DON'T MISS The Midwinter Madness Short Play Theatre Festival! (Until March 4th!)
Monday, February 13, 2012 at 11:27AM The Festival is currently playing at Roy Arias Studios' Payan Theatre, 300 W. 43rd St., 5th fl. and runs until March 4th! Tickets (at $14 and $17, depending on a play's length; no discounts for seniors or students) are available at www.SmartTix.com (search by play title) or by calling 212/868-4444.
CAN'T MISS THESE GREAT SHOWS!
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CIRCO POEIRA ("Dust Circus")A solo play with puppets all the way from Brazil SEE VIDEO BELOW! (written and directed by Caio Stolai; produced by Milena Nascimento). (Tues, Feb 28 7:30 PM first show; Sat Mar. 03 6:15 PM second show; Sun Mar. 04 7:15 last show)
THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN by Paulanne Simmons - In Jewish myth, Rahab was so beautiful that if a man said her name twice he would ejaculate. Today she assists an American soldier in the war-torn Middle East. (Saturday, February 25, 2012)
JIMMY AND JANICE by Jason Cicci- Although nothing alike, recently broken-up Janice meets recently broken-up Jimmy when they travel to a wedding together. While they compare relationship war stories, they find common ground...and maybe more. (Saturday, February 25 at 1PM)
REST by Leonard D. Goodisman - The father of the family lies comatose, but he keeps interfering with the lives around him. (Saturday, February 25, 2012)
THE SEVEN STAGES OF GRIEF by Dimitri C. Michalakis - A Black comedy about a dying father, an estranged son and a nurse who keeps smiling ( Saturday, February 25 at 3:30)
THE BABBLER by Jeffrey Fiske - From 1001 Arabian Nights and performed in the style of Modern Burlesque. A man scorns 4 women, who then get even. He is tricked, tormented and loses the shirt (and everything else) right off his back. (Saturday, February 24 at 9:45 PM, Sun, Feb 26th at 2:30)
HIROSHI-ME,ME,ME by Natalie Menna - There's no end to Roberta's delusions...or ranting. Scary that there's a little bit of Roberta in all of us! (Friday, Feb. 24 at 6:00PM; Sunday, Feb. 26 at 3:45PM)
ONCE by Dan Bocchino - Meeting the love of his life's family for the first time, a young man runs into an old "friend" he never thought he'd see again. (Fri. Feb. 24th 7:15pm; Sat. Feb. 26th 12pm)
OUT OF THE CRADLE ENDLESSLY ROCKING by Nikola Tesla Gojcaj - (Friday, Feb. 24 at 8:30PM; Sunday, Feb. 26 at 1:15PM)
RED ALL OVER by Mike Fresta - Romance is in the air and these guys can't wait to drink it all in; their way. (Saturday, February 25th@6pm; Tuesday, February 21st@6pm; Sunday, February 26th@630pm.)
DICTATORS FOR HIRE by Joe Beck - Deposed dictators flood a troubled NYC temp agency for corporate CEO positions. (Saturday Feb 25 9pm and Sunday, Feb 26 at 8 pm and Sunday, February 26, 2012)
WITHOUT A NET: 5 short plays by Meri Wallace - (Saturday, Feb. 25 at 7:30PM; Sunday, Feb 26 at 5:00PM)
FETAL ATTRACTION by Sarah M Chichester - Laura goes down to the womens' clinic to change her life, and ends up changing someone else's. (Monday, Feb. 27 at 6:00PM; Thursday, Mar. 1 at 7:30PM; Saturday, Mar. 3 at 1:00PM)
WAITING FOR DR. HOFFMAN by Michele Willens - Would you kill for a new face? Three women—18, 27, 42-- meet in a cosmetic surgeon’s waiting room, ambivalent and anxious. They are joined by a former patient who expected more---and will go to extreme lengths to get it. (Monday, Feb 27, 8:30 p.m.; Thursday, March 1, 10 p.m.; Saturday, March 3, 5 p.m.)
MEREDITH'S RING by Andrew Rothkin - Nobody understood the strange new girl who showed up at school one day. But A.J. didn’t have to -- he loved. And sometimes love is enough. (Monday, February 27 @ 9:45 P.M.; Thursday, March 1 @ 6 P.M.; Saturday March 3 @ 2 P.M.)
STRAWBERRY FIELDS by Ashley Nicole Audette - With distance and pain being the main source of drive for this family, will their love for each other be enough to save them? (Tuesday February 28th 6pm, Saturday March 3rd 9:15pm. Sunday March 4th 6pm.)
LA PETITE MORT by Joshua R. Pangborn - A comedy about what happens after Stephen shoots his roommate's rapist. (February 29 @ 6:00, March 2 @ 9:00, March 4 @ 1:30)
THE BRINK by Eugenie Carabatsos - After witnessing the death of their two friends in a murder/suicide, Helen and Charlie reconstruct their memories in an attempt to cope with the loss.
SOCIAL ANXIETY by Gwen Baer - Four socially challenged people participate in a clinical trial group for a new miracle drug, for social-anxiety disorder.(Wednesday, February 29th, 7:30, Friday, March 2, 6:00, Sunday, March 4, 3:00)
ANIMAL KINGDOM by Laura Zlatos - Animal Kingdom is an edgy, avant-garde dark comedy that follows six eccentric characters through a moral quandary that asks, is murder ever moral? In a world where right and wrong are as twisted as the characters' identities, this sometimes philosophical and always entertaining play exposes human existence as a depraved and savage animal kingdom. (Wednesday, February 29 @ 9:00 pm., Friday, March 2 @ 7:30 pm., Sunday, March 4 @ 12:00 pm)
PROMO VIDEOS
CIRCO POEIRA "Dust Circus"
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John Chatterton created the MITF in 2000, a Midtown alternative to other theatre festivals, as a way to present the finest off-off Broadway talent in convenience, comfort, and safety. The MITF's artistic emphasis is on the script itself, and therefore the Festival focuses on minimal production values. If anything, the Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival, and Mr. Chatterton's other showcases for short plays, take the theme of minimalism even further. As he puts it, "The shorter the plays, the more plays we have in one space, so the less space we have for each one. We learn to share."
IN THIS VIDEO: Two minutes with executive producer and founder of The 2012 Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival, John Chatterton as he discuss what makes his festival unique.
The Festival runs Feb. 13th to March 4th, 2012 at The Payan Theater at Roy Arias Studios and Theaters, 300 West 43rd Street, in NYC's Time Square.
FOR A COMPLETE LISTING OF SHOWS & TICKETS CLICK HERE
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