It's Spring and it's time to wake up and to smell, all of the roses.
Some say, it might be "The Twentieth-Century Way," which is Tom Jacobson’s acclaimed two-person play about homosexual entrapment in Los Angeles at the turn of the 20th century, will premiere Off-Broadway this spring.
Directed by The Theatre @ Boston Court’s Michael Michetti, and starring Will Bradley and Robert Mammana, the play will begin previews May 28, 2015, with opening night set for June 3, 2015 at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre (224 Waverly Place, NYC).
The limited engagement will run through July 19, 2015.
Based on a little-known incident in LA history, this theatrical thrill ride explores the collision of reality and fantasy as two actors juggle various roles to entrap homosexuals for "social vagrancy" in the public restrooms of 1914 Long Beach. But are they actually entrapping each other? Who they are and what they need is a mystery that deepens with every twist and turn.
The Twentieth-Century Way earned Mr. Jacobson a PEN Center USA Award for Drama, and was a sensation at the 2010 NY International Fringe Festival, winning Overall Excellence in Production of a Play.
This co-production continues the association between two companies – The Theatre @ Boston Court (Los Angeles) and Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre (New York).
Tickets for The Twentieth-Century Way range from $10 - $50 and can be purchased by visitingwww.rattlestick.org.
The performance schedule is as follows: Thursdays at 8:00 p.m., Fridays at 8:00 p.m., Saturdays at 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., Sundays at 3:00 p.m., Mondays at 8:00 p.m.
The Woman's Voice In Theater is celebrated with the 6TH ANNUAL LILLY AWARDS CEREMONYSET FOR MONDAY, JUNE 1st
AT PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS
TO CELEBRATE AND HONOR WOMEN OF DISTINCTION IN THE AMERICAN THEATER
"I am woman, hear me roar" and on Monday, June 1st, the 6th Annual Lilly Awards Ceremony (beginning at 5 p.m.) at Playwrights Horizons (416 West 42nd Street) will give that mike to host, writer and performer, Lisa Kron.
Miss Kron will "roar" because the Lilly Awards will honor the extraordinary contributions made to the American Theater by women, as well as announce the $25,000 Stacey Mindich Prize, which funds a new work by a female playwright, and the Leah Ryan Prize, which awards an annual cash prize to an emerging woman playwright and produces a reading of the winning play in New York City.
Over 100 theater professionals were asked for their nominations for the 2016 honorees. The presenters and winners will be announced shortly.
Following the ceremony, guests and honorees will attend a cocktail reception at the West Bank Cafe (407 West 42nd Street).
The Lilly Awards were started in the Spring of 2010 as a way to honor the work of women in the American Theater. The founders of The Lillys are Julia Jordan, Marsha Norman and Theresa Rebeck. The awards are named for Lillian Hellman, a pioneering American playwright who famously said “You need to write like the devil and act like one too when necessary.”
Previous winners who have won the Lilly Award include Mary Rogers, Dominique Morisseau, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Jeanine Tesori, Liesl Tommy, Kelli O’Hara, Pam MacKinnon, Leigh Silverman, Anne Kauffman, Sarah Ruhl, Kristin Chenoweth, Annie Baker, Susan Stroman, Lynn Ahrens, Tina Fallon, Amy Herzog, Nina Arianda, Diane Paulus, Katori Hall, Tina Howe, Estella Parsons, Lynne Meadow, Ntozake Shange, Jessica Hecht and Lois Smith.
Check out the Lilly Awards—www.thelillyawards.org.