Off Broadway Prelude Weekend

In a New York-first, the CUNY Graduate Center will offer a three-day Prelude Weekend featuring work being produced by the city’s distinctive off-Broadway theater community. The Graduate Center’s Martin E. Segal Theatre Center will join with the Alliance of Resident Theatres (A.R.T.)/New York to present 16 A.R.T. member companies, providing a compacted preview of diverse plays being developed for the 2003-04 season and beyond, and a unique forum for showcasing the extraordinary off-Broadway theater scene.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Thursday, October 2
7:00pm: Opening Panel Discussion: Illuminating 30 Years of Not-for-Profit Off-Broadway Theater

Friday, October 3

Series A: Martin E. Segal Theatre (60 seats )
12:00 – 1:30: National Asian American Theatre Company: Tales of Unrest: Joseph Conrad On Stage

2:00 – 3:30: Blue Heron Theatre: Bee-luther-hatchee: Three Directorial Approaches

4:00- 5:30: The Play Company: The Play Company Gives You the Works

6:00 – 7:30: MCC Theater: Brand New Works

Series B: Elebash Recital Hall (185 seats )

12:00 – 1:30: The Genesius Guild: (to be determined)

2:00 – 3:30: Metropolitan Playhouse: Staging Plays from the Past for a Modern Audience

4:00- 5:30: Epic Repertory Theatre: Premiere One Acts

6:00 – 7:30: Strike Anywhere: Spin

8 PM Panel: Fringe and Mainstream: Closer Than You Think?

Saturday, October 4

Series C: Martin E. Segal Theatre ( 60 seats )

12:00 – 1:30: Hamm & Clov Stage Company: The Anam Project

2:00 – 3:30: The Lark Theatre: Barebones

4:00- 5:30: Black Moon Theatre Company: Form as the Concentration of Truth

6:00 – 7:30: Bravo Productions: Mamet Madness

Elebash Recital Hall ( 185 seats )

12:00 – 1:30: Jean Cocteau Repertory: Excerpts from Three Penny Opera

2:00 – 3:30: Clubbed Thumb

4:00- 5:30: Salt & Pepper Mime Company: Demystifying Mime

6:00 – 7:30: The Spartan Theatre: Williamsburg and Greenpoint Brooklyn playwrights

8 PM Panel: A Dialogue between Off and Off-Off Broadway artistic directors and a group of emerging theater artists.