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| SCIENCE, a new play by Tom Attea to play April 14 - May 1 at Theater For The New City | |
| Last Edit: Official_Press_Release 07:07 pm EDT 03/23/22 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 07:05 pm EDT 03/23/22 | |
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| Theater For The New City (Crystal Feld, Executive Director), presents Science, a new play by Tom Attea (Shareholder Value) and directed by Mark Marcante (Hooked on Happiness). The limited engagement will play April 14 through May 1, at Theater For The New City (155 1st Ave at 10th Street, NYC). Opening night is Friday, April 22 at 7PM. Tickets are now on sale at OvationTix.com and the box office, (212) 254-1109. Dr. Alexander Morgan is a Nobel-Prize winning research chemist and professor at a medical school, who has, in his words, put himself in the service of life. It’s his religion. Bret Wilmont is a brilliant medical student, who Dr. Morgan invites to be his lab assistant. Bret hesitates, because he's the son of a Fundamentalist Christian pastor, and the rumor on campus is that Dr. Morgan is an atheist. When he finds out what Dr. Morgan believes, he has a hard time finding fault with it. When Bret meets Dr. Morgan's daughter, he's attracted to her. She's also attracted to him, but her beliefs are similar to her father's. Bret's life complicates even more. One reason is that he's already engaged to his long-time girlfriend, who is a devout member of his father's church. The cast of Science features Robert Gregory*, Tom Koch , Madison Finney , Robin May *, Blake McAlister , Maura Moreau, Alyssa Palmigiano, Ellen Revesz and Joel Shaw. Science features incidental music by Arthur Abrams, scenic design by Mark Marcante, costume and prop design by Lytza Colon, lighting design by Alexander Bartenieff, and sound design by Roy Chang. Assistant Director and casting by Danielle Hauser. Natasha Velez is the production stage manager. (* Appears Courtesy of Actors Equity Association.) “I wrote Science to present on the stage what I believe are some of the biggest urgent questions facing humanity,” says playwright Tom Attea. “As always, the play invites the members of the audience to make up their own minds about which emphasis they prefer -- a devotion, as one's primary reverence, to the care of this life or to End Times. Ideally speaking, can modern science and enlightened religion come together to help save the biosphere and its biodiversity? Or must science do it alone?” LISTINGS INFORMATION: Science will play a three-week limited engagement, April 14 through May 1, at Theater For The New City (155 1st Ave at 10th Street, NYC). Opening night is Friday, April 22 at 7PM. Performances are Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 8PM, and Sunday at 3PM. Tickets are $18, $15 for students and seniors, and are now on sale at OvationTix.com and the box office, (212) 254-1109. For more information, visit TheaterForTheNewCity.net. ABOUT THE ARTISTS TOM ATTEA (Playwright) Science is the 17th produced show that Tom has written, beginning with Brief Chronicles of the Time, which was presented as a showcase by The Actors Studio, where he was a member of The Playwrights Unit for 10 years. Since then, he has written four plays and the book and lyrics for 11 musicals that have been presented by Theater for the New City. StageAgent.com, "The leading resource for theater artists," has posted study guides of many of his works." Tom received a TNC/Jerome Foundation emerging playwright grant and is a member of The Dramatists Guild and The American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a published poet. Critics have called his writing for the theater “Hilarious ... and simply charming.” – The Village Voice; “Delightfully funny ... humorous and thoughtful.” – The Villager; “Compelling ... good storytelling” – Theater Pizzazz; “Inspiring,” – INNewYork.com; “Written with a great understanding of today’s politics.” – AXS.com. "A delightful new musical," TheaterScene.com. To learn more about him, visit his website at tomattea-playwright.com. MARK MARCANTE (Director) has directed and designed sets for plays and musicals in the US and Europe. He directed Rizzante Returns From the War, Benny’s Barber Shop, Promises Best Kept , British Music Hall , Strangely Wonderful and One Director Against His Cast, written by Crystal Field, which premiered in Italy. This is the 16th show he has collaborated on with Tom Attea and Arthur Abrams. The shows include the plays Shareholder Value, Benedictus, and Life Knocks, and the musicals Hooked on Happiness, America's Favorite Newscaster, and Heather Smiley for President. His set designs include the OBIE Award-winning Heathen Valley by Romulus Linney and Hiroshima by Ron Destro and Yoko Ono, which received a Kennedy Center award. Nominated twice for an AUDELCO Award, he was the theatrical and technical consultant for the Arts Connection. Mr. Marcante studied and performed Commedia Dell'arte with Alessandro Bressanello and Michael Conenna from the T.A.G Theatre of Venice. ARTHUR ABRAMS (incidental Music) began his frequent collaboration with Tom Attea at The Actors Studio. His last five collaborations with Tom were the climate-change musical Hooked on Happiness, America’s Favorite Newscaster, An American Worker, Heather Smiley for President, and The Folk Singer. Mr. Abrams wrote the score for the ballet The Velveteen Rabbit and the musical The Open Gate. He also composed and directed music for the Yiddish Theater documentary film The Golden Age of Second Avenue, often shown on Public TV. He has been honored with numerous awards, including a DAAD music fellowship to Mannheim, Germany, a scholarship to the Orff Institute at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and a Meet the Composer grant for the score of The Golden Bear . He is a member of The Dramatists Guild. THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY [TNC] is a Pulitzer Prize-winning community cultural center that is known for its high artistic standards and widespread community service. One of New York’s most prolific theatrical organizations, TNC produces 30-40 premieres of new American plays per year, at least 10 of which are by emerging and young playwrights. Many influential theater artists of the last quarter century have found TNC’s Resident Theater Program instrumental to their careers, among them Sam Shepard, Moises Kaufman, Richard Foreman, Charles Busch, Maria Irene Fornes, Miguel Piñero, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Vin Diesel, Oscar Nuñez, Laurence Holder, Romulus Linney and Academy Award Winners Tim Robbins and Adrien Brody. TNC also presents plays by multi-ethnic/multi-disciplinary theater companies who have no permanent home. Among the well-known companies that have been presented by TNC are Mabou Mines, the Living Theater, Bread and Puppet Theater, the San Francisco Mime Troupe and COBU, the Japanese women’s drumming, and dance group.TNC also produced the Yangtze Repertory Company’s 1997 production of Between Life And Death, which was the only play ever produced in America by Gao Xingjian before he won the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature. TNC seeks to develop theater audiences and inspire future theater artists from the often-overlooked low-income minority communities of New York City by producing minority writers from around the world and by bringing the community into theater and theater into the community through its many free Festivals. TNC productions have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and over 42 OBIE Awards for excellence in every theatrical discipline. TNC is also the only Theatrical Organization to have won the Mayor’s Stop The Violence award. |
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