What We're Seeing: The Triumphant [Parts 3, 4, and 7]

From May 31 – June 24, Target Margin Theater presents the Sindbad Lab as a performance festival dismantling and rebuilding all seven voyages from the classic Sindbad tales from The Thousand and One Nights. Our buddy Kareem Fahmy (Clarence Coo's Chapters of a Floating Life) joins composer and musician Avi Amon, actor and director Stephanie Weeks, and Target Margin Theater Associate Artistic Director Moe Yousuf as Lead Artists selected to drive the individual productions. Kareem's piece is called The Triumphant [Parts 3, 4, and 7] and runs for this week only!

June 13, 14, 15, 16 @ 7:30pm & June 17 @ 5pm
The Doxsee at Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11220

A Little About The Show

Trapped in a prison, a group of gay men conjure the fantastical stories of Sindbad the Sailor as they await their uncertain future. A multi-media theatre performance piece that draws both from interviews conducted with members of the LGBTQ community in Egypt and mythic stories of survival and bravery, The Triumphant [Parts 3, 4, and 7] is about the resilience of the human spirit even in the face of the greatest adversities.

Cast:

• Paul Pontrelli
• Matthew Brown
• Samy el-Noury
• Justice Nnanna
• Sarah Suzuki

Creative:

• Created & Directed by Kareem Fahmy
• Scenic Design: Andrew Moerdyk
• Costume Design: Susanne Houstle
• Lighting Design: Cha See
• Sound Design and Composition: Mark Van Hare
• Stage Manager: Jamil Chokachi

What We're Seeing: Cannibal Galaxy

Three years ago, Co-Artistic Directors Aaron Rossini and Craig Wesley Divino travelled to Cincinnati to develop a new play written by Artistic Associate Charise Greene called Cannibal Galaxy: a love story with students from Xavier College. Now, this June, you can catch the world premiere production of the show at the New Ohio Theatre. We can't wait to see where Charise and Between Two Boroughs Productions have taken this incredible show!

June 8 - 17, 2018
New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher St
New York, NY 10014

A Little About The Show

It’s business as usual at the Washington D.C. Science Museum where the employees’ personal lives keep getting in the way. Jo wants a child but is unable to secure an inseminator. Chet longs to make love, but dating kinda sucks and gaming is way more awesome. Claire searches for purpose by digging directly toward the center of the earth. Vadim prioritizes the needs of others but wouldn’t know his own if they crawled into bed with him. Eloise lives in a treehouse and brushes her teeth with space particles. When chaos ravages a perfectly average day, these co-workers are flung into a cosmic galactic shift, rearranging their internal cartography. In these desperate times, Cannibal Galaxy: a love story is a new play about how we keep breathing as America eats itself alive.

Cast:

• Jason C. Brown
• Robin Galloway
• Olivia Oguma
• Dominic F. Russo
• Becca Schneider
• Jo Yang

Creative:

• Written by Charise Greene
• Directed by Jenn Haltman
• Scenic Design: Tim McMath
• Costume Design: Sarah Thea
• Lighting Design: Kate Bashore
• Sound Design: Fan Zhang
• Projection Design: Yana Birÿkova
• Properties Master: Maya Lin-Bronner
• Composer: Jerzy Jung
• Production Stage Manager: Jonathan Castanien
• Assistant Stage Manager: Amelia Lembeck
• Assistant Director: Molly Rose Heller

Irons in the Fire: Chapters of a Floating Life

This past Monday, we were pleased to partner with the China Institute to bring you Clarence Coo's Chapters of a Floating Life directed by Kareem Fahmy. Thank you so much to friends both old and new who joined us downtown to hear this new play in progress. We’d especially like to thank the China Institute for hosting us in such magnificent fashion!

Photos by Esther Park

Irons in the Fire: Bathsheba's Psalms

After several months of workshops, we gathered at the West Park Presbyterian Church on April 20 to hear April Ranger's Bathsheba’s Psalms, Or A Woman of Unusual Beauty Taking a Bath. This project was directed by Christina Roussos and featured performances by RJ Brown, Eli Kenny (The America Experiment), C Bain, Maya Sharpe, Stacey Yen (At The Table), Tanyamaria McFarlane, Nate Miller (White History), and Eric Miller. We first brought this play and these artists into a room back in January and it was a joy to watch this piece grow with every workshop. Thank you to everyone who came out and made the event such a wonderful success!

Photos by Estefania Pilatti

What We're Seeing: Alternating Currents

If you already have your seat reserved for our Irons in the Fire presentation of Clarence Coo's Chapters of a Floating Life but still want to see more of director Kareem Fahmy, then you're in luck! From the end of April through most of May, you can catch Alternating Currents (starring our old pal Liba Vaynberg from The Oregon Trail and Round Table). Commissioned as part of Working Theater’s FIVE BOROUGHS/ONE CITY Initiative, Alternating Currents will be staged for a limited time in each of New York City's 5 Boroughs. Check out their website for more info!

April 26 - May 26, 2018
Various Venues Across New York City

A Little About The Show

When two newly married electricians move to Electchester everything seems perfect: spacious apartment, low rent, friendly neighbors, and an incredibly close-knit community. But as they settle in, they discover how much they may need to give up in order to really belong.

Cast:

• Antoinette LaVecchia
• Brian Sgambati
• Liba Vaynberg
• Robert Arcaro
• Jason Bowen
• Rheaume Crenshaw

Creative:

• Written by Adam Kraar
• Directed by Kareem Fahmy
• Set Design: David Esler
• Costume Design: Dina El-Aziz
• Lighting Design: Scott Bolman
• Sound Design: Lawrence Schober
• Props Design: Claire M. Kavanah
• Production Stage Manager: Emily Roth
• Assistant Stage Manager: Melissa A. Nathan
• Casting: Geoff Josselson, CSA
• Graphic Design: Christy Briggs
• Press Representation: Emily Owens PR

Irons in the Fire: The America Experiment

On April 2, we gathered at the Superhero Supply Co. in Park Slope, Brooklyn to hear Elizabeth Kenny's The America Experiment for the first time. This project was directed by our friend Caitlin Ryan O'Connell and featured additional text from the performers Marinda Anderson, Juanita Castro, Shelley Fort, Stefani Kuo, and Kelly McAndrew. It's been a joy to watch this show grow from the seed of an idea into full length play and we can't wait to see where Elizabeth takes it next! Congratulations to all the artists involved and thank you to everyone who came out to hear this new play in development.

Photos by Estefania Pilatti

#GoSeePlays: Happy Birthday, Wanda June

Come see a show with Fault Line Theatre this coming Thursday, April 12! 

As part of our #GoSeePlays initiative, we'll be gathering to see Happy Birthday, Wanda June starring our very own Co-Artistic Director Craig Wesley Divino at the Gene Frankel Theater. This absurd comedy by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is being brought to the stage by Wheelhouse Theater. Tickets are $10 off for all friends of Fault Line Theatre with the discount code GOSEEPLAYS. What's more, after the show, we'll be going to The Grey Mare nearby where your first drink will be courtesy of Wheelhouse. Come for the play! Stay for the company! We'll see you there.

April 7 - 28, 2018
GoSeePlays event: April 12, 2018
Gene Frankel Theater
24 Bond Street
New York, NY 10012

A Little About The Show

Happy Birthday, Wanda June first premiered off-Broadway at the Theater de Lys (now the Lucille Lortel) on October 7, 1970, was restaged at the Edison Theatre on Broadway, starring Marsha Mason and Kevin McCarthy and opened December 22, 1970.

Happy Birthday, Wanda June takes a searing and darkly comedic look at American culture through the brilliantly perverse lens of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr..   Harold Ryan, a widely respected war veteran and big game hunter, returns home after being missing and presumed dead for 8 years. Harold brings with him an old way of thinking, one that celebrates a chauvinist machismo and American exceptionalism. But Harold soon discovers that the society he returns to has made attempts to progress into a more modern and enlightened cultural narrative. What follows is a dynamic and often hilarious meditation on toxic masculinity and an American capitalist society’s failed attempts at progress cloaked in “honor” and “morality”, and how the two are deeply connected. But simply put, and as the first few lines of the play state, “this is a play about men who enjoy killing, and those who don’t.”

Cast:

• Jason O’Connell
• Kate MacCluggage
• Finn Faulconer
• Craig Wesley Divino
• Kareem Lucas
• Matt Harrington
• Charlotte Wise

Creative:

• Written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Directed by Jeffrey Wise
• Scenic Design:  Brittany Vasta
• Lighting Design: Drew Florida
• Costume Design: Christopher Metzger
• Sound Design: Mark Van Hare
• Production Stage Manager: Tim Love

The America Experiment Illustrations

As part of the development process of our Irons in the Fire presentation of The America Experiment by Elizabeth Kenny, illustrator Sam Schanwald created drawings on the fly in response to the script and the actors. You can check out the very cool results above.

AmazonSmile x3!

You may have seen in the past, that you can easily shop on Amazon, while also helping out Fault Line Theatre.

If you still have never done that, here's some great news: From March 12 - 31, Amazon is tripling the donation rate on your first smile.amazon.com purchase! Go to smile.amazon.com/ch/47-2256638, shop as normal, and Amazon donates to Fault Line Theatre!

What We're Seeing: The Yacoubian Building

It's no secret that we're a big a fan of writer/director Kareem Fahmy. Last year, we workshopped his play A Face In The Clouds and coming up later in 2018, he'll be directing our Irons in the Fire presentation of Clarence Coo's Chapters of a Floating Life. In the meantime, be sure to check out the free reading of his latest play The Yacoubian Building as part of the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center's Rough Draft Festival. All you have to do is RSVP below!

March 26 - 27, 2018
Little Theater - LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
31-10 Thomson Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101

A Little About The Show

Based on the novel that became an international sensation, "The Yacoubian Building" is set in Cairo, chronicling the lives of Egyptians of different religions, sexual orientations, and class backgrounds. The titular apartment block becomes a microcosm of an Egypt infested with corruption, discrimination, and despair. A love letter to the Middle East, the play conjures an Egypt before the Arab Spring, still on the brink of change, deeply divided but full of hope.

Creative:

• Written & Directed by Kareem Fahmy
• Based on the novel by Alaa Al Aswany
• Original Music by David Dabbon