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TICKET GIVEAWAY: A LETTER TO HARVEY MILK

Retired kosher butcher Harry Weinberg (Adam Heller) remembers an old friend in A Letter to Harvey Milk (photo by Russ Rowland)

The Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row
410 West 42nd St. between Ninth & Tenth Aves.
Tuesday – Sunday through June 30, $79
212-560-2183
www.lettertoharveymilk.com
www.theatrerow.org

On May 22, Harvey Milk would have turned eighty-eight. Instead, the San Francisco city supervisor and outspoken gay activist was assassinated on November 27, 1978, at the age of forty-eight. His moving life story has been turned into a nonfiction book (Randy Shilts’s The Mayor of Castro Street), an Oscar-winning documentary (Rob Epstein’s The Times of Harvey Milk), an opera (Stewart Wallace and Michael Korie’s Harvey Milk), a two-time Oscar-winning film (Gus Van Sant’s Milk, starring Sean Penn), a cantata by Jack Curtis Dubowsky, and several children’s books. And now comes A Letter to Harvey Milk, a stage musical about Milk’s legacy. It’s 1986, and Harry, a retired kosher butcher, has been given an assignment by Barbara, his senior center writing teacher: He has to write a letter to a deceased person from his past, and he chooses Harvey Milk. Based on the short story by Lesléa Newman, A Letter to Harvey Milk features a book by Jerry James, Cheryl Stern, the late Ellen M. Schwartz, and Laura I. Kramer, with music by Kramer, lyrics by Schwartz, and additional lyrics by Stern. Adam Heller stars as kosher butcher Harry Weinberg, Stern is his deceased wife, Julia Knitel plays Barbara, Michael Bartoli is Milk, and Jeremy Greenbaum, Aury Krebs, and CJ Pawlikowski play multiple ensemble roles. The ninety-minute show is directed by Evan Pappas, with sets by David Arsenault, costumes by Debbi Hobson, lighting by Christopher Akerlind, sound by David M. Lawson, and music direction by Jeffrey Lodin.

A Letter to Harvey Milk honors the legacy of the San Francisco city supervisor and outspoken gay activist (photo by Russ Rowland)

TICKET GIVEAWAY: A Letter to Harvey Milk runs through June 30 at the Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row, and twi-ny has three pairs of tickets to give away for free for performances June 1-23. Just send your name, daytime phone number, and favorite play or movie about an activist to contest@twi-ny.com by Tuesday, May 22, at 3:00 pm to be eligible. All entrants must be twenty-one years of age or older; three winners will be selected at random.

TICKET GIVEAWAY: LEONARD NIMOY’S VINCENT

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LEONARD NIMOY’S VINCENT
Theatre at St. Clement’s
423 West 46th St. between Ninth & Tenth Aves.
Wednesday – Sunday through June 5, $59-$89
starrynighttheater.com/vincent

Leonard Nimoy lived long and prospered before passing away last February at the age of eighty-three, leaving behind a legacy that includes two children, two marriages of more than twenty years, major roles on and off Broadway (Equus, Fiddler on the Roof, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest), and this little television and movie franchise known as Star Trek. But one of his most important personal projects was a one-man show called Vincent, which he adapted from Phillip Stephens’s Van Gogh and toured in beginning in 1981. In the play, Vincent’s younger brother, Theo, talks about life with his older sibling, an artist whose talent and innovation was only recognized after his death. The thoroughly researched text is based on hundreds of letters between the brothers; Nimoy also traveled to Arles, Saint-Rémy, and Auvers while preparing the show. The play is now being revived by the Starry Night Theatre Co. starting April 1 at the Theatre at St. Clement’s. Company artistic director James Briggs plays Theo, with Dr. Brant Pope directing. “Last week when we buried my brother, there was so much I wanted to say, I couldn’t do it,” Theo says at the start. “You see, I simply couldn’t speak. I didn’t express myself. It’s been a burden on my soul . . . what I wanted to say and I couldn’t . . . what I needed to say, what you need to hear. So I thank you for this second opportunity.”

James Briggs stars as Theo van Gogh in revival of Leonard Nimoy’s VINCENT at the Theatre at St. Clement’s

James Briggs stars as Theo van Gogh in revival of Leonard Nimoy’s VINCENT, coming to the Theatre at St. Clement’s

TICKET GIVEAWAY: Vincent begins previews April 1 and opens April 7 at Theatre at St. Clement’s, and twi-ny has three pairs of tickets to give away for free. Just send your name, daytime phone number, and favorite van Gogh painting to contest@twi-ny.com by Wednesday, March 30, at 3:00 to be eligible. All entrants must be twenty-one years of age or older; three winners will be selected at random.

TICKET GIVEAWAY: A QUEEN FOR A DAY

SOPRANOS vet David Proval (Richie Aprile) stars in new play, A QUEEN FOR A DAY

SOPRANOS vet David Proval, who played Richie Aprile, stars in new mob play, A QUEEN FOR A DAY

A QUEEN FOR A DAY
Theatre at St. Clement’s
423 West 46th St. between Ninth & Tenth Aves.
Thursday – Tuesday through July 26, $49-$99
aqueenforadayplay.com

When made man Giovanni (David Proval) is caught by the feds, he is given a chance to become queen for a day, offered a proffer agreement that can grant him immunity for any squealing — er, information he shares about illegal activities he and his cohorts might be involved in. In this case, Sanford (David Deblinger) wants him to give up crime boss Pasquale (Vincent Pastore), but it’s not that easy to sing — and survive. Written by lawyer and film and theater producer Michael Ricigliano Jr. (Lily of the Feast) and directed by John Gould Rubin (Hedda Gabler, The Cherry Orchard, The Predators’ Ball), A Queen for a Day features Sopranos veterans Pastore (Big Pussy) and Proval (Richie Aprile) along with Labyrinth Theatre cofounder Deblinger (who appeared in one Sopranos episode) and theater and television actress Portia (Johnson). The warehouse set is by Andreea Mincic, with costumes by Bobby Frederick Tilley II and lighting by Isabella F. Byrd.

TICKET GIVEAWAY: A Queen for a Day opened May 3 at Theatre at St. Clement’s, and twi-ny has three pairs of tickets to give away for free. Just send your name, daytime phone number, and favorite play about gangsters to contest@twi-ny.com by Friday, May 8, at 12 noon to be eligible. All entrants must be twenty-one years of age or older; three winners will be selected at random.

TICKET GIVEAWAY: HUNTER GATHERERS

HUNTER GATHERERS runs March 3-28 at Duo theater

Duo Multicultural Arts Center
62 East Fourth St. between Second & Third Aves.
Tuesday- Saturday, March 3-28, $35-$49, 8:00
www.playhousecreatures.org
www.duotheater.org

Winner of the 2007 ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award and the 2006 Will Glickman Award, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s Hunter Gatherers is a savage black comedy about a dinner party that begins with an animal sacrifice — and then things really start to get crazy. The hundred-minute show is making its New York City debut March 3-28 in a production by, appropriately enough, the Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company in the East Village. Hunter Gatherers stars Emily Dahlke, Megan O’Leary, Joseph W. Rodriquez, and John Russell and is directed by Eric Tucker, who was named 2014 Director of the Year by the Wall Street Journal for helming Bedlam’s Sense and Sensibility and The Seagull and the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s Two Gentlemen of Verona. The San Francisco-based Nachtrieb, who has also penned such works as boom, BOB, and The Totalitarians, says about Hunter Gatherers, “‘What should I be doing with my life’ is a question that consumes everyone in this play with a ferocity. Eventually, they look to their guts for an answer and it’s their primal instincts that ultimately save or destroy them.”

TICKET GIVEAWAY: Hunter Gatherers begins previews March 3 prior to a March 7 opening, and twi-ny has three pairs of tickets to give away for free. Just send your name, daytime phone number, and favorite play or movie about a dinner party to contest@twi-ny.com by Friday, February 27, at 5:00 to be eligible. All entrants must be twenty-one years of age or older; three winners will be selected at random.

TICKET GIVEAWAY: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER

Robert Battle is ready for his second City Center season as AAADT artistic director, along with dancers Antonio Douthit, Rachael McLaren, Jacqueline Green, Jamar Roberts, and Alicia Graf Mack (photo by Andrew Eccles)

ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER
New York City Center
130 West 56th St. between Sixth & Seventh Aves.
November 28 – December 30, $25-$135
212-581-1212
www.alvinailey.org
www.nycitycenter.org

Since 1958, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has been a central part of the New York City performing arts scene, revolutionizing the perception of dance through its special programs, workshops, classes, and unique melding of music and movement. Originally inspired by Alvin Ailey’s “blood memories” of growing up in Texas with a single mother, the company has gone on to be named by Congress as “a vital American cultural ambassador to the world.” Now led by artistic director Robert Battle, AAADT begins its annual New York City Center season this week, presenting such works as Ohad Naharin’s Minus 16, Paul Taylor’s Arden Court, Rennie Harris’s Home, Ulysses Dove’s Vespers and Urban Folk Dance, Camille A. Brown’s The Evolution of a Secured Feminine, Battle’s The Hunt, In/Side, and Takademe, and Ailey’s Memoria and other classics. (To see which work nine of the dancers are most looking forward to, go here.)

TICKET GIVEAWAY: With so much to choose from, it’s hard to decide which programs to see, but twi-ny has teamed up with AAADT to make the decision easy. We are giving away two pairs of tickets to the Tuesday, December 12, show at 7:30, consisting of the company premiere of Battle’s duet Strange Humors, Dove’s Episodes, and Ailey’s Night Creature and Revelations. Just send your name, daytime phone number, and all-time-favorite Ailey dance to contest@twi-ny.com by Wednesday, November 28, at 3:00 to be eligible. All entrants must be twenty-one years of age or older; two winners will be selected at random.

TICKET GIVEAWAY: COUGAR THE MUSICAL

The cougar phenomenon is explored in new musical (photo by BittenByAZebra)

COUGAR THE MUSICAL
St. Luke’s Theatre
308 West 46th St. between Eighth & Ninth Aves.
Previews begin August 10 prior to an August 26 opening, $39.50-$89.50
cougarthemusical.com

In Cougar the Musical, three older women, Clarity (Brenda Braxton), Lily (Catherine Porter), and Mary-Marie (Babs Winn), set their sights on a series of younger men, Buck, Twilight Dude, Bourbon Cowboy, Eve, and Naked Peter, all played by hottie Danny Bernardy. Written and composed by former Zoom cast member Donna Moore and directed and choreographed by Tony nominee Lynn Taylor-Corbett, the show, expanded from Moore’s two-person cabaret, features such songs as “Mother’s Love,” “Let’s Talk About Me,” “On the Prowl,” and “Love Is Ageless.” To find out more about the show and its creator, read our twi-ny talk with Moore here.

TICKET GIVEAWAY: Cougar the Musical begins previews on August 10 at St. Luke’s Theatre, with the official opening slated for August 26, and twi-ny has three pairs of tickets to give away for free. Just send your name, daytime phone number, and all-time favorite show or movie about a May/December romance to contest@twi-ny.com by Monday, August 13, at 12 noon to be eligible. All entrants must be twenty-one years of age or older; three winners will be selected at random.

TICKET GIVEAWAY: PLAY IT COOL

A New Musical
The Acorn, Theatre Row
410 West 42nd St.
September 2 – October 9, $65
866-811-4111
www.playitcoolmusical.com

“Tonight, I’m singing / If that ain’t enough, the band is swinging / This little set just kicked into gear / The boys are ready and the gang’s all here,” Tony nominee Sally Mayes (She Loves Me) belts out in the opening number of the noir musical Play It Cool. But later she adds, “Nothing here is what it seems.” Nominated for a 2009 GLAAD award for Best Off-Off Broadway Musical, Play It Cool swings into the Acorn Theatre on Theater Row for a jazzy run September 2 through October 9. Set in 1953 in a secret Hollywood club called Mary’s Hideaway, the musical examines passion, ambition, and gender in a changing society. It was conceived by Playwrights 6 cofounder Larry Dean Harris, who wrote the book with Martin Casella, and features lyrics by Mark Winkler, music by Phillip Swann, and choreography by Marc Kimelman. Among the other numbers, performed by a cast that also includes Michael Buchanan, Chris Hoch, Robyn Hurder, and Michael F. McGuirk, are “Curvy Time Bomb,” “Turn Up the Heat,” “Hip to Your Tricks,” and “In a Lonely Place,” adding to the noir feel.

TICKET GIVEAWAY: We have five pairs of tickets to Play It Cool to give away for free. To be eligible to win, just send your name, daytime phone number, and all-time favorite film noir to contest@twi-ny.com by Wednesday, August 17, at 3:00 pm. All entrants must be twenty-one years of age or older; five winners will be selected at random.