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Tribeca Theater Festival Launches First Annual
Downtown Event in NYC, Oct. 19-31
By Ernio
Hernandez
19 Oct 2004
The inaugural Tribeca Theater Festival launches from the downtown New
York City titular locale with stars, The Downtown Plays, readings
and more, Oct. 19-31.
The first annual two-week festival presented by Tribeca Film Festival
co-founders Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, with the
Drama Dept., will feature a short play series called The Downtown
Plays as well as "Stage on Screen" film screenings, theatre panel
discussions and a "Tribeca All Access Open Stage" development program.
"Like the Tribeca Film Festival, we hope that the Theater Festival will
help draw crowds back downtown," stated De Niro in a release. "We hope to
create a new kind of theatre festival experience that will appeal to
everyone and help create new audiences for theatre in the city that serves
as the world's theatre capital."
The 10 actors set to perform various roles in the nine different plays
that comprise The Downtown Plays includes Joel de la Fuente
(Face Value), Ross Gibby (Music from a Sparkling Planet);
Josh Hamilton (Proof, The Waverly Gallery), Jackie Hoffman
(Hairspray), Peter Jacobson (Picasso at the Lapin Agile),
Chris Messina (Salome, Far Away), J. Smith-Cameron (Our
Country's Good, Tartuffe), Marilyn Torres ("Maid in Manhattan"), Maria
Tucci (The Night of the Iguana) and Julie White (Fiction, Dinner
with Friends).
Tony Award-winner John Rando (Urinetown) directs The Downtown
Plays, which include works by Jon Robin Baitz, Douglas Carter Beane,
David Henry Hwang, Neil LaBute, Warren Leight, Kenneth Lonergan, Frank
Pugliese, Paul Rudnick and Wendy Wasserstein.
Broadway directors Kenny Leon (A Raisin in the Sun, the upcoming
Gem of the Ocean) and Michael Greif (Rent, Never Gonna
Dance) will also stage readings of new works by six selected
playwrights as part of the Tribeca All Access Open Stage.
David Hare's Stuff Happens kicked off the "Downtown Readings"
series in which downtown theater companies will present staged readings of
new and developing works at Tribeca Cinemas. (The Hare work performed Oct.
18 at the NYTW's space at 79 East 4th Street.)
Other readings (with presenting company in parenthesis) include Anne
Washburn's The Internationalist (The Vineyard Theater), directed by
Ken Rus Schmoll; Zina Camblin's Her Hair Went With Her (The Culture
Project), directed by Leigh Fondakowski; Lucy Thurber's Bottom of the
World (Women's Expressive Theater, Inc.), Daniel Voll's Dear Mr.
President (Naked Angels), directed by David Warren; Nicole Burdette's
Yes! We Have No Pajamas (Naked Angels), starring Tim Hutton and
Bill Sage as directed by Brian Mac Devitt; Megan Mostyn Brown's The
Secret Lives of Losers (LAByrinth Theater); Caryl Churchill's This
Is a Chair (New York Theatre Workshop), directed by Michael Sexton;
and Rich Orloff's Cripperella or The Cracked Glass Slipper (The
National Theatre Workshop Of The Handicapped) with music and lyrics by
John Spalla, directed by Rick Curry.
For tickets and more information, call (212) 941-2450 or visit http://www.tribecatheaterfestival.com/
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