ADRIFT IN MACAO CD NOW ON SALE

Now you can take a piece of Primary Stages history home with you! The original cast recording of Adrift in Macao is now available exclusively online. With book & lyrics by Christopher Durang and music by Peter Melnick, this musical had its New York debut with Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters during the 2006 - 2007 Season.

Get your copy today!

PRIMETIME READING SERIES

Now approaching its second birthday, PrimeTime has blossomed into one of the hottest ticketes in town. Convenientaly located in our in-house rehearsal studios, PrimeTime provides a home for writers to hear their new work read aloud. Simultaneously, friends of Primary Stages are invited to attend and be a part of a playwright’s creative process. Several plays have received productions at Primary Stages since participating in PrimeTime, including Michael Hollinger’s Opus, Lee Blessing’s A Body of Water, and Tina Howe’s Chasing Manet.

Readings are free of charge.
Simply RSVP with Tessa LaNeve at 212.840.9705 x212 or tessa@primarystages.org

Fall 2008 Schedule:

Monday, September 15
7:00pm at 307 W. 38th Street
SAM AND LUCY
By Brooke Berman
Directed by Trip Cullman
With Reed Birney, Michael Countryman, Maria Dizzia, Didi O’Connell, Ben Walker, and Merritt Weaver

Lucy, clad in vintage Gucci, confronts ghosts, family mythology and a Saturn Return while lunching with her mother's ex-lover.  Layers of family mythology unfold, and questions about the nature of love, until the play deliciously reaches its final heartbreaking end-note.
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Monday, September 22
5:00pm at 307 W. 38th Street
REFLECTIONS
By Michael Walker
Directed by Marc Geller

Peter and Mary are a wealthy Manhattan couple who have a daughter, Cassie, a professor. She is sexually involved with two men: Richard, who went to college with her father; and Simon, a young man who recently was her student. Richard is a wealthy, powerful, dangerous older man. Simon is a destitute, brash, leftist-radical, reminiscent of the 1960's, who appears sexually impotent, possibly gay, and attracted to abusive, dominant people. Cassie is addicted to the men and the power.
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Monday, October 6
5:00pm at 307 W. 38th Street
BLITHE COWARD
By Lanie Robertson
Directed by Casey Childs

A one-act/one actor musical that provides the occasion for the dead Noel Coward to visit a small theatre set constructed to look like his long-ago London flat. Why this place? Why now? What about it has caused him to return to earth? Is he to learn a lesson about Life! (Note the capital "L"!), about Romance! (Note the capital "R"!), or most of all about Love! (Note the...oh, you get the picture!)?
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Wednesday, October 8
2:00pm at 307 W. 38th Street
TRANSIT
By Kait Kerrigan
Directed by Lisa Peterson

Local Poughkeepsie newscaster Leslie Wallace is looking for her big story when an unidentified Muslim woman commits suicide by jumping in front of a Metro-North train. As Leslie begins to uncover the details of the woman’s life, she notices strange connections to a major terrorist attack that occurred exactly one year before. Meanwhile, the driver of the train deals with his feelings of complicity in the Muslim woman’s death as well as their secret connection. Transit puts a human face to the horrors of terrorism and the media's hunger for up-to-the-minute coverage of personal tragedy.
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Monday, October 20
5:00pm at 307 W. 38th Street
DREAM OF THE BURNING BOY
By Travis Baker
Directed by Marshall Mays

Frank Vaughn, Ph.D., Professor of History at Maine State, had decided to make a decision to leave his wife depending on how the night goes with his new girlfriend. He has tried to explain this to his wife but she isn’t listening. He’s trying to explain this to his teen-age son by his first wife but the boy keeps playing with a brass button he found in a pile of porcupine poop. Of course, the poop really hits the fan when he and his girlfriend come home early from their date to find his wife and son…
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Monday, November 10
5:00pm at 307 W. 38th Street
THE MOUNTAINTOP
By Katori Hall
Directed by Martin Wilkins

April 3, 1968. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. retires to room 306 in the Lorraine Motel after delivering a speech to a Memphis congregation during the sanitation workers' strike. When a mysterious young hotel maid comes to visit him during the night, King is forced to confront his mortality and the future of his people
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Monday, November 17
5:00pm at 307 W. 38th Street
THE BURNING DECK
By Sarah Schulman
Directed by Carolyn Cantor

 Greenwich Village, 1958. Bette, a white spinster of a certain age, and Earl, a black gay actor, have been each other's family for 30 years. Bette is a secretary in a family-run advertising firm transitioning to that new fangled, high-stakes form: television. When Bette's young cousin, Hortense, arrives in New York from Ohio to become an actress, Bette's life is torn asunder. Vowing to do everything she must to make things right, Bette uses the new strategies and psychologies she's learned from television advertising to carry out a plot so devious it will make the audience gasp.

RSVP TODAY!
Tessa LaNeve 212.840.9705 x 212

  LOVE CHILD JOINS THE 2008-2009 SEASON

This November we're thrilled to present Love Child, a hysterical romp written and preformed by Robert Stanton (The Coast of Utopia) and Daniel Jenkins (Mary Poppins). The two take on a production of mythological proportions when they portray over 20 characters in a story that shows what happens when the real and theatrical worlds collide.

Click here for more information and a performance schedule

PRIMARY STAGES HONORED

The 2008 Lucille Lortel Awards were presented on May 5, 2008. Primary Stages was thrilled to be honored with the Outstanding Body of Work Award. In addition, Jorge Couineau walked away with the award for Outstanding Sound Design for Opus. Congrats Jorge!

Dividing the Esate has received the award for Outstanding New Play by the Outer Critics Circle Awards. Congratulations to the cast and crew!

Primary Stages was also acknowledged with the following nominations from the Drama Desk Awards:
      Outstanding Play, Dividing the Estate
                         Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Elizabeth Ashley ( Dividing the Estate)
                         Outstanding Set Design for a Play, David Korins (Hunting and Gathering)
                         Outstanding Sound Design, Jorge Couineau (Opus)

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!

BUFFALO GAL WEBISODE

Join the cast, crew and Primary Stages staff in a Buffalo Gals sing-a-long, in honor of the newest Primary Stages production. Share on Facebook