The Giant and The Pixie: NY SummerFest
There's no New York Fringe Festival this year so there's extra attention being paid to two major summer theatre festivals in Manhattan: The Midtown International Theatre Festival and the NY SummerFest - I'm fortunate enough to have plays in both.
My evening-length play The Giant and The Pixie will run at the Hudson Guild Theater from September 21-24, I'm really looking forward to revisiting this piece... it's been reworked a bit since it's world premiere at Chance Theater in 2008. And I've shared that my short play Phone Friend will have it's world premiere at the MITF in July, I just had a Skype rehearsal with the cast - that piece may be a little heartbreaker. Both plays are directed by Jonathan Schlieman who I am so excited to work with again! The Giant and The Pixie a contemporary fairy tale set in a shopping mall NY Summer Fest Hudson Guild Theatre September 21-24, 2017 Details to be announced Andi Norris and Jara Jones in the world premire production of The Giant and the Pixie.
Tickets Available Later This Summer
Mystery Lit 2017: Holmes, Sherlock and The Consulting Detective starts Friday! We open Saturday night and run through July 1. This immersive adventure has been a beast to get up and the cast and production team are doing some incredible work! If you're in SoCal I sure do hope you can make it out. Use code DARREN for $10 off tickets for June 2-7 performances! The Santa Anita Train Depot @ the LA Arboretum 159 S. Baldwin Ave. (do not go to the main entrance of the Arboretum - see website for details)
Get Tickets: mysterylit.org
My short play Grandpa and the Gay Rabbi was named as a Finalist for the City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting! That means it will have a reading in Miami as part of the CityWrights festival, which I had never before attended but am looking forward to taking part (June 22-26).
The theatre is "THE ONLY THEATER COMPANY IN THE U.S. SOLELY DEDICATEDTO DEVELOPING AND PRODUCING TEN-MINUTE PLAYS YEAR-ROUND" - so that's cool. :-)
