)
by writers from around the globe, in association with the NYPL. Equity Library
Theater began its life in 1943 as a sort of New York City road-show,
with performances rotating among many theaters built during the Depression in
branches of the New York Public Library.
George Wojtasik was Producing Director of ELT
from 1966-1989. ELT won the Off-Broadway Theatre Tony Award twice, in 1953 and
in 1977. Despite valiant fund-raising efforts, ELT was forced to close, due to
financial concerns, in the 1989-1990 season. Today they present their works for
all to enjoy in person and in a virtual setting.
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Vote for your favorite
past ELT, Woodside Players, Fifth Avenue Theater, live 2021-22 production,
play, actor, director, etc. (Selections From Spoon River Anthology,
Goodnight, Irene, Dead Game, Amulet, Salt Mine Exchange, play festival
performances)
Here - BWW Off-Off-Broadway Awards -
Nominate Your Favorites Now.
Coming up!
October 9th at
1pm, the Fifth Avenue Theater of New York presents an in-person performance of
“Tales from The Times
- Selections from the Metropolitan Diaryy”.
Actors present short
vignettes based on the popular and often hilarious New York Times Saturday
section. Bring a folding chair, as seating may be limited. No rest rooms on
site, but nearby. Free for all to attend.
This event takes place at:
650 Fifth Avenue, enter on 52nd Street, down escalator, Midtown, Manhattan.
Equity Library
Theater of New York presents
“At Raygar’s”, a new play by John McCloskey.
October 21st at
7:30pm at Studio 353 (353 West 48th Street, 2nd floor)
“At Raygar’s” is a
short story of the restaurant industry, and what may occur behind closed doors.
With Andrew Dinan, Luke Goldthorpe, Sasha Henriques.
Also being
presented, “The Dead Game”, a short dark comedy by LA writer Lisa Stratton. With Ted Birke,
Shelia Spencer, Alexis Tandit.
Free admission.
Email equitylibrarytheater@gmail.com to reserve. No walk ins.
Seating is limited. Masks required during the performance.
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Coming up!
The Woodside Players
of Queens will present a live reading of “Six Cylinder Love”, a 1920 comedy by
William Anthony McGuire.
The performance is
November 19th at 1pm at the Queens Library Astoria Branch: 14-01 Astoria Blvd.
"Gilbert and
Marilyn Sterling make their home in a pleasant suburb. The young wife explains
that she wants an automobile badly. The husband takes out a mortgage on the
home and buys a machine from a crafty auto salesman, The couple gets in with a
fast set and Gilbert borrows some cash from his employer. The employer
discovers the theft but accepts Gilbert's promise to work hard and make good
and atone for his embezzlement. All ends well for the couple."
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Now Playing! Equity Library Theater of New York Summer 2022
Virtual Play Festival. Watch all 35+ submissions below. Text your favorite,
actor, play, director, to 631 898 4205.
Aaron Leventman – Lovers and Survivors
Amy Engelhardt – The Woods of Exeter
Barbara Alfaro – The Sirius
Interview
Brandon Fulk
- The Four Horseman
Brian
Johnston - Tell It Like It Is, Mary Louise Brown!,
with Maille-Rose Smith.
Chris
Ferretti – Between A Rock and Port Authority
Christopher Woods –
Salt Mine Exchange
Colette
Cullen – Everyone’s Sorry
Ed
Friedman – The Price of Progress
Eloise Coopersmith -
My (unauthorized) Hallmark Movie Musical
Fran
Handman - The Sticking Point
Gary Duehr - Johnny Depp Vs.Amber
Heard
Jaime
Sheedy - The Effect of Magic on The Death Of Will and
Grace
Josie Parrelli
- Her Confession
Lenny Hort – A Little Something About My Powers
Leticia
Arbelo – Terapéuticas, Lectura dramatizada
Lettuce
Eat with Suzanne Ridgeway – Christmas 2021
Marjorie
Conn telling a story by Sophie Virgilio
Mikki
Gillette - We're Just Talking, Okay?
Phylliss
Shanken – Where is Bunny Boy?
Selma Hazouri
– Miss Elizabeth Taylor
Steven Carinci – Who Loves
You, Baby?
Stephen Joseph Olson - The Breakup King
Wayne Paul Mattingly -
Anabel, in Barcelona, with Aliona Garcia
Writing Workshop for
Adults
Queens playwright
Johnny Culver brings together playwrights and other writers of all genres to
share their work and receive feedback to improve their craft. Writers are
encouraged to bring their five-minute or less length portions of scripts,
stories, poems to share. The free sessions will end with a performance of works
from the group.
Sep 16, 4:00pm -
5:30pm
(Repeats monthly
until March 2023.)
Queens Library
Astoria
14-01 Astoria
Boulevard, Astoria, NY 11102
(718) 278-2220
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January 2023, at the
NYPL at Lincoln Center, Equity Library Theater will present a performance of
short selections from “The Comic Entertainer” compilated by Henry L.
Williams in 1902. Interested in performing? Read them on Google Books (here). Contact: equitylibrarytheater@gmail.com.
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Meet our new community
partner!
City Gate
Productions is a 501c3 non-profit theater company with the mission to create
exceptional live theatre across Queens, telling stories that challenge the
mind, inspire the heart and reflect the beautiful
diversity of our borough. Their next
production is Terrence McNally's Tony Award winning play "Mothers and
Sons" performing live at the Secret Theatre in Woodside, NY. For information and tickets visit www.citygateproductions.org
and follow them on Instagram and Facebook @citygateproductions.
Fifth Avenue Theater of New York presented an afternoon of short
plays on July 16th in Midtown Manhattan, featuring works by Barry Malawer,
Brian Johnston, Meagan J. Meehan, Brandon Cahela, Nancy Davidoff Kelton,
Stephen Weller, Christopher Woods, and comedy with Tom Padovano.
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Below,
watch a virtual reading of two comedies from the early 20th century; Aunt Maggie’s Will (Mary Elizabeth Gale, 1910), and The Merediths Entertain
(Whitney Darrow, 1922).
Woodside Players
Monthly Summer Friday Writers Group
Jun 10, 2022, 01:00
PM
Jul 8, 2022, 01:00
PM
Aug 12, 2022, 01:00
PM
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89855927895?pwd=b0VRhjFF97H42c6IkZBgdE6UNmG17o.1
Meeting ID: 898 5592
7895
Passcode: 658023
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Fifth Avenue Theater
of New York presented a free performance of “More Selections from Spoon River
Anthology” on June 11th at 2pm, in Manhattan at 650 Fifth Avenue (enter on 52nd
Street, down escalator)
Local actors
performed short excerpts from the collection of poems that collectively
narrates the epitaphs of the residents of the town of Spoon River.
With:
Alexis Tandit
Andrew Dinan
Betsy Cruz
Evangeline Johns
Fredda Tourin
Gus Ferrari
Heather Jeanne Violanti
Heather Shore
Janice Kirkel
Joseph Ortiz
Luke Goldthorpe
Marjie Conn
Martha Morenstein
Mathilda Diaz
Stephanie Schwartz
Now Playing! Equity
Library Theater of New York Winter 2022 Virtual Play Festival. Watch all 40+ submissions
here! Winners in Red.
Antionette’s Duck – Wayne
Paul Mattingly, Filmed in Spain and Riverdale, NYC
A Milkman’s Serenade – Mark Blickley
(Tie, Best Play)
Curses! Curses! - Elizabeth
Shuler, Performed by Charli Williams
Dakota - Sydnie Belousek, with Ann DellaMonica
Dear Stella – With Ronnye Halpern, Pam
Trester, Susan McQuirk
Email!
– Dana Jaffe (Tie, Best Monologue)
Enchanted Walhalla Ravine - Farzana Datta
Just a Yellow Cab in New York City – Youlim
Nam
Lincoln’s Birthday – Peggy Terry
Lost Property – Robert Luxford (Tie, Best Actor)
Out to Pasture – Alison Gilbreath (Tie, Best Monologue)
Paramour - Rose-Mary
Harrington (Special Mention)
Property is Sacred – Mark Speyer
Rugged Individualism - Terry Smith (Tie, Best Actor)
Slow Dating – Adam Szudrich (filmed in New Zealand)
Soul to Squeeze – Meagan J. Meehan (Tie, Best Play)
Stoned - Scott Carter Cooper
(Tie, Best Play)
Sweet Forgiveness - John
Bettis / Walter Afanasieff
Texual
Abuse - Cindi Sansone-Braff
The
Actor and the Funeral – Jack West
The Best Is Yet to Come –
Nancy Cohen Koan
The Importance of Being Honest - Brian
Johnston
The
Isle Of Wight Festival, Summer 1970 - Annette Perpinan
The Lucky Escape – Eamann Breen (Tie, Best Actress)
The Time is Ripe - Pamela Morgan
Two Peds are Stu Peds – S. Joshua Mendel
Waitress! – With Cynthia Gale, Robin Jacobson, Rebecca Marks
Walmart at Christmas-A Short Play – Marty
Maftess
Wrong Kind of Doctor – Beth Evans, with Emily Blake, Ben WIllis (Tie, Best Actress)
You,
Me, and Marie Curie – Mary Crosbie, Jeanine Calleja (Special Mention)
Watch
Here! “In Swirly Letters”, a new play by Johnny Culver.
With Sarah-Ann Rodgers, Phyllis Cox, Bart DeFinna, Tom Morwick, Carolyn Quinn
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Past
Event!
New York’s Woodside Players and Fifth Avenue
Theatre join forces for a reading of short plays by local writers. Saturday,
March 26th @ 3pm, 650
Fifth Avenue 52nd Street, lower level.
Free admission, masks are suggested (and coats, too!). Bring a folding chair,
as seating may be limited.
Presenting works by and featuring:
Youlim
Nam – “Just a Yellow Cab in NYC”, with Nicole Lehrman, Ananth Padmasola, Dir. Sophia Treanor
Phil Blechman – “Morning Coffee”, with Hayley Palmaer
Marjorie Conn – “Shopping with Magic Morningstar”
Christopher Woods – “The Pink Dress”, with
Danielle Patsakos
Beth Evans - "The Wrong Kind of Doctor",
with Emily Blake, Ben Willis
Tom Padovano – “Reflections”
Nancy Davidoff Kelton - "An Unveiling, a
Date, and a Shrink", with Sharlene Hartman, Angela Madden, Richard Toth
Daniel M. Wolpe –
“Forever Intertwined”, with Andrew Dinan
Emily Blake – “The Window: My Mother, The
Lockdown, and Me"
William Hugel - “You Don’t Want What I Got”, with
Benjamin Willis, Joseph Ortiz
If you have any questions, please contact fifthavenuetheatre@gmail.com.
The
Woodside Players of Queens presented their 2021 virtual holiday performance, on
Zoom, December 29th @ 7pm EST. Watch
here!
“An evening of short Vaudeville sketches by Harry L. Newton”
(b. 1872).
Presenting:
An Oyster Stew, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, The Jumpkins Jumble,
Strenuous Mame - the Bowery Girl, Fresh Timothy Hay, A Jack and His Queen, The
Secondhand Man.
Directed
by Johnny Culver, Anne Hammond, Shelia Spencer, Milton Coykendall.
With:
Allison Fradkin, Andrew Dinan, Candy Brown, Carolle U, Cynthia Gale, Gus Ferrari, Helen Yalof, Joseph
Bowen, Marjie Conn, Paul Jones, Regan Carmody, Robin Jacobson, Ronnye Halpern,
Shelia Spencer, Susan Neuffer, Ted Birke.
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Watch “Daughter!” by David Gold, here. Recorded on the streets of New York.
Casting!
Equity Library Theater of New York is seeking
actors for their spring performance of “Aunt Maggie’s Will” by Elizabeth Gale
(1910, gender neutral casting) and “The Meredith’s Entertain”, by Whitney
Darrow (1922, 2M, 4W) and “Human Nature”, by Floyd Dell (1922, 3M, 1W, open to
alterations). The live performances will be held at Studio 353 in the Theater
District on April 30th, 2022. You can read the scripts on Google
Books. If interested, please send resume and headshot to equitylibrarytheater@gmail.com.
October 4th @ 7pm EST, Equity
Library Theater of New York presented a virtual presentation of “Excerpts from
Spoon River Anthology”.
A
deluxe recording can be viewed here.
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Watch here! The Woodside Players of Queens
present short American plays from 1900 to today![CJ1] Recorded August 20, 2021.
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The Equity Library Theater of New York Summer
2021 Virtual Play Festival! Links to over 60 plays/submissions are below.
Winners in Red.
A Bell Tolls – Monte D. Monteleagre
A Cheap Maid in Chasteside – Craig Gustafson
A Soul to Squeeze - Meagan
J. Meehan
Amy in Belgrade – Edmund Wilkinson
Aunt Velma Considers
Changing Religion - John Arnold TIE BEST ACTRESS
Barricade - Pamela Morgan
TIE BEST PRODUCTION
Bawdy Maudie - Vivian C.
Lermond TIE BEST PLAY
Cassidy’s Mourning – Triza Cox TIE BEST ACTRESS
Cinderella and the 3 Bear
Witches – Susan Horowitz SPECIAL MENTION
Dream
Talk – Emma Goldman-Sherman
Emotional Support Canadian –
Amanda Vick
Extremely Right – Glen
Dickson
Gentle Warren - Steven
Carinci
Get Out Of
My Head! - Youlim Nam TIE BEST ACTRESS
Glassblower – Judith Glass
Collins
Hurricane of Love – Maripat Allen
Is My Truth the Lie? - David
T. Anderson
Jamie's Protest - Leonard D.
Goodisman
Life Under the Prairie – Barbara
Anderson TIE BEST PRODUCTION
Meconium Aspirations - Mark Blickley
Park Bench Domain – John Corins
Plaque Kills - Dana Hall,
performed by John Madison TIE BEST ACTOR
Prayer To Him - Yulidal Hernandez Kin
Rita - Protective Shield -
Antonia Kleopa
Sarah Franklin for President
- Matt Sanders and Ariel Aliza Sanders
Scan to Begin – Monique
Herbert
Six Impossible Things Before Coronavirus –
Matt Cogswell
Telepathy – Brian Leahy
Doyle, directed by Kevin Michael Morin
The Neighbor - Selma Hazouri - A man remembers a neighbor from the past TIE BEST PLAY
The Night Watch – Mostyn
Lyndon Farr
The Pink Dress – Christopher
Woods, with Danielle Patsakos SPECIAL MENTION
The Uninvited – Rose-Mary
Harrington
The Waiter - Claude Clayton
Smith
The Way That Sand Moves –
Rick Davis TIE BEST ACTOR
Threesome (A Short Pandemic
Musical) - Zuker and Metz SPECIAL MENTION
That’s All We Got – Logan
Rogers
Tony Defends A Friend – Dana Jaffe
Training Wheels – Michael Hardstark TIE BEST ACTOR
Una Noche
En Tejas: When Beyoncé Met Selena - Kevin Ray TIE BEST PLAY
Unpack:
Key Moments of Romania’s History in a One-Woman Show - Cătălina
Florescu
Visiting Dad - Marj
O'Neill-Butler, performed by Emma Merritt
What If Science Is Real? –
Judy Klass
Your Town – Donald Steven
Olson
Full length plays performed virtually
from the summer and fall of 2021!
Watch them below and text your favorite to 631 898
4205 - play, actor, actress.
This new play, written and directed by P.H. Lin,
and developed by Cate Cammarata’s Create Theater,
made its online debut as part of Create Theater’s Monday Night Reading Series
on May 17, 2021 at 7pm EDT.
A one-act play by Marc Weiner, Cast:
Kimberly J. Yates, Sean Edward Evans, Jacob Lineberry, Crew: Ira Block, Shravya Kag, Filmed at
Playwrights Rehearsal Studios, New York City.
The Pot Boiler - A
Reimagining (1916) - based on a one-act satire by Alice Gerstenberg
Alice Gerstenberg’s “The
Pot Boiler” is a satire about the pretensions of conventional theater. This
“reimagining” transplants the humor into a modern zoom-age context. Cast: Marty
Goldberg, Ted Birke, Valerie O’Hara, Bill Barry, Perryn Pomatto, Meredith
Sullivan, Sean Buckley, Aleksandar Tasev and Shelia
Spencer – directed by Shelia Spencer.
Jane, a 27-year-old woman with progressive
political views, undergoes brain surgery. The surgery is for the most part a
success except for the fact that she is now, suddenly, a rabid conservative
Republican. How do her loved ones cope with her new
political identity? A comedy that asks the question how much do our political
beliefs shape our lives? Cast: Jane - Brittney McHugh, Jack - Martin Downs,
Lauryn - Andrea Nelson, Bonnie - Vita Carnduff, Ryan - Michael May.
Directed by Vincent Mraz – “I will be working with
senior citizens across Manhattan teaching a virtual sketch comedy writing class
as a 2021
SU-CASA teaching artist.” Runs 80 minutes.
Ghosts From The Well – Jack
West
A re-imagined rewriting of Val Burton, Walter DeLeon and Bradford Ropes' 1946 Abbott & Costello comedy
of two people mistaken for traitors during the American Revolutionary War.
Doomed by a curse to be bound to earth forever, their ghosts now haunt a
married couple on Long Island, NY. When an eccentric ghost hunter and his odd,
clairvoyant assistant are brought in to rid the home of the spirits, the ghost
hunter’s mistaken for an old nemesis, there’s a wacky séance - and even bigger
problems. Written by Jack West. Performed by Jack West and Karen Corrado. © Jack West. All Rights Reserved.
Godless
– Jarrett Winters Morley
'Godless' is a one act play that delves into the origins
of the human psyche between Adam and Eve, discusses the controversy surrounding
humankind's perception of a higher power, and how each of us defines faith.
Directed By: Jarrett Winters Morley. Cast: Eve: Lauren Curet, Adam: Jarrett
Winters Morley.
This is a reading of the play Garden Party by Judy
Klass, Directed by Alyssa Borg.
The
Girl of my Dreams – Carole Jackson
With Ted Birke, Richard Callender, Laurel
Lockhart, Susan Neuffer. The play follow Kathryn Coleman, a British girl, from
ages 10 to 37. Although her relationships with her father, grandmother, and
husband are important, it's her mother, Myrna, who is the constant in her life
- for better or worse.
Selections
from "Trout Day" - Peggy Terry
With:
Zoe Avery, Terri Bonica, Ted Burke, Andrew Dinan, Jennifer Finger, Ann Morelli,
Martha Morenstein, Tom Morwick, Olivia Rubrum, Alexis Tandit. In this comedy,
the first day of school goes all wrong when a frazzled parent tries to do away
with an mysterious small town tradition.
Mag
and Ryan, best friends since college, confront doom with Zoom, social
distancing with close-up romancing in a pandemic fatigued world.
Boyself/Girlself - Jack Seamus Conley
A pre-transition transmasculine person (Girlself),
who is in the early stages of “coming” out and uncertain of what the
future may hold for them, receives a surprise visit from a future version of
their self (Boyself), who only has foggy memories of
the exchange from the “other” side. As they talk together about everything and
nothing, both “selves” learn something unexpected about who they are
collectively. Directed and written by Jack Seamus Conley, and
starring Lea Hulsey (Girlself) and Chase Nuerge (Boyself).
This is my Block - Talara Ruth
Originally
printed in the New York Times Metropolitan Diary, Talara
reminisces about her childhood neighborhood.
All Gummed Up
(Comedy 1921) - Harry Wagstaff Gribble
With
Ted Birke/Valerie O'Hara/Bill Barry/Perryn Pomatto/Maggi Veltre
(dir. Shelia Spencer). Shelia Spencer is savoring the serendipity of finding
old plays, dusting them off and giving them new life and vitality here on Zoom.
She deeply appreciates the talent she is connecting with today - as well as
that from our theatrical past.
The Census - Leonard D. Goodisman
Directed
by Monica Hoyt. Director of Photography - Zack Bermack.
Cast: Madison Hemings - Ben Baez, Sally Hemings - Yvette Bedgood,
Census Taker - Gabe Girson, Eston
Hemings - Cole Mackler.
Hippies, Housewives &
Watering Holes – D. M. Larson
Performed
by Long Island’s Afternoon Delight Players.
America's
Theatre presents Love Restor'd -- a haunted tale, a
visitation in the dark night. Our play features, in order of appearance: Len Bellezza as Tom, Susan Horowitz as Becky, and Donna Wall as
Susan.
Starring
Toni Tennille, Julie Cargill, and Trisha Tracy, “Out to Lunch” opens in a
quaint restaurant where the two main characters discuss their lives, dead
husbands and the couple seated next to them. Gloria and Lillian are lifelong
friends in their seventies. When the young server engages her customers, we are
all left to wonder if ‘Feminism’ is the new “F-Word”. Exploring themes of the
female bond, experience, and life-challenges, “Out to Lunch” rallies.
The Middle Of The Night - Elizabeth Robertson Laytin
With
Danielle Patsakos, Carolle
U. Elizabeth is a winner of a 2016 Frank McCourt Memoir prize for her short
story Black Sugar, published in Vol. X No.2 Summer/Fall 2016 of The Southampton
Review. Her novel Come Here Go Away for
the young adult audience is available on kindle, amazon.com, and at Guild Hall
in East Hampton, N.Y. Short stories have
also been published on ducts.org, deadmule.com, and in The East Hampton Star.
Now playing! The
Equity Library Theater of New York Winter 2021 Virtual Play Festival. Links to
over 70 performances are below.
(formatted
for desktop viewing, in alphabetical order).
Winners, based on
feedback, in red.
A Mother’s Story – Patrice Hamilton
A Tale of Stockbridge – Charles Gross
A Turkey is NOT a
Rooster – Jinna Kim (Tie – Best Play)
Across the Lake – Johnny Culver
Avoiding Unwanted Pregnancy
-Rom Watson - performed by AnnaLisa Erickson,
Bill
W and Jimmy K - Andrew Matthews (Tie – Best Play)
But Did I Leave The Oven On? – Jake Alexander (Tie - Best Actor
Team)
Chuckles, The Clown – David Lloyd
College Without Walls - Matt Sanders &
Ariel Aliza Sanders
External Monitors - Richard Lyons Conlon
First
Baby – Alex Perry (Tie – Best Play)
Frenchie's Fate - Kannan
Menon
Give Me Something Good to
Eat - John Glass
Going
Up – Joseph Vitale, with Scott Cagney, Gary Glor.
Directed by Will Budnikov
Happy Funeral Day - David T. Anderson.
with: Janice Kirkel, Alexis Tandit, Carolle U
Harlem Top To Bottom – Jordan
Young (Best Monologue)
How Did Edward Lose his Accent? -Teddy
Alexis Rodriguez, PhD
How to Survive from REMNANTS
– Hank Greenspan
Introducing
My Crazy – Marlo K. Shaw
Last Night Bluey Died - Sam Affoumado
Mamet Mommies Soccer - Greg
D'Angelo
Millard, Is That You? –
Brian Leahy Doyle
Monologue from “Illspoken”
– Blaire Baron
Morning Coffee – Phil
Blechman
Museum Pieces (Monologue) -
Sherry Chiaroscuro
No Rest for a Soul
- Cindi Sansone-Braff
Phony on a Twig - Rex
McGregor
PhotontheTimesSquareShuttle
– Lawrence Rinkel
Remember Me, Mr. Jones? - Christine
Benvenuto
Santa and Spock –
Heidi Mae (Special Mention)
Scoundrel by Monte D.
Monteleagre, directed by Kevin Snyder
Spiritual
Counseling – Jack Rushen
Steely Resolve – Alan Stoltzer
The Apocalypse Is Here But Where's The Iron – Daniel McKamey
The Ballad Of Leslie - Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend
The Campaign – Hannah Williams
The Carpet Washers – Jack
West
The
Galloping Gourmet, based on The Lying Valet, by David Garrick
The Line Up in the Time of Covid – Barbara Litt
Thomas, Thomas – Leonard D. Goodisman
This Is My Block, Part Two- Talara Ruth, with Anne Morelli
Two Ply – Chef
Rossi (Special Mention)
Unpack -Catalina Florina Florescu
WABI SABI -
Rachael Carnes - Directed by Andra Hunter With Zoe
Margolis, Max Gallagher (Tie - Best Actor Team)
Well and On My Own
- Ellen C. Scherer
What’s in a Name – Lee Franklin
Wise Old Owl: A Trilogy – Phyliss Shanken
Without Whom None of This Would’ve Been
Possible - Kevin J. Miller
Zoom
Mom – Greg Abbott (Special Mention)
The Woodside Players of New York City 2021 winter season. One act plays*,
some from over 100 years ago, performed virtually. Watch them below!
(thanks to Shelia
Spencer and her actors)
Finders
Keepers – George Kelly – 1923 - Directed by Kevin Snyder
Suppressed Desires –
Susan Glaspell – 1914 - dir. by Shelia Spencer, with Hannah Abney, Farah
Diaz-Tello & Jacob Lineberry (over 1000 views)
Tickless
Time - by Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook - 1918 - directed by Shelia Spencer
Sham - Frank G. Tompkins -
1920
The
Angel Intrudes – Floyd Dell – 1918
Illuminati in Drama Libre- Alice
Gerstenberg – 1922
Attuned
– Alice Gerstenberg – 1922 - with Shelia Spencer
*all
free to read on Google Books.
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Past
Event!
Over
thirty-five short plays.
Fifth
Avenue Theatre of New York Virtual Fall 2020 Play Festival
Winners in red!
E Minor Seventh – Timothy Nolan
(Special Mention)
Siggy & Dolph at the Klaustenauer Cafe - by Fred Crecca
Shana The She-Pirate – Emily Battles
Coyotes – Steven Carinci
(Best Play – tie)
Throne
of the Third Heaven - Philip Reissman
Glasses
– Barry M. Putt Jr. with Allison Fradkin (Best Monologue – tie)
Who Let The Dogs
Out? – Marian Rosin
Barren Landscape – Steve Gold (Best actress – Alexis Tandit)
Wounded
Birds - Elaine Kuracina
Deeds Not Words - Rose-Mary Harrington
(Performer
Diana Kyle and Technical Director,
Elizabeth Gordon)
Lyre On The
Floor – Jackson Montana
The Waiting Place - Michael Cunningham,
with Regina Yeager (Special Mention)
Invisible Foe -
Michele A Miller, PhD
Confessions:
The Hours - Natascha Graham (Best Monologue – tie)
The
Wiggle Room – George D. Morgan
How
I Spent My Quarantine – Ellen Abrams
It's
Not Haunted Real Estate - Sarah Congress (Best Effects)
My
Turkey Redeemer Liveth – Loretta Wish (Best acting duo)
Fred
the Projectionist – Fred Pflantzer
Where For Art Thou, Dougnuts
– Michelle Glusto (Best Play – tie)
Smarter
than You - Richard Bonte
Occupied
Countries - Jack Rushton
Tell Me
How I Did – Justin McDevitt
The United States of Huevos - Tavi Juárez & Stephen Tsimpides (Best Play – tie)
Frank and Rachel – Nancy Temple
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In October 2020, Equity
Library Theater and the Instant Shakespeare Company presented a reading of
“Catherine and Petruchio” by David Garrick. Click here to watch.
Equity
Library Theater of New York presents a reading of a full
length new play:
The
play is based on a book written by American author, Charles Brockden
Brown (publ. in 2 vols.1798 & 1815). It consists of a dialogue between Edwin Alcuin, a Quaker
schoolmaster, and Mrs. Carter, a widow, in
Philadelphia in 1798. Alcuin and Mrs. Carter argue about women's lack of voting
rights, their need for financial independence, and their inadequate access to
education and employment opportunities. Mrs. Carter speaks for all women,
sharing her insights about marriage and divorce as well as politics. As the two
debate these issues, they become friends and, eventually, lovers. The plot
includes a remarkable sequence in which Alcuin travels to a future utopia, The
Paradise of Women, where men and women are equals and where the word
"marriage" does not exist. Though their conversations are serious,
there are many light moments and a subtle romantic subtext.
Caterina Nonis is a director, theatre maker and actor from
Milan, now based in New York. She has collaborated with Page 73, The Habitat,
The InHEIRitance Project, NYMadness,
Shotz! Amios, Theatre East,
KIT, Stella Adler, Modern Shakespeare Project, Match:Lit, among others. At the Venice
Biennale, she studied different approaches to theatre making with directors
Thom Luz and Jakop Ahlbom.
She is an artistic associate of The InHEIRitance
Project, and an SDCF Observership 18/19 Class member.
BFA: NYU Tisch, Stella Adler & RADA. www.caterinanonis.com.
California native, Dean Linnard is a New York based AEA actor, singer,
solo-performer, and puppeteer. He studied at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts,
the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in
London. Since then, he has been associated with a
number of outstanding theater companies, such as the Portland Playhouse,
Vermont Shakespeare Company, and New Orleans Fringe Festival. Though he
specializes in classical material, his projects have ranged from Shakespeare to
experimental performance art, from children’s theater to Off-Broadway. In
2011, he developed a one-man adaptation of Hamlet which he performed
as a benefit for Young Actors Workshop in California and as part of Manhattan
Repertory Theatre’s New Work series. He is a Teaching Artist for Broadway.com’s Broadway Classroom Series. www.deanlinnard.com.
Carolyn Balducci’s publications
include fiction & non-fiction books, articles & reviews as well as
translations and poetry. Her plays include adaptations/translations of
Aristophanes’ Lysistrata; Renaissance comedies, La
Calandra and La Veniexiana; contemporary
Italian comedies; Alcuin: A Fierce & Elegant Plea for the Rights of
Women; and Chekhov in the Hamptons. Original works include Maestro:Pirandello as Recalled by
Ms. Marta Abba; and Giovanni the Fearless, a commedia dell'arte
musical (book and lyrics by Carolyn Balducci; music composed by Mira
J. Spektor). She is a member of the Dramatists’
Guild, BMI and NYWIFT.
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Past
event!
“Five on
Fifth – 2020 Summer Play Festival”, Fifth Avenue Theater presents video
recordings of short plays by local writers! Click below to watch.
“Goth Principal: A Hunted
Man” By Alaina Hammond
Starring
Isaac Scranton as Jonny/Gothman
and
Alaina Hammond as Belinda.
“Waitress!”
with Shelia Spence, Alexis Tandit,
Regina Yeager.
“Generation Love” by Nick Bompart.
“Promises”,
by Shirley King, with Julia Genoveva.
“In The
Clair De Lune” - An Online Play, by JB Bruno.
(voted
best play)
“All Kinds of Skin” – by Victoria Lau
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Past
event!
The Woodside Players of Queens Summer 2020 Play
Festival. Short plays by local writers in a virtual setting. Click below to
watch!
Baby
Bird On the Isle of Corona written by Rossi (aka Chef Rossi)
with
Celeste Ciulla, Rossi and Charmaine Broad
The
Seal Wife – by Michael Cunningham
(special mention)
Just a Little Mistake - by Mary Elizabeth Gale
Virgins – by Scott C. Sickles, with Elizabeth Carlsen and Kinga Nowak
The
Effect of Magic on The Death Of Will and Grace – by Jaime Sheedy, directed by D.A.G Burgos
(voted best performer)
Anonymous
Recipes - by Dane Rooney (voted best play)
Past
event!
Equity
Library Theater’s Summer 2020 Virtual Play Festival.
Twenty
plays, and links to the performances are below!
The Dead Game, by Lisa Stratton, with Regina Yeager
and Alexis Tandit
What Are You Hiding? – by Elizabeth Shannon and Morgan Southwell
Virgins – by
Scott C. Sickles, with Reanna Armellino and Shay
Wisniewski
Book
and lyrics by Mark Evan Chimsky, Music by Zev Burrows
Two
legends meet in the afterlife -- who are they?
With
Jennine Cannizzo (Dot), Emily Iocovozzi
(J), and Ross Neal (The Translator) (tie for best play)
Gloval Covid – by David T.
Anderson, with Yvette Bedgood
Two sisters torn apart
by politics, and a big secret.
With Friends Like That - by Bara Swain, featuring Betzabeth
Castro
Welcome
Wagon – by Peggy Terry, with Regina Yeager,
Alexis Tandit, Elise Valderrama
On
Sacred Ground - by Susan Masters, With Yvette Bedgood (voted best performer)
I Was Here – by Ellen Scherer (tie for best play)
Unmasked
– by Heidi Mae, with Jacob Lineberry, Farah
Diaz-Tello (special mention)
The Other Author – by Tom Misuraca
The Waltz of the Exterminator – by Heather Violanti, with: Woman -- Taylor Lynne, Exterminator--Thomas J. Kane, Mouse--Valerie O'Hara, Stage Directions and Video--Marialana K. Ardolino
It
Ain't Over 'Til the Pink Lady Sings - Written & Directed by Allison Fradkin
Cast:
Nya Noemi as Marva, Emmy Carlyle Albritton as Francine, Briana Velazquez as
Winifred
Crummy – by Johnny Culver, with Elise Valderrama, Haneen Arafat Murphy, Hannah Abney
Faustus and
the Soliloquy - by Dane Rooney
Putting Up The Shed - by Leonard Goodisman, with Jacob Lineberry, Benjamin Willis
In The
Toilet – by Madison Mayer
The Dancer – by William Jess Russell (special
mention)
Humanity at
a Standstill – by Bryan Myers
Real
Friends Help You Move – by KK Gordon
Ann
Fulton – by Charles Lupia,
with Susan Palmer Everly
“The
Last Bag” – by Tain
Leonard-Peck
Past Best
Plays from the Equity Library Theater Summer Play Festival!
2020 - I
Was Here – by Ellen Scherer/J. & Dot
Book and
lyrics by Mark Evan Chimsky, Music by Zev Burrows
2019 –
Tina – TJ Harland
2018 -
Paige Esterly - Eve and Adam
2017 -
Michael Verderber - Unending Repetition/Treason
2016 -
Michael Maiello – Looking Through the Glass
2015 -
Hello Mom – Lauren Snyder/Driving Herd – Sam Graber
2014 -
John Ladd – Ashes to Ashes (Drama)/ Scott Haskell – Womanhood (Comedy)
2013 -
Liza Bulos - Attention Shoppers
Past
event!
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Congratulations to the Woodside Players of Queens!
The 2019 Josie Performance Award for best Director
of 2018
Best Director: Kate Remelius
– “Epitaph by Moonlight”
Past
event and returning on Zoom (view here)
Equity Library Theater and the Gingerbread Players
of Forest Hills present a staged reading of the 1921 comedy
"The
Dover Road" by A. A. Milne.
Saturday, February 8, 2020
at 2 PM – 4 PM
New York Public Library 53rd street Branch 18 W
53rd St, New York, NY 10019
Leonard and Anne are two lovers travelling on the Dover Road
when their car breaks down. They are taken to a hotel, which turns out to be
the private residence of the eccentric, wealthy, and reclusive Mr. Latimer.
Leonard and Anne soon discover that they are not the only couple to have been
waylaid on the road. What does the mysterious Mr. Latimer have in store for
these couples?
With: Andrew Dinan, Mike Miller, Kinga Nowak, Suzanne Schick,
Debbie Smith, Johnny Tyrone and Bart DeFinna. Johnny
Culver directs.
More info 631 898 4205. Free admission. Seating is limited.
Past
Event!
This
fall, a new theater group begins work in Manhattan, The Fifth Avenue Theatre of
New York!
Our
first event will be a reading of new short plays by
local writers, in a casual, free setting, November 9th @12pm in the atrium on
the lower level at 650 Fifth Avenue. Enter on 52nd Street. No admission fee.
Featuring:
St.
John - Lloyd Pace
The
Wonderer - Lynda Crawford
Scary
Mom – Nancy Davidoff Kelton
And
Everything Was Perfect – Monte D. Monteleagre
Lunchtime
- Johnny Culver
More
info, contact us at: fifthavenuetheatre@gmail.com.
Past Event
November
16, 2019 @12pm, NYPL Alvin Ailey Auditorium
203 West 115th Street
Equity
Library Theater presents a reading a reading of a new play
EXTRACTED
by Dwayne Yancey, Directed by Alexandra Scordato.
A
truck driver sleeping in his cab in southern California is awoken by someone
banging on his door. He opens it to find two teen-age girls who say they
desperately need a ride back to New York -- Sam says she's rescued her sister
Libby from drug gangs in Los Angeles and needs to get her home to her family.
Thus begins a strange, cross-country journey full of mysterious characters --
and a dark allegorical tale about modern politics and immigration.
Runs
about 90 minutes. Free admission. More info 631 898 4205.
Past
Event.
The
Woodside Players of Queens present
“Miss
Molly”, a 1918 comedy by Elizabeth Gale!
December
21st, 2019 @2pm Queens Library Forest Hills Branch,
108-19
71st Ave, Forest Hills, NY 11375
A
simple case of mistaken identities in the home of a "crabbed old
misogynist" provides much laughter and mayhem in this short two act play.
Reginald - Johnny Culver
Julian - Frankie Wang
Joe - Charles Huang
Annie - Shelia Spencer
Molly - Cheryl Bear
Cissie – Samantha Whitmore
Pearl
- Alexis Tandit
Miston – Regina Yeager
Director - Jake Dunham
Free admission. Seating is limited. More info 631 898 4205. Great
for groups!
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Past Event!
Equity Library Theater Summer 2019 Play Festival
Part
One - August 3rd, 2019 @12pm, ,
NYPL Alvin Ailey Auditorium 203 West 115th Street
Tina by F.
J. Hartland (best play)
Directed
by Paula D'Alessandris, w/Alex Etling
The
Soldier Returns - Lionelle Hamanaka
Directed by Nicholas Leung, w/ J.R. Carter, Selear Duke
Rosemary -
Charles Lupia
Directed by Charles Lupia,
w/ Susan Palmer Everly
Father
Figure - Liz Amberly
Directed
by Leslie Kincaid Burby , w/ Maggie Horan, Fred Velde
Attention
Shoppers - Barbara Blumenthal
Directed by Valeria Canigla,
w/ Jacob Linberry, Pilar Adara, Cheryl Bear
Valentine
Shrugged - Wayne Paul Mattingly
With Quinn Warren, Emily Mervosh
HOA -
Laura Huntt Foti
With Kristin Samuelson, Rew
Starr
Meaning -
Tommy Nichols
With Clare Casey
Part Two -
August 10th, 2019 @12pm, NYPL Alvin Ailey Auditorium 203 West 115th Street
Questions
- Rob Dames
Directed by Ted Thompson, w/ Martin Goldberg,
William Barry
The
Divorcee Shower - Lavinia Roberts
Directed by Dianna Garten, w/ Brittney Jo Sowards
Going to
the Dog - Barbara Litt
Directed by Conrado
Falco III, w/ Sarah Quane Smyth, Gamal ElSawah
Doctor Penington - Steve Capra
With
Oliver Conant, Beth Griffith, Justyna Kostek
Service
Not Rendered – Ray Vagge
With Bridget Sweeney, Donna Ross
Find the
Mole - Ken Langer
Directed
by Naman Gupta
Free Admission – More info: 631 898 4205.
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Links to other well respected theater groups:
PAST
EVENT!
Equity Library Theater presents:
"Princess Jazzberry’s
Wild Ride"
NYPL 53rd Street Branch
18 West 53rd Street, New York
Saturday, July 13 2019
@12pm
With:
Stephen Zuccaro - Del
Trevor Jones - Mason
Bec Everett - Liz
Christopher Trindade - Ted
Evelyn Dumont - Stage Directions
Written
and Directed by Kyle A. Smith
Kyle A Smith is
a dramatist living in Brooklyn, NY. He has an MFA in Dramatic Writing
from NYU where he was a recipient of the TSOA fellowship. His plays have
been produced or workshopped at The Queen's Theatre, The Tarragon Theatre, The
Goldberg Theatre, The Emerging Artist's Theatre, The Secret Theatre, and The
Bad Theatre Fest. His screenplays and short film have won multiple awards
across the United States. He was recently a finalist for the Princess
Grace Award and the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild
Residency, and a semifinalist for Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries. His short
play Don was published in 2018. Kyleanthonysmith.com. He holds an MFA in
Dramatic Writing from NYU where he was a recipient of the TSOA fellowship.
Also
presenting “Soo Zoo Me”, by Mark Blickley,
a solo performance by Irish actress Maeve
Price. A tale of interspecies romance at the Congo Gorilla Forest in the
Bronx.
Past
Event!!
Woodside
Players of Queens Summer Play Festival
Saturday,
June 15, 2019 at 2 PM – 4 PM
Queens
Library 37-44 21st St, Long Island City, NY 11101
Short
plays by local authors.
Wild Weekend Fernando Buzzar Segall
Time to A Phantom
Zachariah Ezel (winner)
Ocean Front Tom
Cavanaugh
Polly
Scott Cohen
Alzheimer's Diary Steve Gold
Breakfast Alan
Stolzer
Unstoppable Ed Adomatis
Your Digital Past Tanya
Sharma
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Past Event!
Equity Library Theater presents an afternoon of
short plays by Kyle A. Smith.
Saturday, February 23, 2019
at 12 PM – 2 PM
Ailey Auditorium Harry Belafonte-115th Street
Library 203 West 115th Street, New York.
"Missed Connections"
The plays are:
Frisky
Miss Direction
Intrusive Thoughts
Miss Conduct
Don
Miss Education
Free admission. More info 631 898 4205.
Kyle Smith’s plays have been produced and workshopped at The Goldberg
Theater, The Tarragon Theatre, The Secret Theater, The Emerging Artists
Theatre, The Treehouse Theater, The Robert Moss Theater, and Shetler Studios.
His plays include Unstuck in Time, Princess Jazzberry’s
Wild Ride, Whiteout, The Part of Me (Princess Grace Finalist), Blinded
(Goldberg Play Prize Finalist), The Correctable, Inherit the Earth, Revolution,
Don, Frisky, Squashy (selected for Best of Night, Bad Theatre Fest). He was
recently a finalist for the Princess Grace Award, a finalist for the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Residency, a semifinalist for Shakespeare’s
New Contemporaries, and a semifinalist for the Baltic Writer’s Residency.
His screenplays include Higher Education (1st place festival-wide Chicago Genre
Screenplay Competition, 1st place for comedy at Chicago Genre Screenplay
Competition, 1st place for comedy Las Vegas Screenplay Contest, Runner-up best
screenplay Portland Comedy Film Festival, Silver Award Winner at North American
Film Festival, Finalist Hollywood Hills Screenplay Competition, Semifinalist LA
Cinefest, official selection Focus International Film
Festival, Houston Comedy Film Festival, LA Live Film Festival), A More Perfect
Union (Winner, Best Historical Screenplay, iHolly
Film Festival, 2nd place for historical screenplay at Las Vegas Screenplay
Contest, Finalist Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest, Finalist Twin Falls
Sandwiches Film Festival, semi-finalist LA Cinefest),
Hair of the Dog (Winner of Dark Comedy Award Avalonia Film Festival, official
selection Bad Film Fest, official selection Portland Comedy Film Festival,
Frostbite International Film Festival, Hellfire Short Film Festival), and
Probert Bound (Winner Best Short Screenplay Laugh or Die Comedy Festival,
official selection Austin Comedy Short Film Festival).
His pilot, The Blackout Menace, won the award for Best Half Hour Comedy
Original Pilot at The Hollywood Hills Screenplay Competition, is a finalist at
the Austin Revolution Film Festival, and an official selection of the Finish
Line Script Competition.
His short play, Don, has an expected publication in 2018 as part of the Act
One: One Act Anthology from Top Secret Books.
He holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU where he was a recipient of the
TSOA fellowship.
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Past Event!
The Woodside Players of Queens presents their
spring 2019 production of five rare one act Broadway comedies from 1910 by
Clare Beecher Kummer and Irving Dale.
Saturday March 9th at 2:30pm
Queens-Forest Hills Library (108-19 71 Avenue,
Forest Hills, NY 11375
E F R to 71st Avenue)
Clare Beecher Kummer - The Robbery
Clare Beecher Kummer - The Choir Rehearsal
Irving Dale - Too Much Salt
Irving Dale – Tickets Please
Irving Dale - The Way of a Woman
Local actors perform these short plays. Suitable for the entire family
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Past Event
Saturday,
March 16, 2019 at 2 PM – 3 PM
14-01
Astoria Blvd, Astoria, NY 11102, United States
The
Woodside Players of Queens present local performing artists!
The
Woodside Players of Queens present local artists in a coffeehouse setting for a
casual afternoon of theater, poetry, music, comedy and more! Free admission.
More info 631 898 4205. Great for groups
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Past
Event!
The Woodside Players of Queens Fall Play Festival!
Saturday November 10th@2pm
Queens
Library - Astoria
14-01
Astoria Blvd.
M60,
Q100, Q69, Q19 or N train to Astoria Blvd.
Presenting
short plays by these writers:
The Border - Tony Manzo
With
Isaac Conner, Jane Park
Ventroquilist - Marjie Conn
With
Ms. Crow
Willie - Donald Loftus
With
Rosina Fernhoff, Joanne Halev,
Jeff Knapp
Drama Should Stay on the Stage - Lavinia Roberts
Directed
by Karen Crighton, with Kaitlyn Farley, Sonseray Reed
Sailboat 12 - Greg Driscoll
Don - Kyle Smith (Best Play)
With
Michael Bradley, Chris Trindale
The Will - Glenda Frank
Directed
by Susanna Miller, with Rhonda Addams, Daniel Blankenship, Esq.
Chew on This - Ellen O’Neill
Epitaph by Moonlight - Michael Verderber
Reina – Joseph Bulvid
With Aram Hovsepian,
Alissa Simmons, Antonio Silva
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December 1st @12pm
NYPL 53rd Street Branch 18 West 53rd Street
Equity Library Theater presents: The Lost Virginity Tour, a reading of a
play by Cricket Daniel
“Cricket Daniel’s ‘Lost
Virginity Tour’ is one of those finely-written evenings of theater that both
moves you to tears and has you laughing until your face hurts!
Funny-as-all-heck dialogue, great female characters that any theatre performer
would chomp at the bit to play, all wrapped up in a wonderful atmosphere of
melancholy - Daniel’s ‘Lost Virginity Tour’ is a theatrical treat that should
be performed in theatre’s everywhere!” - Dennis T. Giacino.
With: Terri Bonica-Matassov, Penny Gaston, Debbie Smith, and Linda Vega. Daniyel Hunt narrates, Johnny Culver directs.
Runs 90 minutes. More info 631 898 4205. Seating is limited. Free Admission.
Past event!
The Woodside Players presents:
Rare Short Plays from Early 20th Century Broadway
November 3
@ 12pm, NYPL Alvin Ailey Auditorium @1pm
203 West 115th Street (B C 2 3 to 116th Street)
(212) 666-9393
Private Boarding – 1878 – William Courtwright
Director. Andy Scott
Jason
Ballew, Kevin Buiocchi, Johanna Lee, Caitlin McQuade,
Emma Miller.
The Motor Bellows – 1877 – William Courtwright
Director. Graydon Gund
With:
William Burns, Nathaniel Edward, Luda Millias, Greg
Prosser.
The Great Look – 1912- William Faydon
Director. Jacob Dunham
With:
Charles Baran, Nathaniel Dolquest, Melanie Gettler, Elizabeth McBryde.
The Second Hand Man - 1903 - Harry Lee Newton
With: Ron
Crawford, Kevin David Thomas.
Is It Raining? - 1903 - Harry Lee Newton
With: Ron
Crawford, Sutton Thomas.
When Johnny Comes Marching Home 1903 - Harry Lee Newton Director. Johnny Culver
With: Daniyel Hunt, Laurie Sammeth.
More info:
631 898 4205.
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Past event!
“Lincoln’s Birthday”
With: Andrew Dinan, Penny Gaston,
Mike Miller, Tom Morwick, Alissa Simmons
Goofy inmates, Larry and Carl,
scheme to get their favorite show tunes record into their hands, with no help
from a Hollywood legend!
July 26, @ 6:15pm, July 27, @
6:15pm, July 29, @6:15pm
Hudson Guild Theater 441 W 26th
St, New York, NY 10001.
Tickets here:
http://newyorktheaterfestival.com/lincolns-birthday/
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Past event!
The Equity Library Theater
Playwriting Summer Festival 2018
Part One
August 4th @12pm
New York
Public Library – George Bruce Branch Auditorium
518 West 125th Street (at Amsterdam Ave.)
New York, NY 10027-3407
Presenting:
John
Cannatalla – Restless in Limbo
Marlin
Thomas – Speak Gods English
Samantha Fox – Cardiomyapathy
Vivian Lermond – Call It Karma
Joshua
Charmatz – Cactus
Maia Henken – Beheld
Paul
K. Smith – A Day of Promise
Arthur Lundquist – Explorers of the Sky
Glenda Frank – Head of House
Matt Haldeman - Sir Edmund Walter…
Spangler's
Spring - Jason Boies
Part Two
August 11th @12pm
NYPL Harry
Belafonte Auditorium
115th Street Branch
203 W 115th St, New York, New York 10026
Presenting:
Lizzie Guest – My Berenstein Life
Josiah Mullins – My Mother Is What?
Wayne Paul Mattingly - Worlds Apart
Kyle Smith – Don
Ian Cohen - Old Wounds
Nathan Smith – Monologue
Gary Beck - Clown Show
Paige Esterly - Eve and Adam (winner best play!)
Gordon
Rizzo – How to Get Ahead in Business
Margo
Krasne – Monologue from “Til Death…”
Past
Event!
Space Race presents for the first time to American
audiences the spine-tingling truth behind mankind's greatest adventure.
Experience daring thrills as you hurtle through the terrifying void of endless
space. Enjoy lavish accommodations on the ONLY exospheric vessel with five-star
concierge service! Discover strange new romance on the lunar countryside. Space
Race is science-fiction and comedy in one easy-to-swallow tablet. Space Race
reveals how man actually got to the Moon. Space Race
is available only in limited qualities at select locations.
NYPL Harry Belafonte Library Alvin Ailey Auditorium
Free Admission.
Runs about an hour. More info 631 898 4205.
Past Event!
Woodside Players of Queens
Summer Play Festival 2018
Voted best plays!
Brysen Boyd - Elephant
Nancy Kelton - Finding Mr. Rightstein
June 2nd, 2018 2pm
Queens Library Astoria Branch Auditorium
14-01 Astoria Blvd.
Astoria NY 11105
Free admission
This performance repeats
June 16th at the Steinway Reformed Church
41st and Ditmars, Astoria,
at noon. Bring lunch!
Nelson Diaz-Marcano - El Yunque In English
Lane Northcutt - Secretary
Ludovic Coutaud - Look At
Me
Just like the Movies –
Peter Scarpinato
Brysen Boyd - Elephant
Nancy Kelton - Finding Mr. Rightstein
Gordon Rizza – How to get
ahead in Business
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Past Event!
The Woodside Players of queens presents:
“Aunt Maggie’s Will”
A
1910 comedy by Elizabeth Gale
The
Woodside Players of Queens and Equity Library Theater of New York present a
staged reading of: Aunt Maggies Will, a comedy by
Elizabeth Gale.
"Madeline is getting married, and
is due to inherit a large sum of money, only if she can prove herself an
excellent housewife!"
The cast of ten recreates this comedy from 1910, fully staged
and costumed.
May
12, 2018@12pm
NYPL
Harry Belafonte Library
Alvin
Ailey Auditorium
203
West 115th Street
Between
Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. and Frederick Douglas Blvd
With:
Tiffany Darden, Hailey DePoto,
Kate
Hoffman, Saturday Lawson,
Malinda
Logan, Kinga Nowak, Lil Rhee, Phylis Rossi, Dakota Wollmer
Johnny
Culver directs
Free
Admission
More
info: woodsideplayersofqueens@gmail.com
Past Events!
The Retreat: A Comedy by Enzo Gattuccio.
March 3rd @2pm
NYU Playwright Enzo Gattuccio's
The Retreat tells the scary story of a girl who has been ill for sixteen days.
The play features stress, insanity, Swedish
literature, Swedish meatballs, disgust, social media influencers, and a small,
totally non-threatening corporate retreat center tucked in the woods of the Bay
Area.
Starring Kelsey Ann Wacker.
This event takes place at:
NYPL George Bruce Theater
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Past Event!
January 20th @ 12pm
NYPL Alvin Ailey Auditorium
Harry Belafonte-115th
Street Library
203 W 115th St, New York,
New York 10026
A staged reading of “Hyacinth Goes Camping” based upon
“Keeping up Appearances” by Roy Clarke.
In this re-imagined version (by Carole Jackson) of the BBC
comedy, “Keeping up Appearances”, Hyacinth is as conniving as ever, as one can
be at 30 plus years old. The gang is back, Richard, Emmett, Liz, Rose, Daisy
and Onslow as they suffer through another one of Hyacinths attempts to shove
herself into society.
"The telephone rings
at the Bucket Residence. Rose's latest gentleman friend, the Earl of Crawford
(!) has invited the whole family to go camping on his estate. Glowing with the
possibilities for social advancement this brings, Hyacinth commandeers Richard
to buy the necessary camping accoutrements and off they go, dressed for the
occasion. Now, if only everything goes according to plan..."
With Kinga Nowak, Scott Haskell, Sonya Rice, Mike
Miller, Debbie Smith, Andrew Dinan, Terri Matassov, Bart DeFinna.
Directed by Johnny Culver.
Also being presented, three new short comedies: "Oh
Mother!" by Sarah Galvin, "Goodnight
Irene" by Jean Tessier and "Love of Life" by Johnny Culver.
Free admission. For the entire family!
Past event!
Equity Library Theater of New York presents a
reading of:
“The Night
before the Night before Christmas”,
A comedy play by Cricket
Daniel.
December
2nd at NYPL George Bruce Branch
518 West 125th Street (at Amsterdam Ave.)
New York, NY 10027-3407
@2pm
&
December
9th at NYPL West 53rd Street Branch
18 W
53rd St, New York, NY 10019
@12pm.
Lou
has wrestled with a big ball of tangled Christmas lights for the last time! He
is grabbing the sunblock, his Elvis in Paradise album
and his wife Carol, and hopping on the Pineapple Express to Hawaii! However, a
freak snowstorm leaves the couple stranded in the airport and their dream of
sipping Pina Coladas on the beach is in peril!
With:
Johnny Culver
Deborah Smith
Kinga Nowak
Alexa Doggett
Chris Robertson
Directed by Jean Tessier
Free admission,
runs about 90 minutes. For the entire family!
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EQUITY LIBRARY
THEATER
OF NEW YORK
PRESENTS:
A reading of
“Be
Calm, Camilla”
a 1918 Broadway comedy by Claire Kummer.
November
18th @12pm
NYPL
Harry Belafonte Library
Alvin
Ailey Auditorium
203
West 115th Street
Between
Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. and Frederick Douglas Blvd.
With:
Camilla Hathaway - Alone in the City - Lydia Kalmen
Bill Slattery - A piano mover – Clinton Schreck
Alma Robbins - Haley Klausmeyer
Baxter Pell - Of Fifth Avenue - Tom Meade
Celia Brooke - A Lady of Leisure - Rachel Deutsch
Jo Gibbons - Another mover – Julian Cano
McNeil Brownlow, "Mac" - A Waiter - Tim Mills
Gus Beals - of Broadway - Mark Brystowski
Junius Patterson - Owner of the car - Rasik Ohal
Directed
by Johnny Culver
A
review from 1918...
“BE CALM, CAMILLA” AT THE ALCAZAR THEATRE
“Be Calm Camilla," airy, witty, romantic
fairy tale of Broadway, at the
Booth Theatre this witty, whimsical comedy, by Claire Kummer, ran for months. It is smart,
snappy, up-to-date,
This adroit, epigrammatic writer knows Broadway life to its core. Her
humorous fancy finds wide swing in the droll story of the artless Wisconsin
girl who went to the big cynical city to challenge fame and fortune as a
pianist. "Be Calm” is Camilla's motto, whether in a dismal
little side street hotel, or in a lovely white hospital room after the
automobile has bowled her over, or at the bungalow in the woods where she
convalesces. Everybody is good to Camilla, because she is artless and
unsophisticated, from the burly piano movers, who come to seize her old rattle
trap instrument, and the bibulous old waiter who smuggles food to her, up to
the repentant, but careless, millionaire motorist.
A gay and carefree play this, with blend of
crackling humor and tender pathos. It has delightful character types, including
Belle Bennett, as the heroine; Walter P. Richardson, as the Tin pan alley song
writer; Thomas Chatterton, as “the sixth richest man in New
York"; Clifford Alexander, as a Fifth avenue lizard; Henry Shumer and
Rafael Brunetto,
as the piano movers; Al Cunningham, as the philanthropic waiter; Emily Pinter,
as a “lady of leisure," and the first appearance of Jean Oliver, as the
sophisticated, amusing little hospital nurse. The scenic environment is most
picturesque!
Free Admission. Runs about 90 minutes
Who
We Are…
Mark Brystowski - Off-Broadway: Every 28 Hours Plays (LAByrinth Theater Co.), God of Vengeance (Theater at St. Clements). O
