Spring Theater Festival
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From April 2-15, Roy Arias Studios and Theaters will be hosting the Spring Theatre Festival. We dedicate this festival to introduce new work to the New York audience. We hope to grant smaller theatre companies the opportunity to display productions in a variety of genres in one of the venues of the Roy Arias Studios and Theaters located in the heart of Times Square in New York City, a hotbed of theatrical talent.
The festival is an all inclusive theater event that is presenting fully produced full length and short productions.
This year we will have a variety of shows including musicals, one person shows and short plays.
Roy Arias Studios & Theatres is looking submissions... Send all submissions to stf@royariasstudios.com
An all inclusive theatre festival from April 2 till April 15
Looking for full length and one act plays
Specially interesting in having a variety of theatre genres and styles, from solo shows to comedies to dramas both modern and classical.
All companies will have:
– A minimun of 3 performance in one of our theatres in Times Square
– All Performances will be promoted on the frame of the festival
– Extra shows and full runs will be offered to selected companies.
Send all submissions to stf@royariasstudios.com
Coming Shows!
Central Park
Writer: Robert Kiernan
Director: Robert Kiernan
Choreographer: Michelle Luneau
Synopsis: The hundred and sixty year history of Central Park comes alive in the new singing and dancing extravaganza musical “Central Park”. The entertaining and informative narrative is intertwined with the parks visitors and their stories, some of love, some of love lost and some stories that just defies any category. This family show tries to capture all the allure and magic of the park.
Running Time: 1 hr, 45 minGenre: Musical
Website: N/A
Venue: Theater 500, Roy Arias Studios and Theaters
Times: Monday, April 2nd @8pm, Monday, April 9th @ 8pm Sunday, April 15th @9pm
Tickets Available: smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=cen51E
13 Fat Girls & a Dead Cat
Elcee Horroromedies
Writer: Lena Cigleris
Director: Mitchell Raftery
Synopsis: Abigail Ochs is the perfect housewife who spends her life catering to her husband Charles’ every whim. Her life is radically altered when a bunch of plus-sized zombies barge into her home, claiming to be not only her husband’s murder victims, but the objects of his affection as well. As they mess up her pristine home and make out with Charles, Abigail begins to realize that her life is more than just less-than-perfect; it’s a sham. Blending comedy, farce, horror and shock theater all into one, 13 Fat Girls and a Dead Cat is definitely not for the faint of heart.
Running Time: 60 min.
Genre: Comedy
Website: N/A
Venue: Little Times Square Theater, Roy Arias Studios and Theaters
Times: Friday, April 6th @8pm, Saturday, April 7th @3:15pm, Monday April 9th @6:30pm
Tickets Available: smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=13f455
Five by Five
Harlem Playwrights 21
Writer: Tom Mitchelson, William “Bill” Beasley, James Scruggs, Samuel Buckley, Charles White
Director: Fulton C. Hodges, Mark Rayment, Chauncey deLeon Gilbert
Synopsis: An ensemble of monologues and short plays exploring the comedy and tragedy of the human condition.
Running Time: 1hr, 30 min
Genre: Theatre
Website: facebook.com/pages/Harlem-Playwrights-21/149368871828440
Venue: Payan Theatre, Roy Arias Studios and Theaters
Times: Saturday, April 7th @8pm, Thursday, April 12th @7pm, Sunday, April 15th @3pm
Tickets Available: smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=fiv8D7
One for the Road
Writer: Bill Patton
Director: Bill Patton
Synopsis: In this one man performance of One For The Road writer/actor Bill Patton’s character, Billy, is contemplating suicide. His departed spirit(also played by Patton) refuses to through the dark door to the other side until he is convinced that Billy has resolved all of his conflicts. Dealing with life long conflicts between lust and love, faith and doubt, racism and freedom, Patton tries to absolve himself with grace and dignity, and to persuade his departed spirit that he has indeed conquered all the demons.
Running Time: 1h,10 min.
Genre: Solo Performance
Website: N/A
Venue: Payan Theatre
Times: Friday, April 6th @6pm, Saturday, April 7th @2:15pm, Sunday, April 8th @2:15pm
Tickets Available: smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=one587
Mama’s Boys
Writer: Bill Holland
Director: Laurie Eliscu
Synopsis: It's All in the Italian Family when Mama' s favorite son marries an Irish girl and they want to move out to Levittown. With 7 lively characters and a toe-tapping song!
Running Time: 1 hr, 20-25 min
Genre:Theatre
Website:N/A
Venue: Payan Theatre
Times: Thursday, April 12 @9pm, Saturday, April 14 @5pm, Saturday, April 15 @5pm
Tickets Available: smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=mamA24
Do you Still Dream?
Writer: Kenneth G. Craddox
Director: Kenneth G Craddox
Synopsis: “Do You Still Dream” tells a story of a young Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We take an intimate look into the home of the greatest Civil Rights leader. As a child we see how his parents guided a young mind into the man he became. Our journey then takes you into the life we know he lived but we look at inside the home of the Kong family. Before he was great he was a young man with a dream.
Running Time: 1 hr, 20 min
Genre: Theater and Gospel
Website: N/A
Venue: Little Times Square Theater, Roy Arias Studios and Theaters
Times: Thursday, April 5th @ 6pm, Saturday, April 7th @7pm, Sunday, April 15th @ 2:30pm
Tickets Available: smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=doy30E
The Emancipation of the Sassy Jewish Woman
Isramerica
Writer: Sivan Hadari
Director: Charlotte Cohn
Synopsis: The performance is based on Hadari's experiences as a modern day gypsy, traveling through America, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, India, China and Thailand in search of a home. The audience is taken on a journey back to the time when Hadari's family were Jewish immigrants fleeing Tunisia, to a little girl praying at a Yeshiva in Brooklyn, to a caravan in a settlement over-looking Jericho, to a nude beach at the Dead Sea to jewel encrusted elephant rides in India, all in the name of liberation.
Running Time: 1hr.
Genre: solo show
Website: www.isramerica.com
Venue: Little Times Square Theatre, Roy Arias Studios and Theaters
Times: Saturday, April 14 @ 10:30pm, Sunday, April 15 @8:30pm
Tickets Available: smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=ema1B6
Two Sides of Love
624 Productions
Writer: Thomas Baldinger
Director: Thomas Baldinger
Synopsis: Navigating your way through love can be just as complicated as trying to figure out the city subway system. When Nicole left Wisconsin to move into her sister Karen's New York apartment she thought she would land herself a job, not a man. Henry wasn't looking for love or a new business venture but his roommate Jim seems to be persistent in pushing him into both with reckless abandon. But love is rarely expected or convenient and, as Nicole and Henry soon find out, without its share of complications. Secrets emerge, difficult decisions must be made and a returning ex shows up with both apologies and revelations to share. Always along for the ride, Jim and Karen frequently offer not-always-wise words to steer the two young lovers to the real thing. In the end, each character must discover their own level of tolerance in order to find what truly makes them happy. This sitcom on stage is a funny, contemplative show that will have you falling head over heels for fabulous, dysfunctional love!
Running Time: 1 hr, 50 min
Genre: Comedy
Website: N/A
Venue: Little Times Square Theater, Roy Arias Studios and Theaters
Times: Thursday, April 5th@8:30pm, Saturday, April 7@1:00pm Thurdsay, April 12th@8:15pm
Tickets Available: smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=two368
The Glimmer
Writer: Ed Ballou
Director: Sylvia Baeza
Synopsis: Three people have nowhere to turn, lost in secret wars of desperation. A couple use up their marriage, repeating the past; a young man gives up, unlucky in love. Meeting in a duplex beneath a bridge to an end – they listen, don’t listen, and run out of time. The young man climbs his bridge; the couple stop dead in their tracks. The young man teeters on the edge of mortality; the old couple search with pairs of newly young eyes. What happens next is hidden in their hearts.
Running Time: 40 min.
Genre: theatre
Website: N/A
Venue: Payan Theatre
Times: Friday, April 6 @7:45pm, Saturday, April 7 @1pm, Sunday April 8 @1pm
Tickets Available: smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=gli9A4
Visiting Hours
Writer: Jeanne Chenault Porter
Director: Schnele Wilson
Synopsis: Visiting Hours explores the psychological, spiritual, and emotional connection between two people long separated by time and distance. After twenty years Aunt Martha living in New York finally succeeds in locating her nephew, Jack, who is in San Diego. To her delight, she finds a bright, funny, and sensitive young man with whom she has much in common. She soon discovers as well that Jack is HIV positive, and terminally ill. Estella, Jack’s cruel and erratic mother, who had initially caused and enforced their separation, is continually lurking nearby. Because of Martha’s recent car accident and his increasingly poor health, both Martha and Jack are for a while confined to their apartments where they employ modern technology in order to communicate. What seems at first to be a relentlessly tragic situation produces a positive outcome. Jack and Martha finally have the time and opportunity to get to know each other as adults and build a solid relationship. Memories start to surface, and both discover that they will be forever “kindred spirits.”
Running Time: 1hr, 30min (1 intermission)
Genre: Drama
Website: N/A
Venue: Theatre 500 (Off-Broadway theatre)
Times: Wednesday, April 11th @8pm, Thursday, April 12th @6:00pm, Sunday, April 15th @12:30pm
Tickets Available: smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=vis07E
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