American Nightcap

New plays served up at INTAR Theatre

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@dioexmachina @yadiradelariva @moralesgabe @itsbrettdotnet in #newplay by @wrightmachine, dir @courtneyulrich @intartheatre @americanightcap (at Intar)

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Will Surratt is #punchdrunk in Homesick by Ilana Peña, dir Michael Holtzman. Tonight! 11pm @intartheatre

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@americanightcap tonight! Catch these ladies in a new play by Kara Lee Corthron as part of #punchdrunk 11pm after Jose Rivera's Adoration @intartheatre

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José Rivera's Adoration of the Old Woman

THRILLED TO BE SHARING THE STAGE with José Rivera’s Adoration of the Old Woman, dir. Patricia McGregor. AN ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS PIECE OF THEATRE with incredible performances by Socorro Santiago, Raul Castillo, José Joaquín Perez, Carmen Zilles and Danielle Davenport. Use code FB15 for $15 tix thru Sunday, March 23!

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PUNCH DRUNK, plays on violence…

THURSDAY & FRIDAY @ 11pm

March 27 & 28 featuring new plays by… Kara Lee Corthron Teddy Nicholas Jaime Wright Ilana Peña & Mfoniso Udofia

Directed by…

Matt Dickson, Michael Holtzman, Axel Avin Jr., Tasha Gordon Solmon & Courtney Ulrich

Featuring…

John Paul Harkins, Celli Pitt, Alex Ubokudom, Yadira De La Riva, Diomargy Nuñez, Aldo Uribe, Brett Epstein, Gabe Morales, Mariette Strauss, Martina Potratz, Hara Zi, Daniela Thome, Will Surratt

Reserve your $10 tickets by emailing [email protected]! First beer is on us!

Created and Produced by Lily Padilla & Jana Fredricks Associate Producer: Natalie Berk Stage Managed by Tyler P. Britt

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“Professional Fight Director and Stage Combat Instructor” is apparently one of the best jobs one can possibly have when attending a cocktail party (though for the record, I would like to state that I always say “playwright” first). Outside of the worlds of theater and film, a surprising number of intelligent and educated people are unaware that the job actually exists. And once they do know, there is a lot of curiosity about how our work is done. 

PUNCH DRUNK is coming up. Check out this article from Howlround to see just why stage violence is so important.

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Tech: Day 4

Wherein 12 year old Jesus learns he’ll have to make the ultimate sacrifice, there’s a baptism of rapturous proportions, Lazarus is raised, the Temple is stormed, and Tony Award winner Billy Porter works through one of his songs with the ensemble. It’s time to breathe life into the first half of Act II. Work; werk.

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In honor of PUNCHDRUNK...blood.

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So Lantern Theater in Philadelphia has apparently screwed up royally with a racist “Japanese-inspired” Julius Caesar. Makoto Hirano, member of the Team Sunshine Collective and “actual Japanese person,” has penned a great response that should really be rules for keeping any of your shows from being racist.

Lantern Theater has issued this non-apology:

“One of the major goals of Lantern Theater Company has always been to foster dialogue and discussion among our audience. We have a long history of hiring actors of all backgrounds for Shakespeare roles, but our production of Julius Caesar has offended some people, and we want to better understand their concerns. I have reached out personally to Makoto as well as other members of the local theater and Asian American communities and am interested in hearing all points of view. I welcome the opportunity to further discuss diversity and cultural representation in the theater with anyone who has an interest in an open and direct exchange.”

Lantern, guys, you didn’t create a dialogue, you straight-up didn’t have one with ANYONE who could have helped you not make these mistakes, and that’s how you got into this mess.

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Diversity please.

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ADHDj @americanightcap #ladiesnight after party

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Hottest production team in New York -- box office opens at 9:30 #ladiesnight @americanightcap @janakayfred @intartheatre @natalieberk

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Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim

Most of my posts will be about more contemporary playwrights, but I want to first pay homage to the woman who is sometimes credited as the first female playwright.

Though many discredited her because of her gender, she persevered. It felt it right to start this project with such a pivotal figure.

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Larissa FastHorse

List of Works:

   Cherokee Family Reunion    Average Family    Teaching Disco Squaredancing to Our Elders    Serra Springs    Different Does Not Mean The Same

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Naomi Iizuka

List of Works:

    The Last Firefly     Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West     Ghostwritten     Anon(ymous)     Hamlet: Blood in the Brain     Strike-Slip     At the Vanishing Point     17 Reasons (Why)     36 Views     War of the Worlds (Written in collaboration with Anne Bogart)     Language of Angels     Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls     Polaroid Stories     Marolowe’s Eye     Skin     Tattoo Girl     Carthage     Coxinga     Ikeniye     Crazy Jane     Portrait of Bianca     Greenland     Lizzy Vinyl     And Then She Was Screaming     Body Beautiful     After a Hundred Years

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Young Jean Lee

List of Works:

   The Appeal    Church    Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals    The International Show: A Panikk Transatlantique    Lear    Pullman, Wa    The Shipment    The Sinophile    Songs of the Dragons Flying Tt Heaven    We’re Gonna Die    Yaggoo    Straight White Men    Untitled Feminist Show

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Jen Silverman

List of Works:

   Crane Story    Akarui    All The Roads Home    Wink    And Humbaba Came From His Strong House of Cedar    Bones at the Gate    Phoebe in Winter    Still    Little Ugly    Nila    Lizardskin    The Dangerous House os Pretty Mbane    Lex Before Marriage    Whale 52    Angel Bones    Gilgamesh’s Game    Johnny Hunger    The Epistomology of Geraldine