"Jack & The Soy Beanstalk" continues to grow!

We are so excited over here at Team Wide Eyed.  Jack and the Soy Beanstalk, a young audience favorite at The New York International Fringe Festival in 2009, was recently published by Baker's Plays and is now available for purchase on Amazon!  Many, many happy congratulations to our resident playwright Jerrod Bogard, composer and company member Sky Seals and composer Emily Fellner.  Here's hoping that this lovely story reaches many generations of young theatregoers to come.

opening night: The Prairie Plays

Tonight, we open The Prairie Plays, an evening of theatre composed of two beautiful one-act plays by Brian Watkins. 

Watkins performed his one-man show High Plains at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2009 and reprises that performance here under the direction of Wide Eyed company member Anthony Reimer. 

The second play in the cycle, My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer, is a two-woman show performed by Katie Schorr and company member Amy Lee Pearsall.  Tonight's performance marks its world premiere and is directed by our Artistic Director, Kristin Skye Hoffmann.

We're relieved to report our final tech/dress rehearsal was fairly uneventful and are thrilled to bits with the beautiful lighting design by Joe Novak and soundscape by Trevor Dallier. 

The Prairie Plays runs through November 21 at Under St. Mark's Theater in NYC.  Curtain is at 7:00 p.m. Thursday - Saturday and is at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday.  Run time is 2 hours.  Tickets / Information available here.

We're Turning Three - Join us for our Party!!! No cover!

Three years ago...in a galaxy far, far away...okay, so it wasn't a galaxy, it was a football field in New Jersey...the seed of what was to become our theatre company was sown. 

To commemorate and celebrate three years of risk-taking, relevant theatre,  Wide Eyed Productions invites you to join us for our third birthday party this coming Saturday, October 9, 2010.  No cover - this is not a fundraiser.  Just come and play! 

Stone Creek Bar and Lounge
140 E 27th St
Between 3rd and Lexington

We'll be gathering in the Stone Creek back room from 8-11 pm to have festivities and present awards! The festivities will continue in the main bar area past 11. We hope you will join us!
 
 

Call for Scripts!

Wide Eyed Productions is hosting an evening of One-Act plays written exclusively by women. The evening will be performed at The Red Room Theatre in New York from 2/3/11 through 2/19/11.

Guidelines: Plays must be original, 10-30 minutes in length, cast of characters from 1-8, any theme.

Please submit all plays via email in PDF format along with the play's production history, a character breakdown and a short bio of the playwright.

Deadline for submissions: October 30th, 2010

exit, stage left

Our giant poster of Henry V now stripped from the wall of the East 13th Street Theatre, we bid our production of Henry VI (Part III) adieu and close our third season. In parting, we hope you will enjoy the kind things that local theatre bloggers had to say about our most recent production over at A Year of Plays, The Unbearable Banishment, and A Year of Shakespeare in NYC.

We look forward to supporting the independent theatre community at FringeNYC 2010 and we'll be back on the boards soon with our fourth season!  Stay tuned...

The curse of...Henry VI (Part III)?

As if surrounding events had not been quite wacky enough for our production as of late, one of our cast members was hit by a taxi last night, fracturing both his tibia and fibula.  Fear not, his prognosis is good and our director will be stepping into the role for this, our closing week.  (Feel better soon, Jerrod, and Adam, don't you dare break a leg!)

What's that, you say?  You'd like to be a part of the action?  As luck would have it, tonight is Pay-What-You-Can night for our production of Henry VI (Part III) at the East 13th Street Theatre.  We also have some advance tickets available for the rest of the run.  You can get them here.

No Excuses: Pay-What-You-Can on Weds. 7/21

We know.  Theatre - even affordably priced theatre - can still be a bit of a challenge to the wallet in this economy.  This Wednesday, July 21, we bring Shakespeare's Henry VI (Part III) to the masses at the exceptionally reasonable price of Pay-What-You-Can.  The show is beautiful, bloody, and did we mention we have air conditioning?  Join us at the East 13th Street Theatre, 136 E. 13th Street (enter through Everman Espresso).  Curtain is at 8 p.m.