COME ON LET’S GO – THE RITCHIE VALENS MUSICAL

April 18, 2023 |

On the night of Feb. 3rd, 1959, we lost Rock and Roll legend Ritchie Valens, on what is famously known as, “The Day the Music Died.” At the age of 17, we never saw what Ritchie could have become, all the paths he might have taken. Imagine what would have happened if Ritchie hadn’t died that night, and the direction his life could have taken from there. Would he have continued to soar and become the biggest rock act in history, on the scale of Elvis and The Beatles? What cost would have come with that? Would he have to sell out? Assimilate and erase where he came from? Or, what would have happened if Ritchie had stuck to his roots and embraced his Mexican identity even more? Would he have reached the same levels of success as other American artists, or would he have been shut out for being too “ethnic”?

This is the story of Come On, Let’s Go! The Ritchie Valens Musical.

Director | Tony Taccone

Original Music and Lyrics | Ritchie Valens

Music and Lyrics | Louie Pérez and David Hidalgo

For more information on the show, please visit the website.

TO CATCH AT THIEF: THE MUSICAL

April 18, 2023 |

Composer Kevin Purcell

Book and Lyrics Peter Sham

Director Martin Platt

Musical Staging and Choreography Staś Kmieć

To Catch a Thief is David Dodge’s most famous novel, and rightly so, Alfred Hitchcock firmly cinched its place in the annals of crime fiction by adapting it into an Academy Award-winning film starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Set on the French Riviera, the story centers on John Robie, an American expatriate and skilled gymnast, who once upon a time was “Le Chat,” the famous and elusive cat burglar who worked the South of France. The legend of Le Chat grew with each crime. Following the war, Robie retires to a quiet life in France and vows to leave his past behind. His retirement is shattered when a copycat burglar commits a string of robberies that puts the police on Le Chat’s trail again. Robie must catch the phony Le Chat before the police catch him.

ISLANDER: A NEW MUSICAL

April 11, 2023 |

THE MIST UNFURLS. AN ISLAND DIVIDES. A FUTURE IS BORN.

There is a girl. She stares out to sea and dreams of a new life beyond her lonely island. Myth and reality collide when the tide washes a mysterious stranger onto her beach.

ISLANDER transports you on a magical journey combining a contemporary Scottish folk/pop-inspired score and epic storytelling.

Conceived and Directed by Amy Draper

Associate Director Eve Nicol

Book by Stewart Melton

Lyrics and Music by Finn Anderson

Islander follows a girl staring out at sea as she dreams of a life beyond the shores of her island when a mysterious stranger washes up on the shore with the tide. The Scottish folk-inspired score features looping technology for a sound mix created live during the performance.

On Tour in the U.K. and the U.S. – 2023/2024

MsTRIAL

December 6, 2019 |

by Dep Kirkland

Internationally renowned trial lawyer John Paris plays to win, both in and out of court. For Karen Lukoff, John’s young associate, losing has never been an option either. Together, they are a litigation juggernaut. John’s nephew Dan Burks, inherited his uncle’s tenacity and determination, and wants to prove he is every bit as good as Karen.

After a major lawsuit victory, John’s firm celebrates the win as hard as they fought for it. In the drunken morning hours, left alone, John and Karen collide in a high-octane moment that will cause everyone—including the audience—to question what they know about desire, consent, winning, and losing. And ultimately, they are faced with the question: is the law really on your side?

THE SAINTLINESS OF MARGERY KEMPE

April 24, 2018 |

Previews begin July 5th, 2018 at The Duke on 42nd Street

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Tony Award winner, John Wulp writes of Margery Kempe, an English mystic who lived in the 1300’s. She fancied herself to be extraordinary, and she wanted the whole world to be aware of this fact. She first tried to make herself notorious by throwing her lot in with the Devil and buying a brewery. When this failed she decided to pursue an opposite tack and elected to become a saint instead. Although she had no real qualifications for the job, she worked at her new career diligently. Her quest for saintliness set her free from the sexual demands of her husband and the needs of her six children. She was free to roam the world performing bogus miracles. Eventually she even made a tour of The Holy Land.

From the author: “Margery Kempe is a universal figure. In her desire to give meaning to her life, she embodies the human condition. I see in her the material for comedy, but it is a loving comedy. Although I wrote the play more than sixty years ago, it is amazingly contemporary. In her refusal to let her life be defined by men, Margery Kempe is a uniquely modern woman. But if she is timely, she is also timeless. The discrepancy between ambition and ability has always been the stuff of comedy.”

The Cast of The Saintliness of Margery Kempe

VANCE QUINCY BARTON   LaTONYA BORSAY   TIMOTHY DOYLE
MICHAEL GENET   GINGER GRACE ANDRUS NICHOLS
JASON O’CONNELL   PIPPA PEARTHREE THOMAS SOMMO

Directed by AUSTIN PENDLETON

LITTLE ROCK

December 22, 2017 |

Playing in the Loreto Theatre at

The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture
10 Bleecker Street in New York City.

Previews begin May 30th 2018

Little Rock is the true story of The Little Rock Nine — the first blacks to volunteer to integrate Little Rock Central High School, the formerly segregated all-white public school in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.

They were average teenagers with above-average grades and varied interests — track star, basketball star, jazz impresario, aspiring theater actress, Shakespearean, aspiring attorney, teacher and resident comedian. They wanted access to the best facilities, best books and best teaching instruction that their capitol city offered. They would agree to sacrifice sports, music, drama club and any other extracurricular activities that would lend itself to unnecessary race-mixing, in order to do so.

Their quest might have been otherwise unremarkable and gone unnoticed — had they not been in the Jim Crow South with a defiant Governor willing to violate federal law (Brown vs Board of Education) to integrate schools.

The staged cast of this real-life drama journeys back to 1957 to unveil those intimate, never-revealed, moments between The Nine and their supporting and opposing real-life cast — parents, civil rights leaders, mayor, school board, segregationists, bullies, administrators, teachers, community activists, famous athletes and entertainers, prominent local businessmen, television and newspaper reporters, international heads of state.

Told in memory, Little Rock artfully hurtles between past and present, challenge and triumph, hate and hope. It examines the unintended efforts of nine brave American teenagers forever thrust onto the national stage, unwittingly becoming agents of social change in the process — igniting the passions of a nation in the early dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, forever changing the face of education in America and giving hope to millions around the world in the generations to follow.

They never planned to be change agents.

They didn’t consider themselves heroes.

They just wanted to go to school.

www.littlerockplay.com

GEORGIE

November 8, 2017 |

ED DIXON – 2017 DRAMA DESK WINNER
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE

This roller-coaster of a show captured audiences in New York City and Washington like none other. Everyone was talking about this unique tour-de-force. Everyone was leaving the theatre in awe of what they had just witnessed. Everyone was speechless. Some reviews from the New York Production at The Loft at the Davenport Theatre:

“In recent years Ed Dixon—actor, writer, composer—has delivered two of the most wrenching literary stomach punches I’ve ever received: punch one with his autobiographical memoir, Secrets of a Life On Stage… and Off, which I read a few years ago, and punch two with his incandescent performance in his play Georgie, which just opened at The Loft at the Davenport Theater. In both cases, the punch was swift, unpredicted and straight to the gut.” Glen Roven – Huffington Post

“It has been said that theatre at its most basic is great storytelling. Georgie: My Adventures with George Rose is an exhilarating story, and indeed brilliantly told.” – BroadwayWorld

“… a first class ticket on a theatrical time machine ride. We get to sit at the feet of a great storyteller getting punch drunk on theatre memories. Brilliant text, astounding performance, astute direction – unforgettable evening.” – New York Theatre Guide

“Dixon is priceless….he holds you in his thrall for the entire 90-miniutes and proves not only a great interpreter of Rose’s life and work, but a worthy successor to his stage presence. Oh, what a relief!” – Michael Musto – Out

“As the story progresses, the jovial, sunny performance he delivers begins to morph into a rigid and deeply sad one by the end. Director Eric Schaeffer guides this multifaceted performance into a beautifully appropriate balance of lightness and darkness. Yet even as such a horrible story comes to life before our eyes, it’s clear that no matter what, Dixon still respects his late mentor, even if his feelings now are weightier and more complicated than they were when the two first met. Georgie is a tribute to one of Broadway’s greats, while reminding us that everyone we see onstage has a story all their own.” – TheatreMania

“Hugely funny, and masterfully constructed. For an actor, seeing this show is one of those times when you remember why you got involved in the first place.” – McPhillamyActoBlog

BEDLAM’s SENSE & SENSIBILITY

September 8, 2016 |

You’ve never seen Austen like this! Called the “greatest stage adaptation of this novel in history,” this rollicking, ingeniously-staged new adaptation follows the adventures (and misadventures) of the Dashwood sisters – sensible Elinor and hypersensitive Marianne – after their sudden loss of fortune.

Bursting with humor, emotion, and bold theatricality, ‘Sense and Sensibility’ asks: when reputation is everything, how do you follow your heart?

“Blissfully delightful”
– Huffington Post

“Goofy, joyous and deeply moving”
– Daily News

“Downton Abbey on roller skates….Go! Go! Go!”
– Philadelphia Inquirer

“It’s by far the smartest Jane Austen adaptation to come along
since Amy Heckerling’s Clueless, and at least as much fun.”
– Wall Street Journal

NOW PLAYING!
the Gym At Judson
55 Washington Square Park

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BEDLAM’s HAMLET / ST. JOAN

August 8, 2016 |

Meredith Lucio Sarah Hancock Ron Simons Joan Raffe & Jhett Tolentino Patrick Blake David Elliott & Martin Platt, present BEDLAM’S

SAINT JOAN and HAMLET
at The Lynn Redgrave Theatre
45 Bleecker Street, NYC

Committed to the immediacy of the relationship between the actor and the audience BEDLAM creates theatre in a flexible, raw space and is interested in contemporary reappraisals of the classics, new writing and small-scale musical theatre.

“I arrived grousing and left grinning, surprised that there was still ice on the streets. As far as I was concerned, the warmth and effervescence of what I had just witnessed had turned winter into springtime.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times

“Top 10 Best Plays of 2013” – Time Magazine

“Bedlam Theatre Company works genuine miracles.” – New York Magazine, Scott Brown

“Thrilling! An unforgettable show! The most exciting George Bernard Shaw revival I’ve ever seen, bar none.” —Wall Street Journal, Terry Teachout

“A production to be treasured.” – New York Times, Eric Grode

“An engaging, highly physical production of Shakespeare’s complex masterpiece that feels as raw and incestuous as the state of Denmark itself.” — Time Out New York, Jenna Scherer

“Masterful. One of the most entertaining theatrical experiences of the season.” – Theatermania.Com, Pete Hempstead

The theatre we make always includes the audience. Storytelling is paramount to us. We believe that innovative use of space can collapse aesthetic distance and bring the audience into direct contact with the dangers and delicacies of life––inciting laughter and chaos, exciting thinking and recreating the thrill of lived experience.