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MADE IN POLAND: A FESTIVAL OF NEW POLISH PLAYS Presented by the Polish Cultural Institute. As Poland continues to adapt to a political democracy regained in 1989, and in the midst of a contentious Presidential election in the United States, this timely and provocative festival thrusts Poland’s vibrant contemporary theater scene onto the world stage. Featuring productions by two of New York’s top theater companies producing contemporary international work—The Play Company and Immigrants’ Theatre Project (both OBIE Award-winners)—alongside Theatre of the Eighth Day, one of Poland’s oldest and most prestigious avant-garde companies, in their US debut.
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MADE IN POLAND Presented by The Play Company. by Przemyslaw Wojcieszek. Directed by Jackson Gay. With Jayce Bartok, Rob Campbell, Jonathan Clem, Eva Kaminsky, Ryan O’Nan, Ed Vassallo, Kit Williamson, Karen Young, Natalia Zvereva.
Dates: Wednesday, October 29 – Sunday, November 30
Times: Tue – Fri 8:15, Sat 2:15 & 8:15, Sun 3:15. (Additional perf Sun 11/23 7:15. No perf Thanksgiving 11/27)
Tickets: $35 (59E59 Members $24.50)
A rebellious young man demands guidance and authority in the new, post-communist Poland, challenging his priest, his teacher, his mother and even local gangsters to show him the way. In the end, love saves the day. The Obie Award-winning The Play Company, New York’s gateway to New International Plays, presents the American premiere production of this popular hit by one of Poland’s foremost contemporary theatre artists.
 
SANDBOX/THE FIRST TIME  Presented by Immigrants’ Theatre Project. Two one-act comedies by Michal Walczak. Translated by Benjamin Paloff.  Directed by Piotr Kruszcynski (Sandbox) and Marcy Arlin (The First Time). With Robert Baumgardner, Hristo Hristov, Lisa Hugo, Jelena Stupljanin.
Dates: Thursday, November 13 – Sunday, November 30
Times: Tue – Fri 8:30, Sat 2:30 & 8:30, Sun 3:30 & 7:30. (Sun 11/30 3:30 Only. No perf Thanksgiving 11/27)
Tickets: $20 (59E59 Members $14)
These two one-act comedies by Michal Walczak examine the ferocious, tragicomic, rough-and-tumble between the sexes.  Both plays explore different stages of relationships, underlaid with a cynicism and absurdism often found in Eastern European theater. The battle of the sexes literally starts in the Sandbox, in this hilarious confrontation between a boy guarding his space and a girl who just wants to play. The First Time is an outrageous look at erotic interplay under absurd circumstances, when a woman demands from her eager boyfriend that their “first time” be perfect.
 
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IMPROBABLE FREQUENCY  Presented by Rough Magic Theatre Company, Dublin, Ireland. By Arthur Riordan and Bell Helicopter. Directed by Lynne Parker. With Sarah-Jane Drummey, Peter Hanly, Darragh Kelly, Louis Lovett, Marty Rea and Cathy White.
Dates: Friday, November 28 – Sunday, January 4
Times: Tue 7, Wed 2 & 8, Thu & Fri 8, Sat 2 & 8, Sun 3. (11/29 at 8, 12/24 at 2, 12/25 at 6 Only.)
Tickets: $60 (59E59 MEMBERS $42) Special $40 tickets for preview performances through Dec. 4! With code: PREV
While war rages across Europe, Dublin revels in its knife-edge neutrality as the fledgling Irish Free State tries to remain open for business. A hotbed of political and cultural bohemians, the city is host to a volatile mixture of exiled intellectuals, literary bar-lizards, British spies and Nazi sympathizers. When coded messages, broadcast during an Irish radio-requests show, draw the attention of the British, a young code breaker called Tristram Faraday is sent across the Irish Sea to investigate. His enquiries lead him into a series of deeply improbable encounters, where the truth is more improbable than anyone could have imagined. Improbable Frequency is a madcap, anarchic poke at the real and imaginary howlers of history which showcases writer Arthur Riordan’s delight in the rough and tumble of words, orchestrated from vaudeville to cabaret through Bell Helicopter’s jauntily witty score.
 
JEFF HARNAR’S THE 1959 BROADWAY SONGBOOK  Presented by Chatham Partners in association with Fractured Atlas. With Jeff Harnar, Klea Blackhurst, Anna Bergman and David Gaines. Musical Supervisor and Arrangements by Alex Rybeck. Musical Director David Gaines. Directed by Sara Louise Lazarus.
Dates: Wednesday, December 3 – Friday, December 12
Times: Tue – Fri 8:30, Sat 6:30 & 9:30, Sun 3:30 & 7:30. (Fri 12/12 6:30 & 9:30)
Tickets: $25 (59E59 Members $17.50)
Jeff Harnar’s The 1959 Broadway Songbook is a musical revue celebrating the 21 musicals running in New York during the Golden Age of Broadway. From Gypsy, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Bells Are Ringing, The Music Man and more, a cast of four, featuring Mr. Harnar, Klea Blackhurst, Anna Bergman and David Gaines, toasts this pinnacle of The Golden Age of Broadway. Rex Reed called The 1959 Broadway Songbook, “Big Voices, Big Talents and One Great Song After Another!” The New York Times called it  "Superb!" and the Chicago Tribune
declared the show
"A Hit!"
 
NEW HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION  Presented by Victory Theater Company with Rock and a Hard Place and Red Horse Productions. Written and Directed by Alan Hruska. With Sam Coppola, Tony Crane, Kevin Isola, Shannon Koob, Nancy Lemenanger.
Dates: Thursday, December 4 – Sunday, January 4
Times: Tue - Sat 8:15, Sat 2:15, Sun 3:15. (12/24 2:15 Only, 12/28 3:15 & 7:15. No Perf 12/25.)
Tickets: $35 (59E59 Members $24.50)
A sexy fusion of humour and mystery drives this world-premiere by Alan Hruska about two married couples approaching forty who reunite in the lake district town where they all grew up. It has been fifteen years, but old rivalries and passions as well as long-buried secrets ignite, and re-entangle, their relationships. New House Under Construction features a stellar New York cast directed by the author.
 
SIMON GREEN SINGS COWARD AT CHRISTMAS: A CABARET FOR NOEL  Presented by The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford. With Simon Green and David Shrubsole. Musical Director David Shrubsole.
Dates: Sunday, December 14 – Sunday, January 4
Times: Tue – Fri 8:30, Sat 6:30 & 9:30, Sun 3:30 & 7:30. (12/24 2:30 & 7:30, 12/25 6:30.)
Tickets: $25 (59E59 Members $17.50) Special Noel Coward Birthday Celebration Performance: Tue Dec 16 8:30. Tickets: $50 ($35 for 59E59 Members).
Making its US premiere at the 59E59 Theaters Holiday E:Café, Simon Green Sings Coward At Christmas: A Cabaret for Noël is a Holiday treat direct from London.  West End favorite Simon Green (part of the original casts of Sondheim’s Follies, Passion and Sunday in the Park with George), together with his musical director and archivist David Shrubsole, brings a wonderful evening of Coward sophistication, wit and warmth to 59E59 to celebrate Coward’s 109th birthday.  This new program blends great Coward classics and some rediscovered comedy gems, unearthed from the British Library, with lesser-known work that is given new life with Shrubsole’s arrangements and a fresh Green interpretation.
 

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