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59E59 Theaters has announced the productions for its 2013 winter season, which will begin in January with Jack Finnegan's solo show, City Love Song: Home, and close with their Brits Off Broadway festival, which runs through June 30.
City Love Song: Home will be directed by Tralen Doler and run from January 8-20. The work is described as the summation of Finnegan's extensive travels around six continents.
The season will also include Working on a Special Day (January 10-February 10), based on Una Giornata Particolare by Ettore Scola, Ruggero Maccari, and Gigliola Fanton, in which two actors explore the life-changing encounter between an overworked housewife and a mysterious bachelor in May 1938; Paul Bomba's The Man Under (January 25-February 17), the tale of three friends who learn to speak up about how they really feel, directed by Benjamin Kamine; Barbara Blatner's Years of Sky (February 21-March 10), which chronicles the doomed love affair of a biracial couple set against 30 years of American politics, directed by Christopher Scott ; Mark Rigney's Bears, which concerns three zoo bears who escape to the wilderness, directed by Kristin McCarthy Parker (March 14-31); and Christoph Willibald Gluck's comic opera The Reformed Drunkard (March 16-24), in which a drunkard arranges the marriage of his niece, directed by Philip Shneidman.
The 2013 Winter season will come to a close with Brits Off Broadway (March 26-June 30), the only festival in New York City celebrating new British theater. A full line-up of productions for Brits will be announced at a later date.
