Summer Lee Jack News

Cast members of Joe Beck's drama A Homecoming, which heartbreakingly details the emotional devastation of Alzheimer's on one already-fractured family, and which was most recently presented as a staged reading at the Lott Center for Assisted Living on October 5th, will reunite once more for another staged reading of their work at the Frederick Loewe Room at 1501 Broadway (between 43rd and 44th Streets), Suite 701, on Tuesday, November 5 from 7-9pm. Admission is free, and on a first-come, first-seated basis.

Heiress Productions, a company whose mission is to fight cancer one show at a time, is teaming up with Uniting Against Lung Cancer to bring Jessica Anderson's My Purple Wig to the stage.

Cast members of Joe Beck's drama A Homecoming, which heartbreakingly details the emotional devastation of Alzheimer's on one already-fractured family, and which had its world premiere at the New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) this past August, will reunite to present a staged reading of their play for the residents of the Lott Residence for Assisted Living on Saturday, October 5th. The event will take place at 2:15pm at the Lott Residence facilities on 1261 5th Avenue (between 107 and 108th Streets) in Manhattan.

Alzheimer's casts its long shadow over an already broken family in Joe Beck's poignant drama A Homecoming. Edited by Tom Philbin, directed by Troy Miller and presented by Adam Weinstock and Creative Concept Productions as part of the 17th Annual New York International Fringe Festival (Fringe NYC), A Homecoming will be performed at the Players Theater, located at 115 MacDougal Street (between W 3rd St. & BleeckerSt. (Fringe Venue #17). The production will run Saturday, August 10 at 4:45pm; Friday, August 16 at 2pm; Tuesday, August 20 at 9pm; Thursday, August 22 at 1pm; and Friday, August 23 at 7pm.

Alessandra Most's PRIVATE POLICY a circus in two acts will receive its world premiere at the Pershing Square Signature Center in the Studio Theatre April 26 - 29. The work will be presented as part of the Columbia University School of the Arts New Plays Now Festival. Jill Harrison will direct the production. This play is mentored by Marsha Norman.

Blessed Unrest, winner of the 2008 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Play, presents EURYDICE'S DREAM, the company's newest original piece conceived by Jessica Burr (recipient of the 2011 League of Professional Theatre Women Lucille Lortel Award), and presented at the InterArt Theater (500 West 52nd Street, corner of 10th Avenue) in Manhattan. EURYDICE'S DREAM opens tonight, April 1. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Blessed Unrest, winner of the 2008 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Play, presents EURYDICE'S DREAM, the company's newest original piece conceived by Jessica Burr (recipient of the 2011 League of Professional Theatre Women Lucille Lortel Award), and presented at the InterArt Theater (500 West 52nd Street, corner of 10th Avenue) in Manhattan. Preview performances of EURYDICE'S DREAM begin tonight, March 28 prior to an official press opening of April 1st, 2013.

Blessed Unrest, winner of the 2008 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Play, presents EURYDICE'S DREAM, the company's newest original piece conceived by Jessica Burr (recipient of the 2011 League of Professional Theatre Women Lucille Lortel Award), and presented at the Interart Theater (500 West 52nd Street, corner of 10th Avenue) in Manhattan. Preview performances of EURYDICE'S DREAM begin March 28 prior to an official press opening of April 1st, 2013.

This Fall, Goodly Rotten Apple Productions presents The Water Children by Wendy MacLeod. This 1997 serio-comedy about abortion is updated to 2012 and will be revived Off-Off Broadway at Theatre 54.

Construction of the Human Heart, a bold and imaginative play by award-winning Australian playwright Ross Mueller, directed by Brendan Naylor, will receive its U.S. premiere at the Access Theater, 380 Broadway, with previews beginning tonight, September 5, at 8pm and opening Friday, September 7, at 8pm. Performances continue through September 16.

This Fall, Goodly Rotten Apple Productions presents The Water Children by Wendy MacLeod. This 1997 serio-comedy about abortion is updated to 2012 and will be revived Off-Off Broadway at Theatre 54.

Construction of the Human Heart, a bold and imaginative play by award-winning Australian playwright Ross Mueller, directed by Brendan Naylor, will receive its U.S. premiere at the Access Theater, 380 Broadway, with previews beginning Wednesday, September 5, at 8pm and opening Friday, September 7, at 8pm. Performances continue through September 16.

Empirical Rogue (Tim Eliot, Artistic Director), a company comprised of MFA alums of the A.R.T./MXAT Institute at Harvard, teams with chashama to produce a four-actor Romeo and Juliet in a never-before-performed-in abandoned space in Long Island City (26-15 Jackson Ave.) tonight, May 19 through June 10, 2012. Tim Eliot will direct the production.

Empirical Rogue (Tim Eliot, Artistic Director), a company comprised of MFA alums of the A.R.T./MXAT Institute at Harvard, will team with chashama to produce a four-actor Romeo and Juliet in a never-before-performed-in abandoned space in Long Island City (26-15 Jackson Ave.) May 19 through June 10, 2012. Tim Eliot will direct the production.

Blessed Unrest (Jessica Burr, Artistic Director) presents Aleksandr Ostrovsky's The Storm April 13 through May 7, 2012 at the Interart Theatre (500 West 52nd Street). Jessica Burr, the 2011 recipient of the League of Professional Theatre Women's Lucille Lortel Award, will direct from a new translation and adaptation by Laura Wickens.