RUSSELL NORRIS

This August, Stairwell Theater presents a workshop showing of William Shakespeare's 'Romeo & Juliet'. Set in a decaying contemporary society where team sports inform law, justice, and politics - can love defeat tribalism and break the game before the final buzzer? When does competition turn into violence? An athletic ensemble will tackle Shakespeare's best loved tragedy through a unique physical vocabulary informed by dance, team sports and original music.

This August, Stairwell Theater presents a workshop showing of William Shakespeare's 'Romeo & Juliet'. Set in a decaying contemporary society where team sports inform law, justice, and politics - can love defeat tribalism and break the game before the final buzzer? When does competition turn into violence? An athletic ensemble will tackle Shakespeare's best loved tragedy through a unique physical vocabulary informed by dance, team sports and original music.

Brunch Theatre Company (Artistic Director Haley Jakobson; Creative Director Philip Sieverding) will premiere BLACK COFFEE, 7 NEW PLAYS THAT AREN'T AFRAID OF THE DARK at 62 3rd Ave for a three week run beginning on May 5th. The production features seven new plays, original music, and over 35 emerging, millennial theatre artists.

LUCKY, the latest production by Atlas Circus, follows the life of a young man in 20th-century New York City, as he tries to find his literal and figurative center. Created and directed by Tommy McCarthy, a graduate of Muhlenberg College with 14 years of dance training (at the Joffrey and Boston Ballet, as well as Muhlenberg), the show consists of eleven comic vignettes. Two of the performers (Evans and Avery Deutsch), along with much of the crew, are Muhlenberg alumni, which may explain the palpable camaderie among Atlas Circus members. Leo Abel graduated from Ivaldo Bertazzo's school of dance and acting and worked in experimental theater for ten years, fusing dance, circus, singing, and puppetry. Russel Norris (who has appeared at Theater for the New City, Stairwell Theater, Brave New World Rep, among others) rounds out the talented cast.

From the brain of Peter Zachari, who brought you Under the Knife: A Farce, Fat Asses: The Musical and Parker & Dizzy's Fabulous Journey to the End of the Rainbow, all of which premiered at Theater for the New City, comes One Love: A New Play. Cast includes Alex J. Moreno (Hunter), Russell Norris (Bryce), Joey Mirable (Logan), Itanza Wooden (Afrodite), Thomas Royce Daniels (Brett), Scott Salame (Tyler), Brian Anthony Simmons (Fantasy Man #1) and William Chang (Fantasy Man #2). 

Casting is complete for Theater for the New City's premiere production of One Love: A New Play. Director-playwright Peter Zachari returns to Theater for the New City after his successful productions of Fat Asses: The Musical and Under the Knife: A Farce with this serio-comic valentine.