The Perfect Alignment

One Man Talking - Emerging Artists New Works Series

TADA! Theater
New York, NY

ONE MAN TALKING
The New Works Series from Emerging Artists Theater Company

Emerging Artists returns with their one-of-a-kind, once-a-year festival. Visit the theater any evening during this three-week event, and you'll find yourself enthralled by One Woman Standing, perhaps laughing with One Man Talking, maybe even humming along to a few new Notes from a Page. Emerging Artists has always been about new works, new talents, new voices. That's never been more evident than now.

TAKE SPECIAL NOTE: Each performance in the series has only one performance, one date, one time, so please book carefully. Scroll down and find the show, or shows, of your choosing. And then check the other listings for "One Woman Standing" and "Notes from a Page" and book tickets for those shows as well!


ONE MAN TALKING

Tues. May 3 @ 8:30
"AMERICAN PIG PEN"
Playwright/Director: Susan Soon He Stanton
One man. A ghost town. A hoarding obsession. And a wife who sifts through it all.
sharing the bill with
"BATMAN: TURN OFF THE DORK"
Playwright/Performer/Director: Jason O'Connell*
A look into one grown man's obsession with movies about another grown man's obsession with dressing up like a rodent and punching people, "Turn Off The Dork" celebrates the glory of geekdom.


Wed. May 4 @ 6:30
"WASHINGTON'S WOODEN TEETH: A REPORT TO THE SMITHSONIAN"
Playwright: Richard Ploetz
Director: Paul Adams
Performer: Scott Klavan*
Little-known and (very) surprising facts about the Father Of Our Country.
sharing the bill with
"WALLED-IN"
Playwright/Performer: Zack Fine*
Director: Diana Buirski
Part fantasy, part mythology, part clown-show, and all inspired by Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Walled In investigates one man's determination to live a life of significance.


Thurs. May 5 @ 6:30
"STONED APPLES"
Playwright: James McLindon
Performer: William Jackson Harper*
Director: Dominic D'Andrea.
When his girlfriend dumps him, one dude's search for understanding leads him inevitably to the bong and then to the apple.
sharing the bill with
"THE PERFECT ALIGNMENT"
Playwright: Tina Esper Kolomatsky
Director: Sharon Lennon
Performer: Jon Krupp*
Dr. Morelli seems to have it all: respect, money and a successful practice. But something is missing...if he can only keep his fears at bay.
sharing the bill with
"REALITY"
Music & Lyrics: Deborah Skydell
Book: Gregg Pasternack
Director: Kevin Brofsky
Ever wonder how TV executives choose the next great reality show? We'll show you!


Thurs. May 5 @ 8:30
"GUTZ"
Playwright/Performer: Todd Wall*
Director: Emanuele Anchorini
A play that will move and delight you - if you can stomach it.


Sat. May 7 @6:30
"THE RED HAND OF O'NEILL"
Playwright/Performer: Ric Siler*
Director: Wallace Norman
On the morning after losing his infant son, James O'Neill faces a dark night of the soul.
sharing the bill with
"A TASTE OF HEAVEN"
Playwright: Estep Nagy
Director: Aaron Rossini
Performer: Scott Raker*
A comic adventure about what one soldier gains and loses in the early days of the war in Afghanistan.
sharing the bill with
-A TRIO OF PLAYS BY RICHARD BALLON-
TABLE SETTING
Playwright: Richard Ballon
Director: Tom Smith
performer: Josef Wille
and
THE SUPPORT GROUP
Playwright: Richard Ballon
Director: Tom Smith
Performer: Colin Allen
and
WEDDING MARCH
Playwright/Director: Richard Ballon
Them folks you want to get away from, why they sit in your living room, and drink the same water.


May 8 @ 4:00
"FORBIDDEN GLASS"
Playwright/Director: Kirt Shineman
Performer: Pasha Yamotahari
Javad, a 23-year-old- Iranian gay man, goes to Turkey seeking asylum from the violent homophobia of his homeland.


Tues. May 10 @6:30
JITTERBUG
Playwright: Theresa Giacopasi
Director: Melanie Sutherland
Performer: Brandon Jones*
Zach promised not to tell anyone about his feelings towards his best female friend Sidney, but that was before he had a chance to talk to his own personal superhero Fred, the Cotton Candy Man.
sharing the bill with
"ATOMIC FIREWORKS "
Playwrights: Byron Loyd* and Susan Morse
Director: Gretchen Cryer
Performer: Byron Loyd*
A Southern Gothic Farce set in the Segregated South of the 1960s


Thurs. May 12 @6:30
"COLBY'S CORNER"
Playwright: Larry Maness
Director: Ian Streicher
A man, charged with a crime, beset by fantasies and wishes - guilty or innocent?

Sat. May 14 @ 6:30
"FROM BUSK TILL DAWN"
Playwright/Performer: Tim Intravia*
Director: Ashleigh Mayfair
What the f*ck is the deal with them silver street performers? Find out what really goes on, behind the make-up.


Mon. May 16 @ 6:30
"WOLF MESSING & THE KGB"
Playwright/Performer/Director: Scott Klavan*
In 1940 Russia, a famed psychic is abducted by Stalin's intelligence police; a true (?) story.


Mon. May 16 @ 8:30
"THE RIDGELINE"
Playwright/Performer/Director: Fred Nelson*
A Mormon family, a father and son; faith and sexuality collide with what it means to find happiness.


Tues. May 17 @ 6:30
"FIVE GRAINS OF SUGAR"
Playwright: Manav Kaul
Director: Mark Bloom
Performer: James Rana*
"The burden of a promise also leavens the soul."
sharing the bill with
"OLD MAN CLEANS HIS GUN"
Playwright: Louis Johnson
Director/Performer Born Bi-Kim
Loss of love: anger, uncontrollable thoughts, then