Press agent Jonathan Slaff shows off his acting chops in DUET FOR SOLO VOICE at Theater for the New City (photo by Zita Bradley)
Theater for the New City
155 First Ave. between Ninth & Tenth Sts.
January 28 – February 14, $10
212-254-1109
www.theaterforthenewcity.net
www.jsnyc.com
For more than twenty years, public relations guru Jonathan Slaff has been promoting shows at such city institutions as La MaMa and Theater for the New City, specializing in dance, theater, and performance art. At a recent production at La MaMa, Slaff mentioned to us how busy he is, working on a new batch of shows while preparing for his own. When we asked him why he hadn’t sent out a release about his own show, he said he wasn’t sure if it was appropriate. Well, a few of us convinced him that it was just fine for him to help get the word out for DUET FOR SOLO VOICE, the revival of a 1970 one-man show written by David Scott Milton. This new production, directed by Stanley Allan Sherman, is set in a seedy Times Square hotel around 1970, with Slaff, who has been acting since he was a child, as both night clerk Leonard Pelican and KGB agent Vassily Ilianovich Chort. The play runs January 28 – February 14 at the Theater for the New City, and tickets are only a mere ten bucks, so head downtown and help support a man who has been supporting independent theater for so many years.