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From everyone at Fault Line Theatre, we’d like to wish you a very happy holiday and a wonderful New Year.
We were in the festive mood and decided to share a little behind the scenes video of how we’ve been spending our holiday before we dive into rehearsals for The Wedge Horse in January.
Enjoy!
Photo by Eileen Meny Photography
Our buddy Rudi is one of our favorite actors on the planet. You may remember him from our productions of Doctor Faustus and Frogs. He will be starring in a crazy (and apparently pretty gory) retelling of the Donner Party story. The production is called The Tower and it’s presented by the AntiMatter Collective (founded in part by fellow Brown University alumni). Join the party!
Dec. 4 – Dec. 19, 2015
HERE Arts Center
145 6th Ave.
New York, NY 10013
Titled for the Tarot card of chaos and collapse, The Tower is a psychedelic journey into the history and mythology of the Donner Party, a group of snowbound pioneers who notoriously resorted to cannibalism to survive a brutal winter. Part loft party, part guided tour, The Tower employs historical fact and hallucinatory speculation in search of the terrible heart of the Donner legend. A vision of adolescent America: frostbitten, bloodstained, ravenous.
*Indicates a member of Actors’ Equity.
Art by Nicole Swanson Design.
Last week, our friends in Clutch Productions opened their inaugural production, Every Good Girl Deserves Fun, and we couldn’t be more excited to catch this new play Heidi Armbruster. The good people in Clutch have been doing fantastic work both artistically and socially. In their own words:
“The goal of Clutch Productions is to commission a play from a female playwright and foster it from the blank page to an Off-Broadway production in 12 months. In addition, Clutch’s priority is to create jobs for women in theater and film. Therefore, we require all commissioned works to have a female director, 3+ strong female roles, and that at least 50% of the cast is female.”
What’s more, tonight is Alzheimer’s Awareness Night, with a portion of ticket sales going to Alzheimer’s research and care. This is socially relevant theatre at its best. We’ll be there tonight and hope you will be too!
Dec. 2 – Dec. 20, 2015
Walkerspace
46 Walker St.
New York, NY 10013
On an unseasonably warm October weekend, two sisters return to their small hometown in Wisconsin to problem solve their mother’s early onset Alzheimer’s. Their struggles to be caregivers set off a chain reaction that tears through the entire community and leaves Liz, the recently promoted director of the memory care wing, to pick up the pieces.
What happens when prolonged adolescence runs headlong into early onset Alzheimer’s?
A dark comedy about growing up too late and aging too soon.
*Indicates a member of Actors’ Equity.
The Wedge Horse is coming soon to IATI Theater.
Image courtesy of Lizzie Vieh
We can’t wait to catch the world premiere of our friend Lizzie Vieh’s latest play Barrier Islands. Lizzie’s plays have been workshopped all over the city, but this production will be her full-length New York City debut. One of our favorite new playwrights, in one of our favorite venues? How could you possibly go wrong. Check it out!
Nov. 28 – Dec. 5, 2015
The Wild Project
195 E. 3rd St.
New York, NY 10009
An isolated island community, a two-lane highway, an all-night gas station, and a crime scene on a deserted beach. The residents of Ivy Dunes are used to disappearing acts—with each hurricane, a little more of their narrow barrier island washes away. But when a young woman’s disappearance leads to a gruesome discovery, the police descend, the ocean encroaches, and the residents of this barrier island community struggle to find their footing in the ever-shifting landscape.
Receiving its world premiere at The Wild Project in New York City this November, Barrier Islands is a new play about the tangled intersections between men and women; sex and violence; desire and repulsion.
*Indicates a member of Actors’ Equity.
Art by Harrison Densmore
Our very own John Racioppo is starring in an immersive theatre diamond heist play called Untameable co-produced by The Unsoft War and Highly Impractical Theatre. To preemptively answer, your question: yes, that’s as cool as it sounds. Think Sleep No More meets Ocean’s 11. The show only runs one more week, so hurry out to Brooklyn to check this one out!
Nov. 4 – Nov. 22, 2015
St Paul’s Hall
334 S 5th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
"There are things more important than love / Name them / Diamonds"
There is a diamond as big as your fist, as heavy as your heart, and touring through Buenos Aires, Argentina. It’s time to steal it. Or it’s time to keep it safe.
Pitting diamond heist against museum intrigue, Untameable follows the story of two young women: one trying to repatriate an old jewel and the other trying to keep old nemeses at bay. The audience is free to wander the space and pick which side of the story to follow.Untameable offers an immersive romp between a criminal den and a modern museum, where the audience, like the characters, must decide between love and diamonds, honesty and victory. Untameable is an investigation into what we will do to achieve our magnum opus and what gets lost in the winning.
Image courtesy of Lesser America
Happy opening to our friends in Lesser America whose production The Bachelors hits the stage for the first time this evening! We can’t wait to catch this show next week.
Nov. 5 – Nov. 29, 2015
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
224 Waverly Place
New York, NY 10014
Inside a house, a house in a series of houses on a fraternity row, a house in which DVDs serve as coasters and drool stains the sofa, live three roommates far past their college days. A thousand girlfriends come and gone, a thousand drinks downed, a thousand parties crashed–every night the same, until now. There’s a party tonight, but it is not the blaring music that makes sleep impossible. Tonight, these bachelors will understand what their choices have really gotten them.
*Indicates a member of Actors’ Equity.
Image courtesy of La Mama Experimental Theatre Club
We can’t wait to see Gardiner Comfort and Kel Haney‘s unbelievable solo show The Elephant In Every Room I Enter. The New York Theatre Review has said:
“Comfort is a charming, versatile performer: He can dance, shift personas, inhabit multiple characters with dialects and physicality, and somehow exude a vulnerability wrapped in confidence…. a talented performer with TS sharing honest, touching stories.”
Most of Fault Line Theatre is going on Monday. Get your tickets and we’ll see you there!
October 15 – October 31, 2015
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, First Floor Theatre
74A East 4th Street (btwn Bowery & 2nd Ave)
New York, NY 10003
April 2014. Gardiner Comfort travels to Washington, DC to attend the Tourette Syndrome Association National Conference. During the conference, Comfort encounters others (mostly children) with his neurological disorder and, for the first time in his life, it actually felt normal to have Tourette’s. Using an erratic and energetic performance style (a nod to Tourette’s itself), and evocative details of his week in DC, Comfort shares his life as an actor with Tourette Syndrome. THE ELEPHANT IN EVERY ROOM I ENTER is a strikingly intimate solo show created by Comfort and his frequent collaborator, Kel Haney (YOU’RE NOT TOUGH — HERE, Dixon Place). After a successful at run at The Club last season, Gardiner & Kel return to LaMaMa for the official world premiere.
Image courtesy of Page 73 Productions
We love it when worlds collide! Our friends at Page 73 Productions are producing the world premier of our former classmate Max Posner. Judy is Max’s first full New York production after several developmental works with companies around the city and recently completing a two-year Fellowship at Juilliard. The show runs through most of September, so there’s still plenty of time to make sure you get tickets.
September 1 – 26, 2015
The New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher Street, Ste. 1E
New York, NY 10014
It’s the winter of 2040, and the world has changed – but maybe not by much. Timothy’s wife has just left him, and he isn’t taking it well. His sisters, Tara and Kris, are trying to help him cope while wrestling with their own lives and loves. The three of them seem to spend a lot of time in their basements, and the kids are starting to ask questions. This subterranean comedy explores how one family hangs on when technology fails and communication breaks down.
Photo by Jacob J. Goldberg
Some exciting news came across our (metaphorical) desk today:
Backstage has named Fault Line Theatre 1 of 8 Young (and Mighty) New York Theater Companies!
“…the company is undoubtably on the rise, and known for its socially relevant and provocative works.”
We’re thrilled to share this with our friends in Fiasco Theater and the six other companies producing exciting work in the city.
Thank you to all of our friends, families and collaborators over the past 4 years for being a part of this crazy adventure with us.