| Axis Theatre Company presents WORLDS FAIR INN, Absurdist Comedy by Randy Sharp, Sept 30 - Oct 23 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 11:21 am EDT 09/02/21 | |
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| AXIS THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS WORLDS FAIR INN, ABSURDIST COMEDY BY RANDY SHARP, SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 23 With Original Music by Paul Carbonara, Worlds Fair Inn Features Brian Barnhart, George Demas, Britt Genelin, Jon McCormick, and Edgar Oliver "A uniquely charming, deranged vaudeville act... Axis gives us hope for the future of theater." - This Week in New York Following celebrated performances in June, Axis Theatre Company is pleased to present a remount of Worlds Fair Inn, an absurdist comedy written and directed by Randy Sharp. Worlds Fair Inn takes inspiration from the failures and genius of three men: "father of the atomic bomb" J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), American serial killer H. H. Holmes (1861-1896), and fictional scientist Victor Frankenstein. Featuring original music and sound design by Paul Carbonara, Worlds Fair Inn is a tragically funny expedition into the subconscious of three men and their tragic personal lives. Performances of Worlds Fair Inn begin on September 30 at Axis Theatre (1 Sheridan Square, Manhattan) for a limited run through October 23, 2021. Tickets are on sale now at http://axiscompany.org/. It is understood that when the first atomic bomb was detonated the world changed forever. This creation would also destroy its creator, J. Robert Oppenheimer. In television appearances he described himself as "Death, the destroyer of worlds" but he had brought to life a force that would never be imprisoned again. Victor Frankenstein also created a monster that demanded his life, could not be confined, and eventually destroyed him. A third scientist, H. H. Holmes, built a factory-hotel to experiment with human life and possibly create one himself. Like Frankenstein's laboratory and Oppenheimer's Los Alamos, Holmes' "Murder Castle" was a place where the nature of existence itself was on the table for experimentation. "…a uniquely charming, deranged vaudeville act…" wrote Mark Rifkin in This Week in New York, adding "writer-director Randy Sharp adeptly maneuvers between high and low comedy as she takes on nuclear annihilation, a different kind of rather effective serial killing…and melds Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory, Oppenheimer's Los Alamos, and Holmes's murder hotel into a supremely funny and memorable show…as we finally emerge from this dark year, we may not have much hope for the future of humanity, but Axis gives us hope for the future of theater." The cast for Worlds Fair Inn features Brian Barnhart, George Demas, Britt Genelin, Jon McCormick, and Edgar Oliver. The additional creative team for Worlds Fair Inn includes Karl Ruckdeschel (costume design), David Zeffren (lighting design), Randy Sharp (set design), Lynn Mancinelli (prop design), Regina Betancourt (stage manager), Erik Savage (assistant stage manager), Brian Barnhart (producing director), and Jeffrey Resnick (executive producer). Twelve performances of Worlds Fair Inn will take place take place Thursday-Saturday at 8pm from September 30-October 23 at Axis Theatr e, located at 1 Sheridan Squarein Manhattan's West Village. General admission tickets are $30 for adults, $20 for seniors/students, and $10 for artists and people under 30. Performances are FREE for veterans and active U.S. service members and their families. Tickets can be purchased online at http://axiscompany.org/ or by calling TheaterMania at 212.352.3101. Worlds Fair Inn follows strict safety guidelines for fully vaccinated workplaces as required by Actors' Equity Association. Audience capacity is capped at 50%. Proof of vaccination and masks are required of all attendees. Please visit http://axiscompany.org/ for more information. About the Artists Randy Sharp (writer and director) is Axis Company's founder and Artistic Director. Her plays include a new adaptation of Washington Square; Strangers in the World, which premiered Axis's 20th anniversary season in 2019; High Noon; Dead End; the Drama Desk Award-nominated Last Man Club (published by DPS); Nothing on Earth; Down There; Seven in One Blow (published by DPS and performed every December in NYC and around the country) and the long-running serial Hospital. Sharp co-wrote (with former Blondie member Paul Carbonara) and directed Evening - 1910, which premiered to acclaim at Axis in 2016. She also directed Edgar Oliver's Victor (NYT Critic's Pick); New York Trilogy, which included East 10th Street: Self Portrait with Empty House (winner of the Fringe First Award, Edinburgh Fringe); In the Park and Attorney Street. She also directed Oliver's London Paris (La MaMa). Additional Axis productions include A Glance at New York (Edinburgh Fringe & NYC); Julius Caesar; and the U.S premiere of Sarah Kane's Crave, starring Deborah Harry. She also wrote & directed the feature film "Henry May Long", winner of 13 international awards, and is the host of the popular YouTube cooking show "Dinner Party Tonight." Paul Carbonara (original music and sound design) was born in Greenwich Village and has been a performing musician for 30 years. He was the guitarist and musical director for the seminal pop band Blondie from 1997 through 2010. Carbonara has performed with Ray Davies, Coolio, Jose Carreras, and Chubby Checker, among others, and was the guitarist for the New York art rock band Giant Metal Insects in the 1990s. He has composed music for three independent movie soundtracks, including Randy Sharp's Henry May Long and Jyllian Gunther's Pull Out. He has composed commercial jingles for Nickelodeon, SBLI, and Waterworks. Paul composed music for the noted choreographer Robert Moses' work Faith and Fable, presented at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. Carbonara performs and records with his own band The Mudlarks. He has also toured much of the world with the Mary McBride Band since 2010, traveling to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. He is a graduate of NYU and studied with the noted jazz guitarist Sal Salvador. About the Cast Brian Barnhart is an Axis Company member and the Producing Director. Axis acting credits includes Dead End; Marc Palmieri's The Groundling and Levittown; Last Man Club (2013); Down There; A Glance at New York (Edinburgh Fringe and NYC); Seven in One Blow (2002-present) and the Hospital series (1999-2011). Regional acting credits: Shear Madness (Kennedy Center); Angels in America - Parts I & II (Kansas City - Drama Desk); The Mousetrap (International Theatre, Vienna). www.brianbarnhartnyc.com George Demas Axis: Washington Square; Last Man Club (2019); Dead End; The Vast Machine; Solitary Light; Nothing On Earth; Last Man Club (2012); Down There; A Glance at New York; Not Yet Diagnosed; Julius Caesar. Other NYC stage: as Orson Welles in Maverick at The Connelly Theater with The Cliplight Theater; The Effect; Our Town; Orson's Shadow at The Barrow Street Theatre, all directed by David Cromer; Edgar Oliver's The Master of Monstrosities and The Drowning Pages at LaMaMa. TV: "Power"; "Boardwalk Empire"; "Made in Jersey"; "Law & Order". Film: "Thanks for Sharing"; "The Jimmy Show"; "Henry May Long". Britt Genelin (Lady) is an actor, voiceover artist & storyteller. As an Axis Company member she has performed in Washington Square; High Noon; Last Man Club; Dead End; A Glance at New York (Edinburgh Festival Fringe); Seven in One Blow and the Hospital series. www.brittgenelin.com Jon McCormick (Bill) Axis shows: Washington Square; Last Man Club; Strangers in The World; High Noon; Dead End. Other NYC: Donkey Punch (SoHo Playhouse); 3-D Hamlet (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); No Exit (59E59); Tuesday Night Poker (Theatre Row); Phantom Killer (Abingdon Theatre Co.); Revolution On The Roof (NY Fringe Festival); happYouth (Gene Frankle Th.); Thunder Rock (ReGroup Th. Co.). TV and Film: "F.B.I."; "History: BEYOND"; "Dark History"; "POWER"; "Blue Bloods"; "Serie M"; "The Price for Silence"; "Lil' Benny"; "Straight Outta Tompkins"; "Poetry Man"; "Further Lane". www.jonmmcor.com Edgar Oliver (Machine) is an Axis Company member who wrote and performed in the critically acclaimed sold-out run of Victor (2019). Previous solo shows at Axis include East 10t Street (Edinburgh Fringe First); In the Park; and Attorney Street. As a stage actor, he has performed in countless plays including Edward II with Cliplight Theater; Marc Palmieri's Carl the Second; Kestutis Nakas' When Lithuania Ruled the World and numerous productions at Axis including A Glance at New York (Edinburgh Festival Fringe & NYC); Julius Caesar; USS Frankenstein; and the Hospital series. His one-man show, Helen and Edgar (directed by Catherine Burns of The Moth), performed at Theatre 80 St. Marks, Dartmouth College, Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, CA and at the Public Theatre as part of the Under the Radar Festival. His film roles include "That's Beautiful Frank"; "Henry May Long" (directed by Randy Sharp) and "Gentlemen Broncos" (directed by Jared Hess). Handmade, limited edition collections of Edgar's writings are available from Oilcan Press - oilcanpress.com About Axis Theatre Company Axis Theatre Company was founded in 1996 by Randy Sharp as a theatrical haven for stories that awaken an audience's curiosity for little known parts of American history. Through Sharp's plays and that of like-minded artists like Edgar Oliver, David Crabb, and Marc Palmieri, Axis Theatre uses intricate visual and sound design to maximize a viewer's insight into these historical moments and shared experiences. In 1998, Axis acquired a permanent home at 1 Sheridan Square in New York City's West Village. Built in 1834 by Samuel Whitmore, the building once housed Café Society, the historic site of performances by Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughn, Art Tatum, Big Joe Turner and other jazz greats; and later was the home of Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatrical Company. Axis transformed the interior performance space into one where audiences are totally immersed, surrounded by the experience of a theatrical production the moment they enter. Distractions from the material are minimal. Among the wide variety of works that Axis has produced in the theater are Beckett's Play; Benjamin Baker's 1848 vaudeville A Glance at New York (also at the Edinburgh Festival); the U.S. premiere of Sarah Kane's Crave, starring Deborah Harry; the premieres of Edgar Oliver's East 10th Street (New York Times Critic Pick; Fringe First Award at Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Spoleto Festival, USA) and In the Park; David Crabb's Bad Kid (New York Times Critic Pick, now an acclaimed book published by HarperCollins Perennial); Marc Palmieri's The Groundling; and Sharp's The Vast Machine, Last Man Club (Drama Desk nomination), Solitary Light, Nothing on Earth, Down There, Seven in One Blow, Hospital, Dead End, and High Noon. Visit axiscompany.org for more information. Axis Theatre is accessible via the 1 train at Christopher St./Sheridan Square and the A, B, C, D, E, F and M trains at West 4th Street. |
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