Abingdon Theatre

Address: 312 West 36th Street - 1st floor - New York, NY 10018 - Midtown - South side of West 36th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues.

Closest subway: A, C, E to 34th Street. Walk north to West 36th Street, then west to the theatre.

Now Playing:

True Story Project - SEX

Krankenhaus Blues

My Deah

The Frugal Repast (starts January 26)

Dreams of Friendly Aliens (starts March 10)

The President and Her Mistress (starts April 13)

True Story Project - SEX

True Story Project: SEX features a profoundly diverse ensemble of nine actors, including actors with disabilities, who take turns revealing true life stories that explore sex and sexuality in a wide range of styles. The stories shift in subject matter and treatment from outrageously funny to grievously stark and engrossingly matter-of-fact.

PERFORMANCES:

Wed: 8:00 pm

Sat: 3:00 pm

CONCEIVED BY:
Krista Smith

DIRECTOR:
Krista Smith & Laura Silence

PRODUCING COMPANY:
Visible Theatre

Krankenhaus Blues:

Krankenhaus Blues is a new play by Sam Forman, described as "a frightening and funny play about disability issues, genocide, and the grim realities of show business." A playwright, an actress, and a clown are locked in a Nazi asylum for reasons beyond their comprehension. Moving between 1930s Berlin and present-day New York, the characters attempt to connect with each other as they confront their existentially bleak surroundings.

PERFORMANCES:

Thu - Sat: 8:00 pm

Sun: 3:00 pm

CAST:
Christine Bruno, Bill Green, Joe Sims, Angela DeMatteo

AUTHOR:
Sam Forman

DIRECTOR:
Donna Mitchell

SETS:
Kimi Maeda

LIGHTING:
Paul Jepson

COSTUMES:
Kimi Maeda

MUSIC:
Helen Yee

STAGE MANAGER:
Emily Alexander-Wilmeth

PRODUCING COMPANY:
Visible Theatre

My Deah:

This is a new comedy by John Epperson, who is best-known as the performer Lypsinka. It's described as "Southern-fried version of Euripides' Medea." In the play, My Deah Hedgepeth-an ex-beauty queen from Louisiana-has learned that her husband Gator, a former Mississippi football star, plans to abandon her to marry Simplicity Bullard, the daughter of the corrupt, one-armed Governor Bullard. My Deah played at the Abingdon Theatre last season in a workshop production.

PERFORMANCES:

Tue - Sat: 7:30 pm

Sat: 2:00 pm

Sun: 3:00 pm

CAST:
Nancy Opel, Peter Brouwer, Maxwell Caulfield, Lori Gardner, Michael Hunsaker, Geoffrey Molloy, Jay Rogers, Kevin Townley

AUTHOR:
John Epperson

DIRECTOR:
Mark Waldrop

COSTUMES:
Ramona Ponce

SOUND:
Matt Berman

SETS & LIGHTING:
Mark Simpson

The Frugal Repast: (starts January 26)

This is a new play by Ron Hirsen. This description is from the advance materials: "Two impoverished circus performers-unknowingly the subjects of Picasso's 1904 limited edition print-see a copy on display in a Paris gallery. Their outrage at the great artist's invasion of their privacy (and their personal desperation) leads them to steal it three times. The ransom notes ask for three thousand francs for each print-and fuel Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and other real-life significant art-world figures to debate what, exactly, is art's true value."

PERFORMANCES:

Tue - Sat: 7:30 pm

Sat: 2:00 pm

Sun: 3:00 pm

AUTHOR:
Ron Hirsen

DIRECTOR:
Joe Grifasi

Dreams of Friendly Aliens: (starts March 10)

This is a new play by Danial Damiano. This description is from the advance materials: "A northern New Jersey family redefines dysfunctional-a husband obsessively waits for months in his bathrobe for his wife's return from the grocery store; his son hones his skills as a white rap artist who has visions of alien abductions; and the grandmother recites the same shopping list again and again. A high school guidance counselor and a police officer intervene to restore order, but the fractured family only spins further out of control. The wife's return would help matters, but where is she?"

PERFORMANCES:

Tue - Sat: 7:30 pm

Sun: 3:00 pm

AUTHOR:
Daniel Damiano

DIRECTOR:
Kim T. Sharp

The President and Her Mistress: (starts April 13)

This is from the press materials: "In 2155 A.D., The Year of Our Goddess, women rule. Beck Shine is President of the World. Insurgent men have taken 10,000 women hostage in Australia and, for the first time since the femme revolution, women are in danger; Beck's mother convinces her that 'nano-probe technology' will give her the energy to save her presidency; and Beck's husband and her mistress vie for her allegiance. What's a woman president to do?"

PERFORMANCES:

Tue - Sat: 7:30 pm

Sat: 2:00 pm

Sun: 3:00 pm

AUTHOR:
Jan Buttram

DIRECTOR:
Rob Urbinati