photo by: Sergei Burbank, featuring Erin Salm*, Michael Criscuolo, and Aaron MattesonSeptember 28, 2...

1. Sneak peek 5 off-off broadway shows in NYC you should see
this week - New York Performing Arts
photo by: Sergei Burbank, featuring Erin Salm*, Michael Criscuolo, and Aaron Matteson
September 28, 2013
This week's sneak peek of off-off broadway shows in NYC reveals a mix of new and revived plays to
entice your theatrical appetite:
Oracle Theatre Inc. presents BROOKLYN LABYRINTH at The Chain Theater, 21-28 45 Rd Long
Island City, NY. For tickets: http://brooklynlabyrinth.brownpapertickets.com/ LIMITED
ENGAGEMENT -- Opens: 9/25; Closes: 10/6 . Visit www.facebook.com/BrooklynLabyrinth.
New York Madness! with guest playwright, Caridad Svich, at IATI Theater 64 E 4th St. (bet 2nd/3rd
Aves) NYC. Only on Sunday, October 6th at 9:30pm.
NYMadness Artistic Director: Cecilia Copeland's Light of Night, at IATI Theater. -- Opens for the
month on 10/10.
Boomerang Theatre Company's 2013 Repertory at the TheaterLab 357 W 36th Street, 3rd Floor (bet
8th/9th Aves) NYC. LIMITED ENGAGEMENT -- Opens: 9/14; Closes: 10/13.
La Mama presents: I Came to Look for You on Tuesday, written by Chiori Miyagawa, directed by
Alice Reagan, at La Mama 74A East 4th Street (bet Bowery/2nd Ave) NYC. See more here. -- Opens:
9/26; Closes: 10/13.
BROOKLYN LABYRINTH presents three interwoven narratives that recount the Minotaur myth with
a contemporary voice, and show us that monsters are rarely who we expect -- and that safety might
not be outside the maze looking in, but the other way around. In Dumbo, by Kate Kertez, a powerful
family uses unusual means to protect their reputation after one of their own does the unspeakable.
Isaac Rathbone's Bensonhurst finds a working class family, unable to escape the choices from their
past, who must survive amidst their own chaos and dysfunction. Daedalus at the Navy Yards by
Sergei Burbank is a reworking of the Minotaur myth is told through the prism of Daedalus' point of
view, with salty contemporary language, revealing that much of what is received as the truth of the
story has, in fact, been distorted over time.
Under the direction of Sara Wolkowitz, the cast includes: Michael Criscuolo, Mikalena Kenyon,
Aaron Matteson, Erin Salm*, Collin Smith*, and James T. Ware [*appearing courtesy AEA / Equity
approved showcase].
Oracle Theatre Inc is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit New York City Theatre Company that provides an artistic
platform for new voices and old stories. The goal is to preserve the experience of storytelling
through the cultural traditions of myths and histories. Founded in 2003, Oracle Theatre has had
performances in the NYC Fringe Festival, the Vaclav Havel festival, the Sam French One-Act
Festival, 59E59 Theaters, and most recently at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
www.oracletheatreinc.com.
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2. New York Madness! with guest playwright, Caridad Svich, at IATI Theater 64 E 4th St. (bet 2nd/3rd
Aves) NYC. Only on Sunday, October 6th at 9:30pm.
NYM brings together a slamming roster of artists to create an evening of new plays based on a
Theme selected by the Featured Guest Playwright and announced one week before the event. The
collective works by all the writers form a kaleidoscope of that cultural moment. The plays are
presented hot off the press, fully staged, script in hand and...
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN IN A MADNESS!
This month's Madness writers:
Caridad Svich
Cecilia Copeland* (Artistic Director)
Judith Leora* (Managing Director)
Alex Beech
J. Stephen Brantley
Jeffrey Pfeiffer
Zac Kline
Haydn Diaz
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Inaugural World Premier Production of NYMadness Artistic Director: Cecilia Copeland's Light of
Night, opening on October 10th, at Iati Theater.
Light of Night tells the story of Stephanie's poetic descent into the underworld of relationships. Her
charismatic husband Jim and seductive best friend Isabel fight over who she should be. In the end,
Stephanie must decide which windows and doors to leave open for light. An intense psychological
investigation into the human condition,Light of Night captures the delicate beauty of hope amid the
most limiting circumstances and illuminates a future with the boldness of freedom.
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Boomerang Theatre Company's 2013 Repertory at the TheaterLab 357 W 36th Street, 3rd Floor (bet
8th/9th Aves) NYC. LIMITED ENGAGEMENT -- Opens: 9/14; Closes: 10/13. Tickets for each
repertory production available through listings at TheaterMania.
Candida by George Bernard Shaw. Young sensitive artist and poet Eugene Marchbanks' ardent
attentions towards Candida sow seeds of self-doubt within the heart of her self-indulgent pastor
husband, the Reverend James Mavor Morell. Caught between loyalty and passion, it is Candida,
Shaw's New Woman, who shows both "her boys" basic truths about themselves.

3. Lickspittles, Buttonholers and Damned Pernicious Go-betweens by Johnna Adams. Three extraneous
Danish court officials: a professional loud mouth (the buttonholer), a kiss ass for hire (the lickspittle)
and a successful dastard (the go-between) are tossed out of court just as Denmark's merchant fleet
becomes of strategic importance in the Napoleonic war. The three men journey to France and meet
Napoleon's top lickspittle, buttonholer and go-between, their female counterparts. Plots abound,
flying machines are destroyed and the head of Marie Antoinette is discovered during the madcap
struggle to save Copenhagen from British howitzers. The main characters speak in rhyming
alexandrine verse, while a host of supporting characters converse in sestinas, haiku, free verse,
limericks and sonnets. In a rhyming, metered world, the offbeat rules.
To Fool The Eye by Jeffrey Hatcher. Amanda, a poor hat maker from Paris, is invited to a chateau by
an eccentric duchess to spend a weekend trying to make her suicidal nephew, Albert, forget about
the death of his great love, the divine Leocadia. Amanda, it turns out, is a dead ringer for the dead
woman, and if she can convince Albert that she is his lost love for just three days, then Albert just
might not kill himself.
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La Mama presents: I Came to Look for You on Tuesday, written by Chiori Miyagawa, directed by
Alice Reagan, at La Mama 74A East 4th Street (bet Bowery/2nd Ave) NYC. See more here. -- Opens:
9/26; Closes: 10/13.
Told in fragments, a surprising new play, I Came to Look for You on Tuesday, traces the journeys of
twenty characters seeking to reunite with someone they have lost because of natural disaster or war.
A project of Re/Union Company. Read more about the project: thetuesdayfollowing.org
"Chiori Miyagawa is one of the most poetic writers working in American theater today. Her work is
deceptively simple with bracing moments of speech and action, yet with a complex aftertaste of
blood, flesh and social justice." -Mark Russell, Artistic Director, Under the Rader Festival, The Public
Theater.
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If you ready for a whirlwind tour of the off-off broadway scene, you can catch all of these
performances on different nights, but if that's too daunting to tackle, try diving into at least one of
these delectable treats of live theater.