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Rattlestick Takes on Adam Rapp’s Hallway Trilogy With Maria Dizzia, Logan Marshall Green

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

From Playbill:
Tony Award nominee Maria Dizzia, Logan Marshall Green, Louis Cancelmi and Katherine Waterston will star in the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater world premiere of the Adam Rapp trilogy The Hallway Trilogy.

Rapp, Daniel Aukin and Trip Cullman will direct the 90-minute plays, each set 50 years apart. Performances will begin Feb. 6, 2011, and The Hallway Trilogy will open Feb. 20, 2011.

In addition to Dizzia (In the Next Room, Eurydice), Green (Dog Sees God), Cancelmi (Blasted, This, Singing Forest) and Waterston (Bachelorette), the cast will feature William Apps (Ghosts in the Cottonwoods), Rob Beitzel (Our Town), Guy Boyd (The Metal Children), Sue Jean Kim (Drunken City), Nick Lawson (Ghosts in the Cottonwoods), Sarah Lemp (Ghosts in the Cottonwoods), Danny Mastrogiorgio (Restoration), Julianne Nicholson (This), Jeremy Strong (The Coward) and Stephen Tyrone Williams (Ruined).

Here’s how Rattlestick bills the plays:

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Part 1, Rose takes place on the evening of November 28th, 1953, the day following the death of Eugene O’Neill (directed by Rapp).

Part 2, Paraffin is set on the first evening of the 2003 New York City blackout (directed by Aukin).

Part 3, Nursing is set in 2053 in a disease-free New York when the tenement has been transformed into a museum where young men and women in need of cash are injected with old-fashioned diseases for the amusement of the public (directed by Cullman).

The Hallway Trilogy will feature a unified design team comprising Beowulf Boritt (scenic design), Jessica Pabst (costume design), Tyler Micoleau (lighting design), Eric Shim (sound design), Eugenia Furneaux-Arends (properties) and Katie Takacs (technical direction).

“Weaving, themes of suffering and redemption into a sequence of moments in the same lower east side hallway, fifty years apart, Adam has found a different and, for me, a compelling take on the nature of a trilogy, on what binds people together and how they move forward into the future. We are completely re-orienting the theater in order to accommodate the long hallway in which the plays take place. It is certainly the most ambitious project we have ever undertaken,” Rattlestick artistic director David Van Asselt said in a statement.

Rapp’s plays include Ghosts in the Cottonwoods, The Metal Children, Nocturne, Faster, Animals & Plants, Finer Noble Gases, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Blackbird, Gompers, Essential Self-Defense and Red Light Winter.

Rose will play Tuesdays at 8 PM; with Paraffin Wednesdays at 8 PM; and Nursing Thursdays at 8 PM. All three parts will be presented in repertory Fridays at 8 PM and Saturdays at 4 PM and 8 PM. Marathon performances of all three works will be presented Sundays beginning at 1 PM.

For tickets phone (212) 868-4444 or visit rattlestick.org. The Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is located at 224 Waverly Place (between West 11th and Perry St.).

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Aranas, Bobb, Joyce, Marshall-Green, Pine and More to Star in NYTW’s Beast

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

New York Theatre Workshop will present Michael Weller’s Beast beginning Aug. 29.

Directed by Jo Bonney, the new work will officially open Sept. 15 and run through Oct. 12. The cast will feature Raul Aranas, Jeremy Bobb, Lisa Joyce, Logan Marshall-Green, Larry Pine, Eileen Rivera, and Corey Stoll.

In Beast, press notes state, “a blood-red comic road adventure, two Iraqi War veterans (Logan Marshall-Green and Corey Stoll) — badly mutilated but as fiercely patriotic as ever — make their way home from a military hospital in Germany. Their marauding adventure across America takes them to Crawford, Texas, where they meet up with their Commander-in-Chief (Larry Pine) and offer a surefire solution to all his problems.”

The production will feature scenic design by Eugene Lee, costume design by Colleen Werthmann, lighting design by David Lander, sound design by David Van Tieghem, video design by Tal Yarden and make-up and effects design by Nathan Johnson.

Weller is also the author of Moonchildren, Fishing, Loose Ends, Spoils of War and What the Night is For as well as the films “Hair,” “Ragtime” and “Lost Angels.”

Show times will be Tuesday at 7 PM, Wednesday-Saturday at 8 PM, Sunday at 7 PM with matinees Saturday at 3 PM and Sunday at 2 PM.

New York Theatre Workshop is located in Manhattan at 79 East 4th Street, between Second Avenue and Bowery. Tickets, which are priced $65, will go on sale July 29 by calling (212) 239-6200 or by visiting www.telecharge.com.

For more information go to www.nytw.org.

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Camp, Lysy, Marshall-Green, Perabo to Star in MCC’s Shape of Things Reading

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

From TheatreMania:

Anna Camp, Austin Lysy, Logan Marshall-Green, and Piper Perabo will star in MCC Theater’s reading of The Shape of Things, under the direction of Carolyn Cantor, tonight, Monday, June 23 at 7pm. The previously announced Paul Rudd will no longer be participating due to a last-minute schedule change.

Presented in conjunction with MCC’s current production of reasons to be pretty — which will transfer to Broadway in the fall — The Shape of Things is a modern version of Adam’s seduction by Eve.

Tickets to the reading are $20 each and can be ordered by calling 212-279-4200 or visiting www.mcctheater.org.

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Angels In Progress: Old School At The New School

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

There was not an alert whatsoever about Logan participating in Angels In Progress: Old School At The New School, and I didn’t find out that he participated until tonight so I apologise to anyone who would have liked to attend the event. There are no actual photos from the play (that I can find at least), but here’s the info on it from the NakedAngels website:

The Investigation of Solitude
by Nicole Burdette
Directed by Pippin Parker
Thursday, May 29th at 2pm
A woman revisits her past with an Irish American family in this classic drama investigating the human condition.
Starring: Marisa Tomei, Peter Scanavino, Logan Marshall-Green, Adam Trese, Robert Hogan and Frank Whaley

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Geometry On Fire Reading

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

From Playbill:

The New York Stage and Film Company will present a one-night-only reading of Stephen Belber’s Geometry of Fire March 10.

Directed by Lucie Tiberghien, the reading will be presented at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Black Box Theatre. The cast will feature Reed Birney, Donnie Keshawarz, Logan Marshall-Green and Jennifer Mudge.

“One man is a Marine reservist sniper just back from Iraq,” according to Geometry press notes. “The other is a Saudi American looking for the cause of his father’s death. When their paths cross, they collide — and both men grapple with their past and their future. This timely play is an intimate, humorous exploration of the complications of war and the effects on those involved.”

Geometry of Fire made its world premiere as part of The New York Stage and Film Company’s 2007 Powerhouse Season. The upcoming reading will feature Belber’s revision of Geometry based on that production, which co-starred Mia Barron, Reed Birney, Piter Marek and Logan Marshall-Green.

The evening will begin at 6:30 PM with a reception followed by the 7 PM reading.

Roundabout Theatre Company’s Black Box Theatre is located at the Harold & Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, 111 West 46th Street in New York. For reservations e-mail efox@newyorkstageandfilm.org.

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