A SHORT HISTORY OF NOW

October 13 – 23, 2022
Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue (between 9th & 10th Streets)
Thursdays-Saturdays  8:00 PM,  Sundays  3:00 PM.
Tickets $10, Box Office (212) 254-1109

Critics are invited on or after Oct. 13, 2011

The Theater for the New City is pleased to present Walter Corwin’s A Short History of Now,  a  series of political satires composed by Theater For The New City stalwart Walter Corwin and directed by Forest Gillespie, founder of the Dome theater and co-founder of Spectacle theater in Williamsburg.

Light Design – Alex Bartenieff
Set Design – William Corwin

Director: Forrest Gillespie is a writer and director who has been doing shows in NYC for twenty years; he co-founded a stage theater in California and micro-cinema – Spectacle Theater – in Williamsburg.

The Playwright: Walter Corwin is a fixture at the Theater for the New City, where he has been staging his plays for the past 40 years.  He has also had works performed at LaMama Etc., The Public Theater, The American Theater of Actors and on Clocktower Radio.  He assisted Playwright Ed Bullins at the Public Theater and participated in The Actors Studio and The Herbert Berghof Studio.

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