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Here We Are Here in development. Photo by Tristan Jeffers.
3 years ago, Fault Line Theatre co-founder and Artistic Associate Tristan Jeffers, along with playwright Jiehae Park, were accepted into the Summer Residency Lab with The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep. Their developmental project Here We Are Here is now spending a week at the Baryshnikov Arts Center to continue the process started in 2014.
We can't wait to see what these two cook up with their time in NYC!
Nick Gandiello and Aaron Rossini at the opening of The Wedge Horse, 2016
Next week, we can't wait to catch as much of Writopia Lab's Worldwide Plays Festival as we can! Writopia Lab is a wonderful organization that "fosters joy, literacy, and critical thinking in children and teens from all backgrounds through creative writing." Their annual playwriting festival pairs children aged 6-18 with professional playwrights, directors, and actors to develop, then fully realize their scripts. This year our very own Aaron Rossini had the absolute pleasure to direct one of the pieces (which will be shown Saturday, May 13th at 2 PM). Additionally, Nick Gandiello, writer of our 2016 production of The Wedge Horse, is the Associate Artistic Director of the program. There are too many dates and performances to fully list here, so head on over to their website to view the full program and purchase tickets.
May 8 - 14, 2017
TheaterLab
357 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10018
This year, our theme is Home. Every play will take place within a single room of a house. These plays will be performed as an immersive theatre experience, allowing audience members to move from room to room and play to play.
The select group of playwrights represent New York City, Westchester County, Washington, DC, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and the cast of professional actors reflects New York City’s diversity, bringing a full range of backgrounds and experiences to the rehearsal room and the stage.
The Worldwide Plays Festival is a vital way in which we foster joy, literacy, and critical thinking in our writers. We couldn’t be more excited to help them engage with their communities by creating immediate new works for the stage!
Late in 2016, we got together under the watchful direction of Aaron Rossini for a workshop reading of an exciting new play by Kareem Fahmy called A Face in the Clouds. Kareem is also a tremendous director in his own right and, beginning in May, he has an extremely interesting, interactive project going up at 3LD Art & Technology Center.
May 1 - May 28, 2017
3LD Art & Technology Center
80 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10006
3/FIFTHS is a radically interactive Carnival and Cabaret, which takes place in a sprawling 10,000-sq-ft dystopian interactive ethno-theme park known as SupremacyLand. A comprehensive and theatrical exploration of America’s fascination with the virtual weaponization of black skin. 3/FIFTHS creates a truly immersive environment using large scale video, performance, and music to trace the brutality from America’s original sin (Slavery), to the latest unarmed black man killed due to a heavily armed policeman fearing for their lives. Mass incarceration, racist carnage, and political incorrectness have never been more entertaining!
Stephan Wolfert in rehearsal for Cry Havoc! Credit: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
This is the final week to catch the one-man show Cry Havoc! produced by our friends in Bedlam. Created by Stephan Wolfert, Cry Havoc! collages his own memories and stories as a U.S. Army Veteran with text from Shakespeare to "explore strength and duty, bravery and trauma, examining what it is to be in the military and what it is to carry that experience back into civilian life." (Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times)
March 15 - April 23
New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher Street
New York, NY 10014
Stephan Wolfert recounts his own experiences of military service, weaving his personal narrative with lines from some of Shakespeare’s most famous speeches. Wolfert proposes that the military recruits citizens and trains them to kill, but asks what does the “de-cruit” process look like? How do civilians and Veterans re-learn to live together?
A limited number of $10 tickets for Veterans will be available for each performance by emailing info@bedlam.org.
Ali Rose Dachis, one of the stars of our 2016 production of Nick Gandiello's The Wedge Horse, is currently in Sarasota performing Rich Girl by Victoria Stewart at the Florida Studio Theatre. Though this is the Regional Premiere of this play, the World Premiere at the George Street Playhouse back in 2013 starred our friend and The Faire playwright Crystal Finn! It's a small world sometimes.
April 5 - May 26, 2017
Florida Studio Theatre
1241 North Palm Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
For the first time in her life, Claudine has toppled head-over-heels in love. But her celebrity-financial-guru mother has obvious misgivings about her daughter’s amorous entanglements with Henry -- an artist with rugged good looks. He’s got just enough charisma along with a negative bank balance. But does money matter when happiness is on the line? Rich Girl is a clever and contemporary comedy about women and their relationship to men, mothers, and money - in that order. Can they ever really coexist?
* Denotes member of Actors' Equity Association
Our very own co-artistic director and co-founder Aaron Rossini is currently directing The Wave starring our friend Jon Kovach at the Bay Street Theater. This beautiful venue is tucked away in the heart of the Hamptons on the East End of Long Island. The show runs two days only, so don't miss out on incredible theatre at this incredible venue!
April 7 - 8, 2017
Bay Street Theater
1 Bay Street
Sag Harbor, NY 11963
The social experiment that went awry!
This live theatrical production stars Jon Kovach (Hand to God, Of Mice and Men at Bay Street) and is based on a true story. THE WAVE, by Ron Jones, is a narrative about a young 1960’s California history teacher who wanted to deter his students from the allure of totalitarianism. His daring social experiment succeeded beyond his wildest expectations, creating a fascist state on campus. Replete with salutes and Gestapo-like informants, 30 students grew to 200 as this exercise in fascism spiraled out of control. The “experiment” illustrates how individual freedoms can be quickly abandoned and willfully repressed for collective goals and racism as happened in the rise of Nazi Germany and the treatment of the Jews during World War II.
Right now at The Wild Project, you can catch 3 alumni of Fault Line Theatre in Guillermo Calderón's latest show Villa produced by The Play Company. The show stars Crystal Finn (playwright of The Faire), while artistic associate Jenny Kennedy (The Wedge Horse) stage manages and Jonathan Zencheck (The Oregon Trail) production manages. We caught the show last week and loved it! Congratulations everyone!
March 1 - April 1, 2017
Wild Project
195 East 3rd Street
New York, NY 10009
“If you double-click on an icon that says: VILLA, click-click, a description comes up of everything that actually happened to her in the villa. Click. Who she hugged. Click. Who she spoke to. Click. Who she helped. If you Click click on an icon that says: THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, you see what the family and friends think would have happened if nothing had happened to her. If she’d never been in the villa.”
This is a story about reclaiming your country. In this slyly surprising and gripping play, Guillermo Calderón puts us in the room with three women charged with deciding the future of the Villa Grimaldi, an infamous detention camp of Chile’s Pinochet government.
Calderón is a leading playwright/director from Chile whose works have been performed in over 20 countries. His bracing plays lace playful humor, and flashes of startling stagecraft, into narratives of the dictatorship’s effects on his country and its people.
Playwright Bekah Brunstetter doesn't take much time off. Despite a busy schedule that includes closing our premiere of her play The Oregon Trail last month and writing for NBC's This Is Us, her next play is already going up in New York with The Other Plays festival, a series of short plays about diversity and otherness. Her work will be featured alongside playwrights Neil LaBute, Lameece Isaaq, Dennis A. Allen II, and Tatiana Rivera.
March 10 - 26, 2017
Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at The New A.R.T/NY Theatres
502 W. 53rd St.
New York, NY 10019
In this troubling time where respect for and protection of the Other seems to be under threat, we believe in letting all voices be heard, celebrating both what is unique and universal, petty and grand within us all. As a band of artists who live and represent disability -- the only Otherness that knows no race, religion, gender, age, country or political affiliation -- TBTB's goal is to unite all Others on a common ground to learn, share and grow together as one.
Emily Perkins, our beloved Then-Jane from The Oregon Trail, is starring in a remounting of Home/Sick this month, the hit show from her artist collective The Assembly. Originally performed in 2011, the show has graced the stage at The Living Theatre, Wesleyan University, and The Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. Congratulations Emily!
March 9-25
Jack
505 1/2 Waverly Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Disgusted by the Vietnam War and the government's repression of those seeking equality domestically, a handful of leaders from the 1960s student movement seized control of Students for a Democratic Society and reshaped it in the name of overthrowing the United States government. Believing violence to be the only means to transform American politics and society, these passionate idealists accelerated a movement to a revolutionary fervor, but left a country behind.
Back in 2015, our production of At The Table was the culmination of two years of workshops and development to create a script collaboratively with director/writer Michael Perlman, the actors, and designers. The play has now grown beyond the walls of our company and is now receiving its Midwest Premiere in Chicago at Broken Nose Theatre (the same company that brought From White Plains to Chicago in 2014). Like proud parents, we're so happy to see our little one all grown up and out in the world by itself. Wishing broken legs to everyone in Broken Nose Theatre! We hope this play treats you as well as it has treated us!
February 10 - March 11, 2017
Berger Park Coach House
6205 N Sheridan Rd
Chicago 60660
Six friends head out of the city on their annual retreat for the weekend. With no social media, no cellphones, no internet allowed all, this leaves them with one thing to do… look up from their screens and talk to each other. And when the liquor starts flowing and the tongues start to loosen, no conversation is uneventful and no topic is off-limits. AT THE TABLE is a new comedy that begs the question: what happens when those with privilege are pushed to the periphery and a marginalized minority suddenly finds its voice amplified? Who is allowed at what discussion table, and who isn’t?
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