FringeNYC Encore Series 2013: Group Shows – Location, Tickets
FringeNYC Encore Series provides another opportunity to see some of the most critically-acclaimed and crowd-pleasing shows from the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival. Solo and group shows are presented separately. Click here for the solo shows.
GROUP SHOWS
Peninsula
In Absentia Productions
Writer: Nathan Wright / Director: Nadia Foskolou
Best Ensemble winner at FringeNYC 2013. He escaped the savage streets of Rio de Janeiro, but this placid Lake Michigan summer town has dangers of its own… 1h 45m. Friday 9/6 @ 8PM; Tuesday 9/24 @ 8PM; Saturday 10/05 @ 9PM; Sunday 10/13 @ 7PM.
The Great iii Am
Writer: Matt Graham
Matt Graham (“a funnier Spalding Gray” – USA Today) is back on his soapbox with a Scrabble tutorial from on high. Or is it a theology class on a Scrabble board? Check it out. You have nothing to lose but your soul. 1h 15m. Saturday 9/7 @ 8PM; Saturday 9/14 @ 8PM; Saturday 9/21 @ 8PM; Saturday 9/28 @ 8PM; Saturday 10/5 @ 8PM
The Rufus Equation
Rufus Productions (New York, NY)
Writer: Ted Cubbin / Director: Tom Ridgely
2013 FringeNYC Excellence in Playwrighting Award winner. Nerd + Math = Sex. What’s love got to do with quantum physics? Professor Bert Rufus is awkward with women – especially with the alluring physicist Alys Smith. Bert invents a secret device that will shock the world…and might even get him laid. Sunday 9/8 @ 3PM & 7:30PM; Tuesday 9/10 @ 8PM; Sunday 9/15 @ 3PM & 7:30PM
Cowboys Don’t Sing
Figure It Out Later Productions
Writer: Dennis Flynn, Music by Johnny Kelley, additional score by T.J. Alcalá / Director: Dennis Flynn
2013 FringeNYC Excellence Award winner. The lone cowboy rides into a singing town on his trusty steed. He meets danger, romance, Western archetypes, and way too many musical numbers, including “The Racist Song.” Will he abandon his cowboy ways and sing? Well yeah, but still. Thursday 9/12 @ 7PM; Sunday 9/15 @ 7PM; Wednesday 9/25 at 7PM; Thursday 9/26 at 9PM.
Waiting For Waiting For Godot
Hansburg Productions, in association with The Collective NY (New York, NY)
Writer: Dave Hanson / Director: Alex Harvey
Best Overall Play award winner at FringeNYC 2013. Two understudies occupy their time backstage trying to understand art, life, and their absurd existence. Turns out, the only people who truly understand waiting for Godot are the two actors who are Waiting for Waiting for Godot. Saturday 9/14 at 5PM & 9PM; Sunday 9/15 @ 5PM; Monday 9/16 @ 7PM.
Ndebele Funeral
Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative (Brooklyn, NY)
Writer: Zoey Martinson / Director: Awoye Timpo
Best Overall Play award winner at FringeNYC 2013. Come see South African story telling at its finest! This play explores the aspirations of three diverse characters whose lives intersect in a Soweto shantytown. Darkly funny and poignant, Ndebele Funeral features original music and gumboot dancing from the mines of Jo’burg. Thursday, 9/19 at 8PM; Friday 9/20 at 7 PM; Sunday 9/22 at 3PM; Friday 9/27 at 8PM; Sunday 9/29 at 3PM.
Slut
The Arts Effect (New York, NY)
Writer: Katie Cappiello / Director: Katie Cappiello & Meg McInerney
Sixteen. Pre-gaming. Empty Absolut bottle. Back of a cab. Ripped underwear. Hands everywhere. No! Through the eyes of NYC teen girls, face the choices and experience the fallout from one life-altering Friday night. Saturday 9/14 at 7PM; Sunday 9/15 at 2PM; Thursday 9/26 at 7PM; Sunday 9/29 at 5PM.
Perfectly Normel People
The Footlight Players (Charleston, SC)
Writer/ Director: Thomas and Judy Heath
TheaterMania Audience Favorite award winner atFringeNYC 2013. What happens when an NYU freshman from Kansas moves in with a dysfunctional Italian family from Queens? It’s 1981. The Ramones rule the Village, Reagan rules the country and the only rule in the Normellino household is, whoever shouts loudest, gets heard. Wednesday 9/25 at 9PM; Friday 9/27 at 10PM; Sunday, 9/29 at 7:30PM.
Why You Beasting?
NewYorkRep (New York, NY)
Writer: David Don Miller / Director: Markus Potter
Take a darkly comic ride into an urban high school where undisciplined students and a bewildered faculty confront upheaval and strife while attempting to navigate a backwards bureaucracy. 2h 15m. Sunday 9/29 @ 2PM; Tuesday 10/1 @ 8PM; Sunday 10/6 @ 7PM; Friday 10/11 @ 9PM; Tuesday 10/15 @ 8PM
Slaughterhouse-Five
True False Theatre Company
Writer: Daria Tavana / Director: Jenny Beth Snyder
Billy Pilgrim escapes death in WWII then wakes up with a pornstar on the planet Tralfamadore. After aliens show him the meaning of life, Billy returns home to NY and preaches their philosophy. Based on the novel by Kurt Vonnegut. Thursday, 10/10 at 10PM; Friday 10/11 at 9PM; Saturday, 10/12 8PM; Sunday, 10/13 at 9PM.
LOCATION
The Players Theater
115 MacDougal Street (between Bleecker and Houston Streets), New York City
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TICKETS
$18 (click for tickets)
DATES
September 6 – October 20