| Metropolitan Playhouse "THE MAGICAL CITY" - A tale of Broadway Noir | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 12:29 pm EST 01/27/21 | |
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| A backstage drama of poetry, business, and murder THE MAGICAL CITY by Zoë Akins 1919 Noir in a Lyrical Verse Drama by Pulitzer Prize Winning Dramatist January 30, 2021 at 8 pm Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse presents its next free "screened" readings, live-streamed at no charge, with talkback to follow: THE MAGICAL CITY, Zoë Akins. 1/30/2021 at 8:00 PM through 2/3/2021 at 10:00 pm Running Time: 60 minutes Free of charge Available at: www.metropolitanplayhouse.org The video will be available through Wednesday, 2/3/21 on the Playhouse webpage, the Metropolitan Playhouse YouTube channel, and the Metropolitan Playhouse Facebook page. Petronelle, golden girl of the stage, is in love with poet David who loves her grandly, lyrically, and selfishly. She is loved by Rudolph, whose riches afford her gossip, furs, and a future. When the two men confront one another, with both ardor and generosity, she must choose. When the shooting starts, things get real. A play told in verse captures the absurd and romantic pretense of the city. With a heart as steely and unsentimental as its surfaces are gauzy and sparkling, The Magical City is both loving and mocking. It spins a theatrical confection to underline the brassy realities of life in the growing metropolis and hardening sensibilities of the early 20th century. Discussion including audience participation follow the readings, with special guest Alan Kreisenbeck, PhD, author of ZOË AKINS: BROADWAY PLAYWRIGHT and Professor of Theatre at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Directed by Michael Hardart, the cast features Kelly D. Cooper, Thomas Daniels, Cliff Miller, Brian Ott, Brian Richardson, Danielle Stanek, Pete Veliz, Barbra Wengerd. Graphic Settings by Anne Fizzard. Playwright and poet Zoë Akins (1886 - 1958) was active throughout the early teens, but achieved her first major success with her play Déclassée (1925). She may be better known now for her 1930 comedy The Greeks Had a Word For It, which was adapted three times to the screen, the last under the title How to Marry a Millionaire (1953). Indeed, she saw many of her earlier works adapted to the screen, and while these films are now believed lost, she herself also turned to screenwriting in the early 30's. Her Sarah and Son (1930) and Morning Glory (1933), earned their respective leads, Ruth Chatterton and Katharine Hepburn Academy Award nominations, with Hebburn winning her first award. Akins was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1935 for her dramatization of Edith Wharton's The Old Maid, a melodrama set in New York City and later a film starring Bette Davis. UPCOMING Metropolitan presents readings every Saturday at 8 pm, Eastern Time Saturday, February 6, 2021 The Outside, by Susan Glaspell At land's end, a drowned sailor, a woman adrift, and farewell to the ties that bind in expressionist tour-de-force from Pulitzer Prize Winner Susan Glaspell. February 27, 2021 The Valiant, byHolworth Hall and Robert Middlemass A murderer with a secret, ready to face society's demands, until the arrival of a girl claiming to be his long-lost sister.... The VIRTUAL PLAYHOUSE began on March 28, 2020. Exploring the possibilities of ""remote"" ensemble, Metropolitan has pushed the envelope of Zoom broadcasts, with increasingly sophisticated virtual settings and sound design. Each reading is enhanced by conversation with the artists and a guest scholar for an hour-long live entertainment every Saturday night. Reaching an audience across the country and around the globe, the presentation of the forgotten one-act plays is an ideal way to pursue the theater's mission exploring America's diverse theatrical history. METROPOLITAN PLAYHOUSE, in its 29th season, explores America’s diverse theatrical heritage through lost plays of the past and new plays of American historical and cultural moment. 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 ""invaluable"" by the Voice, Backstage and Talkin'ᾠBroadway, Metropolitan has earned further accolades from The New York Times and The New Yorker. Other awards include a Victorian Society of New York Outstanding Performing Arts Group, 3 Aggie Awards from Gay City News, 21 nominations for NYIT Awards (3 winners), and 6 AUDELCO Viv Award nominations. ARTISTS' RELIEF The Playhouse's virtual readings serve to help us compensate performing artists, so particularly hurt during this long ""pause."" Information about the theater's ARTISTS RELIEF FUND may be found at www.metropolitanplayhouse.org/covidaid |
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