WhatsUp at the WorkShop (Week of 5/17/10)

Welcome to this week's edition of WhatsUp at the WorkShop!

In This Issue:

This Sunday@Six: Dirk Burrows' Flip A Coin
Early Next Week: Verbatim Verboten NEW DAY AND TIME Monday, May 24 at 7:30pm
Coming In June: Recession Special Short Play Festival

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VERBATIM VERBOTEN:

Like listening in on conversations you weren't meant to hear? Then join us on MONDAY THE 24TH (note the special day) for Verbatim Verboten! It's a riotous show in which our crack team of actors dramatize private conversations of the rich, famous and infamous. And this month's Verbatim Verboten features special guest Martin Denton of nytheatre.com! Here are the details:

VERBATIM VERBOTEN
The Words You Were Never Meant To Hear...Uncensored!

Created By Michael Martin
Directed By Jonathan Pereira

Presented In Association With Quade Productions, Ltd.

**SPECIAL DAY AND TIME THIS MONTH!**
**MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010 AT 7:30PM**

SPECIAL GUEST MARTIN DENTON of nytheatre.com

Ticket Prices: $10 (includes one drink!)

Buy Tickets Online: https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/695945

Except where otherwise noted, Verbatim Verboten occurs once a month, on every Friday the 'teenth (except when it's the 12th).

An ever-changing revue of staged, word-for-word transcripts of noted people (and some ordinary folk) saying things they never meant for the public to hear: surveillance tapes, secretly recorded conversations, forgotten open mics, on-camera diatribes, released e-mails, private correspondence, etc.

Over three hundred such pieces, with more being added all the time...meaning no performance is like the one before.

The show has enjoyed extended successful runs in Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, New Orleans, and New York, earning praise like:

"A smartened-up National Enquirer." --TimeOut Chicago

"This show delivers the raw goods. Deeply funny and just plain disturbing." --The New York Observer

Jonathan Pereira, long time host of the Chicago run of Verbatim Verboten, hosts and directs this outrageous comedy that features a rotating cast++ of WorkShop Theater members, as well as a monthly guest host.

Drinks will be available throughout the evening.

The cast features Dan Patrick Brady, Cecily Benjamin, KellyAnne Burns, Anne Fizzard, Richard Kent Green, Mike Smith Rivera and Tracy Shar.

++Cast members may change, week-to-week

Drinks will be available throughout the evening.

More information: http://www.workshoptheater.org/verbatimverboten

Why should the NSA have all the fun? Eavesdrop yourself at this month's Verbatim Verboten!

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SUNDAY@SIX:

Every Sunday at 6pm we offer a FREE reading of a great play. THIS week's Sunday@Six will be a reading of Dirk Burrows' Flip A Coin. Come down and give us your feedback!

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ON THE MAIN STAGE:

June is just around the corner and so is Recession Special, our upcoming Main Stage show! Recession Special takes six terrific WorkShop writers, mixes in six great directors, liberally sprinkles in an amazing cast and gently warms the whole thing over the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression. It's fun! But seriously, it is fun, folks. Recession Special is six short plays all dealing with the economic downturn and you don't want to miss it! Here are the deets:

RECESSION SPECIAL:
Plays Inspired by the Economic Downturn

Wednesday thru Saturday, June 2-5
Monday, June 7
Wednesday thru Saturday, June 9-12
All Curtains 8pm

A Play In Process (PIP) Presented In The Main Stage Theater

Featuring the plays:

AFTER BREAKFAST
by Rich Orloff
inspired by the play "Before Breakfast" by Eugene O'Neill
directed by Ric Sechrest

FOOD FOR THOUGHT
by Marylee Martin
directed by Katie Braden

KINGDOM FOR A HORSE
by Jonathan Pereira
directed by Elena Araoz†

LOVE IN THE TIME OF RECESSION
by Laurie Graff
directed by Maxwell Williams†

MICHAEL, A RECESSION MONOLOGUE
by Glenn Alterman
directed by Tom Herman†

MY DINNER WITH ROCCO
by Bob Manus
directed by Liz Forst

Cast:
C.K. Allen*
Michael Boland*
Burt Edwards*
Charles E. Gerber*
Laurie Graff*
Richard Kent Green*
Bob Manus
Shelley McPherson*
Patricia O'Connell*
Bill Tatum*
Fred Velde*

Coordinating Producers: Jeff Paul and Paul Singleton

†member SDC

So make your reservations for Recession Special NOW! It doesn't even matter if you know what a credit default swap is or not.

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See you at the WorkShop...where our superhero ability is the power to bring a smile to your face.

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Won't you please consider supporting our Creative Home?

Click this link to make a donation: http://www.workshoptheater.org/appeal

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Show times are subject to change. Please call (212) 695-4173 to confirm.

The WorkShop Theater Company is accessible to individuals with disabilities (e.g., elevators, wheelchair access and floor & elevator inscriptions in Braille).

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The WorkShop Theater Company
312 W. 36th St., 4th fl. (between 8th & 9th Aves.)
New York, NY 10018
(212)695-4173
http://www.workshoptheater.org

Scott C. Sickles, artistic director
David M. Pincus, managing director
Anne Fizzard, Richard Kent Green and Christina Romanello, producing directors
Cecily Benjamin, Artistic Associate

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