RAT New Dramatists December Schedule- Please forward

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New Dramatists
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New York NY 10036
212-757-6960

DECEMBER 2000 
PLAY READINGS AND EVENTS

Thursday    November 30th at 5:30pm 
"MOVING ON…From Off-Off to Off and from Off  to On Broadway"
A DRAMA DESK PANEL DISCUSSION
Moderated by Leslie (Hoban) Blake and Brian Scott Lipton

The 2000-2001 theatre season kicked off with an unusual number of 
well-received plays moving on from their original venues. The Drama Desk 
invites you to learn how four of last season's hit plays made their moves.  
Our panelists will include director Joe Brancato and producer Larry Hirschorn 
from "Cobb" (by Lee Blessing); playwright Rob Ackerman and designer Dean 
Taucher from "Tabletop," plus representatives from two of last season's 
Manhattan Theatre Club hits - "The Tale of the Alergist's Wife" (by Charles 
Busch) and "Proof" (by David Auburn), schedules permitting. Co-moderators of 
this panel are Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Drama Desk Secretary and Brian Scott 
Lipton, Editor of ENCORE, the Off-Broadway Magazine. Reservations are a MUST 
as seating is limited. 
Please call 212-978-0213 to RSVP.

Monday  December 4th at 7:00pm  
CHINA CALLS By Lonnie Carter
Directed by Loy Arcenas
With David Straitharn, Randall Duk Kim, Sharon Scruggs, Tanya Selvaratnam et 
al

CHINA CALLS is the tale of transcontinental Chicago-Beijing flights and calls 
between the author opening his play in Chicago and his visits to his 
school-age children in the capital of China in 1998-99.  If that sounds a bit 
frantic/frenetic, know that the play veers from rhyming snoop-doggy-doggerel, 
to Mongolian cadences, to the quietest communication between family members 
trying to talk to each other across the void and veld of the globalized 
Asiatic village.  A re-working of the play that was read last November at ND.

Friday  December 8th, 12:00pm - 4:30pm          Reception to follow 
YALE PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL OF STAGED READINGS 
Hosted by Maria Irene Fornes
Join Yale School of Drama graduating playwrights Colleen J. Pickett, Joshua 
Scher and Sean Cunningham who will present their masters thesis plays in a 
festival of staged readings. New Dramatists member playwrights Doug Wright, 
Diana Son and David Lindsay-Abaire have served as mentors to these promising 
young writers.  
Reservations are required.  
Please call 212-757-6960 to RSVP.

COLD WATER COMING by Yale School of Drama Graduate, Colleen J. Pickett.
Directed by Loretta Greco
A mythic play in which three young girls, awaiting their father's return from 
the sea, re-enact the story of Noah's wife as she faces the advancing flood.

VELVET ROPES by Yale School of Drama Graduate, Joshua Scher. 
Two "Every Men" are trapped inside a modern art museum and interact with the 
art until the art "strikes back" in a vaudevillian romp that teases the 
contemporary art scene and the art seen.

GOD HATES THE IRISH: A COMEDY ABOUT THINGS ONE SHOULDN'T LAUGH AT or THE 
BALLAD OF ARMLESS JOHNNY 
By Yale School of Drama Graduate, Sean Cunningham.  
Directed by Susan Fenichell
The Irish play to end Irish plays.  Armless Johnny Kavanaugh, a Catholic boy 
with no arms, encounters poverty, the English, sex, God and even the NYPD.

Monday  December 18th at 7pm    
LIFE IN A WIND TUNNEL By Mark Bazzone
Directed by Hayley Finn

Four characters stuck in a no-world explore their self-indulgences, trying to 
achieve their personal visions of themselves.  When they realize this is not 
possible, they view each other as an impediment, believing there isn't enough 
in the world for them all to share.  Finding it all comes down to survival; 
they manipulate each other and justify it to themselves to get what it is 
they each want.

ALL EVENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AND FREE OF CHARGE 
UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED. 
TO RSVP AND FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: 212-757-6960
PLEASE CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE AT: www.newdramatists.org   

* Public Funders: Play readings are made possible, in part, by public funds 
from the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York City Department of 
Cultural Affairs, Schuyler Chapin, Commissioner; The New York State Council 
on the Arts, a State Agency; The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation 
and Historical Preservation, Manhattan Assembly Delegation.
* Major Funders: The BWF Foundation, The John Golden Fund, The Ford 
Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, Scherman Foundation, The Shubert 
Foundation, The Frederick Loewe Foundation, Hale Mattews Foundation, The NY 
Times Foundation, Sony Corporation, the Edward & Sally van Lier Fund and Judy 
Van Nostrand in memory of Abbott Van Nostrand.
* Play Reading Sponsors:  American Theatre Wing, The Axe-Houghton Foundation, 
Dramatists Play Service, Dramatists Guild Fund, The Friars Foundation, 
William Haber, the Laura Pels Foundation and Philip Morris Companies.
* The Resident Director Program is made possible by the Snowdon Foundation.
*  Musical Projects are made possible through generous gifts from Tim & Terri 
Childs, BWF Foundation, Frederick Loewe Foundation and Hal Prince.