Brett Singer & Associates, LLC
Audax Theatre presents
April 30, 2008
– The Audax Theatre Group will
present Daniel Roberts' latest play, MONSTERFACE, directed by Alex Lippard. Performances will be at the Irish Arts Center, located at 553 West
51st Street, between 10th and 11th
Avenues. Performances will begin on Thursday, June 5th,
continuing through Saturday, June 28th.
Opening night is scheduled for Friday,
June 6th.
About The Play
After Melanie Crane, a beautiful but middling actress
suffers a mental breakdown, her husband Paul brings her to her childhood home
of New Hope, PA to heal. On the night
of a snowstorm and after an unspeakable secret is revealed, can the historical
town of New Hope, where George Washington staged his famous Delaware crossing,
help the Cranes save their marriage and their lives? Will it be Victory or
Death for this troubled, modern couple?
About The
Artistic Team
Playwright Daniel
Roberts has also written for television, and his poetry and fiction have
been published in various national periodicals including PRESS, THE HUDSON
REVIEW and POETRY. Previous productions
of his plays include The Beginning of the
And, The Gold Standard, Frankie and Brando. Currently, he is developing a project
for HBO based on his award-winning, one-act play Ost, teaching poetry at Harlem’s PS 101, and is a possible
candidate for Congress in New York’s 8th District.
Director Alex Lippard
is the Artistic Director of
Friendly Fire, for whom he directed Hecuba at 45 Bleecker, featuring
Kristin Linklater and Chris McCann. He re-teams
with Audax after directing the critically acclaimed world premiere of Frankie. Most recently he directed Emmy-Award winning actor Daniel J.
Travanti in The Last Word at Theatre at St. Clement's. He has
also received an Overall Excellence in Directing Award for his direction of Moonchild in the 2004 NY International
Fringe Festival. Other credits include All We Can Handle starring Raul Esparza
at Joe's Pub, Hedda Gabler at the
Century Center Ibsen Series, and The Sun
Also Rises at the Director's Company, which he also adapted.
The designers for Monsterface
are Michael Moore (sets), Kirche Zeile (costumes), and Graham Kindred
(lighting).
About The Cast
The cast includes Sarah
Grace Wilson (The Story at the Public), Anna Wood (Schoolhouse Rock), Ted Schneider (Oswald in Lanford
Wilson's adaptation of Ghosts at CSC, opposite Amy Irving), Stuart Rudin (the memorable character Multiple Miggs in "Silence of the
Lambs"), Jason Blaine (Pippin at Goodspeed Musicals), Davis Hall (Edward II with Red Bull Theater), and Karen Lynn Gorney (opposite John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever,
theater credits include Irish Rep and the Mint).
About Audax
Theatre
Audax (“Bold” in Latin) Theatre Group was founded in 2000 by
two members of the Atlantic Theater
Group’s 24-Hour Play festival, Daniel
Tisman and Daniel Roberts.
Dedicated to audacious plays that add spice to the available stock of
reality, Audax productions have been mentioned for the Pulitzer Prize for
Drama, won OOBR awards, and have helped establish the careers of countless
theatre professionals who dared to be bold.
Tickets and
Schedule
MONSTERFACE will
begin performances on Thursday, June 5th
and will continue Saturday, June 28th. The schedule is Thursday
through Saturdays at 8pm. Tickets will
be $18.00 and may be purchased by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444, or online at smarttix.com.
Directed by
Alex Lippard
At the Irish
Arts Center, 553 West 51st Street between 10th and 11th
avenues
Thursday June
5th through Saturday June 28th
Opening:
Friday, June 6th at 8pm
Thursdays
through Saturdays at 8PM
TICKETS: $18
Call
212-868-4444, or order online at www.smarttix.com
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