THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Crystal Field, Executive Director
Presents
ONLY LOVE WILL DO
Theater for the New City (Crystal Field, Executive Director) proudly presents ONLY LOVE WILL DO, a Freudian Fandango of a gay/straight romantic dramedy/sexploration into the facts of love and the very definition of what makes a marriage (be it state-sanctioned or not).
Two parallel erudite Manhattan couples, one gay, one straight, each of whom have been together for over 20 years (who also have a long-standing friendship with one another) are in a similar fix.
Handsome Brad loves his sweet William, but he has a wandering eye and an insatiable appetite for the sexual smorgasbord NYC offers. William has eyes only for Brad and a powerful desire for him to dine at home a lot more often. Ev loves his luscious Liz; Liz loves him back, but she has Daddy issues, and finds her Ev an emotional cold zone; so she finds a succession of gorgeous young men to keep her warm. Enter an emotionally bruised, recently returned veteran of the Iraq War, who is working as a NYC Cabbie. Ev gets into his taxi on his way to join Liz and his friends for dinner, and finds himself on the ride of his life. Ev's adventure with the cabbie morphs into a fantasy that punches a hole in the consciousness of these four people whose veneer of ultra-sophistication has been masking their pain, and barring the door to their true happiness.
The barbed wire wit and the wine flow freely as the simmering war of the sexes (same and opposite) heats up; and we all find out that when engaging in the seriously funny game of Relationship Roulette, it's important to accept no substitutes for ONLY LOVE WILL DO.
ONLY LOVE WILL DO is written by Walt Stepp (Lighin' Out—A Mark Twain Musical, Why We Shot Jack—The Conspiracy Drama) and boasts a most distinguished cast and artistic team.
Lissa Moira (Director) (Longing, Cocaine Dreams) is also a well-known playwright (Before God Was Invented, Time It Is) and is a Susan Smith Blackburn Nominee, OOBR Award Winner and 2-time Jerome Foundation Grantee.
Danny Ashkenasi (William) is an internationally-known theater and film actor. He toured his one-man, four-puppet drama Uncle Arthur in the USA, Malaysia and Australia. He was featured in the German film, Kraftprobe and the mini-series Rote Erde Danny is also an ASCAP and Fringe Award-Winning composer.
Louisa Bradshaw (Liz) has a career as an actress and chanteuse that also spans the globe. She has starred in her own show at the premier Berlin cabaret and varieté venues, BarJeder Venuff and the Chameleon. In NYC she worked with TONY Award winning director/choreographer George Faison on If This Hat Could Talk and recently starred as the Countess Analise in the Lissa Moira/Richard West production, Who Murdered Love?
Jason Collins (Brad) has a rich and varied career in the United States and around the world. In March, 2010, he was cited by the New York Times> as “The most compelling actor on stage” in Off-Broadway's Signs of Life. He has received 3 separate Footlight Awards, and toured Asia with the World Premiere of The Wedding Banquet, adapted from the Ang Lee film and originated the role of Dan in Next to Normal opposite Amy Spanger.
Robert Homeyer (The Cabbie) will be reprising his remarkable turn as Bob Cratchit in the TNC, David “Zen” Mansley designed A Christmas Carol this December and is slated to star in Age Out (directed by Tom Diriwachter) in January, 2011.
Richard O'Brien (Ev), a subtle, nuanced NY Actor, is a favorite of Director Moira's. He played Signund Freud in the production Cocaine Dreams (written by Howard Pflanzer) she directed at the Kraine Theater, and opposite Ms. Moira in her own Time It Is. Richard will be one of the stars of Infallibility (written by Mathew Barbot) at Theater for the New City in February, 2011.
David “Zen” Mansley (Set Designer) Besides being a brilliant actor, Zen is famous for the Set Design and Special Effects he created for films such as Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, Terminator 2, and X-Men 2.
William Giraldo (Lighting and Set Design) (Who Murdered Love?, Seduction of Mind x3).
There will be no performance of ONLY LOVE WILL DO on Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 25th. However, the Friday, November 26th and Saturday, November 27th performances will be very special in that, for no extra charge, they will be followed by a full buffet dinner for our entire audience with our cast and crew in the spacious Theater for the New City lobby/Art Gallery.
ONLY LOVE WILL DO
November 10–November 28, 2010
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8 pm
Sunday at 3 pm
(No Performance Thursday, November 25th)
All Tickets $12.00
Theater for the New City
155 1st Avenue (bet. 9th and 10th Streets)
New York, NY 10003
Box Office/Reservations (212) 254-1109
Tickets available online at www.theaterforthenewcity.net
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