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| Obie Award-winning Metropolitan Playhouse presents Arthur Kopit's INDIANS, November 17 through December 17 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 09:29 am EDT 10/27/17 | |
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| METROPOLITAN PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS ARTHUR KOPIT'S CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED PLAY INDIANS NOVEMBER 17 THROUGH DECEMBER 17 "While the play is an inquiry into American cultural norms, it is as relevant to ethnic power conflicts around the world" – Director Alex Roe Obie Award winning Metropolitan Playhouse proudly presents Arthur Kopit's 1968 critically-acclaimed play INDIANS, staged by Artistic Director Alex Roe from November 17 through December 16. Metropolitan Playhouse is located at 220 E. 4th Street, New York City. In picking the second play of the Season of Resilience, Artistic Director Alex Roe says about the work, "The challenge is to find reflections of today's world in portrayals of 1875 characters as drawn in 1968. Making that easier is the political and cultural echoes are remarkable, even while I'm trying some changes in the cast construction I think will be fun and nod to the difference between our era and the summer of love." Previews begin 11/17/17 Opening 11/25/17 Closing 12/17/17 Tickets are $30 general; $25 students/seniors; $10 children, and may be purchased online at www.metropolitanplayhouse.org/tickets or by phone 800.838.3006. From 1968, the story of 19th Century European Americans’ settlement of western North America and displacement and confinement of the Native American population, as well as its subsequent mythologizing of that time…and told as a Wild West Show starring none other than Buffalo Bill Cody! Written as a protesting inquiry into the Vietnam War, Indians resonates anew with today’s confrontations between cultures foreign and domestic. "One of the most theatrical evenings of contemporary American drama… moves daringly and adventurously through the mists and myths of the past, to bring us face to face with History" (Philadelphia Bulletin) Arthur Kopit is the author of the plays Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad; Indians (Tony Nominee, Finalist for Pulitzer Prize); Wings (Tony Nominee, Finalist for Pulitzer Prize); End of the World, with Symposium to Follow; a new translation of Ibsen's Ghosts; the book for the musicals Nine and Phantom (both with scores by Maury Yeston); the book for the musical High Society; Road to Nirvana; BecauseHeCan (originally entitled Y2K); A Dram of Drummhicit (written with Anton Dudley); and numerous one act plays. Mr. Kopit is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Lark Play Development Center, where he heads the Lark Playwrights' Workshop. Alex Roe has produced, directed, acted, and taught around the country and abroad for the past thirty years. Founder and Artistic Director of the Illegitimate Theatre Company in San Francisco, he also worked for American Conservatory Theater, the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and the Delaware Theatre Company before moving to New York in 1993. Mr. Roe has been Artistic Director of Metropolitan Playhouse since 2001. The cast of Indians features Joe Candelora, Jef Canter, Thomas Daniels, Jamahl Garrison-Lowe, Michael Hardart, Charles Jeffries, Ron Moreno, David Logan Rankin, Jay Romero, Anthony Simone and Erin Leigh Schmoyer. Costumes by NYIT Award winner Sidney Fortner, set design is by Michael LeBron, lighting design by Patrick Mahaney, sound design by Jacob Subotnick, with choreography by Rachael Kosch. METROPOLITAN PLAYHOUSE explores America’s theatrical heritage through forgotten plays of the past and new plays of American historical and cultural moment. Now in its 26th season, the theater received a 2011 OBIE Grant from The Village Voice for its ongoing productions that illuminate who we are by revealing where we have come from. Called an “indispensable East Village institution” by nytheatre.com and "invaluable" by Back Stage, Metropolitan has earned accolades from The New York Times, The Village Voice, and The New Yorker. Other awards include Outstanding Performing Arts Group from the Victorian Society New York, and 18 nominations for NYIT Awards since 2010, with winners Lenore Wolf for short script, Sidney Fortner for costumes, Frank Anderson for lead actor. Recent productions include THE CLIMBERS , ON STRIVERS ROW, LEAH, THE FORSAKEN, END OF SUMMER, O’NEILL (Unexpected), WALK HARD, ALISON’S HOUSE, INJUNCTION GRANTED, THE MAN OF THE HOUR, ICEBOUND, WITHIN THE LAW, THE HERO, A MAN'S WORLD, BOTH YOUR HOUSES, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, DEEP ARE THE ROOTS, THE JAZZ SINGER, ONE-THIRD OF A NATION, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, and DODSWORTH, as well as the Alphabet City and East Village Chronicles series. |
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