| Cherry Lane Theatre Will present an American Sign Language Interpreted Performance of FIRST LOVE - June 26, 2018 at 7pm | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 06:06 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| Cherry Lane Theatre Will present an American Sign Language Interpreted Performance of FIRST LOVE Written by Charles Mee; Directed by Kim Weild June 26 at 7pm At The Cherry Lane Theatre “An exquisitely constructed, deeply moving tale. Uniquely poetic language and fascinating imagery, an exquisite love story that is mesmerizing, and above all painfully honest. It's a story that will make you laugh out loud and weep tears of understanding.” Theasy.com “Ms. Fiordellisi and Mr. O’Keefe are magical in their performances.” Theater Review Limited Cherry Lane Theatre (Seri Lawrence, Janio Marrero, Co-Artistic Directors) will present a sign-language-interpreted performance of their current production of Charles Mee’s FIRST LOVE, directed by Kim Weild, on Tuesday, June 26 at 7pm. “As a director with a history of collaborating with Deaf artists, who actively seeks to make diverse, accessible and inclusive theatre, I am beyond thrilled Cherry Lane Theatre is offering an ASL interpreted performance of FIRST LOVE. Their commitment is a welcoming, inclusive decision that will not only expand their audience but also exposes hearing audiences to a rich, vital, potent and very alive language. The visual poetry of ASL is a perfect fit with the poetry of Charles Mee’s writing.” First Love director Kim Weild “Cherry Lane is dedicated to making theatre accessible for as many people as possible, we are thrilled and honored to bring in sign language interpreters for this production of Charles Mee’s First Love.” Cherry Lane Theatre’s Janio Marrero A couple in their sixties meet and fall in love for the first time in their lives. Through the eyes of celebrated playwright Charles Mee, First Love embraces Edith and Harold as they work their way toward one another through the accumulated baggage of their lives, wondering if they can avoid sabotaging the last chance for love they'll ever have. The cast includes: MICHAEL O'KEEFE (Golden Globe and Academy Award nominee, Films: The Great Santini, Caddyshack. TV: “HomeLand,” “Sneaky Pete,” “Roseanne.” Broadway: Reckless, Side Man), ANGELINA FIORDELLISI (Broadway: Zorba. National Tour: Annie. NYC: Out of the Mouths of Babes, Snow Orchid, The Traveling Lady, Catch the Butcher) and TAYLOR HARVEY (Regional: The Heart of Robin Hood, The Clean House, Nine). The show features a set design by Edward Pierce (Broadway: Wicked, Amazing Grace), costume design by Theresa Squire (Broadway: High Fidelity), lighting design by Paul Miller (Broadway: Amazing Grace) and sound design by Christian Frederickson (SITI Theatre’s Antigone, Trojan Women), casting by Stephanie Klapper and production stage manager is Nicole Kuker. First Love began performances on June 7 and will run through July 8 at Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street). Tickets are $65-$95 and are available at www.cherrylanetheatre.org or by calling Ovation Tix at 1.866.811.4111. FIRST LOVE Written by Charles Mee, directed by Kim Weild Performances begin on June 7; Opening night Thursday, June 14 - July 8, 2018 Special ASL performance on June 26 at 7pm Performance Schedule: Wednesday at 2pm & 7pm; Thursday at 7pm; Friday at 7pm; Saturday at 2pm & 7pm ADDED PERFORMANCES: Monday, July 2 at 7pm; Tuesday, June 12 & June 19 at 7pm; Sunday, July 1 & July 8 at 3pm NO PERFORMANCES: Wednesday, June 13 at 2pm; Wednesday, July 4 at 2pm & 7pm Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street) Tickets are $65-$95 and are available at www.cherrylanetheatre.org or by calling Ovation Tix at 1.866.811.4111 CHARLES MEE (Playwright) has written Big Love and True Love and First Love, bobrauschenbergamerica and Hotel Cassiopeia, Orestes 2.0 and Trojan Women: A Love Story, and Summertime and Wintertime among other plays-- all of them available on the internet at www.charlesmee.org. His plays have been performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, American Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, the Public Theater, Lincoln Center, the Humana Festival, Steppenwolf, and other places in the United States as well as in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Vienna, Istanbul and elsewhere. He was honored with a full season of his plays at the Signature Theatre. Among other awards, he is the recipient of the Award of Merit in drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and of the Richard B. Fisher Award. He is also the author of a number of books of history, and the former Editor-in-Chief of Horizon magazine, a magazine of history, art, literature, and the fine arts. His work is made possible by the support of Jeanne Donovan Fisher and Richard B. Fisher. KIM WEILD (Director) Drama Desk Award nominee, seven NY Innovative Theater award nominations (2 wins). First Love marks her fifth collaboration with Charles Mee. Last year her world premiere of Mee’s Soot and Spit was a NY Times Critic’s Pick. Known for new play development Weild’s work has been seen at: Lincoln Center Theater, Carnegie Hall, Teatro alla Scala, New York Theater Workshop, Off Broadway’s Beckett Theater, Goodspeed Musicals, Primary Stages, New York Live Arts, The Mark Taper Forum, Williamstown Theater Festival, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and Wolf Trap Performing Arts Center among others. As Founding Artistic Director of Our Voices, she is also known for collaborating with notable Deaf artists Alexandria Wailes, John McGinty, JW Guido and Lewis Merkin among others and Harold Pinter’s A Kind of Alaska presented at NY Live Arts - a world premiere American Sign Language translation that wove three forms of ASL into the text. In Greece she has directed The Bacchae and The Birds. Broadway: associate director; Amazing Grace; Deuce; Is He Dead; and Blithe Spirit. Co-writer: Dusty – which played for eight months on London’s West End. Next up: Keith Hamilton Cobb’s American Moor (Winner 2018 Elliot Norton Award) at Shakespeare’s Globe, London August 2018 and at ArtsEmerson 2019 as well as Liza Birkenmeir’s The Way Out West premiering at CMU. Fellowships: Park Avenue Armory, Williamstown Foeller Fellow, Kennedy Center Directing Fellow, Shubert Fellow. Two commissions for The High Line. WP Theater alumna. New Georges Associate Artist. Currently on faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. MFA Columbia. Member SDC. www.kimweild.com One of the most renowned theatres in the country, CHERRY LANE THEATRE has produced a large succession of plays by leading writers from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee and Harold Pinter. Under the artistic leadership of Angelina Fiordellisi since 1996, and currently under Seri Lawrence and Janio Marrero, Cherry Lane remains devoted to developing and producing new works for the stage through its various programs including the award-winning Mentor Project, which each year pairs established playwrights with emerging writers for a season of dramaturgy, rehearsal, casting and production. Cherry Lane Mentor Project just concluded its 20th Season, where it presented Kate Cortesi’s A PATRON OF THE ARTS mentored by Anne Washburn and THE OPPORTUNITIES OF EXTINCTION by Sam Chanse, mentored by Migdalia Cruz. Angelina Fiordellisi is Founding Artistic Director of Cherry Lane Theatre; Seri Lawrence and Janio Marrero are Co-Artistic Directors, Diane Alianiello is General Manager. |
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