| Rattlestick Announces PAGE TO STAGE Event With ADAM RAPP, KIA CORTHRON, NINA DARNTON, and DINITIA SMITH | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 06:02 pm EST 01/30/18 | |
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| RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER ANNOUNCES PAGE TO STAGE A ONE-NIGHT ONLY EVENT OF EXCERPTS AND CONVERSATIONS WITH AUTHORS KIA CORTHRON AUTHOR OF THE CASTLE CROSS THE MAGNET CARTER NINA DARNTON AUTHOR OF RISKING IT ALL ADAM RAPP AUTHOR OF KNOW YOUR BEHOLDER MODERATED BY DINITIA SMITH AUTHOR OF THE HONEYMOON FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY HEIDI ARMBRUSTER, MICHAEL CHERNUS, CURRAN CONNOR, DYLAN FREDERICK, KRISTIN FRIEDLANDER, CHRIS MYERS, IRENE SOFIA LUCIO, CHINAZA UCHE & ROSALYN COLEMAN FEBRUARY 6, 2018 AT 7:30pm AT RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER is pleased to announce PAGE TO STAGE, a special one-night event featuring excerpts and conversations with authors, taking place Tuesday, February 6 at 7:30pm at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (224 Waverly Place New York, NY 10014). All tickets are general admission, with a suggested donation of $10. PAGE TO STAGE will feature conversations with three authors, all friends and alumni of Rattlestick, about their current novels and projects, as well as a larger discussion on writing across mediums, including playwriting, journalism, and novel-writing. The evening will feature The Castle Cross The Magnet Carter by Kia Corthron (A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick), Risking It All by Board Member Nina Darnton (The Perfect Mother), and Know Your Beholder by Rattlestick Alumni Playwright Adam Rapp (The Hallway Trilogy). Former New York Times culture reporter and author Dinitia Smith (The Honeymoon) will moderate the evening. The evening will also feature excerpts from all three novels with readings by Heidi Armbruster (Man from Nebraska, Disgraced), Michael Chernus (The Aliens, “Orange Is The New Black,” Spider-Man: Homecoming), Curran Connor (Pidgeon), Dylan Frederick (Summer Valley Fair), Kristin Friedlander (Wolf in the River), Chris Myers (An, Octoroon, Julius Caesar at the Public Theater), Irene Sofia Lucio (Wit), Chinaza Uche (Golden Boy, Blue Bloods) and Rosalyn Coleman (Seven Guitars, The Piano Lesson). PAGE TO STAGE is the first in a series of upcoming events that will further Rattlestick’s mission to present diverse, challenging and provocative work, and to explore the creation of these pieces by writers and artists from a myriad of mediums. Currently playing in rep on stage at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is the New York Premiere of UNTIL THE FLOOD, written and performed by Dael Orlandersmith (Horsedreams, Pulitzer-Prize Finalist Yellowman) and directed by Neel Keller (Forever at NYTW), and DRAW THE CIRCLE, written and performed by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen (The Betterment Society, Resident Playwright at New Dramatists) and directed by Chay Yew (Oedipus El Rey). Both plays run through February 18, 2018. Tickets are available at www.rattlestick.org. Rattlestick is accessible via the 1, 2 and 3 trains (at 14 St. and Christopher St./Sheridan Square) and the A, B, C, D, E, F and M trains (at West 4th St.). FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT WWW.RATTLESTICK.ORG ABOUT THE PAGE TO STAGE WORKS & AUTHORS: THE CASTLE CROSS THE MAGNET CARTER By Kia Corthron On the eve of America’s entry into World War II, in a tiny Alabama town, the thirteen-year-old son of a sawmill worker begins teaching his eighteen-year-old deaf and uneducated brother sign language. Simultaneously in small-town Maryland, two sons of a Pullman Porter grow up in a world punctuated by the county fair, a visit from A. Philip Randolph and the legacy of a lynched great-aunt. The four mature into men directly confronting the fierce resistance to the early civil rights movement, and are all ultimately uprooted. Their journey culminates in an explosive and devastating encounter between the two families. KIA CORTHRON is the author of The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, winner of the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She was the 2017 resident playwright of Chicago’s Eclipse Theatre Company. Plays also produced by Playwrights Horizons, BAM, ATL/Humana, EST Marathon, New York Theatre Workshop, Minneapolis’ Children’s Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Yale Rep, Atlantic Theater Company, New York Stage and Film, Baltimore's Center Stage, Goodman Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Hartford Stage Company, and in London the Royal Court Theatre and Donmar Warehouse. Theatre awards include the Windham Campbell Prize, USArtists, McKnight National Residency, Simon Great Plains Playwright Award, Otto Award, Wachtmeister Award, Lee Reynolds Award, Columbia College/Goodman Theatre Fellowship, AT&T On Stage, Daryl Roth Creative Spirit, Mark Taper Forum Fadiman Award, NEA/TCG, Kennedy Center Fund, New Professional Theatre Playwriting Award, Callaway. TV: The Jury, The Wire. Dramatists Guild Council, New Dramatists alum, Authors Guild. RISKING IT ALL By Nina Darnton When Marcia, a driven, successful editor in New York with a loving husband, finds she can’t conceive a child, it rips the heart out of her seemingly-perfect life. Her desire to be a mother has become her obsession, and after trying and failing to become pregnant by every known method, she focuses all of her energy on her one remaining option: surrogacy. Her husband resists, and tries to convince her that they can be happy without a child; but faced with her unyielding determination, he relents, and reluctantly goes along with the idea. Everything looks good…until an unexpected tragedy occurs that changes their plans, their marriage, and their lives forever. NINA DARNTON is a former staff writer for Newsweek and the former chief movie writer for the New York Post. She has written extensively about film and theater for the New York Times, including daily news stories, Arts and Leisure features, film reviews, the At The Movies Column, and several Times Sunday magazine pieces. She has contributed articles and essays to The Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, House and Gardens, More Magazine, Travel and Leisure and Elle, among others. She has been a contributor from Poland and Spain for National Public Radio and done several on-air television essays for the former MacNeal/Lehrer report. She is currently a free-lance fiction writer who has published three novels. Her third book, Risking It All, was published by St Martins in September 2017. Her interest in theater is long-standing. She graduated from New York’s High School of Performing Arts and holds an MFA in Acting from Columbia University. KNOW YOUR BEHOLDER By Adam Rapp As winter deepens in Pollard-Illinois, thirty-something Francis Falbo is holed up in an attic apartment, recovering from a series of traumas: his mother’s death, his beloved wife’s desertion, and his once ascendant rock band’s irreconcilable breakup. He hasn’t changed out of his bathrobe for nine days. All he has left is his childhood home, whose remaining rooms he rents to a cast of eccentric tenants, becoming increasingly entangled in their lives, with results that are by turns disastrous, hysterical, and ultimately healing. ADAM RAPP is an award-winning playwright and novelist. He is the author of numerous plays, many of which premiered at Rattlestick (FASTER, FINER NOBLE GASES, AMERICAN SLIGO, THE HALLWAY TRILOGY). RED LIGHT WINTER premiered at Steppenwolf and then transferred to The Barrow Street Theatre, where it received two OBIE awards and was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His many playwriting honors include The 2006 Princess Grace Statue, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Award. He is also the author of twelve novels, including Under the Wolf, Under the Dog, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, and 33 Snowfish, which Booklist recently named as one of the 50 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time. His new novel, Fum, will be published by Candlewick Press this March. ABOUT RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER Founded in 1994, RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER is an Obie-Award winning theater that has created, developed and produced over 100 World Premieres. Our mission is to present diverse, challenging and provocative plays that might not otherwise be produced and to foster the future voices of the American theater. When we take on a playwright, we guarantee him or her a second production, regardless of the reception of the first. We have produced the first plays and early works of some of today’s leading voices, including Keith Josef Adkins (Pitbulls), Annie Baker (The Aliens), Sheila Callaghan (That Pretty, Pretty), Jesse Eisenberg (The Revisionist), Martyna Majok (Ironbound), Adam Rapp (The Hallway Trilogy), Roberto Aguirre Sacasa's (Dark Matter), Lucy Thurber (The Hilltown Plays), Jonathan Tolins (Buyer and Cellar) and Craig Wright (The Pavilion). We have also produced works by some of our nation’s most important playwrights, including Craig Lucas (Ode to Joy), Dael Orlandersmith (Horsedreams), and José Rivera (Massacre, Sing to Your Children). This season, we are producing Diana Oh's {mylingerieplay}, Mashuq Deen's Draw the Circle, and Dael Orlandersmith's UNTIL THE FLOOD. We produce theater to inspire empathy and provoke conversations in response to the complexities of our culture. For more information, visit www.rattlestick.org. |
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