Working Theater's 27th Season

February - May 2012

 at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex,

(312 West 36th Street between 8th & 9th Aves)

For tickets to Call Me Waldo, The Best of TheaterWorks!: Stories from the 99% and The Poetry of Philip Levine visit  www.smarttix.com or call 212-868-4444

For reservations for all other season events

please visit www.nycharities.org

Working Theater’s 27th Season Projects:

 2/14 - 3/11/2012:

CALL ME WALDO

by Rob Ackerman, directed by Margarett Perry

featuring Matthew Boston, Brian Dykstra,
Rita Rehn & Jennifer Dorr White

Off-Broadway Premiere.

An outrageous new comedy from the writer of Tabletop. Extraordinary things happen when an ordinary electrician begins channeling the spirit of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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2/27/2012:
THEATERWORKS! FINAL PERFORMANCE (DC37)

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3/5/2012:
THEATERWORKS! FINAL PERFORMANCE (32BJ)

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Our adult education program TheaterWorks!, a 16-week class which puts theater making directly in the hands of working people by teaching them to write and perform their own short plays alongside professional actors and directors, offered this year to building service workers at 32BJ and municipal workers at DC37. 

3/26/2012:

BROAD CHANNEL by James Bosley

A staged reading. A working class family comes to blows when they discover a cherished painting brought home by their grandfather during WWII is a valuable work of art...and was stolen from a victim of the Holocaust.

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 4/5/2012:

OPEN MIC NIGHT

The 3rd Annual Open Mic Night, where working men and women take the stage with their own short stories, monologues and poetry.

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4/10-15/2012:

THE BEST OF THEATERWORKS!:

STORIES FROM THE 99%

A week-long off-Broadway production featuring 5 of the best short plays to come out of our playwriting and performance classes over the past 10 years.

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4/16-22/2012:
DIRECTORS SALON

Curated by Luke Harlan, Dina Vovsi and Nicole Watson
Join us for a week of events created to inspire and assist emerging stage directors in their careers. Directors will be given the opportunity to further develop their skills with scene work and network with an entire community of both emerging and established directors.  Click here for more info.

4/30/2012:

MAMIE AND YVONNE & GUS AND EMILY

by Rebecca Schull

A staged reading. Two quirky and endearing one-acts about work, aging, loneliness and sex.

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5/7/2012:
THE POETRY OF PHILIP LEVINE

A special night of guest readings of poems by 2011 US Poet Laureate & Pulitzer Prize-winning working class poet Philip Levine, with guest readers including Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist  Jeffrey Eugenides.      

5/14/2012:

SICK? by Zakiyyah Alexander

A staged reading. Tasha is experiencing some very unusual symptoms. Could they be related to her dead end job? Her internet affair? Her own father’s illness? A lot can happen in one week in New York, especially when you don’t have health insurance.

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COMMISSIONS IN DEVELOPMENT:

UNTITLED NEW PLAY by Stefanie Zadravec

Working Theater’s latest Commission from the award winning playwright of last season’s Honey Brown Eyes. Zadravec’s newest play will explore the devastating effects of high unemployment in a small town in upstate New York.

 TO THE BONE 
by Lisa Ramirez, directed by Lisa Peterson

What does it mean to struggle every day to support your family and preserve your dignity at the same time? Lisa Ramirez based this gripping play about immigrant women laboring in chicken processing plants on interviews she conducted with actual poultry plant workers in upstate NY. (This project is supported by the ILGWU 21st Century Heritage Fund)

SONG TO A CHILD LIKE ME
by Manuel Borras Olivera, directed by Arin Arbus

Danny thought his biggest problem was that his sister was about to marry a total loser... until his father showed up on their doorstep after disappearing years before. In 2010, Working Theater commissioned this impressive first full-length play by new voice Manuel Borras. Song to a Child Like Me is a powerful look at the life of a 1st generation Puerto Rican youth coming into his own in the 1980's Bronx. 

LA RUTA  by Ed Cardona, Jr.

Ed Cardona, Jr.’s brand new play explores the sacrifices and danger endured by a group of Latinos smuggled across the U.S. border by a band of “coyotes”. The audience will join the characters on their journey set entirely in the claustrophobic confines of a truck. (This project is supported by the ILGWU 21st Century Heritage Fund)