Joe Curnutte News

Classic Stage Company's acclaimed production of UNNATURAL ACTS, a new play created by members of the Plastic Theatre, conceived and directed by Tony Speciale, will extend by popular demand for one additional and final week through Sunday, July 24 at CSC (136 East 13th Street). New York Magazine called UNNATURAL ACTS 'remarkable, sleek and brutal' and said 'the play offers damning lessons in power, persecution and solidarity - or lack thereof.' Variety raved 'UNNATURAL ACTS is riveting and fascinating' with 'stunning theatricality.' The Associated Press called UNNATURALS ACTS 'powerfully riveting' and said 'Speciale has staged this engrossing story with flair and impressive theatricality, employing a company of extremely talented actors. In a riveting series of increasingly charged vignettes, he unspools a story of prejudice, intimidation, friendship, fear and betrayal that displays the crushing effect of societally-approved homophobia.' And The Daily News wrote 'Speciale's production is stylish and stirring, and beautiful.'

Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will present UNNATURAL ACTS, a new play created by members of the Plastic Theatre, conceived and directed by Tony Speciale, as the final offering of its triumphant 2010-11 season. Based on the real-life story of Harvard's 'Secret Court' of 1920, UNNATURAL ACTS will conclude performances Sunday July 10 at CSC (136 East 13th Street).

Classic Stage Company's acclaimed production of UNNATURAL ACTS, a new play created by members of the Plastic Theatre, conceived and directed by Tony Speciale, will extend by popular demand for one additional week through Sunday, July 17 at CSC (136 East 13th Street). New York Magazine called UNNATURAL ACTS 'remarkable, sleek and brutal' and said 'the play offers damning lessons in power, persecution and solidarity - or lack thereof.' Variety raved 'UNNATURAL ACTS is riveting and fascinating' with 'stunning theatricality.' The Associated Press called UNNATURALS ACTS 'powerfully riveting' and said 'Speciale has staged this engrossing story with flair and impressive theatricality, employing a company of extremely talented actors. In a riveting series of increasingly charged vignettes, he unspools a story of prejudice, intimidation, friendship, fear and betrayal that displays the crushing effect of societally-approved homophobia.' And The Daily News wrote 'Speciale's production is stylish and stirring, and beautiful.'

Classic Stage Company's acclaimed production of UNNATURAL ACTS, a new play created by members of the Plastic Theatre, conceived and directed by Tony Speciale, will extend by popular demand for one additional week through Sunday, July 17 at CSC (136 East 13th Street).

On a weekend when New Yorkers who favor marriage rights for gay couples are celebrating an important victory, Classic Stage Company's Unnatural Acts is a sobering dramatization of a shameful episode involving a Joseph McCarthy-type gay witch hunt from nearly a century ago that was only recently uncovered.

Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will present UNNATURAL ACTS, a new play created by members of the Plastic Theatre, conceived and directed by Tony Speciale, as the final offering of its triumphant 2010-11 season.

Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will present UNNATURAL ACTS, a new play created by members of the Plastic Theatre, conceived and directed by Tony Speciale, as the final offering of its triumphant 2010-11 season.

The Brick Theater and The Mad Ones present 'The Tremendous Tremendous', a wonderful new play by The Mad Ones which concerns a performing family after their final triumphant performance at the 1939 World's Fair.

It's been a tremendous summer here at the New York World's Fair, filled with technological marvels, real-life mermaids and those CAN'T-MISS showstoppers, The Tremendous Traveling Abbotts.

It's been a tremendous summer here at the New York World's Fair, filled with technological marvels, real-life mermaids and those CAN'T-MISS showstoppers, The Tremendous Traveling Abbotts.

It's been a tremendous summer here at the New York World's Fair, filled with technological marvels, real-life mermaids and those CAN'T-MISS showstoppers, The Tremendous Traveling Abbotts.

It's been a tremendous summer here at the New York World's Fair, filled with technological marvels, real-life mermaids and those CAN'T-MISS showstoppers, The Tremendous Traveling Abbotts.

On Monday September 20, 2010, the IT Awards (New York Innovative Theatre Awards), the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, and host Lisa Kron, announced the 2010 recipients at the Sixth Annual IT Awards Ceremony at Cooper Union.

The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, announced the 2010 nominees at its annual sold-out event at the Carmine Street Recreation Center located at 25 Carmine Street. The 2010 IT Awards Ceremony will be on Monday, September 20, 2010.

The Mad Ones and Brick Theater, Inc. present SAMUEL & ALASDAIR: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE ROBOT WAR-- now playing at the Brick Theater in Brooklyn thru April 17. An extra late show has been added for Saturday, April 17 at 10:30 pm.

The Mad Ones and Brick Theater, Inc. present SAMUEL & ALASDAIR: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE ROBOT WAR-- now playing at the Brick Theater in Brooklyn thru April 17. An extra late show has been added for Saturday, April 17 at 10:30 pm.

'Broadcasting live from the Victory Theater in downtown Irkutsk, it's The at Home Field Guide, brought to you by Soviet Free Radio Order. Today your hosts buck the chaos and mounting panic to bring you an American story of first love and first heartbreak, along with the musical stylings of Alexei ‘Tumbleweed' Petrovya. Tune in, take heart--and be careful out there, friends.'

THE BRICK THEATER, INC. and THE MAD ONES present SAMUEL & ALASDAIR: A Personal History of the Robot War. In an alternate global history, the cold war was decided not by détente, not by nuclear holocaust, but by massive robot invasion.