The production is directed by Jeff Christian
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Read the buzz….

WBEZ Chicago Radio has put KILL ME on it’s Don’t-Miss-List this week
Writes Jonathan Abarbanel: “There’s no question that various horrors make their way to local theater stages in the course of any given year, but Chicago has only one theater troupe specifically dedicated to horror as a dramatic genre, and that’s Wildclaw Theatre, now offering the world premiere of Kill Me by company member Scott T. Barsotti.”

Centerstage Chicago has recommended Scott T. Barsotti’s KILL ME as a Must See show
“Their latest premiere, by “Revenants” author Scott Barsotti, is a creeper about a woman who realizes that, no matter what, she can’t die. We can’t wait.”

Arena Stage
Washington DC
January 20 – February 26th
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St. Anns Warehouse
Brooklyn NYC
March 22 – April 8
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In the winter of 2010–11 writers Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford, and Geoff Sobelle set out to research the performative techniques of magicians. They were taken under the wing of Dennis Diamond, Louie Magic, and Daryl Hannah, who granted them access to the Elephant Room. Forever changed by what they witnessed, the authors persuaded the magicians to showcase their craft. Three illusionists. Two acts. Zero boring stuff.

“Enchantingly goofy.” - Village Voice

“A pastiche of prestidigatory delights and vaudevillian antics.” -Culturebot

“…walks that well neigh perforated line between humorous and disturbing that marks all good magicians.” – Staged

The Washington Post described Rainpan43 as “oddball” performers who make the audience “happy to be served banana slices on toothpicks while making believe they’re tasting brains.” The New York Times called them “crackpot inventors” who give “intricately nuanced comic performances.”

Written by: Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford, and Geoff Sobelle in collaboration with the magicians
Direction: Paul Lazar
Magicians/Performers: Dennis Diamond, Louie Magic, Daryl Hannah
Costumes: Christal Weatherly

Previous Rainpan43 shows include: Amnesia Curiosa, all wear bowlers and machines machines machines machines machines machines machines machines .

“Andrew Lieberman constructs a direly foreshortened playing space (backed by a vast black wall) littered with flamboyant squalor (broken crockery, dirty clothing, newspapers and a bashed cabbage).” – TimeOutNY

“Taking their cue from a line in which one of the characters describes the Porters’ one-room flat as “a very narrow strip of plain hell,” they have built a flat black wall five feet from the lip of the theater’s stage, creating a claustrophobically narrow playing area in which the action takes place…The result is a production in which Jimmy’s free-floating rage and Alison’s sexual hunger are turned into universal, context-free abstractions.” -Wall Street Journal

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Closes April 8th

Andrew’s upcoming shows are COSÍ FUN TUTTI at New York City Opera and Philip Glass’ newest opera, KEPLER at Spoleto Festival.

A MAP OF VIRTUE
Feb 6-11, 14-18, 21-25 @ 8PM

4th Street Theatre
83 East 4th Street
(between 2nd Avenue & Bowery)

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“…a studiously odd bird: Formal structure is the wind beneath its wings….The production’s uncanny silences and negative spaces are perfectly suited to Courtney’s investigations of morality and perversity, in which a great deal hangs on things that people imagine about one another. With Schmoll’s graceful support, the play’s flights of imagination pull you up for a ride.” -TimeOutNY

“… a haunting, romantic story with a mystery at its center….the storytelling is sly, pleasingly unpredictable..In the end, “A Map of Virtue” is the mirror image of the way it’s told. Just as a tidy structure frames some serious quirks, an outrageous episode becomes a window into a resonant tale of loss, lives not lived and the unlikely moments that hold relationships together.”-The New York Times

Did you see what you think you saw?

In this middle-of-the-night horror, a shared obsession leaves a group of friends stranded in the woods. A bird statue serves as your guide through this symmetrical story about the limits of our virtues and what we leave behind.

Featuring
Alex Draper*, Birgit Huppuch*, Jesse Lenat*, Annie McNamara*, Hubert Point-Du Jour*, Jon Norman Schneider*, and Maria Striar*

Sets and Costumes Marsha Ginsberg
Lighting Tyler Micoleau
Sound and Music Daniel Kluger

Production Stage Manager Megan Schwarz Dickert*
Casting Director Kelly Gillespie
Press Representation Blake Zidell & Associates
Associate Producer Rachel Silverman

* Member, Actors’ Equity Association

Here is what LA Weekly says about NEVA:

“In the Radar L.A. fest in June, Chile’s Teatro el Blanco presented writer-director Guillermo Calderón’s three-character drama, NEVA, about the anxiety of Anton Chekhov’s widow, Olga Knipper, wrestling with guilt from playing at the Moscow Art Theatre while her husband was dying of tuberculosis in Yalta, and while the Russian revolution was fomenting. As Olga,Trinidad Gonzalez gave a performance with the full blast of range, from slapstick comedy to stridency to the tenderest of pathos, and the production, bathed in soft candlelight, was nothing short of a conjuring”.

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Guillermo’s play VILLA + DISCURSO is currently touring, fresh off a run in the international festival Santiago A Mil.

“... (DARK PLAY) is a good match with the tastes and sensibilities of Collaboraction — a company that has long been interested in exploring youth culture and the clash between virtual worlds and the stage. Director Anthony Moseley’s spare staging — just four translucent panels frame the ends of the runway playing area, and there are minimal props — allows the 90-minute show to move with relentless drive.” – Chicago Tribune

“..Murillo’s cyberthriller is packed and active…” – Time Out Chicago

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The New York Times has called the production “marvelous looking”, The Bay State Banner says “Deft lighting effects frame the stage with a scarlet proscenium, turning it into the setting for real theater” Berkshire Fine Arts praises the production design in saying: “Video projection, shadow puppetry simulating hand holding without touching, confluence of light and smoke as well as a spine-chilling metallic sound..are all striking staging devices.”

The play opened in Kuwait, then Lebanon and then made it’s way to the US at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and at ArtsEmerson Paramount Theatre. The play went on to travel to the Journées Théâtrales de Carthage Festival in Tunis and Sousse, Tunisia – where the Arab Spring began.
The next stop for Marcus and THE SPEAKER’S PROGRESS is the Holland Festival in June 2012.

THE SPEAKER’S PROGRESS
In an unnamed totalitarian state, all forms of theater have been banned. When a condemned 1960s production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is discovered, it becomes the focal point for political resistance blogs and underground social networks. A dark satire on the decades of hopelessness and political inertia that have fed recent revolts across the Arab region, The Speaker’s Progress is a daring theatrical metaphor for the mechanisms of dissent.

Kuwait’s government has supported the work with its avant-garde text uncensored.

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