John and Patrick, how did your things go?
Am I the only one posting on this thread? And does that make me an asshole?
Well, it's not like anyone goes to theater anymore anyway, so fuck it. Seriously, it's like telling people you make pocket watches. But I've long agreed with critiques like Teddy Rockstar's and Jonathan Franzen's and I can promise you that I have tried my very best not to add to the big steaming pile of lame theater. Feel free to ignore or ridicule, but if you do feel like going, they're selling the first 101 tickets to my play 1001 for $10.01 (get it?). It would be great to see any of you there. Laurie, the show opens during your trip here, but you might want to pay full price for yourself and your bodyguards and let the proles have the cheap tix. We might even be able to find box seats for you so you can heckle like Statler and Waldorf on the Muppet Show (please don't).
Also, one of the voices from the Venture Brothers is in it. Anyway, read on:
Page 73 is thrilled to announce that tickets go on sale today for our production of the New York City premiere of 1001 by Jason Grote, directed by Ethan McSweeny! Jason was Page 73's 2006 P73 Playwriting Fellow. This will be his first New York City production.
This very limited engagement will run from October 22 - November 17 at the Nagelberg Theatre at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue (corner of Lexington and 25th Street). Performances are Mondays - Saturdays at 8pm and Saturdays at 3pm.
Tickets to 1001 are just $25 for general admission and $35 for reserved seating. But Page 73 is making a special offer to the first people to get their tickets!
The first 101 tickets for 1001 are just $10.01!
This offer is good for any performance, but yours must be among the first 101 tickets sold!!
(Limit of 2 tickets per order).
DON'T MISS OUT!
Tickets can be purchased by visiting
www.1001nyc.com or by calling 212-352-3101. Use discount code EB1001 to take part in this very limited offer.
Mixing the labyrinthine wordplay of Jorge Louis Borges with the ideas of Edward Said and the slapstick comedy of Monty Python, 1001 hyperlinks Scheherazade's tales to contemporary Manhattan. Time blurs and reality is fractured and reconstructed in a world inhabited by characters whose identity shifts unpredictably and deliriously. With rollicking storytelling, a touch of magic realism, and even a little trip-hop music, 1001 simultaneously defaces and energizes A Thousand and One Arabian Nights to guide us through a tour of the dizzyingly precarious world of the 21st century.
The amazing cast of 1001 includes Mia Barron (The Coast of Utopia), Drew Cortese (NYSF's As You Like It ), Roxanna Hope (Frost/Nixon), Jonathan Hova (Sixteen Wounded, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife), Matt Rauch (Roundabout's Prelude to a Kiss), and John Livingstone Rolle (The Unmentionables at Woolly Mammoth).
The scenic design for 1001 is by Rachel Hauck; the costume design is by Murell Horton; the lighting design is by Tyler Micoleau; the sound design is by Lindsay Jones. The entire play will be underscored by New York-based DJ Arisa's fusion of electronica and Middle Eastern music.
For more information about 1001, visit
www.1001nyc.com.
For more information about Page 73 Productions, visit
www.p73.org.
1001 is made possible, in part, by the generous support of The Greenwall Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council of the Arts, a state agency, and the Off-Broadway Angels.