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About Johnny Culver (click here)
Equity
Library
Theater
of New
York
(and the Woodside
Players, and The Fifth Avenue Theatre)
Coming Soon!
Equity Library Theater of New York is presenting virtual, script
in hand readings of three or more short comedies by David Garrick (19 February
1717 – 20 January 1779). Scripts are accessible below (also on Google Books).
We'd rehearse once or twice, then record at a later date.
All roles are open. If you'd like to direct, let us know. The recordings will be posted to the ELT web
site and YouTube by December 31.
Miss in Her Teens - published 1824
The Bon Ton High Life Above Stairs - 1781
Neck or Nothing – (date unknown)
The Flying Ballet (based on The Lying Valet – 1767)
Send your resume to equitylibrarytheater@gmail.com.
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Attention
Playwrights!
Submissions are now being accepted for the Equity Library
Theater of New York Winter 2021 Virtual Play Festival. Seeking short plays (no
more than 15 pp/minutes), from playwrights from across the globe. Also seeking
monologues (no more than 4pp/minutes). Musicals welcome! We post your YouTube
link of the performance to the festival site for voting. One submission per
playwright. No submission fee. Please include name, address, telephone number
and email address on your submission. We do not produce your work, we provide a
venue for you to present actors performing your play. There are no costs
involved for anyone. Seeking actors and directors, too! Deadline: April 15.
2021. Email: equitylibrarytheater@gmail.com.
Links to completed videos are
below:
A Turkey is NOT a Rooster – Jinna Kim
Give Me Something Good to
Eat - John Glass
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The Woodside Players of New York City are pleased to announce
their 2020 fall season. One act plays*, some from over 100 years ago, to be
performed virtually.
Finders Keepers – George Kelly –
1923
Coming
in 2021 - Overtones – Alice Gerstenberg – 1915
Sham - Frank G. Tompkins - 1920
The Angel Intrudes – Floyd Dell –
1918
Illuminati in Drama Libre- Alice Gerstenberg – 1922
Attuned
(1922) – Alice Gerstenberg –with Shelia Spencer
Performances?
Click above. (posting as they are available)
*all
free to read along on Google Books.
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Over thirty-five short plays - Now Playing!
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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The Woodside Players of New York City - Virtual Writing
Workshop for Adults, Alternate Fridays 2-4pm. (Begins January 8, 2021)
Playwright Johnny Culver brings together writers of all
locations, genres and experience to share their work and receive feedback to
improve their craft. Writers are encouraged to bring their five minute or less
length scripts, screenplays, stories, poems, recipes, and more to share via
Zoom. There will be featured guests from the New York City creative arena
visiting. The workshop, free for all to participate, runs until late May 2021.
The season will end with a coffeehouse performance of some of our works, live
or virtual.
To participate, email woodsideplayersofqueens@gmail.com, or call 631 898 4205, and you will be sent the Zoom
information.
Highlights
from the summer session are here.
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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”
Equity Library Theater, Woodside Players of Queens
and Fifth Avenue Theater must close doors for a while and postpone any live
performances. We have supported playwrights, hundreds of actors and directors
and audience members, all free for all to participate, for over a decade, BUT,
we will be back, in a garage, a park, a swamp, anywhere where a person sits in
a chair and marvels at the wonder of live theater.
See you on stage somewhere soon. Hopefully in the
fall, back at the NYPL and Queens Libraries!
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). Other NY credits: Private Disclosures (Shetler
Bridge), Le Cygne(Manhattan Repertory Theater), Fear Festival
(AlphaNYC/Roebuck Theater).
Film/TV: Rotten! (Netflix), Zenith (dir. Ellie Foumbi), Lulu Loves Brooklyn (dir. Gretchen Zufall). Mark recently line-produced the off-Broadway
and touring premiere of Bamboo in Bushwick and The
Nose. Thank you Jackie and Roman for your love
and support.
Rachel Deutsch - a recent graduate of NYU
(2016) earning a BFA in Drama. Rachel’s previous acting credits include Tulon in ‘Red Noses’ and ‘Titania’ in ‘A Midsummer Night’s
Dream’ at The New Studio on Broadway. Her directing credits include, ‘Science
Fair’ at Theater Row and ‘Aliens Coming’ at The Pit. She is also a film actor
and a yoga teacher.
Tom Meade - born and bred and still
resides in NYC. Produced and hosted Rant n Rave TV on MNN for over 10 years.
Tom appeared the role of The Bartender in Jack Condon’s “Orphans of the Digital
Era”, and in George Morgan’s “The Wiggle Room”. As well as a
number of short films and plays. Recently Tom played the role of Sam in
the feature “Thru” which opened The NYC Independent Film Festival. He is
currently working on getting his original screenplay "The Slip" made.
Timothy Mills – after graduating from
George Westinghouse High School, Tim took a Business of Acting class with Mark Stolzenberg in 2015. He worked on a project called The Hard
Candy Kid, where Mills was featured as a Berlin Wall crusader, which solidified
his passion for the craft. Since then he’s been working on his craft through
various films & theatre, Mills is actively working on new projects!
Rasik Ohal - For the last few years, Rasik
has been working mainly in film and television. Highlights include, The
Comedian, Mr. Robot, and Master of None. He is making an
effort to get back into theatre. Highlights include, Comedy of Errors, Drunkle Vanya, and The Springfield Boys.
Lydia Kalmen - an actor, dancer, model,
and member of SAG-AFTRA. Recent credits include Lady Caroline in Enchanted
April, Juror 10 (the bigot) in 12 Angry Women, The Diary of Anne Frank and I
Remember Mama.
Claire Kummer – (1873 – 1958) Composer,
songwriter ("Dearie"), playwright and author, educated at the Packer
Institute and in private music study. She wrote the Broadway stage scores for
"90 in the Shade", "One Kiss", "Annie Dear",
"Madame Pompadour", and "The Three Waltzes". Joining ASCAP
in 1934, her chief musical collaborators included Sigmund Romberg and Jerome Kern, and her other popular-song
compositions include "Egypt", "Other Eyes", "Blushing
June Roses", "Somebody's Eyes” and "Lover of Mine". Today is for you, Claire!
Coming Up!
December 2nd at NYPL George Bruce Branch (West 125 Street) @2pm
&
December 9th at NYPL West 53rd Street branch@12pm.
“The Night before the Night before Christmas”, a comedy by Cricket
Daniel.
With: Johnny Culver, Deborah Smith, Kinga Nowak, Alexa Doggett, Chris
Robertson, Directed by Jean Tessier
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January 20, 2018, at NYPL Alvin Ailey Auditorium@12pm
A reading of “Hyacinth Goes Camping!”, by Carole Jackson
based upon the BBC series “Keeping up Appearances”
by Roy Clarke. (“Oh Mother!” and “Love of Life” will also be presented)
“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...”
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March 3rd, 2018, at NYPL George Bruce Branch (West 125 Street) @2pm
“The Retreat”, a comedy by NYU playwright Enzo Gattuccio.
June 9th, 2018, at NYPL Alvin Ailey Auditorium@12pm
A reading of the 1918 Broadway Comedy, “The Wrong Mr. Wright” by George
Bradford.
(Read it on Google Books, if
interested in performing with us)
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Equity Library Theater and The
Woodside Players of Queens are seeking actors for their spring production of
“Aunt Maggie’s Will”, a 1910 play by Mary Elizabeth Gale, to take place in May, 2018. The script calls for 10 females, but we are open
to gender blind casting in this comedy. Please send resumes and headshots to woodsideplayersofqueens@gmail.com. You can read the play on
Google Books.
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To learn more about Equity
Library Theater, please visit: www.equitylibrarytheater.info. Leave us a
message at 631 898 4205, or email: equitylibrarytheater@gmail.com. We’re also on Facebook!
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Use of library space by Equity
Library Theater for this program does not indicate endorsement by the NYPL.
*Some actors appear courtesy of Equity/AEA. The recording/photographing of any
of the performance is permitted, only with prior approval.
Thanks Ms., Davis!
Past event!
The Woodside Players of Queens Fall Play Festival.
Short plays by local writers.
November 4th at Queens Library Astoria@1pm
14-01 Astoria Blvd.
N/W Q19/Q69 to Astoria Blvd
Amy Oestreicher – I’m A Woman…
Allan Yashin – The Name Game
William Coyle - Living Room
Clinton Shreck – It Had To Be You
Alan Stolzer - Mrs. Killebrew
Confesses
Kevin Chu – Avengers
Sarah Galvin - Oh Mother! (selected best play)
Ellen O'Neill - Chew On This
Sinead Ward – Rub Some Dirt in It
Camille Schmoeker - Don’t Go under the Apple Tree
Bring a bag lunch!
Past Event!
Equity Library
Theater of New York presents
a reading of
“Miss Belle”
A Southern
comedy by Texas playwright
Bill Logan.
Saturday, October 28th 12:00 p.m.
NYPL Harry Belafonte/115th Street Library
Alvin Ailey Auditorium
203 West 115th Street
Between Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. and Frederick Douglas Blvd.
In the vein of novelist Fannie Flagg (Fried
Green Tomatoes), Bill Logan takes us to a small Texas town in the 1950’s,
where secrets wait to be uncovered!
Free admission, runs about 90 minutes. More
info, call 631 898 4205.
The Equity Library Theater Playwriting
Summer Festival 2017
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August 5th – 12pm
New York Public Library – George Bruce Branch Auditorium
518 West 125th Street (at Amsterdam Ave.)
New York, NY 10027-3407
George Morgan – The Wiggle Room
Directed
by Johnny Culver, with Tom Meade, Mike Miller, Tom Morwick, Max Wingert, John
Zion
Lora Danley – A Midnight Rose
Directed
by Lora Danley, with Wendy Lazarus, Devon Marra,
Frances Vignali
Linda Kampley –
The Lamp
With
Carla Brandberg, Richard Craven
Susan Masters – Going Home
With
Nikole Rizzo
Rosemary Frisino
Toohey – Grace Goes To Sea
With
Steve Lichtenstein
Steve Fogelman – The Glove
Directed
by Steve Fogelman, with Joseph Rose, Vicki Winters
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August 12th – 12pm
NYPL Harry Belafonte Branch
203 W 115th St, New York, New York 10026
Pamela Robbins – Great Strides
Directed
by Pamela Robbins, with Jennifer James Davies, Pia Finnigan, Johnny Culver,
Heather Jeanne Violanti
Amy Oestreicher
– I’m A Woman…
Serena Cates – Five Silver Five Gold
Lynn Marie Macy – Sister Resisters
Matt Sanders – Happy Halloween, Harry
Houdini
Emilio Iasiello
– Under The Big Top
Seth McNeill – That Bee Gees Song
Vivian Lermond - Beach Wedding
With
Craig Myers, Kelly Taylor
Jack Gilhooey –
Kennedy’s Acolytes
Peter Linari –
Guys
Directed
by Peter Linari, with Jon Scott Freda, Lou Martini,
Jr.
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August 19th – 12pm
NYPL Harry Belafonte Branch
203 W 115th St, New York, New York 10026
Erin Moughon-Smith
– For Mr. Cuddles
Directed
by Erin Moughon, with Kendra Auguatin,
Emily Long, Sarah Teed
Dana Jaffe – No Good Deed
Directed
by Dana Jaffe, with Andrew Benjamin, Dawn Bianco, Dan Bubbeo,
Eric Leeb Michele Rattray
Katherine Orozco – Treason
Directed
by Ashley Vega, with Rose Gutierrez
Amy Bernstein – The Sacrifice
With
Amy Bernstein
Matthew Ballistreri
– Baby Book
Steve Burton – Close Enough
Directed
by Ruth Alesovsky, John Patrick Hart, with Gerry
Kelly, Debra McNulty, Daniel P. Stravino
Shirley King – Authenticity
With
Christy Donahue
Sam Plotkin – Microcosm
Jack Rushton – Theater People
Michael Verderber - Unending Repetition
Directed
by Michael Verderber, with Katherine Orozco-Verderber
Jim Gordon – A Stranger Calls
With
Sonya Rice
Anghus Houvouras –
Penmanship
Directed
by Rachel Deutsch, with Will Carry, Ram Kanneganti
Free
admission to all.
The final
votes, via text responses, over three weeks, are in, for the ELT 2017 summer
festival!
Best comedy. Anghus Houvouras - Penmanship.
Best Drama. Katherine Orozco – Treason/Michael
Verderber - Unending Repetition (We considered both short pieces as one unit).
Past “Best
plays”
2016 - Michael Maiello –
Looking Through the Glass
2015 - Hello Mom – Lauren
Snyder
2014 - John Ladd – Ashes to
Ashes (Drama)/ Scott Haskell – Womanhood (Comedy)
2013 - Liza Bulos - Attention
Shoppers
The Woodside Players and
Equity Library Theater of New York is seeking actors for their fall production,
a staged reading of Be Calm, Camilla, by Claire Kummer.
This comedy opened at the Booth Theater (New York) Oct 31,
1918 and ran until January 1919.
The Woodside Players and Equity Library Theater will present
the reading in November at the NYPL Alvin Ailey Theater on West 115th Street
and the George Bruce Theater on West 125th Street. You can read the script
here:
https://archive.org/details/becalmcamillacom00kummrich
Characters are:
Camilla Hathaway
Bill Slattery
Alma Robbins
Baxter Pell
Celia Brooke
Jo Gibbons
McNeil Brownlow, "Mac"
Gus Beals
Send resumes and headshots
to submission@pineyforkpress.com
Thus fall, we are presenting a free Actor/Writer
workshop at the Queens Library Astoria branch (14-01 Astoria Blvd).
Biweekly
at noon – September, 2017 thru May, 2018. All genres
welcome. Call 718
278 2220 for more info.
December
2nd at 2pm, at the NYPL George Bruce Theater, we present a reading of a
terrific holiday comedy, “The Night before the Night before Christmas”, by
Oregon playwright, Cricket Daniel. The performance will be repeated December 9th
at the NYPL 53rd Street
branch at noon. Free admission.
The Woodside Players of Queens
Present a selection of rare short plays from 19th
century New York and beyond.
These staged readings, directed by Johnny Culver
and Pamela Robbins, include vaudeville, comedy and farce. Suitable for the
entire family!
Saturday June 10th 12pm
Queens Library - Langston
100-01 Northern Blvd.
Saturday June 17th 12pm
Queens Library - Astoria
14-01 Astoria Blvd.
Presenting short plays by these (seldom
heard) writers:
Human Nature – Floyd Dell, 1913, New York
I’m Going – Tristan Bernard, 1915, Paris
Private Boarding – William Courtright, 1874, New
York
A Lady to Call – Carl Webster Pierce, 1918, New
York
The Motor Bellows – William Courtright, 1873,
Indianapolis
With:
Mark Brystowski, Lauren
Butler, Johnny Culver, Scott Haskell, Lydia Komen, Gary Krigsman, Kinga Novak,
Pamela Robbins, Sonya Rice, Laurie Sammeth, Pamela Tabb
Thanks to Doris Jones!
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
William Courtright was an
vaudeville writer and American film actor. He worked with D. W. Griffith and in his later career at
the Hal Roach Studios, where he appeared in several early Laurel and Hardy comedies. His best-known role
was Oliver Hardy's wealthy Uncle Bernal in That's My Wife (1929). His last film, the Our Gang comedy Teacher's Pet, was also his first sound film. He was born in New Milford, Illinois. His wife was actress Jennie Lee, with whom he appeared in Intolerance.
Floyd James Dell was an American newspaper and
magazine editor, literary critic, novelist, playwright, and poet. Dell has been called "one of the most
flamboyant, versatile and influential American Men of Letters of the first
third of the 20th Century." As editor and critic, Dell's influence is
alive in the work of many major American writers from the first half of the
20th century. A lifelong poet, he was also a best-selling author, as well as a
playwright whose hit Broadway comedy, Little Accident (1928), was made into a Hollywood movie.
Tristan Bernard was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer. After his first publication
in La Revue Blanche in 1891, he became increasingly a writer and adopted the
pseudonym Tristan. His first play, Les Pieds Nickelés (Nickel-plated Feet), was
a great success and was representative of the style of his later work
(generally humorous). He became known especially for his writing for vaudeville-type performances, which were
very popular in France during that time.
Carl Webster Pierce was an American playwright.
Many of his comedies appeared on Broadway in the early 20th century, including
the original version of “Oh, Kay!” In 1927.
ABOUT US
Scott Haskell has appeared in film, television
and theatre, and has studied acting at NYU.
He has appeared as Andrey in The Gingerbread Players production of Three
Sisters, and in Pamela Robbins original production of Deep in the Woods of Old
with the St. Jean’s Players.
Gary Krigsman is honored to have this
unique opportunity to perform with The Woodside Players. Thank you Johnny! Gary has appeared in several community theater
productions over the past 17 years in Queens, Nassau and the Bronx. Favorite
roles include Frank (Over the River and Through the Woods), Sam Nash (Plaza
Suite) X3, Mr. Dussel (The Diary of Anne Frank) and most recently
The Old Man (Prelude to a Kiss).
Laurie Sammeth (Cook/Steakpounder,
Lady) is delighted to be making her Woodside Players’ debut. Recent NYC
productions: Is That All They Wrote (St. Jean’s Players), When Rodney Met the
Vikings and Halls of Importance (Thespis Festival), 28 Marchant Avenue, Shades
of Blue,Lilliom (Beautiful
Soup Theater).
Lydia Kalmen is an actor, dancer and
model. A proud member of SAG-AFTRA, recent credits include the complicated Lady
Caroline Bramble in "Enchanted April" and a restless ghost in "A
Haunting".
Sonya Rice is delighted to join Woodside
Players after recently working with Johnny Culver and Pamela L. Robbins at St.
Jean's Players' Winter One Acts Festival. Opera credits include La Boheme, Don Giovanni, Hansel and Gretel, Aida, and The
Barber of Seville.
Mark Brystowski is delighted to be playing
with such a lovely ensemble. Off-Broadway: God
of Vengeance (Theater at St. Clements), Every 28 Hours
Plays (LAByrinth Theater Co.). Other NY
credits: Private Disclosures (Shetler Bridge), Le Cygne (Manhattan Repertory Theater), Fear Festival
(AlphaNYC/Roebuck Theater). Mark recently line-produced the off-Broadway and
touring premiere of Bamboo in Bushwick for Working Theater and a
short film, Zenith. Thank you Jackie and
Roman for your love and support.
Coming in July…
July 22 @12pm
NYPL 115th Street Branch
203 W 115th St, New
York, New York 10026
(212) 666-9393
Equity Library Theater presents a staged reading
of:
“Lil’ Miss Spitfire-the Musical”
Book by Samantha Talmage, DGA
Music and Lyrics by Robert Winthrop Talmage ASCAP
This is the inspiring untold story of Annie
Sullivan, the Irish-American immigrant and eventual
teacher of blind-deaf Helen Keller.
A cast of 18 brings to life young Annie’s journey
of courage and perseverance. Sadly, early in her life, she endures the
loss of her mother, Alice and younger brother, Jimmie to tuberculosis.
Her father, Thomas becomes overwhelmed and gives the children away first
to family members, then to the Massachusetts State Asylum. Annie
suffers from trachoma and is functionally blind and unable to read even the
simplest of texts.
Along the way, eight eye surgeries are performed on
this young girl and finally, she can see well enough to make sense of the
printed page. Annie now fully devotes herself to the rigors of learning
and becomes class valedictorian at the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston.
It is there, Dr. Anagnos, the headmaster offers
her a truly unique position to teach a rebellious blind-deaf girl from Alabama.
Runs about 90 minutes, free admission.
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Past Presentations…
February 11th 2017, 12pm
2017
NYPL Alvin Ailey Auditorium
115th
Street Branch
203
W 115th St, New York, New York 10026
(212)
666-9393
A
reading of a screen-play by Tom Meade
“THE
SLIP
With
Emily Meade, Phillip Ettinger and others.
Manhattan,
the 1990s.
Celebrity dog walker Jack Meehan is celebrating one year clean and sober. After
a day that includes rejections, potential job loss, and a very strange
encounter in a diner, Jack ends up taking a trip down the rabbit hole that got
him there to begin with. Chance meetings with friends old and new, and a past
love, Jack finds himself in a series of uncomfortable, bizarre and
life-threatening situations. He spends the next 24 hours just trying to get
back home.
Free
Admission.
Equity
Library Theater of New York presents:
“The
Bermuda Curse”
A staged
reading of a comedy by Johnny Culver.
March 4, 2017 @2:00PM
New
York Public Library – George Bruce Branch Auditorium
518 West 125th Street (at Amsterdam Ave.)
New York, NY 10027-3407
(A
B C D 1 to 125th Street)
(212) 662-9727
With:
Brady Blevin
Julie Kling
Susan Neuffer
Carole Serrano
Peyton Place, horses wearing blankets, the
Flushing train, Chicklets gum, John Wayne and more in this one hour 1970’s
comedy for the entire family! Free admission.
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The Equity Library Theater Playwriting Festival – Winter 2017
Saturday
January 28th
NYPL 53rd
street Branch Auditorium at 1pm
18 W 53rd
St, New York, NY 10019
Presenting:
Martha’s
King – Linda Ziering
Directed
by Cynthia White w/Eleanor Boddie, Susanna Miller
Rosemary – Charles Lupia
Directed
by Charles Lupia w/ Susan Palmer Everly, Charles Lupia
Swimming Out – Minette Greenberg
Directed
by Minette Greenberg w/ Cam Kornman, Eve Sorel, Julie Torres
Tea with the Tin Man – Charles Leipart
Directed
by Hall Hunsinger w/ Penny Lynn White
Free Association - Julie Weinberg
Directed
by Norma Medina w/ Colin Chapin, Carole Monferdini, Anthony Scavone
Expecting Hamilton – Chip Bolcik
Directed by Betsy True w/Nick Webster, Kirsty Sadler
Hookup –
Burton Crane
Directed
by Burton Crane w/Burton Schwartz
Shock – Meny Beriro
Directed
by Meny Beriro w/Kitty Hendrix, Jo Anna Perrin
Teresa’s Journey – Nancy Palmento Schuler
Directed
and performed by Nancy Palmento Schuler
The Reflective Lie – Christina Gluck
Directed
by Christina Gluck w/ Laura Hesse
Zero to Hero – Mary Teitelbaum
Directed
by Yvonne (Bonnie) Cole w/ Nancy Ann Finn, Kyle McIlhone
How to be Dead – Benjamin Weiner
Directed
by Keith Paul Medelis w/ Kurt Hellerich, Eric Weiner
We the People – John Cappelletti
Directed
by John Cappelletti w/ Doug Rossi, Barry Sacker
Mountain Dew – J. Lois Diamond
Directed by
J. Lois Diamond w/ Minette Greenberg, Carol London, Julia Torres
OMG – Pete Mergel
Best
play today (chosen by the audience texting their choice to 631 898 4205),
will receive
a fancy restaurant gift card!
Use
of library space by Equity Library Theater for this program today does not
indicate endorsement by The New York Public Library. Some actors appear
courtesy of Equity. The recording/photographing of any of these pieces is
permitted, only with prior approval. The order of the plays presented may vary
from the above listing.
Equity
Library Theater past productions have included: A concert by the Village Light
Opera Guild, Short Plays by John Ladd, KK Gordon and Craig Schwab, ATANST (new
plays by New York writers), Ferry Tales (plays set on
the Staten Island Ferry), a new play by Pamela Robbins, Katherine and
Petruchio; (rare David Garrick version from 1750), assorted plays by members of
the Provincetown Playhouse, and our annual winter and summer play festival!
Look on
Facebook for more info!
Do
you have a full length play you’d like presented by Equity Library Theater, let
us know!
We
are always looking for new material to produce.
We are presenting a free creative writing class at
the Queens Library Astoria branch.
Biweekly
at noon - September 24th – May 27th, 2017. All genres welcome. Call 718 278 2220 for more info.
Look for
us on Facebook!
Deadline: April 15, 2017 (OVER)
Submissions
are now being accepted for the New York's Equity Library Theater Summer 2017
Play Festival, to take place over two weekends in August at the NYPL Alvin
Ailey Theater and the George Bruce Theater in New York City.
Seeking short plays (no more than 10 pp), from playwrights from all over the
USA. Also seeking monologues (no more than 4pp). Musicals welcome!
Basic set
requirements.
One submission per playwright. No unpleasant profanity, as this is a family
friendly festival! No submission fee. Please include
name, address, telephone number and email address on your submission. We do not
produce your work, we provide a venue for you to
present actors performing your play. There are no costs involved for anyone.
Seeking actors and directors, too!
Deadline: April 15, 2017 (OVER)
Email: submissions@pineyforkpress.com
Equity Library
Theater presented Three Hots and a Cot
Equity Library
Theater presented Plays by my Father
Equity Library
Theater presented Short plays by Johnny Culver (here)
Equity Library
Theater presented an afternoon of short plays by John Ladd
Equity Library Theater presented Catherine and Petruchio in 2014
Equity Library
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Equity Library Theater Gives Itself a Party
by ANDREW L. YARROW
Published: February 7, 1988
''AT
Equity Library Theater, the actor is our focus,'' declared George Wojtasik, the
theater's producing director.
Similar
sentiments might be voiced by the director of almost any theater company, but
none could say so with more conviction than Mr. Wojtasik. His
Upper West Side Theater - the country's oldest actors' showcase -will celebrate
its 45th season tomorrow at Town Hall with a benefit called ''My Funny Valentine,''
a program of Richard Rodgers love songs.
The
theater, which is on the ground floor of an apartment building at Riverside
Drive and 103d Street, has been something of an anomaly among New York
performing-arts institutions since it was established in November 1943. The
founders were Sam Jaffe of Actors' Equity Association and George Freedley, the
theater curator for the New York Public Library.
''It was
founded to showcase artists to people in casting positions and provide free
theater'' to people who couldn't afford Broadway prices, said Mr. Wojtasik. ''At
that time, if actors weren't working on Broadway, they had no other place to
work. The showcase was born with E.L.T., and it even predated the Off Broadway movement by a few years.'' Over the years, more
than 11,500 actors, directors and stage technicians have displayed their
talents to producers, casting directors and agents in at least 600 productions
at the theater, and Mr. Wojtasik said
about 60 percent had gotten paid acting jobs as a result of those appearances.
With only
about 5 percent of the city's 20,000 Equity members acting for a living at any
one time, the theater has not only served as a remarkably successful theatrical
employment agency, but it has also been a launching pad for hundreds of
performers. Jason Robards was a little-known actor when he appeared
in ''The Petrified Forest'' in 1955. James Earl Jones got his start in a 1959
production of ''Dark of the Moon.''
Also on the theater's roster of illustrious alumni are
Martin Balsam, Ossie Davis, Danny DeVito, Jack Klugman, Harvey Korman, Anne
Meara, Sidney Poitier, Jerry Stiller, Rod Steiger and Treat Williams. And the
theater's couples include Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach, who met in a 1945
production of ''This Property Is Condemned.''
Jean
Stapleton remembers being ''an aspiring, very young actress'' when she
interviewed for a role in a 1947 production of ''The Corn Is Green,'' which
also featured a young actor named Richard Kiley. ''I was assigned a very small
part,'' Miss Stapleton said, but she was asked to step in with only 10 days'
notice when the leading actress slipped on the ice. ''An agent who saw the show
called me and said I'd be right for the road company of 'Harvey,' '' Miss
Stapleton said. ''I got the job and that was my first big break in theater.''
Tony Randall's
appearances in ''The Second Mrs. Tanqueray'' and ''The Millionairess'' -
with Charlton Heston - during the 1948-49 season did not leadd to immediate stardom, but he said the theater had
been ''absolutely crucial for many actors' careers.''
''Today,
there are all sorts of showcases, but this is the only one with a real budget
and full productions,'' said Mr. Randall, who is a member of the theater's
board.
Equity
Library Theater began its life as a sort of New York City road show, with
performances rotating among 11 theaters built during the Depression in branches
of the New York Public Library. After
the library withdrew its support in 1948, the theater spent a season roaming
the city before settling in the Lenox Hill Playhouse on East 70th Street. It
stayed there until 1961, when it moved to the Master Theater on Riverside Drive.
''It was a
residential hotel for artists, with a theater, studios and a museum, known as
the Master Institute of United Arts,'' Mr. Wojtasik explained.
This little artists' colony eventually withered, and the family that owned 310
Riverside Drive sold the building in the 1970's, but the theater remained.
In its
early years, the theater presented as many as 56 productions annually, but during
Mr. Wojtasik's 21-year tenure, its season has been reduced
to a more manageable chaotic schedule of four musicals, each of which is
performed for four weeks, and four plays, each with three-week runs. ''When
E.L.T. was formed, the League of New York Theaters said we couldn't do original
works,'' Mr. Wojtasik explained, ''so we only present revivals or
public-domain works.''
The
theater also agreed with Actors' Equity that - since actors would not be paid -
it would try to use Equity members and not charge admission. Tickets now cost
$10 ($5 for the elderly) to help support a $750,000 budget, and the theater
continues to provide opportunities for about 200 actors during each 40-week
season.
''We try
to do the full range of theater over four or five seasons,'' Mr. Wojtasik said. ''Our library concept is to try to do
one classic and one or two American comedies or dramas a season. And of the
musicals, we try to do one contemporary work, one golden oldie and one piece of
fluff.'' A successful revival of ''Side by Side by Sondheim'' just closed;
Thursday, Bernard Pomerance's ''Elephant Man'' opens.
Actors
receive only a subway-and-sandwich stipend of $5 a day, yet 400 to 700 people
audition for each production, and about 100 directors vie for eight chances to
direct each season. Stars may be made at the theater, but name performers
almost never appear. ''I don't want lead roles taken from young actors,'' said
Mr. Wojtasik.
''And I don't cotton to the theory of having a star so that actors can have the
experience of working with a star.''
In 1986,
the theater signed a 15-year lease that will keep it ensconced on Riverside
Drive into the 21st century. Its financial health was also helped by the
addition last year of a balcony with 116 revenue-producing seats, expanding the
theater's capacity to 384 seats.
Given the
many constituencies the theater serves, Mr. Wojtasik is
sanguine about the theater's future. ''E.L.T. will be alive,'' he said, ''as
long as actors want to be seen, casting directors need actors and audiences
want to see good, inexpensive theater.''
Survival in the theater is an ancient script
that tells the story not only of individual plays but of entire well-endowed
companies. The Equity Library Theater is a survivor that, touch wood, has no
ending in sight, even as it rounds out 40 years as a dramatic fixture in New
York.
It
is now in the final half of its season, with a mixed bag of plays and musicals
to come. Today sees the final performance of the Equity Library revival of Kurt
Vonnegut's madcap ''Happy Birthday, Wanda June.'' Then the company plunges into
rehearsal for the March 10 opening of ''Where's Charley?,''
the Frank Loesser-George Abbott musical that starred Ray Bolger in 1948. When
that closes on April 3, the Equity Library's stage takes a turn for the tragic
on April 14 with that 17th-century epic of revenge, ''The Changeling,'' by
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley. No sooner does that move off the boards on
May 1, than the season's finale, ''Promises, Promises,'' book by Neil Simon,
music by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David, takes over from May 12 to June 5.
E.L.T., as its friends call
it, is not sponsored by either Actors' Equity or the New York Public Library,
although each had a midwife role in its birth four decades and more than 650
shows ago. E.L.T. has become a watchword in the acting community, although it
is a name only dimly known to those theater-goers who
have never ventured to the Upper West Side to catch its act. It is zealous in
its avoidance of any suggestion that it is competing with any other theater in
New York, although it shares with them its desire for audiences, its
earnestness in aim, its professionalism in execution and its poverty in
funding.
At this point, simple description
is required to explain what E.L.T. is, what it does, why it does it and how it
does it. E.L.T. is a theater company, a showcase in which talent, the stockpile
of acting talent that is stored in New York, can exhibit what it can do. It
works only with revivals of shows, some familiar, some not.
In the early 1940's, Sam
Jaffe, the actor, got together with Vincent Freedley,
curator of the New York Public Library. They felt there ought to be some place
for actors to show off their wares, a place where producers and agents could
candle the talent and where live audiences would be a sounding board for
performers. The pair found that they could do plays in 11 libraries - seven in
Manhattan, four in other boroughs - that had little theaters built into them.
The League of New York
Theaters said it had no objection to them doing revivals or plays in the public
domain. Actors' Equity said they could do shows without a contract - that is,
no need to pay actors - but that they should try to use Equity members and that
they should not charge admission. Hence, the name of the company.
E.L.T. was born in November
1943 and took its first step on Feb. 20, 1944, with a presentation of ''Shadow
of the Glen'' and ''Fumed Oak'' in the cramped little theater of the Hudson
Park branch library on Seventh Avenue South. Mr. Jaffe later recalled that it
cost $20 to do the shows, money that came from a $1,000 donation from John
Golden.
There are few organizations
that can drop as many names as this modest theater. Indeed, there is probably
no other group that can match E.L.T. when it comes to saying, ''I knew them
when.'' Armies of performers have swept through the casting sessions at E.L.T.
and many have later gone on to fame. A perfunctory glance through the record
book finds, among those thousands of then unknowns, the following: Alvin Ailey,
Jack Albertson, Roscoe Lee Brown, Ossie Davis, Andrew Duggan, Hector Elizando, Alice Ghostley, Lee
Grant, Jose Greco, Earl Hyman, Richard Kiley, Sally Kirkland, Werner Klemperer,
Jack Klugman, Harvey Korman, Darren McGavin, Anne Meara, Kay Medford, Ralph Meeker, Rosemary
Murphy, Lois Nettleton, Sidney Poitier, Tom Poston, Tony Randall, Jason
Robards, Alexander Scourby, Kim Stanley, Jean
Stapleton, Rod Steiger, Jerry Stiller, Elaine Stritch, Eli Wallach and Fritz
Weaver. And that's merely a sampler.
Now, E.L.T. may not have
been the springboard to fame for these and others, but it was indisputably a
rung on the ladder up. Some still remember their E.L.T. experience with
affection and gratitude.
Fritz Weaver had a role in
Sean O'Casey's ''Within the Gates,'' an E.L.T. revival during the 1952-53 season.
''I was just back from touring,'' he recalled recently. ''This was my first New
York engagment and it led to everything. I was a
cockney soldier and Tom Bosley was a second chair
attendant. It was and is a tremendous organization for beginning actors.''
Tony Randall, who did two
E.L.T. shows in one season, ''The Second Mrs. Tanqueray'' and ''The Millionairess'' during 1948-49, is so enamored of E.L.T.
that he is a board member today. ''I was an unknown and it was a chance to be
seen,'' he says. ''Someone, a director or producer, called and asked me if I
wanted a role in the show. Agents and other directors would see me. Charlton
Heston was also in that 'Millionairess,' while Edith
Atwater was in 'Tanqueray.' E.L.T. does what Off Off
Broadway can't do, because those showcases don't have the same production
values.''
Ossie Davis clearly recalls
playing in ''Stevedore'' in 1948-49. ''It was the first important piece I got
to do,' he says. ''It was a professional operation directed by Dan Levin, a
quiet kind of person, but a doer. In that cast were Rod Steiger, Jack Klugman
and George Roy Hill. It was important to me in terms of experience. I had begun
to learn about the craft of acting. I've always felt that we in Equity and in
general underestimate the function of such a theater. As an institution, E.L.T.
has been good to me.''
So much for looking back.
One of the key men in looking to the precarious present (every theatrical
present is precarious) and to the fearsome future (ditto for theatrical
futures) is George Wojtasik, E.L.T.'s managing
director, and a cheerful, busy sort who has one leg firmly planted on current
realities and the other jiggling tentatively on more dreamy turf. He has had
his job for 15 years and observes with some satisfaction that nobody else has
held it for more than two years since it was created in 1961, about the time
that the company moved from the now-demolished Lenox Hill Playhouse to its
present digs at 103d Street and Riverside Drive. Before a managing director
came along, E.L.T. was run by a committee of actors and stumbled into all the
pitfalls that committees are so adept at digging.
''Our theater has 273 seats
in a building that is 50 years old,'' Mr. Wojtasik
says. ''This was the Master Institute of United Arts once and had ballet, opera
workshops and a theater. The other groups eventually were disbanded, but they
kept us on.''
E.L.T. is still being kept
on at the building, although a year or so ago it seemed that they might be
forced to move. This possibility started an ambitious drive to raise $2.5
million to build a new home, on West 75th Street and Broadway. The money could
not be raised, the lease on 103d Street was extended and now E.L.T. is looking
for $180,000 to restore the theater. Money is tight. A Federal grant, a small
one, about $2,000 was not renewed, but Mr. Wojtasik
feels that it was as though a Good Housekeeping seal of approval had been taken
away, because such grants attract others.
Last year, E.L.T. had a
slight deficit, $3,000, the result of using up reserves earmarked for the new
building. The 1981-82 budget is $362,000. This was designed to be funded by
donations - corporate and private -as well as by subscriptions and the
audience, which is asked to pay $6 per ticket, in recognition of the fact discovered
by other institutions that the cost of free has gone up also in inflationary
times. The New York State Council on the Arts has been contributing $10,000
annually for the past several years.
Whatever the expenses, they
are certainly not attributable to labor. Directors, backstage artistic staff
and actors work free. From the first day of rehearsals, actors, carpenters,
electricians and lighting people get $3 a day to defray carfare. What with the
generous-sized showcase casts, this amounts to about $45,000 a year.
''We have a reputation for
quality work,'' Mr. Wojtasik says. ''We get calls
from all over for technicians. Lynn Montgomery, our producer and director for
11 years, functions as a placement service. We call E.L.T. an actors' showcase,
but it is a showcase for these others, too.
''I select the season,'' he
adds. ''I scout the directors' work. They must be members of the Society of
Stage Directors and Choreographers. I judge their work and, also, check their
temperament with actors, because we work under special conditions, not for
money. I try to match the play with the director. Once the director is chosen,
we have real open auditions. Sometimes 700 show up, all Equity members,
experienced people, not waitresses who want to become actors.''
Mr. Wojtasik
says that other showcases believe that E.L.T. has an unfair advantage beause it is allowed to do eight performances - a schedule
that makes the company qualify as an Off Broadway house, even though nobody is
paid - while other showcases are restricted to a total of 12 performances over
several weekends.
''We've earned our
concessions because of the demands for what we do,'' he says. ''We're allowed
to do what we do because our shows are not headed anywhere, they are done
solely to give exposure to the cast. That's one reason, incidentally, why we
have so many problems with musicals. How do you cast someone in a part that was
identified with a Bert Lahr or a Zero Mostel?''
Some E.L.T. productions
have, indeed, moved on, but with results that generally indicate a loss of some
quality that made them sing on 103d Street and whimper in other houses.
E.L.T. has a 40-week winter
stock season so there is always something either onstage or in rehearsal or in
audition. Outside of its full-time salaried staff, working out of its offices
on West 46th Street, personnel is constantly turning
over. If someone has had a lead in a musical, they can't do an E.L.T. musical
for the next year. Some actors do come back; Lloyd Hubbard, a character actorcomedian, probably holds the record, seven shows, all
in supporting parts.
''The future is tricky,''
says Mr. Wojtasik, looking ahead. ''We would like to
convert into a small regional theater, one without any permanent cast. In New
York, we can select the best talent for doing our specialty: big musicals on a
small scale. We do that very well. Anyone who can do 'Street Scene' with a cast
cut from 60 to 20 and do it well must be doing something right. We must be kept
alive for future generations of actors.''
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