FALL FORUM 2009 Opportunity Knocks: Proactive Leadership in a “Wait and See” World November 6–8, 2009 City

NYC AREA PRODUCTIONS

We strongly encourage you to attend productions at any of the New York area TCG member theatres while you are in town for the Forum. The following theatres provided information to us about their current productions and are offering special discount ticket prices to Fall Forum participants; please remember to use the discount code, if one is provided, when placing your order.

The Barrow Group Website: www.barrowgroup.org Fax: 212-760-2962 B.O. Website: , www.smarttix.com Email: [email protected] Phone: 212-760-2615

The Thickness of Skin By Clare McIntyre, directed by Jacob White In this American Premiere, McIntyre asks ‘in what ways are we responsible to help our fellow human beings’? She highlights the humorous and humanistic side of life while encouraging us each to reflect and perhaps transform.

The Barrow Group - TBG Studio Theatre, 312 W. 36th Street, 3rd Floor at 8th Avenue

Show times & Prices: Offering discount – use code TCG15 Saturday, 11/7 @ 8:00 p.m. ($15) Sunday, 11/8 @ 3:00 p.m. ($15) Sunday, 11/8 @ 8:00 p.m. ($15)

Castillo Theatre Website: www.castillo.org Fax: 212-941-8340 Phone: 212-941-1234 Email: [email protected]

Safe at Third (or Josh Gibson Don't Bunt) By Fred Newman, directed by Fred Newman Four historical figures — Albert Einstein; the great Negro League slugger Josh Gibson, Otto René Castillo, the martyred Guatemalan poet and revolutionary; and the legendary aviator Amelia Earhart — find themselves stranded at third base with no way home in this whimsical fantasy.

Castillo Theatre, 543 West 42nd Street

Show times & Prices: Offering 40% of discount Saturday, 11/7 @ 7:30 p.m. ($35 (before discount)) Sunday, 11/8 @ 2:00 p.m. ($35 (before discount))

Cherry Lane Theatre Website: www.cherrylanetheatre.org Phone: 212-989-2020

The Lady With All The Answers By David Rambo, directed by B.J. Jones With wit, charm, and chutzpah, Ann Landers provided millions of Americans their daily dose of advice, etiquette, and encouragement. And for nearly half a century, one Eppie Lederer was Ann Landers. With both grace and a touching vulnerability, two-time Tony Award winner Judith Ivey’s Landers is a tribute and celebration of a cultural icon.

Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street off of 7th Ave. South

Show times & Prices: Offering $5 off regular ticket prices – use code LADY09 Thursday, 11/5 @ 8:00 p.m. ($41) Saturday, 11/7 @ 8:00 p.m. ($51) Sunday, 11/8 @ 3:00 p.m. ($41)

Classic Stage Company Website: www.classicstage.org Phone: 212-352-3101

THE AGE OF IRON By From William Shakespeare’s Troilus & Cressida, adapted & directed by Brian Kulick This epic retelling of the Trojan War, drawn from the works of two of the most dynamic Elizabethan playwrights, takes us from the rape of Helen to the sack of Troy. Together these two authors create a grand Elizabethan Iliad that brings Homer’s long lost world vividly to life.

Classic Stage company, 136 East 13th Street (bewteeen 3rd and 4th Avenues)

Show times & Prices: Offering discount – use code TCGFALL Saturday, 11/7 @ 8:00 p.m. ($37.50) Sunday, 11/8 @ 2:00 p.m. ($37.50) Sunday, 11/8 @ 7:00 p.m. ($37.50)

The Pearl Theatre Company Website: www.pearltheatre.org B.O. Website: www.nycitycenter.org Phone: 212-581-1212

THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD By J.M. Synge, directed by J.R. Sullivan J. M. Synge's eccentric, high-spirited comedy celebrates the grand poetry and reckless abandon of the Irish imagination. Starring Obie-winner Sean McNall and introducing Lee Stark.

CITY CENTER STAGE II, WEST 55TH ST BET. 6TH AND 7TH

Show times & Prices: Offering discount – use code COR (box office and phone) or 5348 (web) Thursday, 11/5 @ 7:30 p.m. ($40) Saturday, 11/7 @ 7:30 p.m. ($50) Sunday, 11/8 @ 2:30 p.m. ($50)

Playwrights Horizons Website: www.playwrightshorizons.org Phone: (212) 279-4200

Circle Mirror Transformation By , directed by When four lost New Englanders enrolled in Marty’s community center drama class experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won. Annie Baker’s new comedy is a beautifully crafted diorama, a petri dish in which we see, with hilarious detail and clarity, the antic sadness of a motley quintet.

Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 416 West 42nd Street (between 9th & 10th Avenues)

Show times & Prices: Offering discount – use code CMCG Thursday, 11/5 @ 7:30 p.m. ($35-$50) Saturday, 11/7 @ 7:30 p.m. ($35-$50) Sunday, 11/8 @ 2:00 p.m. ($35-$50) Sunday, 11/8 @ 7:00 p.m. ($35-$50)

This By Melissa James Gibson, directed by Daniel Aukin Jane is not okay. She’s a promising poet without a muse, a single mother without lessons to pass along. Her dating life’s in shambles, and her helpful friends are only helping make things more complicated. This bright, witty, un-romantic comedy captures the uncertain steps of a circle of friends backing their way into middle age.

Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater, 416 West 42nd Street (between 9th & 10th Avenues)

Show times & Prices: Offering discount – use code CMCG Saturday, 11/7 @ 8:00 p.m. ($40-$65) Sunday, 11/8 @ 2:30 p.m. ($40-$65) Sunday, 11/8 @ 8:00 p.m. ($40-$65)

Repertorio Español Website: www.repertorio.org Fax: 212-225-9085 Phone: 212-225-9920 Email: [email protected]

Captain Pantoja & The Special Service By Mario Vargas Llosa / Jorge Alí Triana, directed by Jorge Alí Triana A musical adaptation of this outrageous novel about the Peruvian Army's endeavors to start a visiting service of women for the garrison, by one of Latin America's most renowned writers. Presented in Spanish with live simultaneous English translation.

Repertorio Español, 138 East 27th Street New York, NY 10016 (between Lexington and Third Avenues)

Show times & Prices: Offering discount – use code TCGFALL Saturday, 11/7 @ 8:00 p.m. ($15 tickets (Reg. $25-$60)) Sunday, 11/8 @ 2:30 p.m. ($15 tickets (Reg. $25-$60)) Sunday, 11/8 @ 6:30 p.m. ($15 tickets (Reg. $25-$60))

Thalia Spanish Theatre Website: www.thaliatheatre.org Fax: 718-729-3388 Phone: 718-729-3880 Email: [email protected]

The Best of the Best of Colombia! Directed by Armando Moreno An exuberant program of music and dance from Colombia and Latin America. With Mestizo Dance Company and its Grupo Musical.

Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Avenue, Long Island City, Queens - between 41st and 42nd Streets

Show times & Prices: Offering discount – use code TCG2010 Saturday, 11/7 @ 8:00 p.m. $25 Sunday, 11/8 @ 4:00 p.m. ($30)

Women's Project Website: www.womensproject.org B.O. Website: www.broadwayoffers.com Phone: 212-947-8844

OR, By Liz Duffy Adams, directed by Wendy McClellan A world premiere comedy starring Maggie Siff (Mad Men; Sons of Anarchy), Andy Paris and Kelly Hutchinson. In OR, Aphra Behn is getting out of the spy trade and into showbiz, if only she can write her play without interruptions from her love life.

Julia Miles Theater, 424 West 55th Street, between 9th & 10th Avenues.

Show times & Prices: Offering discount – use code OR4WPF Thursday, 11/5 @ 8:00 p.m. ($32) Saturday, 11/7 @ 8:00 p.m. ($32) Sunday, 11/8 @ 3:00 p.m. ($32)

The following are TCG member theatres that we know also have productions running during the Fall Forum:

Ensemble Studio Theatre La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club Website: www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org Website: www.lamama.org Phone: (212) 247-4982 Phone: (212) 475-7710 Octoberfest: A Festival of New Works-in-Progress A Quarreling Pair from EST Member Artists Aphids Puppet Theatre of Australia

Here Arts Center Theater Website: www.here.org Website: www.lct.org Phone: (212) 352-3101 Phone: (212) 239-6200 The Lily's Revenge In the Next Room, or the vibrator play By Taylor Mac, directed by Paul Zimet, , By , music by Jonathan Bell, directed by Les Faye Driscoll, Aaron Rhyne, David Drake and Kristin Walters. Marting Broke-ology By Nathan Louis Jackson, directed by

Manhattan Theatre Club Roundabout Theatre Company Website: www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com Website: www.roundabouttheatre.org Phone: (212) 947-8844 Phone: (212) 719-1300 The Royal Family After Miss Julie By George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber, directed by Doug By , directed by Hughes Ordinary Days Nightingale Music by Adam Gwon, directed by Marc Bruni By Lynn Redgrave, directed by Joseph Hardy The Understudy By , directed by Scott Ellis New Georges Website: www.newgeorges.org Second Stage Theatre Phone: 646-336-8077 Website: www.secondstagetheatre.com Creature Phone: (212) 246-4422 By Heidi Schreck, directed by Let Me Down Easy By Anna Deavere Smith, directed by Leonard Foglia. New Workshop Website: www.nytw.org Signature Theatre Company Phone: (212) 460-5475 Website: www.signaturetheatre.org I Got Sick Then I Got Better Phone: (212) 244-7529 By Jenny Allen, directed by & Darren Katz The Orphans' Home Cycle: Part 1 By , directed by Michael Wilson. Co- Pregones Theater production with Hartford Stage, CT. Website: www.pregones.org Phone: (718) 585-1202 Vital Theatre Company Aloha Boricua Website: www.vitaltheatre.org Adapted and directed by Jorge B. Merced, lyrics by Phone: (212) 579-0528 Pregones ensemble, Rosalba Rolon and Jorge B. Merced Matthew Takes Mannahatta and music by Desmar Guevara and Jorge B. Merced Book by Aurin Squire, lyrics by Sammy Buck, music by Daniel S. Acquisto. Website: www.publictheater.org Phone: (212) 239-6200 The Brother/Sister Plays Parts 1 & 2 By Tarell Alvin McCraney, directed by and Robert O'Hara. Co-production with McCarter Theatre, NJ. Idiot Savant Written and directed by Richard Foreman Co-production with the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, NY.

For further information about TCG member theatres and their seasons, visit the Theatre Profiles section of our website.

Various sites with theatres listing and discounts include: Online, TheatreMania, Broadway.com and Theatre Development Fund (discounted member tickets and the TKTS discount ticket booth located in Times Square) Check out Chelsea: Art and Nature in the Neighborhood

Since the mid­1990s, Chelsea has been a center of the New York art scene, as art galleries moved there from SoHo. From 19th Street to 29th Street, between 10th and 12th Avenues, there are more than 350 art galleries that are home to modern art from upcoming and respected artists. Among the many notable galleries, visitors to the area can find the Barbara Gladstone Gallery (515 W. 24th St., near Tenth Ave.; 212­206­9300) which specialized in bankable names like Anish Kapoor and Sarah Lucas; David Zwirner’s gallery (525 W. 19th St., near Tenth Ave.; 212­727­ 2070) which regularly pushes the envelope by featuring artists like Chris Ofili (whose work has incorporated elephant dung) and Lisa Yuskavage (whose recent show included fleshy portraits of women); the influential Gagosian Gallery (522 W. 21st St., near Tenth Ave.; 212­741­1717) whose Chelsea gallery is just one of three in New York that regularly make artists into stars; Matthew Marks (523 W 24th St., near Tenth Ave.; 212­243­0200) featuring new shows from old masters like Ellsworth Kelly and Willem de Kooning; and Zach Feuer Gallery (530 W. 24th St., near Eleventh Ave.; 212­989­7700) a risk taking venture that displays emerging names like Jules de Balincourt and Dana Schutz. Along with the art galleries, Chelsea is home to the Rubin Museum of Art (150 West 17th Street) ­ with a focus on Himalayan art and the Chelsea Art Museum (556 West 22nd Street). For more information, visit http://nymag.com/visitorsguide/neighborhoods/chelsea for a full listing of galleries in the area.

Art Galleries in Chelsea are located in the area between 19 th and 29 th Streets and 10 th and 12 th Avenues. Gallery Exhibitions in Chelsea: * Most galleries are open until 6pm. Check the gallery’s website for specific hours.

Norihiko Saito Dillon Gallery 555 West 25th Street http://www.dillongallery.com/index.php?p=exhibits&id=upcoming&exh=

Sarah Anne Johnson House on Fire Julie Saul Gallery 535 West 22 Street 6th Floor Her third solo exhibition http://www.saulgallery.com/chronicle/johnson_house.html

New paintings by Mark Sheinkman Von Lintel Gallery 520 West Ground floor Graphite powder, oil paint and alkyd paint http://www.vonlintel.com/links/Sheinkman­index.html

Les LaLanne on Park Avenue Paul Kasmin Gallery 511 West 27th Street More than eight monumental works will span multiple­sites on Park Avenue http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/exhibitions/2009­09­13_les­lalanne­on­park­avenue/

Zsolt Bodoni ­ The Foundries of Ideology Ana Cristea Gallery 521 West 26th Street New work by the young Hungarian artist, Zsolt Bodoni b. 1975 and his first solo show in NY http://www.anacristeagallery.com/exhibitions.html

The Journey Home Sputnik Gallery 547 W 27th St, #518 Videnin allows us a glimpse into the intimate emotions of regular but extraordinary subjects from today's rural Russia http://www.sputnikgallery.com

Before Again ­ Joan Mitchell, Louise Fishman, Harriet Korman, Melissa Meyer, Jill Moser, Denyse Thomasos Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. 514 West 25th Street The six artists in this exhibition have each pursued an individual approach to abstract painting http://www.lennonweinberg.com

Dortothea Tanning & Friends: All In This Together Kent Gallery 541 West 25th Street Tanning & ARP, Balanchine, Calder, Cornell, Duchamp, Ernst, Giacometti, Man Ray, Matta, Miro, Motherwell, Oppenheim and others http://www.kentgallery.com

Abstract works ­ Street Exhibit ArtBridge Public Street Installation 23rd between 9th and 10th, north side Features abstract works on the facade of London Terrace Gardens on West 23rd Street

Yvonne Jacquette: The complete woodcuts, 1987­2009 Mary Ryan Gallery 527 West 26th Street

Amir Mogharabi & Jefferey Perkins Daniel Reich Gallery 537 A W 23 St http://www.danielreichgallery.com

Sarah Morris Friedrich Petzel 537 West 22nd Street

Agora Gallery Unveils A Collective Fine Art Exhibition: Altered States of Reality, Elements of Abstraction and Portals of Perception Agora Gallery 530 West 25th Street http://www.agora­gallery.com/receptionexhibitions/10_29_2009.aspx

Chiharu Shiota and Gego Goff+Rosenthal 537B West 23rd Steet http://www.goffandrosenthal.com/upcoming­exhibitions/

Mark Manders Tanya Bonakdar 521 West 21st Street http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com

Rowann Villency Solo Exhibition_Illuminating Nature Walter Wickiser Gallery 210 11th Avenue #303 http://www.walterwickisergallery.com

Greatness: Andy Warhol Polaroids of Sports Champions Danziger Projects 534 West 24th Street http://www.danzigerprojects.com/exhibitions/2009_10_greatness/

A Kind of Rapture Yossi Milo Gallery 525 West 25th Street Robert Bergman, American, born 1944 http://www.yossimilogallery.com

Avec le Temps Robert Miller Gallery 524 West 26th Street http://www.robertmillergallery.com/exhibitions/future/future.html The

The High Line is located on 's West Side. It runs from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to 34th Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues. Section 1 of the High Line, which opened to the public on June 9, 2009, runs from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street.

For park information, please call the High Line Information Line: (212) 500­6035

Hours The High Line is open from 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM daily.

Access

Access to the High Line is possible via any of the access points listed below.

In the event the High Line reaches capacity, you may be asked to enter via the Gansevoort Street stairs (or 16th Street elevator if you need elevator service) only, to ensure public safety and the safety of the park itself.

• Gansevoort Street • 14th Street (Elevator under construction ­ not yet open.) • 16th Street (elevator access) • 18th Street • 20th Street

About the Park

The High Line was originally constructed in the 1930s, to lift dangerous freight trains off Manhattan's streets. Section 1 of the High Line is open as a public park, owned by the City of New York and operated under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks & Recreation. Friends of the High Line is the conservancy charged with raising private funds for the park and overseeing its maintenance and operations, pursuant to an agreement with the Parks Department.

When all sections are complete, the High Line will be a mile­and­a­half­long elevated park, running through the West Side neighborhoods of the Meatpacking District, West Chelsea and Clinton/Hell's Kitchen. It features an integrated landscape, designed by landscape architects James Corner Field Operations, with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, combining meandering concrete pathways with naturalistic plantings. Fixed and movable seating, lighting, and special features are also included in the park. Recommended Restaurants

New York is home to some of the finest restaurants in the world. Here are a few choice selections (hand picked by our own Chelsea resident advisor and TCG executive director, Teresa Eyring). We strongly recommend calling ahead for availability.

Cookshop

156 10th Avenue (@20th Street) 212­924­4440

"American with a nod to the Mediterranean..."

The Red Cat

227 10th Avenue (between 23rd and 24th Avenues) 212­242­1122

"American inspired cuisine and a relaxed atmosphere..."

La Lunchonette

130 (@ 18th Street) 212­675­0342

"Authentic French cuisine..."

The Standard Grill

848 Washington Street (@ 13th Street) 212­645­4100

"American Bistro"

Fig & Olive

420 West 13th Street (between 9th Avenue and Washington Street) 212­924­1200

"... refined and genuine flavors from the South of France, Italy and Spain."

La Bottega @ The Maritime Hotel

88 9th Avenue (@ 16th Street) 212­243­8400

"Rustic Italian cuisine."

Tía Pol

205 10th Avenue (between 22nd and 23rd Streets) 212­675­8805

"Tapas from the richly varied regional cuisines of Spain from Galicia to Andalucía, the Basque Country to Cataluña."