![]() ![]() 30 characters come to life in this “wild-but-true” one-man show about greed, redemption and real estate in the city that never sleeps. and Sundays at 2:00 p.m.Īs a pre-season teaser, Penguin presents a special one-night only performance of “Rent Control,” written by and starring Evan Zes, on Saturday, April 28. Performance days and times for mainstage productions are: Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday nights at 8:00 p.m., with matinees on Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. Performances and readings are scheduled at Penguin’s intimate, 108-seat theatre, located at 7 Crickettown Road. “After,” which will be seen for the first time in New York, examines parenting, bullying and the fallout from a school incident, and will close the season in October. “After,” a new play by Michael McKeever, reunites the Carbonell Award-winning playwright with director Brancato who staged McKeever’s “Daniel’s Husband” at Penguin in 2016 and Off Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theater in 2017. Ryan Kasprzak will stage this rollicking review of comedy through the ages – from the high-brow to the low, from cavemen telling “Rock Rock” jokes to Chris Rock and everything in between. “Clever Little Lies,” a comedy by Tony Award-winner Joe DiPietro (“Memphis” and “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change”), directed by Thomas Caruso, and starring Richard Kline (“Three’s Company”), will follow in June and July.įor the season’s third production, Penguin will present the New York premiere of “The Complete History of Comedy (Abridged)” by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor in August. Brancato will direct the New York premiere. ![]() Germain, author of “Dancing Lessons” and “Becoming Dr. This year, Penguin Rep Equity Theatre will open in May with “Relativity,” by Mark St. Only when the show is pure perfection is it ready to premier at Penguin. These rehearsals are held at the theatre, now going on its 41 st year. Equity actors, with great experience in their craft, are chosen and rehearsals take place at a little space in Manhattan week after week until the performance is ready for rehearsal. In winter, plays are read, reviewed and picked. Theater at Penguin Rep in Stony Point, in a beautiful old barn on the bucolic property of the Stony Point Center, is a labor of love. And in an age when most of our communication happens looking down, with our thumbs on a device we call a smart phone, the gathering function of theatre, in and of itself, is something that matters – a great deal. We gather in one place for a couple of hours, share in witnessing and contemplating an event that may be beautiful, funny, moving, thought-provoking, or hopefully at least diverting. Experiencing live theater is like nothing else. ![]()
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