Theatre by & for 11-18s in the heart of Greenwich Village
*5 new plays
*10 young actors
*4 nights of great theatre
with special guest appearances from Project Girl & Writopia
TICKETS: $11 if you say you are with TDF • Wednesday, July 27th-Saturday, July 30th • Manhattan Theatre Source: 177 MacDougal Street (between West 8th and Waverly) • website
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Set in 1950′s rural America, What Happened in Ohio is a fierce telling of four siblings whose lives are caught dead in their tracks by a fatal automobile accident. Staged with wild imagination, the show is a gutsy meditation on loss and a look into how we pass things on.
In What Happened in Ohio, The Roadsters have created their world through the use of old-timey poetic text, a meticulous physical landscape, and joyously transcendent original music. The intersecting of these elements creates an alive, immediate, and intimate performance experience. The story is here and now, and way back then, too.
TICKETS: $18 • May 5-22 • Fourth Street Theatre of NYTW, 83 E. 4th St. website
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Four Hip-Hop Muses find themselves stuck. Their movement’s purpose has changed and appears to no longer inspire the current generation of youth – a generation dealing with families falling apart, love trying to survive peer pressure, friendships torn by the past, bullies, and parents struggling to raise their kids. But why? What has changed? And what needs to be done? Follow the Muses as they take us back to where it all started, rediscover the moment hip hop took hold of a generation, and look for today’s answers.
Run That Back is based on the lives and experiences of the 35 youth in The Possibility Project’s After School Program.
TICKETS: Mar 2-Mar 6 @ 7:30pm • $10 student tickets • Five Angels Theater,
789 Tenth Avenue • website
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By Sabrina Khan
Senior Plogger
Even if you’re not into comics, theatre or the arts in general, chances are that by now you’ve heard a little bit about the highly publicized Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark. Cursed as it is, you must be living under a rock if you haven’t. Multiple accidents on set, glitches with the production, and scathing reviews from well known theatre critics have delayed the show several times. Originally slated to open on February 18, 2010, its official opening is now over a year later on March 15, 2011. The ides of March…Well, we’ll see what happens. ( Read more )
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1 play about a girl in a contest to make out with 12 people in 12 weeks
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1 play about a couple unsure if they trust each other
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1 play about a girl who can’t choose between her girlfriend and her lover
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1 play about two strangers finding their connection
1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 4…so why is it called Connect Five?
Because YOU – the audience – are the final part of this production. Help these four plays add up to five by seeing the show!
TICKETS: thru January 16th • $15 student tix • Ars Nova, 511 W. 54th St. www.tctnyc.org
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WAR SUCKS. FLIPPING BURGERS SUCKS HARDER. It’s just another morning at a suburban burger joint where Ruckus, Marco and Emma smoke up, talk smack and – oh yeah – work. But, when a bloodied stranger staggers in, the three teens are forced to choose sides in the grueling war advancing just outside the door. ( Read more )
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By Olivia Munk
11th Grade, Bronx High School of Science
Tigers Be Still is a down-to-earth, wonderfully crafted play that follows the Wickman women and how they “get out of bed.”
Sherri Wickman is a recent graduate of art therapy and newly employed art teacher. Besides her job, Sherri cares for her bedridden mother and perpetually intoxicated sister, Grace, who has just broken off an engagement with her less-than-faithful fiance. Sherri also provides art therapy for the principal’s son, Zack. Throughout the play, the fear of a recently escaped tiger plagues the characters, sparking a range of emotions. ( Read more )
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By Michele Tram
Tigers Be Still tells the story of Sherry, a recent college graduate, who has just earned her masters in Art Therapy.
Art Therapy is a form of communication between art therapists and their patients. It was first recognized as a profession in the 1940’s. There are two methods to art therapy: the first where art therapists show art to their patients in the hopes that in the end, it will invoke an emotional connection which will lead to self-discovery; the second method is for the therapist to analyze the art created by the patient so that it will hint at subconscious patterns or emotions through art. Often times, these methods are used together. ( Read more )
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By Sami Bonilla and Adina Abercrombie
SAMI: Blue Man Group is an amazing show for all ages. It takes music and humor to a whole new level.
ADINA: The Blue Men don’t speak, but that doesn’t stop them from being heard. They express themselves through color, sound and art.
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