Wednesday, February 01, 2012      8:00 AM
It's the First of February, so in honor of all manner of alliteration, we're going to have another installment of our weekly show! This one is PACKED with stellar comics, so dust off your top hat and come join your fabulous hosts, NEGIN FARSAD (Comedy Central), BETH MCGREGOR (Hollywood Fringe) and AMY ALBERT COBB (Edinburgh) for FREE COMEDY and FREE PIZZA and GREAT DRINK SPECIALS! Here to tickle your bones, Jon Friedman (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon) Abbi Crutchfield (Huffington Post Comedy, Apollo Theater) Phoebe Robinson (NY Times, NBC's Stand Up for Diversity) Kate Hendricks (Bravo TV, Laughing Skull Comedy Festival) Ileana Glazer (Broad City, Shit New Yorkers Say) Beauty Bar 231 E. 14th St. NewYork, NY 10003 www.facebook.com/events/302262563155541/
Location:  Beauty Bar 231 E. 14th St. NewYork, NY 10003
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Friday, February 03, 2012      4:30 PM
The Amazing Max and The Box of Interesting Things is a Magic Show with a mind of it’s own.  Magician Max Darwin makes objects appear out of thin air, as the laws of physics are defied, and miracles are performed inches from spectators’ faces.  As the props onstage seem intent on surprising even the magician himself, this out of control show bursts with striking visual magic, comedy and juggling, and loads of audience participation.  The Amazing Max and The Box of Interesting Things is the wackiest, most interactive, highest energy magic show for families on the market today. Front row seats available on the Magic Carpet (VIP seating) $49.50, regular general admission tickets $29.50.  Performances: Saturdays and Sundays at 4:30pm through January 15; Saturdays at 4:30pm through March 10.  No performances on the following dates: Sunday, December 25; Sunday, January 1; Sunday, January 22; Sunday, January 29.  Special mid-week holiday performances have been added at 11am on the following dates: Monday, December 19; Wednesday, December 21; Friday, December 23; and Tuesday, December 27.  Tickets are available at www.telecharge.com or by phone at 212-239-6200 or 800-432-7250.  
Location:  Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, 248 West 60th Street, New York City, 10023
www.TheAmazingMax.com

Friday, February 03, 2012      7:00 PM
The Collegiate Chorale presents Tippett’s A Child of Our Time and Bruckner’s Te Deum on Friday, February 3, 2012 at 7pm at Carnegie Hall, 881 Seventh Avenue, NYC.  The performance features Nicole Cabell, Marietta Simpson, Russell Thomas, John Relyea and the American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James Bagwell.  Single tickets start at $10 and are available online at carnegiehall.org, by phone through Carnegie Charge at (212) 247-7800 or in person at the Carnegie Hall Box Office.  Sir Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time (1941) is a unique oratorio, structured in three parts to emulate Handel’s Messiah and using traditional African-American spirituals in a form similar to Bach’s use of the chorale in his Passions, all with a decidedly twentieth-century musical language. The text of this stirring work reflects Tippett's pacifism and belief that people contain both 'shadow and light.' Soprano Nicole Cabell has performed this work to great critical acclaim and has made it a signature piece. She will be joined by Marietta Simpson, mezzo-soprano, Russell Thomas, tenor, and John Relyea, bass-baritone.  Paired with this riveting work will be the powerful Te Deum by Anton Bruckner.  Conducted by James Bagwell. The Collegiate Chorale’s 70th season began with Moïse et Pharaon and continues with Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado on April 10, 2012 at 6:30pm at Carnegie Hall, featuring Chuck Cooper, Jason Danieley, Christopher Fitzgerald, Kelli O'Hara, Brad Oscar, Lauren Worsham, and Amy Justman, directed and conducted by Ted Sperling. The season will conclude with a program entitled Contemporary Voices led by Maestro Bagwell on May 21, 2012 at St. Bartholomew’s Church. Highlights of the program include Copland’s In the Beginning – which The Chorale premiered under its founder Robert Shaw – the Poulenc Gloria, and the New York premiere of a setting of Psalm 67 by the young and celebrated Israeli composer, Avner Dorman. Single tickets for all concerts can be purchased by contacting The Chorale office at (646) 435-9465 or online at collegiatechorale.org.  
Location:  Carnegie Hall, 881 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019
www.carnegiehall.com

Friday, February 03, 2012      8:30 PM
Fridays, February 3, 24 at 8:30pm Tickets $7 Veteran improviser Christina Gausas joins duo MegaLou (Megan Gray and Louis Kornfeld). MegaLou combines 14 years of dating with 6 years of friendship with Gausas for a night of improvised unity. Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York’s improv masters and visiting international artists on Mondays through Sundays in February at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each night’s line-up can be found at www.magnettheater.com. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (212) 244-8824.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY 10001
www.magnettheater.com

Friday, February 03, 2012      10:00 PM
The MADE-UP MUSICAL sings and dances its way onto the Magnet Theater stage with a one-of-a-kind musical comedy every week. After an interview with an audience member, the cast weaves together a full one-act musical, complete with all the songs, trappings and melodrama an audience expects from our friends on Broadway. Featuring John O’Donnell, Tara Copeland, Jessica Allen, Morgan Phillips, Michael Martin, and Leah Gotcsik with music provided by Frank Spitznagel. Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York’s improv masters and visiting international artists on Mondays through Sundays in February at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each night’s line-up can be found at www.magnettheater.com. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (212) 244-8824.
Location:  254 W. 29th Street New York, NY 10001
www.magnettheater.com

Saturday, February 04, 2012      4:30 PM
The Amazing Max and The Box of Interesting Things is a Magic Show with a mind of it’s own.  Magician Max Darwin makes objects appear out of thin air, as the laws of physics are defied, and miracles are performed inches from spectators’ faces.  As the props onstage seem intent on surprising even the magician himself, this out of control show bursts with striking visual magic, comedy and juggling, and loads of audience participation.  The Amazing Max and The Box of Interesting Things is the wackiest, most interactive, highest energy magic show for families on the market today. Front row seats available on the Magic Carpet (VIP seating) $49.50, regular general admission tickets $29.50.  Performances: Saturdays and Sundays at 4:30pm through January 15; Saturdays at 4:30pm through March 10.  No performances on the following dates: Sunday, December 25; Sunday, January 1; Sunday, January 22; Sunday, January 29.  Special mid-week holiday performances have been added at 11am on the following dates: Monday, December 19; Wednesday, December 21; Friday, December 23; and Tuesday, December 27.  Tickets are available at www.telecharge.com or by phone at 212-239-6200 or 800-432-7250.  
Location:  Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, 248 West 60th Street, New York City, 10023
www.TheAmazingMax.com

Saturday, February 04, 2012      8:00 PM
Mariela and José were once the golden couple of the Mexican artist inner-circle. Together they built a family and an artist colony to host friends like Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Rufino Tamayo. But now their daughter has grown and run away, Frida and Diego are too famous to call, and artistic inspiration has been strangled by isolation and mendacity. Set in an empty artists’ colony in the Mexican desert in 1950, this mystery play reveals what happens to relationships when a long hidden family lie is exposed.  Tickets are $27 and can purchased at www.repertorio.org or by calling 212-225-9999.
Location:  Repertorio Español, 138 East 27 St. NYC
www.repertorio.org

Saturday, February 04, 2012      9:00 PM
Belonging to one of the Magnet Theater's maiden voyage Musical Megawatt Teams, CHORAL RAGE creates an out of this world musical journey into the depths of your imagination. Through their masterful harmonies and comedic colloquy, they create an entire musical based on your suggestion.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY 10001
www.magnettheater.com

Saturday, February 04, 2012      7:30 PM
Three Magnet instructors wrestle with the gods and let them win in this fully improvised show about anything and everything. Featuring Mark Grenier, Louis Kornfeld, and Charlie Whitcroft. Every Saturday at 7:30pm. Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York’s improv masters and visiting international artists on Mondays through Sundays in February at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each night’s line-up can be found at www.magnettheater.com. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (212) 244-8824.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY
www.magnettheater.com

Saturday, February 04, 2012      10:30 PM
TRIKE is a two-person improvisational joy ride built upon bold characters and seamless transitions. TRIKE never stops to consider its direction but rather gracefully plummets down the staircase of discovery, landing momentarily in a quiet relationship here, a fiery exchange there or a boisterous abstraction somewhere in between. Featuring Peter McNerney and Nick Kanellis. TRIKE is a *A TIME OUT NEW YORK CRITIC’S PICK* Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York’s improv masters and visiting international artists on Mondays through Sundays in February at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each night’s line-up can be found at www.magnettheater.com. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (212) 244-8824.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY 10001
www.magnettheater.com

Sunday, February 05, 2012      5:00 PM
New Feet Productions presents Leave the Balcony Open, a hopeful and humorous new play about learning how to live with loss written by Maya Macdonald.  Jessica Bauman directs a cast of seven including Heidi Armbruster* (Broadway: Time Stands Still), Wrenn Schmidt* (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba; Nat. Tour: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf), Jerzy Gwiazdowski* (Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Betsy Hogg* (Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof; The Crucible), Julie Kline* (Moment of Zen/Women’s Project; Birthday/Rising Phoenix Rep.), Jared McGuire (Photograph 51/3LD), Mary Rasmussen* (Romeo & Juliet/The Public Theatre). May is standing in the way of control. June is trying to hold out. Jon really wants a hug. Silent Gen is still looking up at that broken window, and everyone knows why, but never says anything. On a rural college campus where proximity to death defines your social status, four soon-to-be-graduates party, scream and learn how to move on. “Set between the lines of realism and preternatural world, Leave the Balcony Open is a wild theatrical ride through a landscape of loss and resilience,” states director Jessica Bauman. “By offering humor and poetry (and costume parties) in the darkest places, it allows both the characters and the audience to find hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable grief.” Leave the Balcony Open is produced by Lisa Dozier and New Feet Productions. Assistant Producer: Michael Holt; Director: Jessica Bauman; Scenic Designer: Gabe Evansohn; Projection Designer: Jesse Garrison; Costume Designer: Sydney Gallas; Lighting Designers: Laura Mroczkowski and Cat Tate Starmer; Sound Designer: Brandon Wolcott; Production Manager: Ken Larson; Production Stage Manager: Emily Page Ballou; Assistant Stage Manager: Donald Peter Butchko; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR. Leave the Balcony Open plays for sixteen performances from Sunday, February 5 to Sunday, February 26, 2012, with preview performances February 5 at 5pm, February 6 and 8 at 7pm, and regular performances beginning February 9th and running Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm.  An addition performance will be held on Monday, February 20th at 7pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased online at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/899595 or by calling 212-352-3101.  For more information, please visit http://leavethebalconyopen.com/. The runtime for Leave the Balcony Open is approximately 95 minutes with no intermission. Jessica Bauman (Director) recently directed Making Up the Truth by and with This American Life journalist Jack Hitt, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in June. Making Up the Truth will be included in the 2012 Spoleto Festival. She has been working as a director in New York and regionally for almost 20 years. Her work has been seen at theatres such as New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, the Public, Juilliard (including the world premiere of Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire), Rising Phoenix Rep and the 52nd Street Project. Regionally, she has worked at the Huntington Theater, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Theatre Outlet (Allentown, PA), Vermont Stage Company and the O’Neill. She has collaborated with playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Kia Corthron, Tracey Scott Wilson, Emily DeVoti, Jenny Lyn Bader, Diana Son, Napoleon Ellsworth and Kirsten Greenidge.  She is the founder and Artistic Director of New Feet Productions, for which she directed and produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her own six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin and Milk by Emily DeVoti (co-produced with New Georges). For the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, she has directed the premieres of Terrence McNally’s Teachers Break with Cynthia Nixon and Maura Tierney, Harrison Rivers’ and it seems to me a very good sign… with Naomi Watts and John Krasinski, and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Dress the Orphans with Rachel Dratch and Rosie Perez. She has been an Artist-in- Residence at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, a Drama League Directors Project fellow, and is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect and New Georges Affiliated Artist. Jessica was a finalist for the 2007-2009 TCG/NEA Career Development program for Directors. She is a graduate of Yale College.   Maya Macdonald (Playwright) is a playwright, actor and native of New York City.  She is bad at sleeping, but rather skilled at dreaming.  Her plays have been read, workshopped and produced with The Bushwick Starr, New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre, MCC Young Playwrights, The Be Company, Rising Phoenix Rep, 3LD and Astoria Performing Arts Center, among others.  She was Finalist for the 2011 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, a Semi-Finalist for both the 2009, and 2011 Page 73 Fellowship, a Finalist for the 2010 Mabou Mines Artist Residency, and a 2010 resident playwright at Tofte Lake Center’s Emerging Artists Residency, hosted by Liz Engelman.  Her play the really important people will be produced by Rising Phoenix Rep this Spring.  Maya is a graduate of Bennington College, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Dramatist’s Guild of America. Maya attempts optimism daily, and believes that hope is cutting edge.  She seeks to represent this in the worlds she creates on stage and off. www.mayamacdonald.net New Feet Productions is dedicated to developing and producing new and classical work that ripples with theatrical language and invention. Jessica Bauman founded New Feet Productions in 2007 in order to develop Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. New Feet sponsored two workshops of that project – one in spring ’07 at the Culture Project, and one in winter ’08 at the Tank. In May ’09, New Feet fully produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5) at Walkerspace with sets and lights designed by Tony-winning designer Christopher Akerlind.  In 2010, New Feet co-produced Milk by Emily DeVoti with New Georges.  New Feet’s production of All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin was part of the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2010. Most recently, New Feet has co-produced journalist Jack Hitt’s solo performance Making Up the Truth, directed by Jessica Bauman, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in 2011, and will be featured in the 2012 Spoleto Festival.
Location:  3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (between Rector and Edgar Streets), NYC
www.leavethebalconyopen.com

Monday, February 06, 2012      7:00 PM
New Feet Productions presents Leave the Balcony Open, a hopeful and humorous new play about learning how to live with loss written by Maya Macdonald.  Jessica Bauman directs a cast of seven including Heidi Armbruster* (Broadway: Time Stands Still), Wrenn Schmidt* (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba; Nat. Tour: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf), Jerzy Gwiazdowski* (Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Betsy Hogg* (Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof; The Crucible), Julie Kline* (Moment of Zen/Women’s Project; Birthday/Rising Phoenix Rep.), Jared McGuire (Photograph 51/3LD), Mary Rasmussen* (Romeo & Juliet/The Public Theatre). May is standing in the way of control. June is trying to hold out. Jon really wants a hug. Silent Gen is still looking up at that broken window, and everyone knows why, but never says anything. On a rural college campus where proximity to death defines your social status, four soon-to-be-graduates party, scream and learn how to move on. “Set between the lines of realism and preternatural world, Leave the Balcony Open is a wild theatrical ride through a landscape of loss and resilience,” states director Jessica Bauman. “By offering humor and poetry (and costume parties) in the darkest places, it allows both the characters and the audience to find hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable grief.” Leave the Balcony Open is produced by Lisa Dozier and New Feet Productions. Assistant Producer: Michael Holt; Director: Jessica Bauman; Scenic Designer: Gabe Evansohn; Projection Designer: Jesse Garrison; Costume Designer: Sydney Gallas; Lighting Designers: Laura Mroczkowski and Cat Tate Starmer; Sound Designer: Brandon Wolcott; Production Manager: Ken Larson; Production Stage Manager: Emily Page Ballou; Assistant Stage Manager: Donald Peter Butchko; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR. Leave the Balcony Open plays for sixteen performances from Sunday, February 5 to Sunday, February 26, 2012, with preview performances February 5 at 5pm, February 6 and 8 at 7pm, and regular performances beginning February 9th and running Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm.  An addition performance will be held on Monday, February 20th at 7pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased online at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/899595 or by calling 212-352-3101.  For more information, please visit http://leavethebalconyopen.com/. The runtime for Leave the Balcony Open is approximately 95 minutes with no intermission. Jessica Bauman (Director) recently directed Making Up the Truth by and with This American Life journalist Jack Hitt, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in June. Making Up the Truth will be included in the 2012 Spoleto Festival. She has been working as a director in New York and regionally for almost 20 years. Her work has been seen at theatres such as New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, the Public, Juilliard (including the world premiere of Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire), Rising Phoenix Rep and the 52nd Street Project. Regionally, she has worked at the Huntington Theater, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Theatre Outlet (Allentown, PA), Vermont Stage Company and the O’Neill. She has collaborated with playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Kia Corthron, Tracey Scott Wilson, Emily DeVoti, Jenny Lyn Bader, Diana Son, Napoleon Ellsworth and Kirsten Greenidge.  She is the founder and Artistic Director of New Feet Productions, for which she directed and produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her own six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin and Milk by Emily DeVoti (co-produced with New Georges). For the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, she has directed the premieres of Terrence McNally’s Teachers Break with Cynthia Nixon and Maura Tierney, Harrison Rivers’ and it seems to me a very good sign… with Naomi Watts and John Krasinski, and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Dress the Orphans with Rachel Dratch and Rosie Perez. She has been an Artist-in- Residence at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, a Drama League Directors Project fellow, and is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect and New Georges Affiliated Artist. Jessica was a finalist for the 2007-2009 TCG/NEA Career Development program for Directors. She is a graduate of Yale College.   Maya Macdonald (Playwright) is a playwright, actor and native of New York City.  She is bad at sleeping, but rather skilled at dreaming.  Her plays have been read, workshopped and produced with The Bushwick Starr, New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre, MCC Young Playwrights, The Be Company, Rising Phoenix Rep, 3LD and Astoria Performing Arts Center, among others.  She was Finalist for the 2011 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, a Semi-Finalist for both the 2009, and 2011 Page 73 Fellowship, a Finalist for the 2010 Mabou Mines Artist Residency, and a 2010 resident playwright at Tofte Lake Center’s Emerging Artists Residency, hosted by Liz Engelman.  Her play the really important people will be produced by Rising Phoenix Rep this Spring.  Maya is a graduate of Bennington College, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Dramatist’s Guild of America. Maya attempts optimism daily, and believes that hope is cutting edge.  She seeks to represent this in the worlds she creates on stage and off. www.mayamacdonald.net New Feet Productions is dedicated to developing and producing new and classical work that ripples with theatrical language and invention. Jessica Bauman founded New Feet Productions in 2007 in order to develop Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. New Feet sponsored two workshops of that project – one in spring ’07 at the Culture Project, and one in winter ’08 at the Tank. In May ’09, New Feet fully produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5) at Walkerspace with sets and lights designed by Tony-winning designer Christopher Akerlind.  In 2010, New Feet co-produced Milk by Emily DeVoti with New Georges.  New Feet’s production of All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin was part of the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2010. Most recently, New Feet has co-produced journalist Jack Hitt’s solo performance Making Up the Truth, directed by Jessica Bauman, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in 2011, and will be featured in the 2012 Spoleto Festival.
Location:  3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (between Rector and Edgar Streets), NYC
www.leavethebalconyopen.com

Wednesday, February 08, 2012      7:00 PM
New Feet Productions presents Leave the Balcony Open, a hopeful and humorous new play about learning how to live with loss written by Maya Macdonald.  Jessica Bauman directs a cast of seven including Heidi Armbruster* (Broadway: Time Stands Still), Wrenn Schmidt* (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba; Nat. Tour: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf), Jerzy Gwiazdowski* (Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Betsy Hogg* (Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof; The Crucible), Julie Kline* (Moment of Zen/Women’s Project; Birthday/Rising Phoenix Rep.), Jared McGuire (Photograph 51/3LD), Mary Rasmussen* (Romeo & Juliet/The Public Theatre). May is standing in the way of control. June is trying to hold out. Jon really wants a hug. Silent Gen is still looking up at that broken window, and everyone knows why, but never says anything. On a rural college campus where proximity to death defines your social status, four soon-to-be-graduates party, scream and learn how to move on. “Set between the lines of realism and preternatural world, Leave the Balcony Open is a wild theatrical ride through a landscape of loss and resilience,” states director Jessica Bauman. “By offering humor and poetry (and costume parties) in the darkest places, it allows both the characters and the audience to find hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable grief.” Leave the Balcony Open is produced by Lisa Dozier and New Feet Productions. Assistant Producer: Michael Holt; Director: Jessica Bauman; Scenic Designer: Gabe Evansohn; Projection Designer: Jesse Garrison; Costume Designer: Sydney Gallas; Lighting Designers: Laura Mroczkowski and Cat Tate Starmer; Sound Designer: Brandon Wolcott; Production Manager: Ken Larson; Production Stage Manager: Emily Page Ballou; Assistant Stage Manager: Donald Peter Butchko; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR. Leave the Balcony Open plays for sixteen performances from Sunday, February 5 to Sunday, February 26, 2012, with preview performances February 5 at 5pm, February 6 and 8 at 7pm, and regular performances beginning February 9th and running Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm.  An addition performance will be held on Monday, February 20th at 7pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased online at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/899595 or by calling 212-352-3101.  For more information, please visit http://leavethebalconyopen.com/. The runtime for Leave the Balcony Open is approximately 95 minutes with no intermission. Jessica Bauman (Director) recently directed Making Up the Truth by and with This American Life journalist Jack Hitt, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in June. Making Up the Truth will be included in the 2012 Spoleto Festival. She has been working as a director in New York and regionally for almost 20 years. Her work has been seen at theatres such as New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, the Public, Juilliard (including the world premiere of Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire), Rising Phoenix Rep and the 52nd Street Project. Regionally, she has worked at the Huntington Theater, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Theatre Outlet (Allentown, PA), Vermont Stage Company and the O’Neill. She has collaborated with playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Kia Corthron, Tracey Scott Wilson, Emily DeVoti, Jenny Lyn Bader, Diana Son, Napoleon Ellsworth and Kirsten Greenidge.  She is the founder and Artistic Director of New Feet Productions, for which she directed and produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her own six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin and Milk by Emily DeVoti (co-produced with New Georges). For the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, she has directed the premieres of Terrence McNally’s Teachers Break with Cynthia Nixon and Maura Tierney, Harrison Rivers’ and it seems to me a very good sign… with Naomi Watts and John Krasinski, and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Dress the Orphans with Rachel Dratch and Rosie Perez. She has been an Artist-in- Residence at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, a Drama League Directors Project fellow, and is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect and New Georges Affiliated Artist. Jessica was a finalist for the 2007-2009 TCG/NEA Career Development program for Directors. She is a graduate of Yale College.   Maya Macdonald (Playwright) is a playwright, actor and native of New York City.  She is bad at sleeping, but rather skilled at dreaming.  Her plays have been read, workshopped and produced with The Bushwick Starr, New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre, MCC Young Playwrights, The Be Company, Rising Phoenix Rep, 3LD and Astoria Performing Arts Center, among others.  She was Finalist for the 2011 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, a Semi-Finalist for both the 2009, and 2011 Page 73 Fellowship, a Finalist for the 2010 Mabou Mines Artist Residency, and a 2010 resident playwright at Tofte Lake Center’s Emerging Artists Residency, hosted by Liz Engelman.  Her play the really important people will be produced by Rising Phoenix Rep this Spring.  Maya is a graduate of Bennington College, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Dramatist’s Guild of America. Maya attempts optimism daily, and believes that hope is cutting edge.  She seeks to represent this in the worlds she creates on stage and off. www.mayamacdonald.net New Feet Productions is dedicated to developing and producing new and classical work that ripples with theatrical language and invention. Jessica Bauman founded New Feet Productions in 2007 in order to develop Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. New Feet sponsored two workshops of that project – one in spring ’07 at the Culture Project, and one in winter ’08 at the Tank. In May ’09, New Feet fully produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5) at Walkerspace with sets and lights designed by Tony-winning designer Christopher Akerlind.  In 2010, New Feet co-produced Milk by Emily DeVoti with New Georges.  New Feet’s production of All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin was part of the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2010. Most recently, New Feet has co-produced journalist Jack Hitt’s solo performance Making Up the Truth, directed by Jessica Bauman, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in 2011, and will be featured in the 2012 Spoleto Festival.
Location:  3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (between Rector and Edgar Streets), NYC
www.leavethebalconyopen.com

Wednesday, February 08, 2012      12:00 AM
Tickets $7 (for the whole night) High-powered improv from Magnet's own Super Groups. Our resident ensembles gather to dazzle audiences with various forms of improv comedy. The forms are constantly evolving, and no two shows are the same. Come see what your favorites are up to this week. Every Wednesday at 7pm, 8pm, 9pm, and 10:00pm. Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York’s improv masters and visiting international artists on Mondays through Sundays in February at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each night’s line-up can be found at www.magnettheater.com. Tickets are $7; reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (212) 244-8824.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY 10001
www.magnettheater.com

Wednesday, February 08, 2012      8:00 AM
Free Standup Comedy Show Jared Freid (Bloomberg Sports, Brobible.com, trutv) Jason Burke (Gotham and Stand-Up NY) Jena Friedman (Letterman, SXSW) Matt Graham (Conan, scrabble champion)
Location:  Beauty Bar 231 E 14th St. New York, NY 10003
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Thursday, February 09, 2012      8:00 PM
New Feet Productions presents Leave the Balcony Open, a hopeful and humorous new play about learning how to live with loss written by Maya Macdonald.  Jessica Bauman directs a cast of seven including Heidi Armbruster* (Broadway: Time Stands Still), Wrenn Schmidt* (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba; Nat. Tour: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf), Jerzy Gwiazdowski* (Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Betsy Hogg* (Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof; The Crucible), Julie Kline* (Moment of Zen/Women’s Project; Birthday/Rising Phoenix Rep.), Jared McGuire (Photograph 51/3LD), Mary Rasmussen* (Romeo & Juliet/The Public Theatre). May is standing in the way of control. June is trying to hold out. Jon really wants a hug. Silent Gen is still looking up at that broken window, and everyone knows why, but never says anything. On a rural college campus where proximity to death defines your social status, four soon-to-be-graduates party, scream and learn how to move on. “Set between the lines of realism and preternatural world, Leave the Balcony Open is a wild theatrical ride through a landscape of loss and resilience,” states director Jessica Bauman. “By offering humor and poetry (and costume parties) in the darkest places, it allows both the characters and the audience to find hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable grief.” Leave the Balcony Open is produced by Lisa Dozier and New Feet Productions. Assistant Producer: Michael Holt; Director: Jessica Bauman; Scenic Designer: Gabe Evansohn; Projection Designer: Jesse Garrison; Costume Designer: Sydney Gallas; Lighting Designers: Laura Mroczkowski and Cat Tate Starmer; Sound Designer: Brandon Wolcott; Production Manager: Ken Larson; Production Stage Manager: Emily Page Ballou; Assistant Stage Manager: Donald Peter Butchko; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR. Leave the Balcony Open plays for sixteen performances from Sunday, February 5 to Sunday, February 26, 2012, with preview performances February 5 at 5pm, February 6 and 8 at 7pm, and regular performances beginning February 9th and running Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm.  An addition performance will be held on Monday, February 20th at 7pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased online at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/899595 or by calling 212-352-3101.  For more information, please visit http://leavethebalconyopen.com/. The runtime for Leave the Balcony Open is approximately 95 minutes with no intermission. Jessica Bauman (Director) recently directed Making Up the Truth by and with This American Life journalist Jack Hitt, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in June. Making Up the Truth will be included in the 2012 Spoleto Festival. She has been working as a director in New York and regionally for almost 20 years. Her work has been seen at theatres such as New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, the Public, Juilliard (including the world premiere of Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire), Rising Phoenix Rep and the 52nd Street Project. Regionally, she has worked at the Huntington Theater, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Theatre Outlet (Allentown, PA), Vermont Stage Company and the O’Neill. She has collaborated with playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Kia Corthron, Tracey Scott Wilson, Emily DeVoti, Jenny Lyn Bader, Diana Son, Napoleon Ellsworth and Kirsten Greenidge.  She is the founder and Artistic Director of New Feet Productions, for which she directed and produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her own six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin and Milk by Emily DeVoti (co-produced with New Georges). For the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, she has directed the premieres of Terrence McNally’s Teachers Break with Cynthia Nixon and Maura Tierney, Harrison Rivers’ and it seems to me a very good sign… with Naomi Watts and John Krasinski, and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Dress the Orphans with Rachel Dratch and Rosie Perez. She has been an Artist-in- Residence at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, a Drama League Directors Project fellow, and is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect and New Georges Affiliated Artist. Jessica was a finalist for the 2007-2009 TCG/NEA Career Development program for Directors. She is a graduate of Yale College.   Maya Macdonald (Playwright) is a playwright, actor and native of New York City.  She is bad at sleeping, but rather skilled at dreaming.  Her plays have been read, workshopped and produced with The Bushwick Starr, New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre, MCC Young Playwrights, The Be Company, Rising Phoenix Rep, 3LD and Astoria Performing Arts Center, among others.  She was Finalist for the 2011 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, a Semi-Finalist for both the 2009, and 2011 Page 73 Fellowship, a Finalist for the 2010 Mabou Mines Artist Residency, and a 2010 resident playwright at Tofte Lake Center’s Emerging Artists Residency, hosted by Liz Engelman.  Her play the really important people will be produced by Rising Phoenix Rep this Spring.  Maya is a graduate of Bennington College, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Dramatist’s Guild of America. Maya attempts optimism daily, and believes that hope is cutting edge.  She seeks to represent this in the worlds she creates on stage and off. www.mayamacdonald.net New Feet Productions is dedicated to developing and producing new and classical work that ripples with theatrical language and invention. Jessica Bauman founded New Feet Productions in 2007 in order to develop Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. New Feet sponsored two workshops of that project – one in spring ’07 at the Culture Project, and one in winter ’08 at the Tank. In May ’09, New Feet fully produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5) at Walkerspace with sets and lights designed by Tony-winning designer Christopher Akerlind.  In 2010, New Feet co-produced Milk by Emily DeVoti with New Georges.  New Feet’s production of All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin was part of the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2010. Most recently, New Feet has co-produced journalist Jack Hitt’s solo performance Making Up the Truth, directed by Jessica Bauman, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in 2011, and will be featured in the 2012 Spoleto Festival.
Location:  3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (between Rector and Edgar Streets), NYC
www.leavethebalconyopen.com

Friday, February 10, 2012      8:00 PM
New Feet Productions presents Leave the Balcony Open, a hopeful and humorous new play about learning how to live with loss written by Maya Macdonald.  Jessica Bauman directs a cast of seven including Heidi Armbruster* (Broadway: Time Stands Still), Wrenn Schmidt* (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba; Nat. Tour: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf), Jerzy Gwiazdowski* (Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Betsy Hogg* (Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof; The Crucible), Julie Kline* (Moment of Zen/Women’s Project; Birthday/Rising Phoenix Rep.), Jared McGuire (Photograph 51/3LD), Mary Rasmussen* (Romeo & Juliet/The Public Theatre). May is standing in the way of control. June is trying to hold out. Jon really wants a hug. Silent Gen is still looking up at that broken window, and everyone knows why, but never says anything. On a rural college campus where proximity to death defines your social status, four soon-to-be-graduates party, scream and learn how to move on. “Set between the lines of realism and preternatural world, Leave the Balcony Open is a wild theatrical ride through a landscape of loss and resilience,” states director Jessica Bauman. “By offering humor and poetry (and costume parties) in the darkest places, it allows both the characters and the audience to find hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable grief.” Leave the Balcony Open is produced by Lisa Dozier and New Feet Productions. Assistant Producer: Michael Holt; Director: Jessica Bauman; Scenic Designer: Gabe Evansohn; Projection Designer: Jesse Garrison; Costume Designer: Sydney Gallas; Lighting Designers: Laura Mroczkowski and Cat Tate Starmer; Sound Designer: Brandon Wolcott; Production Manager: Ken Larson; Production Stage Manager: Emily Page Ballou; Assistant Stage Manager: Donald Peter Butchko; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR. Leave the Balcony Open plays for sixteen performances from Sunday, February 5 to Sunday, February 26, 2012, with preview performances February 5 at 5pm, February 6 and 8 at 7pm, and regular performances beginning February 9th and running Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm.  An addition performance will be held on Monday, February 20th at 7pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased online at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/899595 or by calling 212-352-3101.  For more information, please visit http://leavethebalconyopen.com/. The runtime for Leave the Balcony Open is approximately 95 minutes with no intermission. Jessica Bauman (Director) recently directed Making Up the Truth by and with This American Life journalist Jack Hitt, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in June. Making Up the Truth will be included in the 2012 Spoleto Festival. She has been working as a director in New York and regionally for almost 20 years. Her work has been seen at theatres such as New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, the Public, Juilliard (including the world premiere of Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire), Rising Phoenix Rep and the 52nd Street Project. Regionally, she has worked at the Huntington Theater, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Theatre Outlet (Allentown, PA), Vermont Stage Company and the O’Neill. She has collaborated with playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Kia Corthron, Tracey Scott Wilson, Emily DeVoti, Jenny Lyn Bader, Diana Son, Napoleon Ellsworth and Kirsten Greenidge.  She is the founder and Artistic Director of New Feet Productions, for which she directed and produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her own six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin and Milk by Emily DeVoti (co-produced with New Georges). For the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, she has directed the premieres of Terrence McNally’s Teachers Break with Cynthia Nixon and Maura Tierney, Harrison Rivers’ and it seems to me a very good sign… with Naomi Watts and John Krasinski, and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Dress the Orphans with Rachel Dratch and Rosie Perez. She has been an Artist-in- Residence at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, a Drama League Directors Project fellow, and is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect and New Georges Affiliated Artist. Jessica was a finalist for the 2007-2009 TCG/NEA Career Development program for Directors. She is a graduate of Yale College.   Maya Macdonald (Playwright) is a playwright, actor and native of New York City.  She is bad at sleeping, but rather skilled at dreaming.  Her plays have been read, workshopped and produced with The Bushwick Starr, New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre, MCC Young Playwrights, The Be Company, Rising Phoenix Rep, 3LD and Astoria Performing Arts Center, among others.  She was Finalist for the 2011 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, a Semi-Finalist for both the 2009, and 2011 Page 73 Fellowship, a Finalist for the 2010 Mabou Mines Artist Residency, and a 2010 resident playwright at Tofte Lake Center’s Emerging Artists Residency, hosted by Liz Engelman.  Her play the really important people will be produced by Rising Phoenix Rep this Spring.  Maya is a graduate of Bennington College, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Dramatist’s Guild of America. Maya attempts optimism daily, and believes that hope is cutting edge.  She seeks to represent this in the worlds she creates on stage and off. www.mayamacdonald.net New Feet Productions is dedicated to developing and producing new and classical work that ripples with theatrical language and invention. Jessica Bauman founded New Feet Productions in 2007 in order to develop Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. New Feet sponsored two workshops of that project – one in spring ’07 at the Culture Project, and one in winter ’08 at the Tank. In May ’09, New Feet fully produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5) at Walkerspace with sets and lights designed by Tony-winning designer Christopher Akerlind.  In 2010, New Feet co-produced Milk by Emily DeVoti with New Georges.  New Feet’s production of All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin was part of the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2010. Most recently, New Feet has co-produced journalist Jack Hitt’s solo performance Making Up the Truth, directed by Jessica Bauman, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in 2011, and will be featured in the 2012 Spoleto Festival.
Location:  3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (between Rector and Edgar Streets), NYC
www.leavethebalconyopen.com

Friday, February 10, 2012      10:00 PM
The MADE-UP MUSICAL sings and dances its way onto the Magnet Theater stage with a one-of-a-kind musical comedy every week. After an interview with an audience member, the cast weaves together a full one-act musical, complete with all the songs, trappings and melodrama an audience expects from our friends on Broadway. Featuring John O’Donnell, Tara Copeland, Jessica Allen, Morgan Phillips, Michael Martin, and Leah Gotcsik with music provided by Frank Spitznagel. Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York’s improv masters and visiting international artists on Mondays through Sundays in February at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each night’s line-up can be found at www.magnettheater.com. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (212) 244-8824.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY
www.magnettheater.com

Saturday, February 11, 2012      4:30 PM
The Amazing Max and The Box of Interesting Things is a Magic Show with a mind of it’s own.  Magician Max Darwin makes objects appear out of thin air, as the laws of physics are defied, and miracles are performed inches from spectators’ faces.  As the props onstage seem intent on surprising even the magician himself, this out of control show bursts with striking visual magic, comedy and juggling, and loads of audience participation.  The Amazing Max and The Box of Interesting Things is the wackiest, most interactive, highest energy magic show for families on the market today. Front row seats available on the Magic Carpet (VIP seating) $49.50, regular general admission tickets $29.50.  Performances: Saturdays and Sundays at 4:30pm through January 15; Saturdays at 4:30pm through March 10.  No performances on the following dates: Sunday, December 25; Sunday, January 1; Sunday, January 22; Sunday, January 29.  Special mid-week holiday performances have been added at 11am on the following dates: Monday, December 19; Wednesday, December 21; Friday, December 23; and Tuesday, December 27.  Tickets are available at www.telecharge.com or by phone at 212-239-6200 or 800-432-7250.  
Location:  Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, 248 West 60th Street, New York City, 10023
www.TheAmazingMax.com

Saturday, February 11, 2012      7:00 PM
New Feet Productions presents Leave the Balcony Open, a hopeful and humorous new play about learning how to live with loss written by Maya Macdonald.  Jessica Bauman directs a cast of seven including Heidi Armbruster* (Broadway: Time Stands Still), Wrenn Schmidt* (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba; Nat. Tour: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf), Jerzy Gwiazdowski* (Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Betsy Hogg* (Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof; The Crucible), Julie Kline* (Moment of Zen/Women’s Project; Birthday/Rising Phoenix Rep.), Jared McGuire (Photograph 51/3LD), Mary Rasmussen* (Romeo & Juliet/The Public Theatre). May is standing in the way of control. June is trying to hold out. Jon really wants a hug. Silent Gen is still looking up at that broken window, and everyone knows why, but never says anything. On a rural college campus where proximity to death defines your social status, four soon-to-be-graduates party, scream and learn how to move on. “Set between the lines of realism and preternatural world, Leave the Balcony Open is a wild theatrical ride through a landscape of loss and resilience,” states director Jessica Bauman. “By offering humor and poetry (and costume parties) in the darkest places, it allows both the characters and the audience to find hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable grief.” Leave the Balcony Open is produced by Lisa Dozier and New Feet Productions. Assistant Producer: Michael Holt; Director: Jessica Bauman; Scenic Designer: Gabe Evansohn; Projection Designer: Jesse Garrison; Costume Designer: Sydney Gallas; Lighting Designers: Laura Mroczkowski and Cat Tate Starmer; Sound Designer: Brandon Wolcott; Production Manager: Ken Larson; Production Stage Manager: Emily Page Ballou; Assistant Stage Manager: Donald Peter Butchko; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR. Leave the Balcony Open plays for sixteen performances from Sunday, February 5 to Sunday, February 26, 2012, with preview performances February 5 at 5pm, February 6 and 8 at 7pm, and regular performances beginning February 9th and running Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm.  An addition performance will be held on Monday, February 20th at 7pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased online at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/899595 or by calling 212-352-3101.  For more information, please visit http://leavethebalconyopen.com/. The runtime for Leave the Balcony Open is approximately 95 minutes with no intermission. Jessica Bauman (Director) recently directed Making Up the Truth by and with This American Life journalist Jack Hitt, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in June. Making Up the Truth will be included in the 2012 Spoleto Festival. She has been working as a director in New York and regionally for almost 20 years. Her work has been seen at theatres such as New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, the Public, Juilliard (including the world premiere of Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire), Rising Phoenix Rep and the 52nd Street Project. Regionally, she has worked at the Huntington Theater, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Theatre Outlet (Allentown, PA), Vermont Stage Company and the O’Neill. She has collaborated with playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Kia Corthron, Tracey Scott Wilson, Emily DeVoti, Jenny Lyn Bader, Diana Son, Napoleon Ellsworth and Kirsten Greenidge.  She is the founder and Artistic Director of New Feet Productions, for which she directed and produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her own six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin and Milk by Emily DeVoti (co-produced with New Georges). For the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, she has directed the premieres of Terrence McNally’s Teachers Break with Cynthia Nixon and Maura Tierney, Harrison Rivers’ and it seems to me a very good sign… with Naomi Watts and John Krasinski, and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Dress the Orphans with Rachel Dratch and Rosie Perez. She has been an Artist-in- Residence at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, a Drama League Directors Project fellow, and is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect and New Georges Affiliated Artist. Jessica was a finalist for the 2007-2009 TCG/NEA Career Development program for Directors. She is a graduate of Yale College.   Maya Macdonald (Playwright) is a playwright, actor and native of New York City.  She is bad at sleeping, but rather skilled at dreaming.  Her plays have been read, workshopped and produced with The Bushwick Starr, New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre, MCC Young Playwrights, The Be Company, Rising Phoenix Rep, 3LD and Astoria Performing Arts Center, among others.  She was Finalist for the 2011 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, a Semi-Finalist for both the 2009, and 2011 Page 73 Fellowship, a Finalist for the 2010 Mabou Mines Artist Residency, and a 2010 resident playwright at Tofte Lake Center’s Emerging Artists Residency, hosted by Liz Engelman.  Her play the really important people will be produced by Rising Phoenix Rep this Spring.  Maya is a graduate of Bennington College, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Dramatist’s Guild of America. Maya attempts optimism daily, and believes that hope is cutting edge.  She seeks to represent this in the worlds she creates on stage and off. www.mayamacdonald.net New Feet Productions is dedicated to developing and producing new and classical work that ripples with theatrical language and invention. Jessica Bauman founded New Feet Productions in 2007 in order to develop Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. New Feet sponsored two workshops of that project – one in spring ’07 at the Culture Project, and one in winter ’08 at the Tank. In May ’09, New Feet fully produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5) at Walkerspace with sets and lights designed by Tony-winning designer Christopher Akerlind.  In 2010, New Feet co-produced Milk by Emily DeVoti with New Georges.  New Feet’s production of All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin was part of the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2010. Most recently, New Feet has co-produced journalist Jack Hitt’s solo performance Making Up the Truth, directed by Jessica Bauman, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in 2011, and will be featured in the 2012 Spoleto Festival.
Location:  3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (between Rector and Edgar Streets), NYC
www.leavethebalconyopen.com

Saturday, February 11, 2012      9:00 PM
Belonging to one of the Magnet Theater's maiden voyage Musical Megawatt Teams, CHORAL RAGE creates an out of this world musical journey into the depths of your imagination. Through their masterful harmonies and comedic colloquy, they create an entire musical based on your suggestion.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY 10001
www.magnettheater.com

Saturday, February 11, 2012      7:30 PM
Three Magnet instructors wrestle with the gods and let them win in this fully improvised show about anything and everything. Featuring Mark Grenier, Louis Kornfeld, and Charlie Whitcroft. Every Saturday at 7:30pm. Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York’s improv masters and visiting international artists on Mondays through Sundays in February at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each night’s line-up can be found at www.magnettheater.com. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (212) 244-8824.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY
www.magnettheater.com

Saturday, February 11, 2012      10:30 PM
TRIKE is a two-person improvisational joy ride built upon bold characters and seamless transitions. TRIKE never stops to consider its direction but rather gracefully plummets down the staircase of discovery, landing momentarily in a quiet relationship here, a fiery exchange there or a boisterous abstraction somewhere in between. Featuring Peter McNerney and Nick Kanellis. TRIKE is a *A TIME OUT NEW YORK CRITIC’S PICK* Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York’s improv masters and visiting international artists on Mondays through Sundays in February at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each night’s line-up can be found at www.magnettheater.com. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (212) 244-8824.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY 10001
www.magnettheater.com

Monday, February 13, 2012      10:00 PM
A few of your favorite friends of Dorothy come out and come together for a night of comedy on the Magnet Theater stage. Every show hosts a rotating cast of improv all-stars and fresh faces to keep an eye on, from all over NYC. It's fabulous. It's fierce! It's improv! Hosted by Andrew Fafoutakis.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY 10001
www.magnettheater.com

Monday, February 13, 2012      12:00 AM
John Chatterton and The Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF) are pleased to announce the Second Annual Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival from February 13 through March 4, 2012. The Festival will take place at Roy Arias Studios’ Payan Theatre, 300 W. 43rd St., 5th fl. Tickets (at $14 and $17, depending on a play’s length; no discounts for seniors or students) are available at www.SmartTix.com (search by play title) or by calling 212/868-4444. “I have a passion for short plays. With the Short Play Lab throughout the season and the MITF’s Short Subjects in the summer, and the Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival in the winter, it’s all short play all year ’round!” said John Chatterton. In addition to a tie-in with the MITF Short Subjects, the Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival also echoes the MITF with some international plays, notably CIRCO POEIRA (“Dust Circus”), a solo play with puppets all the way from Brazil (written and directed by Caio Stolai; produced by Milena Nascimento). There is also a play about immigrants in Greece, ONE OUT OF TEN (originally created by Laertis Vasiliou; translated and directed by Aktina Stathak). Other Midwinter Madness selections (30 in all) include COFFEE HOUSE, GREENWICH VILLAGE, by John Doble; NEVER UNDERESTIMATE KARMA, by Mike Durell; THE TOUPEE, by Tom Dunn; A MONTH OF SUNDAYS, by Tearrance A. Chisholm; NORMA JEANE ENLIGHTENED, by Joanne de Simone; HOLIDAY IN HEAVEN, a musical by Demetria Daniels; HUNGRY PEOPLE, THE MUSICAL. by Jung Han Kim; THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN and THE TOWER, by Paulanne Simmons; JIMMY AND JANICE, by Jason Cicci; REST, by Leonard D. Goodisman; THE SEVEN STAGES OF GRIEF, by Dimitri C. Michalakis; THE BABBLER, by Jeffrey Fiske; HIROSHI-ME,ME,ME, by Natalie Menna; ONCE, by Dan Bocchino; OUT OF THE CRADLE ENDLESSLY ROCKING, by Nikola Tesla Gojcaj; RED ALL OVER, by Mike Fresta; DICTATORS FOR HIRE, by Joe Beck; WITHOUT A NET, 5 short plays by Meri Wallace; FETAL ATTRACTION, by Sarah M Chichester; WAITING FOR DR. HOFFMAN, by Michele Willens; MEREDITH’S RING, by Andrew Rothkin; STRAWBERRY FIELDS, by Ashley Nicole Audette; LA PETITE MORT, by Joshua R. Pangborn; THE BRINK, by Eugenie Carabatsos; SOCIAL ANXIETY, by Gwen Baer; ANIMAL KINGDOM, by Laura Zlatos; and THE MAN IN THE WINDOW: The Building of the Brooklyn Bridge, by Donald Orwald and Linda Harvey-Burkley. John Chatterton created the MITF in 2000, a Midtown alternative to other theatre festivals, as a way to present the finest off-off Broadway talent in convenience, comfort, and safety. The MITF’s artistic emphasis is on the script itself, and therefore the Festival focuses on minimal production values. If anything, the Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival, and Mr. Chatterton’s other showcases for short plays, take the theme of minimalism even further. As he puts it, “The shorter the plays, the more plays we have in one space, so the less space we have for each one. We learn to share.” The Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival's media partner is LocalTheaterNYC.com.
Location:  Roy Arias Studios’ Payan Theatre 300 W. 43rd St. 5th floor New York, NY 10036

Tuesday, February 14, 2012      7:00 PM
Join 2011 Rohr Prize winner Austin Ratner and bestselling author Stephen Stark for readings, happy hour bar, networking, book signings, and discussion of the balance of family life and poetry.Free. Everyone is welcome, 21+only, please
Location:  Pen Parentis at Gild Hall (a Thompson Hotel) 15 Gold Street at Platt in Lower Manhattan
www.penparentis.org

Tuesday, February 14, 2012      7:00 PM
Have you ever been in love? Have you ever stumbled your way toward a first kiss? Have you ever thrown up? If you answered yes to one of these questions, then you are hereby ordered to see UGH! A MAGNET VALENTINE’S DAY SPECTACULAR. Storytellers Kelly Buttermore and Robert Weinstein spin tales of romance gone crazy and the undignified shenanigans swirling in love's wake. You'll definitely laugh. You might cry. And you'll walk away from the evening feeling more than a little hopeful.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY 10001
www.magnettheater.com

Wednesday, February 15, 2012      11:30 AM
Preeminent Retail Consultant Faith Hope Consolo, Chairman of Prudential Douglas Elliman's Retail Group, invites you to join her at Real Estate Weekly Women's Forum! Panel: Anatomy of a Deal Wednesday, February 15, 2012 from 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more information and to register, please visit: http://rewomensforum.com/ (Follow Faith Hope Consolo on Twitter: http://twitter.com/faithhconsolo)
Location:  McGraw-Hill Conference Center 1221 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036
rewomensforum.com

Wednesday, February 15, 2012      12:00 AM
High-powered improv from Magnet's own Super Groups. Our resident ensembles gather to dazzle audiences with various forms of improv comedy. The forms are constantly evolving, and no two shows are the same. Come see what your favorites are up to this week. Every Wednesday at 7pm, 8pm, 9pm, and 10:00pm. Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York’s improv masters and visiting international artists on Mondays through Sundays in February at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each night’s line-up can be found at www.magnettheater.com. Tickets are $7; reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (212) 244-8824.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY 10001
www.magnettheater.com

Thursday, February 16, 2012      12:30 PM
2012 Speaker Faith Hope Consolo, Chairman of Prudential Douglas Elliman's Retail Group, invites you to join her at American Heart Association's 11th Annual Long Island Event! Go Red for Women Luncheon Thursday, February 16, 2012 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Crest Hollow Country Club 8325 Jericho Turnpike Woodbury, NY 11797 For more information about the American Heart Association, Go Red for Women Luncheon and Registration, please visit: www.heart.org/LongIslandNYGoRedLuncheon or call The American Heart Association: 516-450-9123 (Follow Faith Hope Consolo on Twitter: http://twitter.com/faithhconsolo)
Location:  Crest Hollow Country Club 8325 Jericho Turnpike Woodbury, NY 11797
www.heart.org/LongIslandNYGoRedLuncheon

Thursday, February 16, 2012      8:00 PM
New Feet Productions presents Leave the Balcony Open, a hopeful and humorous new play about learning how to live with loss written by Maya Macdonald.  Jessica Bauman directs a cast of seven including Heidi Armbruster* (Broadway: Time Stands Still), Wrenn Schmidt* (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba; Nat. Tour: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf), Jerzy Gwiazdowski* (Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Betsy Hogg* (Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof; The Crucible), Julie Kline* (Moment of Zen/Women’s Project; Birthday/Rising Phoenix Rep.), Jared McGuire (Photograph 51/3LD), Mary Rasmussen* (Romeo & Juliet/The Public Theatre). May is standing in the way of control. June is trying to hold out. Jon really wants a hug. Silent Gen is still looking up at that broken window, and everyone knows why, but never says anything. On a rural college campus where proximity to death defines your social status, four soon-to-be-graduates party, scream and learn how to move on. “Set between the lines of realism and preternatural world, Leave the Balcony Open is a wild theatrical ride through a landscape of loss and resilience,” states director Jessica Bauman. “By offering humor and poetry (and costume parties) in the darkest places, it allows both the characters and the audience to find hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable grief.” Leave the Balcony Open is produced by Lisa Dozier and New Feet Productions. Assistant Producer: Michael Holt; Director: Jessica Bauman; Scenic Designer: Gabe Evansohn; Projection Designer: Jesse Garrison; Costume Designer: Sydney Gallas; Lighting Designers: Laura Mroczkowski and Cat Tate Starmer; Sound Designer: Brandon Wolcott; Production Manager: Ken Larson; Production Stage Manager: Emily Page Ballou; Assistant Stage Manager: Donald Peter Butchko; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR. Leave the Balcony Open plays for sixteen performances from Sunday, February 5 to Sunday, February 26, 2012, with preview performances February 5 at 5pm, February 6 and 8 at 7pm, and regular performances beginning February 9th and running Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm.  An addition performance will be held on Monday, February 20th at 7pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased online at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/899595 or by calling 212-352-3101.  For more information, please visit http://leavethebalconyopen.com/. The runtime for Leave the Balcony Open is approximately 95 minutes with no intermission. Jessica Bauman (Director) recently directed Making Up the Truth by and with This American Life journalist Jack Hitt, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in June. Making Up the Truth will be included in the 2012 Spoleto Festival. She has been working as a director in New York and regionally for almost 20 years. Her work has been seen at theatres such as New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, the Public, Juilliard (including the world premiere of Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire), Rising Phoenix Rep and the 52nd Street Project. Regionally, she has worked at the Huntington Theater, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Theatre Outlet (Allentown, PA), Vermont Stage Company and the O’Neill. She has collaborated with playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Kia Corthron, Tracey Scott Wilson, Emily DeVoti, Jenny Lyn Bader, Diana Son, Napoleon Ellsworth and Kirsten Greenidge.  She is the founder and Artistic Director of New Feet Productions, for which she directed and produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her own six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin and Milk by Emily DeVoti (co-produced with New Georges). For the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, she has directed the premieres of Terrence McNally’s Teachers Break with Cynthia Nixon and Maura Tierney, Harrison Rivers’ and it seems to me a very good sign… with Naomi Watts and John Krasinski, and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Dress the Orphans with Rachel Dratch and Rosie Perez. She has been an Artist-in- Residence at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, a Drama League Directors Project fellow, and is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect and New Georges Affiliated Artist. Jessica was a finalist for the 2007-2009 TCG/NEA Career Development program for Directors. She is a graduate of Yale College.   Maya Macdonald (Playwright) is a playwright, actor and native of New York City.  She is bad at sleeping, but rather skilled at dreaming.  Her plays have been read, workshopped and produced with The Bushwick Starr, New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre, MCC Young Playwrights, The Be Company, Rising Phoenix Rep, 3LD and Astoria Performing Arts Center, among others.  She was Finalist for the 2011 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, a Semi-Finalist for both the 2009, and 2011 Page 73 Fellowship, a Finalist for the 2010 Mabou Mines Artist Residency, and a 2010 resident playwright at Tofte Lake Center’s Emerging Artists Residency, hosted by Liz Engelman.  Her play the really important people will be produced by Rising Phoenix Rep this Spring.  Maya is a graduate of Bennington College, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Dramatist’s Guild of America. Maya attempts optimism daily, and believes that hope is cutting edge.  She seeks to represent this in the worlds she creates on stage and off. www.mayamacdonald.net New Feet Productions is dedicated to developing and producing new and classical work that ripples with theatrical language and invention. Jessica Bauman founded New Feet Productions in 2007 in order to develop Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. New Feet sponsored two workshops of that project – one in spring ’07 at the Culture Project, and one in winter ’08 at the Tank. In May ’09, New Feet fully produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5) at Walkerspace with sets and lights designed by Tony-winning designer Christopher Akerlind.  In 2010, New Feet co-produced Milk by Emily DeVoti with New Georges.  New Feet’s production of All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin was part of the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2010. Most recently, New Feet has co-produced journalist Jack Hitt’s solo performance Making Up the Truth, directed by Jessica Bauman, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in 2011, and will be featured in the 2012 Spoleto Festival.
Location:  3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (between Rector and Edgar Streets), NYC
www.leavethebalconyopen.com

Friday, February 17, 2012      8:00 PM
New Feet Productions presents Leave the Balcony Open, a hopeful and humorous new play about learning how to live with loss written by Maya Macdonald.  Jessica Bauman directs a cast of seven including Heidi Armbruster* (Broadway: Time Stands Still), Wrenn Schmidt* (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba; Nat. Tour: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf), Jerzy Gwiazdowski* (Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Betsy Hogg* (Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof; The Crucible), Julie Kline* (Moment of Zen/Women’s Project; Birthday/Rising Phoenix Rep.), Jared McGuire (Photograph 51/3LD), Mary Rasmussen* (Romeo & Juliet/The Public Theatre). May is standing in the way of control. June is trying to hold out. Jon really wants a hug. Silent Gen is still looking up at that broken window, and everyone knows why, but never says anything. On a rural college campus where proximity to death defines your social status, four soon-to-be-graduates party, scream and learn how to move on. “Set between the lines of realism and preternatural world, Leave the Balcony Open is a wild theatrical ride through a landscape of loss and resilience,” states director Jessica Bauman. “By offering humor and poetry (and costume parties) in the darkest places, it allows both the characters and the audience to find hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable grief.” Leave the Balcony Open is produced by Lisa Dozier and New Feet Productions. Assistant Producer: Michael Holt; Director: Jessica Bauman; Scenic Designer: Gabe Evansohn; Projection Designer: Jesse Garrison; Costume Designer: Sydney Gallas; Lighting Designers: Laura Mroczkowski and Cat Tate Starmer; Sound Designer: Brandon Wolcott; Production Manager: Ken Larson; Production Stage Manager: Emily Page Ballou; Assistant Stage Manager: Donald Peter Butchko; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR. Leave the Balcony Open plays for sixteen performances from Sunday, February 5 to Sunday, February 26, 2012, with preview performances February 5 at 5pm, February 6 and 8 at 7pm, and regular performances beginning February 9th and running Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm.  An addition performance will be held on Monday, February 20th at 7pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased online at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/899595 or by calling 212-352-3101.  For more information, please visit http://leavethebalconyopen.com/. The runtime for Leave the Balcony Open is approximately 95 minutes with no intermission. Jessica Bauman (Director) recently directed Making Up the Truth by and with This American Life journalist Jack Hitt, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in June. Making Up the Truth will be included in the 2012 Spoleto Festival. She has been working as a director in New York and regionally for almost 20 years. Her work has been seen at theatres such as New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, the Public, Juilliard (including the world premiere of Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire), Rising Phoenix Rep and the 52nd Street Project. Regionally, she has worked at the Huntington Theater, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Theatre Outlet (Allentown, PA), Vermont Stage Company and the O’Neill. She has collaborated with playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Kia Corthron, Tracey Scott Wilson, Emily DeVoti, Jenny Lyn Bader, Diana Son, Napoleon Ellsworth and Kirsten Greenidge.  She is the founder and Artistic Director of New Feet Productions, for which she directed and produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her own six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin and Milk by Emily DeVoti (co-produced with New Georges). For the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, she has directed the premieres of Terrence McNally’s Teachers Break with Cynthia Nixon and Maura Tierney, Harrison Rivers’ and it seems to me a very good sign… with Naomi Watts and John Krasinski, and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Dress the Orphans with Rachel Dratch and Rosie Perez. She has been an Artist-in- Residence at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, a Drama League Directors Project fellow, and is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect and New Georges Affiliated Artist. Jessica was a finalist for the 2007-2009 TCG/NEA Career Development program for Directors. She is a graduate of Yale College.   Maya Macdonald (Playwright) is a playwright, actor and native of New York City.  She is bad at sleeping, but rather skilled at dreaming.  Her plays have been read, workshopped and produced with The Bushwick Starr, New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre, MCC Young Playwrights, The Be Company, Rising Phoenix Rep, 3LD and Astoria Performing Arts Center, among others.  She was Finalist for the 2011 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, a Semi-Finalist for both the 2009, and 2011 Page 73 Fellowship, a Finalist for the 2010 Mabou Mines Artist Residency, and a 2010 resident playwright at Tofte Lake Center’s Emerging Artists Residency, hosted by Liz Engelman.  Her play the really important people will be produced by Rising Phoenix Rep this Spring.  Maya is a graduate of Bennington College, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Dramatist’s Guild of America. Maya attempts optimism daily, and believes that hope is cutting edge.  She seeks to represent this in the worlds she creates on stage and off. www.mayamacdonald.net New Feet Productions is dedicated to developing and producing new and classical work that ripples with theatrical language and invention. Jessica Bauman founded New Feet Productions in 2007 in order to develop Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. New Feet sponsored two workshops of that project – one in spring ’07 at the Culture Project, and one in winter ’08 at the Tank. In May ’09, New Feet fully produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5) at Walkerspace with sets and lights designed by Tony-winning designer Christopher Akerlind.  In 2010, New Feet co-produced Milk by Emily DeVoti with New Georges.  New Feet’s production of All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin was part of the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2010. Most recently, New Feet has co-produced journalist Jack Hitt’s solo performance Making Up the Truth, directed by Jessica Bauman, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in 2011, and will be featured in the 2012 Spoleto Festival.
Location:  3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (between Rector and Edgar Streets), NYC
www.leavethebalconyopen.com

Friday, February 17, 2012      10:00 PM
The MADE-UP MUSICAL sings and dances its way onto the Magnet Theater stage with a one-of-a-kind musical comedy every week. After an interview with an audience member, the cast weaves together a full one-act musical, complete with all the songs, trappings and melodrama an audience expects from our friends on Broadway. Featuring John O’Donnell, Tara Copeland, Jessica Allen, Morgan Phillips, Michael Martin, and Leah Gotcsik with music provided by Frank Spitznagel. Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York’s improv masters and visiting international artists on Mondays through Sundays in February at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each night’s line-up can be found at www.magnettheater.com. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (212) 244-8824.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY
www.magnettheater.com

Saturday, February 18, 2012      4:30 PM
The Amazing Max and The Box of Interesting Things is a Magic Show with a mind of it’s own.  Magician Max Darwin makes objects appear out of thin air, as the laws of physics are defied, and miracles are performed inches from spectators’ faces.  As the props onstage seem intent on surprising even the magician himself, this out of control show bursts with striking visual magic, comedy and juggling, and loads of audience participation.  The Amazing Max and The Box of Interesting Things is the wackiest, most interactive, highest energy magic show for families on the market today. Front row seats available on the Magic Carpet (VIP seating) $49.50, regular general admission tickets $29.50.  Performances: Saturdays and Sundays at 4:30pm through January 15; Saturdays at 4:30pm through March 10.  No performances on the following dates: Sunday, December 25; Sunday, January 1; Sunday, January 22; Sunday, January 29.  Special mid-week holiday performances have been added at 11am on the following dates: Monday, December 19; Wednesday, December 21; Friday, December 23; and Tuesday, December 27.  Tickets are available at www.telecharge.com or by phone at 212-239-6200 or 800-432-7250.  
Location:  Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, 248 West 60th Street, New York City, 10023
www.TheAmazingMax.com

Saturday, February 18, 2012      8:00 PM
New Feet Productions presents Leave the Balcony Open, a hopeful and humorous new play about learning how to live with loss written by Maya Macdonald.  Jessica Bauman directs a cast of seven including Heidi Armbruster* (Broadway: Time Stands Still), Wrenn Schmidt* (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba; Nat. Tour: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf), Jerzy Gwiazdowski* (Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Betsy Hogg* (Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof; The Crucible), Julie Kline* (Moment of Zen/Women’s Project; Birthday/Rising Phoenix Rep.), Jared McGuire (Photograph 51/3LD), Mary Rasmussen* (Romeo & Juliet/The Public Theatre). May is standing in the way of control. June is trying to hold out. Jon really wants a hug. Silent Gen is still looking up at that broken window, and everyone knows why, but never says anything. On a rural college campus where proximity to death defines your social status, four soon-to-be-graduates party, scream and learn how to move on. “Set between the lines of realism and preternatural world, Leave the Balcony Open is a wild theatrical ride through a landscape of loss and resilience,” states director Jessica Bauman. “By offering humor and poetry (and costume parties) in the darkest places, it allows both the characters and the audience to find hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable grief.” Leave the Balcony Open is produced by Lisa Dozier and New Feet Productions. Assistant Producer: Michael Holt; Director: Jessica Bauman; Scenic Designer: Gabe Evansohn; Projection Designer: Jesse Garrison; Costume Designer: Sydney Gallas; Lighting Designers: Laura Mroczkowski and Cat Tate Starmer; Sound Designer: Brandon Wolcott; Production Manager: Ken Larson; Production Stage Manager: Emily Page Ballou; Assistant Stage Manager: Donald Peter Butchko; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR. Leave the Balcony Open plays for sixteen performances from Sunday, February 5 to Sunday, February 26, 2012, with preview performances February 5 at 5pm, February 6 and 8 at 7pm, and regular performances beginning February 9th and running Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm.  An addition performance will be held on Monday, February 20th at 7pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased online at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/899595 or by calling 212-352-3101.  For more information, please visit http://leavethebalconyopen.com/. The runtime for Leave the Balcony Open is approximately 95 minutes with no intermission. Jessica Bauman (Director) recently directed Making Up the Truth by and with This American Life journalist Jack Hitt, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in June. Making Up the Truth will be included in the 2012 Spoleto Festival. She has been working as a director in New York and regionally for almost 20 years. Her work has been seen at theatres such as New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, the Public, Juilliard (including the world premiere of Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire), Rising Phoenix Rep and the 52nd Street Project. Regionally, she has worked at the Huntington Theater, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Theatre Outlet (Allentown, PA), Vermont Stage Company and the O’Neill. She has collaborated with playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Kia Corthron, Tracey Scott Wilson, Emily DeVoti, Jenny Lyn Bader, Diana Son, Napoleon Ellsworth and Kirsten Greenidge.  She is the founder and Artistic Director of New Feet Productions, for which she directed and produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her own six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin and Milk by Emily DeVoti (co-produced with New Georges). For the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, she has directed the premieres of Terrence McNally’s Teachers Break with Cynthia Nixon and Maura Tierney, Harrison Rivers’ and it seems to me a very good sign… with Naomi Watts and John Krasinski, and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Dress the Orphans with Rachel Dratch and Rosie Perez. She has been an Artist-in- Residence at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, a Drama League Directors Project fellow, and is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect and New Georges Affiliated Artist. Jessica was a finalist for the 2007-2009 TCG/NEA Career Development program for Directors. She is a graduate of Yale College.   Maya Macdonald (Playwright) is a playwright, actor and native of New York City.  She is bad at sleeping, but rather skilled at dreaming.  Her plays have been read, workshopped and produced with The Bushwick Starr, New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre, MCC Young Playwrights, The Be Company, Rising Phoenix Rep, 3LD and Astoria Performing Arts Center, among others.  She was Finalist for the 2011 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, a Semi-Finalist for both the 2009, and 2011 Page 73 Fellowship, a Finalist for the 2010 Mabou Mines Artist Residency, and a 2010 resident playwright at Tofte Lake Center’s Emerging Artists Residency, hosted by Liz Engelman.  Her play the really important people will be produced by Rising Phoenix Rep this Spring.  Maya is a graduate of Bennington College, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Dramatist’s Guild of America. Maya attempts optimism daily, and believes that hope is cutting edge.  She seeks to represent this in the worlds she creates on stage and off. www.mayamacdonald.net New Feet Productions is dedicated to developing and producing new and classical work that ripples with theatrical language and invention. Jessica Bauman founded New Feet Productions in 2007 in order to develop Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. New Feet sponsored two workshops of that project – one in spring ’07 at the Culture Project, and one in winter ’08 at the Tank. In May ’09, New Feet fully produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5) at Walkerspace with sets and lights designed by Tony-winning designer Christopher Akerlind.  In 2010, New Feet co-produced Milk by Emily DeVoti with New Georges.  New Feet’s production of All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin was part of the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2010. Most recently, New Feet has co-produced journalist Jack Hitt’s solo performance Making Up the Truth, directed by Jessica Bauman, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in 2011, and will be featured in the 2012 Spoleto Festival.
Location:  3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (between Rector and Edgar Streets), NYC
www.leavethebalconyopen.com

Saturday, February 18, 2012      9:00 PM
Belonging to one of the Magnet Theater's maiden voyage Musical Megawatt Teams, CHORAL RAGE creates an out of this world musical journey into the depths of your imagination. Through their masterful harmonies and comedic colloquy, they create an entire musical based on your suggestion.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY 10001
www.magnettheater.com

Saturday, February 18, 2012      10:30 PM
TRIKE is a two-person improvisational joy ride built upon bold characters and seamless transitions. TRIKE never stops to consider its direction but rather gracefully plummets down the staircase of discovery, landing momentarily in a quiet relationship here, a fiery exchange there or a boisterous abstraction somewhere in between. Featuring Peter McNerney and Nick Kanellis. TRIKE is a *A TIME OUT NEW YORK CRITIC’S PICK* Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York’s improv masters and visiting international artists on Mondays through Sundays in February at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each night’s line-up can be found at www.magnettheater.com. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (212) 244-8824.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY 10001
www.magnettheater.com

Sunday, February 19, 2012      7:00 PM
New Feet Productions presents Leave the Balcony Open, a hopeful and humorous new play about learning how to live with loss written by Maya Macdonald.  Jessica Bauman directs a cast of seven including Heidi Armbruster* (Broadway: Time Stands Still), Wrenn Schmidt* (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba; Nat. Tour: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf), Jerzy Gwiazdowski* (Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Betsy Hogg* (Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof; The Crucible), Julie Kline* (Moment of Zen/Women’s Project; Birthday/Rising Phoenix Rep.), Jared McGuire (Photograph 51/3LD), Mary Rasmussen* (Romeo & Juliet/The Public Theatre). May is standing in the way of control. June is trying to hold out. Jon really wants a hug. Silent Gen is still looking up at that broken window, and everyone knows why, but never says anything. On a rural college campus where proximity to death defines your social status, four soon-to-be-graduates party, scream and learn how to move on. “Set between the lines of realism and preternatural world, Leave the Balcony Open is a wild theatrical ride through a landscape of loss and resilience,” states director Jessica Bauman. “By offering humor and poetry (and costume parties) in the darkest places, it allows both the characters and the audience to find hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable grief.” Leave the Balcony Open is produced by Lisa Dozier and New Feet Productions. Assistant Producer: Michael Holt; Director: Jessica Bauman; Scenic Designer: Gabe Evansohn; Projection Designer: Jesse Garrison; Costume Designer: Sydney Gallas; Lighting Designers: Laura Mroczkowski and Cat Tate Starmer; Sound Designer: Brandon Wolcott; Production Manager: Ken Larson; Production Stage Manager: Emily Page Ballou; Assistant Stage Manager: Donald Peter Butchko; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR. Leave the Balcony Open plays for sixteen performances from Sunday, February 5 to Sunday, February 26, 2012, with preview performances February 5 at 5pm, February 6 and 8 at 7pm, and regular performances beginning February 9th and running Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm.  An addition performance will be held on Monday, February 20th at 7pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased online at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/899595 or by calling 212-352-3101.  For more information, please visit http://leavethebalconyopen.com/. The runtime for Leave the Balcony Open is approximately 95 minutes with no intermission. Jessica Bauman (Director) recently directed Making Up the Truth by and with This American Life journalist Jack Hitt, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in June. Making Up the Truth will be included in the 2012 Spoleto Festival. She has been working as a director in New York and regionally for almost 20 years. Her work has been seen at theatres such as New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, the Public, Juilliard (including the world premiere of Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire), Rising Phoenix Rep and the 52nd Street Project. Regionally, she has worked at the Huntington Theater, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Theatre Outlet (Allentown, PA), Vermont Stage Company and the O’Neill. She has collaborated with playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Kia Corthron, Tracey Scott Wilson, Emily DeVoti, Jenny Lyn Bader, Diana Son, Napoleon Ellsworth and Kirsten Greenidge.  She is the founder and Artistic Director of New Feet Productions, for which she directed and produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her own six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin and Milk by Emily DeVoti (co-produced with New Georges). For the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, she has directed the premieres of Terrence McNally’s Teachers Break with Cynthia Nixon and Maura Tierney, Harrison Rivers’ and it seems to me a very good sign… with Naomi Watts and John Krasinski, and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Dress the Orphans with Rachel Dratch and Rosie Perez. She has been an Artist-in- Residence at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, a Drama League Directors Project fellow, and is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect and New Georges Affiliated Artist. Jessica was a finalist for the 2007-2009 TCG/NEA Career Development program for Directors. She is a graduate of Yale College.   Maya Macdonald (Playwright) is a playwright, actor and native of New York City.  She is bad at sleeping, but rather skilled at dreaming.  Her plays have been read, workshopped and produced with The Bushwick Starr, New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre, MCC Young Playwrights, The Be Company, Rising Phoenix Rep, 3LD and Astoria Performing Arts Center, among others.  She was Finalist for the 2011 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, a Semi-Finalist for both the 2009, and 2011 Page 73 Fellowship, a Finalist for the 2010 Mabou Mines Artist Residency, and a 2010 resident playwright at Tofte Lake Center’s Emerging Artists Residency, hosted by Liz Engelman.  Her play the really important people will be produced by Rising Phoenix Rep this Spring.  Maya is a graduate of Bennington College, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Dramatist’s Guild of America. Maya attempts optimism daily, and believes that hope is cutting edge.  She seeks to represent this in the worlds she creates on stage and off. www.mayamacdonald.net New Feet Productions is dedicated to developing and producing new and classical work that ripples with theatrical language and invention. Jessica Bauman founded New Feet Productions in 2007 in order to develop Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. New Feet sponsored two workshops of that project – one in spring ’07 at the Culture Project, and one in winter ’08 at the Tank. In May ’09, New Feet fully produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5) at Walkerspace with sets and lights designed by Tony-winning designer Christopher Akerlind.  In 2010, New Feet co-produced Milk by Emily DeVoti with New Georges.  New Feet’s production of All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin was part of the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2010. Most recently, New Feet has co-produced journalist Jack Hitt’s solo performance Making Up the Truth, directed by Jessica Bauman, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in 2011, and will be featured in the 2012 Spoleto Festival.
Location:  3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (between Rector and Edgar Streets), NYC
www.leavethebalconyopen.com

Monday, February 20, 2012      7:00 PM
New Feet Productions presents Leave the Balcony Open, a hopeful and humorous new play about learning how to live with loss written by Maya Macdonald.  Jessica Bauman directs a cast of seven including Heidi Armbruster* (Broadway: Time Stands Still), Wrenn Schmidt* (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba; Nat. Tour: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf), Jerzy Gwiazdowski* (Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Betsy Hogg* (Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof; The Crucible), Julie Kline* (Moment of Zen/Women’s Project; Birthday/Rising Phoenix Rep.), Jared McGuire (Photograph 51/3LD), Mary Rasmussen* (Romeo & Juliet/The Public Theatre). May is standing in the way of control. June is trying to hold out. Jon really wants a hug. Silent Gen is still looking up at that broken window, and everyone knows why, but never says anything. On a rural college campus where proximity to death defines your social status, four soon-to-be-graduates party, scream and learn how to move on. “Set between the lines of realism and preternatural world, Leave the Balcony Open is a wild theatrical ride through a landscape of loss and resilience,” states director Jessica Bauman. “By offering humor and poetry (and costume parties) in the darkest places, it allows both the characters and the audience to find hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable grief.” Leave the Balcony Open is produced by Lisa Dozier and New Feet Productions. Assistant Producer: Michael Holt; Director: Jessica Bauman; Scenic Designer: Gabe Evansohn; Projection Designer: Jesse Garrison; Costume Designer: Sydney Gallas; Lighting Designers: Laura Mroczkowski and Cat Tate Starmer; Sound Designer: Brandon Wolcott; Production Manager: Ken Larson; Production Stage Manager: Emily Page Ballou; Assistant Stage Manager: Donald Peter Butchko; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR. Leave the Balcony Open plays for sixteen performances from Sunday, February 5 to Sunday, February 26, 2012, with preview performances February 5 at 5pm, February 6 and 8 at 7pm, and regular performances beginning February 9th and running Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm.  An addition performance will be held on Monday, February 20th at 7pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased online at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/899595 or by calling 212-352-3101.  For more information, please visit http://leavethebalconyopen.com/. The runtime for Leave the Balcony Open is approximately 95 minutes with no intermission. Jessica Bauman (Director) recently directed Making Up the Truth by and with This American Life journalist Jack Hitt, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in June. Making Up the Truth will be included in the 2012 Spoleto Festival. She has been working as a director in New York and regionally for almost 20 years. Her work has been seen at theatres such as New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, the Public, Juilliard (including the world premiere of Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire), Rising Phoenix Rep and the 52nd Street Project. Regionally, she has worked at the Huntington Theater, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Theatre Outlet (Allentown, PA), Vermont Stage Company and the O’Neill. She has collaborated with playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Kia Corthron, Tracey Scott Wilson, Emily DeVoti, Jenny Lyn Bader, Diana Son, Napoleon Ellsworth and Kirsten Greenidge.  She is the founder and Artistic Director of New Feet Productions, for which she directed and produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her own six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin and Milk by Emily DeVoti (co-produced with New Georges). For the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, she has directed the premieres of Terrence McNally’s Teachers Break with Cynthia Nixon and Maura Tierney, Harrison Rivers’ and it seems to me a very good sign… with Naomi Watts and John Krasinski, and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Dress the Orphans with Rachel Dratch and Rosie Perez. She has been an Artist-in- Residence at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, a Drama League Directors Project fellow, and is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect and New Georges Affiliated Artist. Jessica was a finalist for the 2007-2009 TCG/NEA Career Development program for Directors. She is a graduate of Yale College.   Maya Macdonald (Playwright) is a playwright, actor and native of New York City.  She is bad at sleeping, but rather skilled at dreaming.  Her plays have been read, workshopped and produced with The Bushwick Starr, New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre, MCC Young Playwrights, The Be Company, Rising Phoenix Rep, 3LD and Astoria Performing Arts Center, among others.  She was Finalist for the 2011 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, a Semi-Finalist for both the 2009, and 2011 Page 73 Fellowship, a Finalist for the 2010 Mabou Mines Artist Residency, and a 2010 resident playwright at Tofte Lake Center’s Emerging Artists Residency, hosted by Liz Engelman.  Her play the really important people will be produced by Rising Phoenix Rep this Spring.  Maya is a graduate of Bennington College, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Dramatist’s Guild of America. Maya attempts optimism daily, and believes that hope is cutting edge.  She seeks to represent this in the worlds she creates on stage and off. www.mayamacdonald.net New Feet Productions is dedicated to developing and producing new and classical work that ripples with theatrical language and invention. Jessica Bauman founded New Feet Productions in 2007 in order to develop Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. New Feet sponsored two workshops of that project – one in spring ’07 at the Culture Project, and one in winter ’08 at the Tank. In May ’09, New Feet fully produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5) at Walkerspace with sets and lights designed by Tony-winning designer Christopher Akerlind.  In 2010, New Feet co-produced Milk by Emily DeVoti with New Georges.  New Feet’s production of All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin was part of the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2010. Most recently, New Feet has co-produced journalist Jack Hitt’s solo performance Making Up the Truth, directed by Jessica Bauman, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in 2011, and will be featured in the 2012 Spoleto Festival.
Location:  3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (between Rector and Edgar Streets), NYC
www.leavethebalconyopen.com

Wednesday, February 22, 2012      12:00 AM
High-powered improv from Magnet's own Super Groups. Our resident ensembles gather to dazzle audiences with various forms of improv comedy. The forms are constantly evolving, and no two shows are the same. Come see what your favorites are up to this week. Every Wednesday at 7pm, 8pm, 9pm, and 10:00pm. Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York’s improv masters and visiting international artists on Mondays through Sundays in February at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each night’s line-up can be found at www.magnettheater.com. Tickets are $7; reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (212) 244-8824.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY 10001
www.magnettheater.com

Thursday, February 23, 2012      8:00 PM
New Feet Productions presents Leave the Balcony Open, a hopeful and humorous new play about learning how to live with loss written by Maya Macdonald.  Jessica Bauman directs a cast of seven including Heidi Armbruster* (Broadway: Time Stands Still), Wrenn Schmidt* (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba; Nat. Tour: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf), Jerzy Gwiazdowski* (Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Betsy Hogg* (Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof; The Crucible), Julie Kline* (Moment of Zen/Women’s Project; Birthday/Rising Phoenix Rep.), Jared McGuire (Photograph 51/3LD), Mary Rasmussen* (Romeo & Juliet/The Public Theatre). May is standing in the way of control. June is trying to hold out. Jon really wants a hug. Silent Gen is still looking up at that broken window, and everyone knows why, but never says anything. On a rural college campus where proximity to death defines your social status, four soon-to-be-graduates party, scream and learn how to move on. “Set between the lines of realism and preternatural world, Leave the Balcony Open is a wild theatrical ride through a landscape of loss and resilience,” states director Jessica Bauman. “By offering humor and poetry (and costume parties) in the darkest places, it allows both the characters and the audience to find hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable grief.” Leave the Balcony Open is produced by Lisa Dozier and New Feet Productions. Assistant Producer: Michael Holt; Director: Jessica Bauman; Scenic Designer: Gabe Evansohn; Projection Designer: Jesse Garrison; Costume Designer: Sydney Gallas; Lighting Designers: Laura Mroczkowski and Cat Tate Starmer; Sound Designer: Brandon Wolcott; Production Manager: Ken Larson; Production Stage Manager: Emily Page Ballou; Assistant Stage Manager: Donald Peter Butchko; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR. Leave the Balcony Open plays for sixteen performances from Sunday, February 5 to Sunday, February 26, 2012, with preview performances February 5 at 5pm, February 6 and 8 at 7pm, and regular performances beginning February 9th and running Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm.  An addition performance will be held on Monday, February 20th at 7pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased online at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/899595 or by calling 212-352-3101.  For more information, please visit http://leavethebalconyopen.com/. The runtime for Leave the Balcony Open is approximately 95 minutes with no intermission. Jessica Bauman (Director) recently directed Making Up the Truth by and with This American Life journalist Jack Hitt, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in June. Making Up the Truth will be included in the 2012 Spoleto Festival. She has been working as a director in New York and regionally for almost 20 years. Her work has been seen at theatres such as New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, the Public, Juilliard (including the world premiere of Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire), Rising Phoenix Rep and the 52nd Street Project. Regionally, she has worked at the Huntington Theater, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Theatre Outlet (Allentown, PA), Vermont Stage Company and the O’Neill. She has collaborated with playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Kia Corthron, Tracey Scott Wilson, Emily DeVoti, Jenny Lyn Bader, Diana Son, Napoleon Ellsworth and Kirsten Greenidge.  She is the founder and Artistic Director of New Feet Productions, for which she directed and produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her own six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin and Milk by Emily DeVoti (co-produced with New Georges). For the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, she has directed the premieres of Terrence McNally’s Teachers Break with Cynthia Nixon and Maura Tierney, Harrison Rivers’ and it seems to me a very good sign… with Naomi Watts and John Krasinski, and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Dress the Orphans with Rachel Dratch and Rosie Perez. She has been an Artist-in- Residence at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, a Drama League Directors Project fellow, and is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect and New Georges Affiliated Artist. Jessica was a finalist for the 2007-2009 TCG/NEA Career Development program for Directors. She is a graduate of Yale College.   Maya Macdonald (Playwright) is a playwright, actor and native of New York City.  She is bad at sleeping, but rather skilled at dreaming.  Her plays have been read, workshopped and produced with The Bushwick Starr, New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre, MCC Young Playwrights, The Be Company, Rising Phoenix Rep, 3LD and Astoria Performing Arts Center, among others.  She was Finalist for the 2011 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, a Semi-Finalist for both the 2009, and 2011 Page 73 Fellowship, a Finalist for the 2010 Mabou Mines Artist Residency, and a 2010 resident playwright at Tofte Lake Center’s Emerging Artists Residency, hosted by Liz Engelman.  Her play the really important people will be produced by Rising Phoenix Rep this Spring.  Maya is a graduate of Bennington College, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Dramatist’s Guild of America. Maya attempts optimism daily, and believes that hope is cutting edge.  She seeks to represent this in the worlds she creates on stage and off. www.mayamacdonald.net New Feet Productions is dedicated to developing and producing new and classical work that ripples with theatrical language and invention. Jessica Bauman founded New Feet Productions in 2007 in order to develop Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. New Feet sponsored two workshops of that project – one in spring ’07 at the Culture Project, and one in winter ’08 at the Tank. In May ’09, New Feet fully produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5) at Walkerspace with sets and lights designed by Tony-winning designer Christopher Akerlind.  In 2010, New Feet co-produced Milk by Emily DeVoti with New Georges.  New Feet’s production of All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin was part of the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2010. Most recently, New Feet has co-produced journalist Jack Hitt’s solo performance Making Up the Truth, directed by Jessica Bauman, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in 2011, and will be featured in the 2012 Spoleto Festival.
Location:  3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (between Rector and Edgar Streets), NYC
www.leavethebalconyopen.com

Friday, February 24, 2012      8:00 PM
New Feet Productions presents Leave the Balcony Open, a hopeful and humorous new play about learning how to live with loss written by Maya Macdonald.  Jessica Bauman directs a cast of seven including Heidi Armbruster* (Broadway: Time Stands Still), Wrenn Schmidt* (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba; Nat. Tour: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf), Jerzy Gwiazdowski* (Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Betsy Hogg* (Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof; The Crucible), Julie Kline* (Moment of Zen/Women’s Project; Birthday/Rising Phoenix Rep.), Jared McGuire (Photograph 51/3LD), Mary Rasmussen* (Romeo & Juliet/The Public Theatre). May is standing in the way of control. June is trying to hold out. Jon really wants a hug. Silent Gen is still looking up at that broken window, and everyone knows why, but never says anything. On a rural college campus where proximity to death defines your social status, four soon-to-be-graduates party, scream and learn how to move on. “Set between the lines of realism and preternatural world, Leave the Balcony Open is a wild theatrical ride through a landscape of loss and resilience,” states director Jessica Bauman. “By offering humor and poetry (and costume parties) in the darkest places, it allows both the characters and the audience to find hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable grief.” Leave the Balcony Open is produced by Lisa Dozier and New Feet Productions. Assistant Producer: Michael Holt; Director: Jessica Bauman; Scenic Designer: Gabe Evansohn; Projection Designer: Jesse Garrison; Costume Designer: Sydney Gallas; Lighting Designers: Laura Mroczkowski and Cat Tate Starmer; Sound Designer: Brandon Wolcott; Production Manager: Ken Larson; Production Stage Manager: Emily Page Ballou; Assistant Stage Manager: Donald Peter Butchko; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR. Leave the Balcony Open plays for sixteen performances from Sunday, February 5 to Sunday, February 26, 2012, with preview performances February 5 at 5pm, February 6 and 8 at 7pm, and regular performances beginning February 9th and running Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm.  An addition performance will be held on Monday, February 20th at 7pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased online at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/899595 or by calling 212-352-3101.  For more information, please visit http://leavethebalconyopen.com/. The runtime for Leave the Balcony Open is approximately 95 minutes with no intermission. Jessica Bauman (Director) recently directed Making Up the Truth by and with This American Life journalist Jack Hitt, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in June. Making Up the Truth will be included in the 2012 Spoleto Festival. She has been working as a director in New York and regionally for almost 20 years. Her work has been seen at theatres such as New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, the Public, Juilliard (including the world premiere of Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire), Rising Phoenix Rep and the 52nd Street Project. Regionally, she has worked at the Huntington Theater, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Theatre Outlet (Allentown, PA), Vermont Stage Company and the O’Neill. She has collaborated with playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Kia Corthron, Tracey Scott Wilson, Emily DeVoti, Jenny Lyn Bader, Diana Son, Napoleon Ellsworth and Kirsten Greenidge.  She is the founder and Artistic Director of New Feet Productions, for which she directed and produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her own six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin and Milk by Emily DeVoti (co-produced with New Georges). For the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, she has directed the premieres of Terrence McNally’s Teachers Break with Cynthia Nixon and Maura Tierney, Harrison Rivers’ and it seems to me a very good sign… with Naomi Watts and John Krasinski, and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Dress the Orphans with Rachel Dratch and Rosie Perez. She has been an Artist-in- Residence at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, a Drama League Directors Project fellow, and is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect and New Georges Affiliated Artist. Jessica was a finalist for the 2007-2009 TCG/NEA Career Development program for Directors. She is a graduate of Yale College.   Maya Macdonald (Playwright) is a playwright, actor and native of New York City.  She is bad at sleeping, but rather skilled at dreaming.  Her plays have been read, workshopped and produced with The Bushwick Starr, New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre, MCC Young Playwrights, The Be Company, Rising Phoenix Rep, 3LD and Astoria Performing Arts Center, among others.  She was Finalist for the 2011 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, a Semi-Finalist for both the 2009, and 2011 Page 73 Fellowship, a Finalist for the 2010 Mabou Mines Artist Residency, and a 2010 resident playwright at Tofte Lake Center’s Emerging Artists Residency, hosted by Liz Engelman.  Her play the really important people will be produced by Rising Phoenix Rep this Spring.  Maya is a graduate of Bennington College, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Dramatist’s Guild of America. Maya attempts optimism daily, and believes that hope is cutting edge.  She seeks to represent this in the worlds she creates on stage and off. www.mayamacdonald.net New Feet Productions is dedicated to developing and producing new and classical work that ripples with theatrical language and invention. Jessica Bauman founded New Feet Productions in 2007 in order to develop Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. New Feet sponsored two workshops of that project – one in spring ’07 at the Culture Project, and one in winter ’08 at the Tank. In May ’09, New Feet fully produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5) at Walkerspace with sets and lights designed by Tony-winning designer Christopher Akerlind.  In 2010, New Feet co-produced Milk by Emily DeVoti with New Georges.  New Feet’s production of All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin was part of the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2010. Most recently, New Feet has co-produced journalist Jack Hitt’s solo performance Making Up the Truth, directed by Jessica Bauman, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in 2011, and will be featured in the 2012 Spoleto Festival.
Location:  3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (between Rector and Edgar Streets), NYC
www.leavethebalconyopen.com

Friday, February 24, 2012      8:30 PM
Fridays, February 3, 24 at 8:30pm Tickets $7 Veteran improviser Christina Gausas joins duo MegaLou (Megan Gray and Louis Kornfeld). MegaLou combines 14 years of dating with 6 years of friendship with Gausas for a night of improvised unity. Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York’s improv masters and visiting international artists on Mondays through Sundays in February at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each night’s line-up can be found at www.magnettheater.com. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (212) 244-8824.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY 10001
www.magnettheater.com

Friday, February 24, 2012      10:00 PM
The MADE-UP MUSICAL sings and dances its way onto the Magnet Theater stage with a one-of-a-kind musical comedy every week. After an interview with an audience member, the cast weaves together a full one-act musical, complete with all the songs, trappings and melodrama an audience expects from our friends on Broadway. Featuring John O’Donnell, Tara Copeland, Jessica Allen, Morgan Phillips, Michael Martin, and Leah Gotcsik with music provided by Frank Spitznagel. Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York’s improv masters and visiting international artists on Mondays through Sundays in February at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each night’s line-up can be found at www.magnettheater.com. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (212) 244-8824.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY
www.magnettheater.com

Saturday, February 25, 2012      7:00 PM
Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre announces its benefit gala White Night II on Saturday, February 25, 2012 from 7-10pm at Space on White at 81 White Street (between Lafayette and Broadway). Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre and Notes in Motion Outreach Dance Theatre present White Night II – a Movable Performance Soiree on Saturday, February 25, 2012. This one-of-a-kind interactive event returns for the second year! Tickets will grant entry in 15-minute intervals between 7pm and 9:15pm. Upon admission, guests will be guided from room to room through the three leveled space, discovering live music, ongoing dance performance previewing Amanda Selwyn’s developing new work, video installation, a silent auction, gambling, a slice of Notes in Motion arts-in-education programs, flowing cocktails and hors d’oeuvres paired for all of the various spaces, costume exhibits, and give-aways. At the conclusion of the tour, guests can steer their way through the nine spaces at ‘Space on White,’ returning to explore further and create their own experience for the eyes, ears, palate, and spirit. All proceeds support Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre’s Twelfth Annual Performance Season World Premiere Detour at New York Live Arts in June 2012 and Notes in Motion Outreach Dance Theatre’s arts-in-education programs in NYC Public Schools and 50% of the ticket price is tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Tickets for White Night II are $100 in advance and $125 at the door. $75 tickets are available for patrons under the age of 30. Tickets may be purchased at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1126514435. The required attire is black and white festive.
Location:  Space on White 81 White Street New York, NY 10013
www.eventbrite.com/event/1126514435

Saturday, February 25, 2012      4:30 PM
The Amazing Max and The Box of Interesting Things is a Magic Show with a mind of it’s own.  Magician Max Darwin makes objects appear out of thin air, as the laws of physics are defied, and miracles are performed inches from spectators’ faces.  As the props onstage seem intent on surprising even the magician himself, this out of control show bursts with striking visual magic, comedy and juggling, and loads of audience participation.  The Amazing Max and The Box of Interesting Things is the wackiest, most interactive, highest energy magic show for families on the market today. Front row seats available on the Magic Carpet (VIP seating) $49.50, regular general admission tickets $29.50.  Performances: Saturdays and Sundays at 4:30pm through January 15; Saturdays at 4:30pm through March 10.  No performances on the following dates: Sunday, December 25; Sunday, January 1; Sunday, January 22; Sunday, January 29.  Special mid-week holiday performances have been added at 11am on the following dates: Monday, December 19; Wednesday, December 21; Friday, December 23; and Tuesday, December 27.  Tickets are available at www.telecharge.com or by phone at 212-239-6200 or 800-432-7250.  
Location:  Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, 248 West 60th Street, New York City, 10023
www.TheAmazingMax.com

Saturday, February 25, 2012      8:00 PM
New Feet Productions presents Leave the Balcony Open, a hopeful and humorous new play about learning how to live with loss written by Maya Macdonald.  Jessica Bauman directs a cast of seven including Heidi Armbruster* (Broadway: Time Stands Still), Wrenn Schmidt* (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba; Nat. Tour: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf), Jerzy Gwiazdowski* (Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Betsy Hogg* (Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof; The Crucible), Julie Kline* (Moment of Zen/Women’s Project; Birthday/Rising Phoenix Rep.), Jared McGuire (Photograph 51/3LD), Mary Rasmussen* (Romeo & Juliet/The Public Theatre). May is standing in the way of control. June is trying to hold out. Jon really wants a hug. Silent Gen is still looking up at that broken window, and everyone knows why, but never says anything. On a rural college campus where proximity to death defines your social status, four soon-to-be-graduates party, scream and learn how to move on. “Set between the lines of realism and preternatural world, Leave the Balcony Open is a wild theatrical ride through a landscape of loss and resilience,” states director Jessica Bauman. “By offering humor and poetry (and costume parties) in the darkest places, it allows both the characters and the audience to find hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable grief.” Leave the Balcony Open is produced by Lisa Dozier and New Feet Productions. Assistant Producer: Michael Holt; Director: Jessica Bauman; Scenic Designer: Gabe Evansohn; Projection Designer: Jesse Garrison; Costume Designer: Sydney Gallas; Lighting Designers: Laura Mroczkowski and Cat Tate Starmer; Sound Designer: Brandon Wolcott; Production Manager: Ken Larson; Production Stage Manager: Emily Page Ballou; Assistant Stage Manager: Donald Peter Butchko; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR. Leave the Balcony Open plays for sixteen performances from Sunday, February 5 to Sunday, February 26, 2012, with preview performances February 5 at 5pm, February 6 and 8 at 7pm, and regular performances beginning February 9th and running Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm.  An addition performance will be held on Monday, February 20th at 7pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased online at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/899595 or by calling 212-352-3101.  For more information, please visit http://leavethebalconyopen.com/. The runtime for Leave the Balcony Open is approximately 95 minutes with no intermission. Jessica Bauman (Director) recently directed Making Up the Truth by and with This American Life journalist Jack Hitt, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in June. Making Up the Truth will be included in the 2012 Spoleto Festival. She has been working as a director in New York and regionally for almost 20 years. Her work has been seen at theatres such as New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, the Public, Juilliard (including the world premiere of Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire), Rising Phoenix Rep and the 52nd Street Project. Regionally, she has worked at the Huntington Theater, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Theatre Outlet (Allentown, PA), Vermont Stage Company and the O’Neill. She has collaborated with playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Kia Corthron, Tracey Scott Wilson, Emily DeVoti, Jenny Lyn Bader, Diana Son, Napoleon Ellsworth and Kirsten Greenidge.  She is the founder and Artistic Director of New Feet Productions, for which she directed and produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her own six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin and Milk by Emily DeVoti (co-produced with New Georges). For the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, she has directed the premieres of Terrence McNally’s Teachers Break with Cynthia Nixon and Maura Tierney, Harrison Rivers’ and it seems to me a very good sign… with Naomi Watts and John Krasinski, and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Dress the Orphans with Rachel Dratch and Rosie Perez. She has been an Artist-in- Residence at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, a Drama League Directors Project fellow, and is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect and New Georges Affiliated Artist. Jessica was a finalist for the 2007-2009 TCG/NEA Career Development program for Directors. She is a graduate of Yale College.   Maya Macdonald (Playwright) is a playwright, actor and native of New York City.  She is bad at sleeping, but rather skilled at dreaming.  Her plays have been read, workshopped and produced with The Bushwick Starr, New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre, MCC Young Playwrights, The Be Company, Rising Phoenix Rep, 3LD and Astoria Performing Arts Center, among others.  She was Finalist for the 2011 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, a Semi-Finalist for both the 2009, and 2011 Page 73 Fellowship, a Finalist for the 2010 Mabou Mines Artist Residency, and a 2010 resident playwright at Tofte Lake Center’s Emerging Artists Residency, hosted by Liz Engelman.  Her play the really important people will be produced by Rising Phoenix Rep this Spring.  Maya is a graduate of Bennington College, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Dramatist’s Guild of America. Maya attempts optimism daily, and believes that hope is cutting edge.  She seeks to represent this in the worlds she creates on stage and off. www.mayamacdonald.net New Feet Productions is dedicated to developing and producing new and classical work that ripples with theatrical language and invention. Jessica Bauman founded New Feet Productions in 2007 in order to develop Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. New Feet sponsored two workshops of that project – one in spring ’07 at the Culture Project, and one in winter ’08 at the Tank. In May ’09, New Feet fully produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5) at Walkerspace with sets and lights designed by Tony-winning designer Christopher Akerlind.  In 2010, New Feet co-produced Milk by Emily DeVoti with New Georges.  New Feet’s production of All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin was part of the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2010. Most recently, New Feet has co-produced journalist Jack Hitt’s solo performance Making Up the Truth, directed by Jessica Bauman, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in 2011, and will be featured in the 2012 Spoleto Festival.
Location:  3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (between Rector and Edgar Streets), NYC
www.leavethebalconyopen.com

Saturday, February 25, 2012      9:00 PM
Belonging to one of the Magnet Theater's maiden voyage Musical Megawatt Teams, CHORAL RAGE creates an out of this world musical journey into the depths of your imagination. Through their masterful harmonies and comedic colloquy, they create an entire musical based on your suggestion.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY 10001
www.magnettheater.com

Saturday, February 25, 2012      10:30 PM
TRIKE is a two-person improvisational joy ride built upon bold characters and seamless transitions. TRIKE never stops to consider its direction but rather gracefully plummets down the staircase of discovery, landing momentarily in a quiet relationship here, a fiery exchange there or a boisterous abstraction somewhere in between. Featuring Peter McNerney and Nick Kanellis. TRIKE is a *A TIME OUT NEW YORK CRITIC’S PICK* Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York’s improv masters and visiting international artists on Mondays through Sundays in February at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each night’s line-up can be found at www.magnettheater.com. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (212) 244-8824.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY 10001
www.magnettheater.com

Sunday, February 26, 2012      7:00 PM
New Feet Productions presents Leave the Balcony Open, a hopeful and humorous new play about learning how to live with loss written by Maya Macdonald.  Jessica Bauman directs a cast of seven including Heidi Armbruster* (Broadway: Time Stands Still), Wrenn Schmidt* (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba; Nat. Tour: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf), Jerzy Gwiazdowski* (Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Betsy Hogg* (Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof; The Crucible), Julie Kline* (Moment of Zen/Women’s Project; Birthday/Rising Phoenix Rep.), Jared McGuire (Photograph 51/3LD), Mary Rasmussen* (Romeo & Juliet/The Public Theatre). May is standing in the way of control. June is trying to hold out. Jon really wants a hug. Silent Gen is still looking up at that broken window, and everyone knows why, but never says anything. On a rural college campus where proximity to death defines your social status, four soon-to-be-graduates party, scream and learn how to move on. “Set between the lines of realism and preternatural world, Leave the Balcony Open is a wild theatrical ride through a landscape of loss and resilience,” states director Jessica Bauman. “By offering humor and poetry (and costume parties) in the darkest places, it allows both the characters and the audience to find hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable grief.” Leave the Balcony Open is produced by Lisa Dozier and New Feet Productions. Assistant Producer: Michael Holt; Director: Jessica Bauman; Scenic Designer: Gabe Evansohn; Projection Designer: Jesse Garrison; Costume Designer: Sydney Gallas; Lighting Designers: Laura Mroczkowski and Cat Tate Starmer; Sound Designer: Brandon Wolcott; Production Manager: Ken Larson; Production Stage Manager: Emily Page Ballou; Assistant Stage Manager: Donald Peter Butchko; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR. Leave the Balcony Open plays for sixteen performances from Sunday, February 5 to Sunday, February 26, 2012, with preview performances February 5 at 5pm, February 6 and 8 at 7pm, and regular performances beginning February 9th and running Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm.  An addition performance will be held on Monday, February 20th at 7pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased online at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/899595 or by calling 212-352-3101.  For more information, please visit http://leavethebalconyopen.com/. The runtime for Leave the Balcony Open is approximately 95 minutes with no intermission. Jessica Bauman (Director) recently directed Making Up the Truth by and with This American Life journalist Jack Hitt, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in June. Making Up the Truth will be included in the 2012 Spoleto Festival. She has been working as a director in New York and regionally for almost 20 years. Her work has been seen at theatres such as New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, the Public, Juilliard (including the world premiere of Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire), Rising Phoenix Rep and the 52nd Street Project. Regionally, she has worked at the Huntington Theater, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Theatre Outlet (Allentown, PA), Vermont Stage Company and the O’Neill. She has collaborated with playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Kia Corthron, Tracey Scott Wilson, Emily DeVoti, Jenny Lyn Bader, Diana Son, Napoleon Ellsworth and Kirsten Greenidge.  She is the founder and Artistic Director of New Feet Productions, for which she directed and produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her own six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin and Milk by Emily DeVoti (co-produced with New Georges). For the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, she has directed the premieres of Terrence McNally’s Teachers Break with Cynthia Nixon and Maura Tierney, Harrison Rivers’ and it seems to me a very good sign… with Naomi Watts and John Krasinski, and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Dress the Orphans with Rachel Dratch and Rosie Perez. She has been an Artist-in- Residence at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, a Drama League Directors Project fellow, and is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect and New Georges Affiliated Artist. Jessica was a finalist for the 2007-2009 TCG/NEA Career Development program for Directors. She is a graduate of Yale College.   Maya Macdonald (Playwright) is a playwright, actor and native of New York City.  She is bad at sleeping, but rather skilled at dreaming.  Her plays have been read, workshopped and produced with The Bushwick Starr, New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre, MCC Young Playwrights, The Be Company, Rising Phoenix Rep, 3LD and Astoria Performing Arts Center, among others.  She was Finalist for the 2011 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, a Semi-Finalist for both the 2009, and 2011 Page 73 Fellowship, a Finalist for the 2010 Mabou Mines Artist Residency, and a 2010 resident playwright at Tofte Lake Center’s Emerging Artists Residency, hosted by Liz Engelman.  Her play the really important people will be produced by Rising Phoenix Rep this Spring.  Maya is a graduate of Bennington College, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Dramatist’s Guild of America. Maya attempts optimism daily, and believes that hope is cutting edge.  She seeks to represent this in the worlds she creates on stage and off. www.mayamacdonald.net New Feet Productions is dedicated to developing and producing new and classical work that ripples with theatrical language and invention. Jessica Bauman founded New Feet Productions in 2007 in order to develop Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. New Feet sponsored two workshops of that project – one in spring ’07 at the Culture Project, and one in winter ’08 at the Tank. In May ’09, New Feet fully produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5) at Walkerspace with sets and lights designed by Tony-winning designer Christopher Akerlind.  In 2010, New Feet co-produced Milk by Emily DeVoti with New Georges.  New Feet’s production of All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin was part of the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2010. Most recently, New Feet has co-produced journalist Jack Hitt’s solo performance Making Up the Truth, directed by Jessica Bauman, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in 2011, and will be featured in the 2012 Spoleto Festival.
Location:  3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (between Rector and Edgar Streets), NYC
www.leavethebalconyopen.com

Tuesday, February 28, 2012      6:00 PM
Preeminent Retail Consultant Faith Hope Consolo, Chairman of Prudential Douglas Elliman's Retail Group, invites you to the next NYCREW Industry Spotlight Series Event Leveraging Your Connections in Today's Economy Tuesday, February 28, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Featuring: Collete English Dixon, Vice President, Transactions at Prudential Real Estate Investors and 2011 National President at CREW Network For more information and to register, please visit http://www.nycrew.org/node/92 or http://www.nycrew.org/. (Follow Faith Hope Consolo on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FaithHConsolo)
Location:  Crowell & Moring LLP 590 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10022
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012      7:30 PM
American Storyboard presents The Yeats Game, a farce of improbable darkness written by John J. Ronan.  Kathy Richter directs a cast of four including Toby Wherry, Susan Stout, Jennifer Silverstein and Lucius Wall. Performances for The Yeats Game will be held at The Producers’ Club, 358 West 44th Street in NYC for twenty-four performances beginning Wednesday, February 29 to Sunday, March 25, 2012. The Yeats Game is a farce about middle-age choices and their ridiculous consequences.  At a funeral, as two frisky couples contemplate a friend’s fatal, love-nest heart attack, they flash back to their own recent snowed-in weekend at a mountain cabin.  There, a board game designed for age-hating Boomers leads to tangled romance as the old friends explore love, lust, marriage and mischief.  Just as guilt prompts confession, and all things point to reform, maturity and reluctant virtue, the play’s close tells us that virtue is a weak motivator, immaturity has its advantages - and that the corpse is perhaps not so dead. A comical, brainy look at the pre-geezer years, The Yeats Game was inspired by the poet's famous line: “Only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.”  The Yeats Game, which played to standing room only audiences at its World Premiere in Boston, is a booze-, Viagra-, dice-driven romp. The Yeats Game is produced by American Storyboard.  Director: Kathy Richter; Playwright: John J. Ronan; Sound Designer: Timothy Dahl; Production Stage Manager: Keri Taylor; Assistant Stage Manager: Kristin Dwyer; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR. The Yeats Game plays for twenty-four performances from Wednesday, February 29 to Sunday, March 25, 2012, with performances Wednesdays & Thursdays at 7:30pm, Saturdays & Sundays at 8pm, and matinee performances on Saturdays and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased online at www.smarttix.com or by calling 212-868-4444.  For more information, please visit www.theyeatsgame.org. The runtime for The Yeats Game is 1:30, with no intermission. Kathy Richter (director) is a stage actor, director, dramaturge, and producer.  She has directed and performed regionally, including in productions of Sisters Rosensweig, Steel Magnolias and Sylvia (Tampa, FL) and The Diary of Anne Frank (Rhinebeck, NY).  She has worked with playwrights on the development of new plays at Abingdon Theatre Company in New York, where she met playwright John Ronan and directed their first reading of The Yeats Game.  Kathy has been a successful producer and director of documentary films, winning a PlanetOut/HBO Award in 2002 for Best Short Documentary.  Another project was acquired by the ACLU to air as part of its Freedom Files television series in 2007. As a director, Kathy looks for plays with humor and a sound story. She enjoys working on new plays, helping playwrights to perfect their scripts. Kathy worked as a news reporter, anchor, and producer in top television markets, including Tampa, Miami, and Grand Rapids.  She has run marketing and communications departments for both Fortune 500 Companies and small corporations and marketed a small company for eventual acquisition by a Berkshire Hathaway Company.  Kathy studied the Practical Aesthetics technique for acting at Atlantic Acting School in New York. She holds a Master’s Degree in Journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor’s Degree in Radio-Television Broadcasting with a Minor in Theatre from Southern Illinois University—Carbondale. John J. Ronan is a playwright and poet.  His comedy, The Yeats Game – A Farce of Improbable Darkness, premiered at the West End Theater in Gloucester, MA, in 2007, and later had an SRO run at Boston Playwrights Theatre.  He is very happy to be working with Kathy Richter on a Big Apple premiere.  Speaking of which, his latest play, The Apple Trap: A Parable in Two Acts, will go into production in 2013.  John has received wide recognition for his poetry.  A new book, Marrowbone Lane, appeared in January 2009; in 2010 it was Highly Recommended by the Boston Authors Club.  Ronan has appeared in scores of national magazines and reviews, including New England Review, Three Penny Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Hollins Critic, and Notre Dame Review.  He is a former National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a Ucross Fellow, and Bread Loaf Scholar.  In June of 2008 he was named to a two-year term as Poet Laureate of Gloucester, MA. Other books include The Catching Self, The Curable Corpse and John J. Ronan: Greatest Hits 1975-2000.  Other work was included in an anthology of prize-winning poetry, Sad Little Breathings, edited by Heather McHugh and published in 2001. John is also the producer and host of The Writer's Block with John Ronan, a television program featuring writers, actors, and other artists.   The series, a first prize NECTA winner in 2005, began its 22nd season in September. American Storyboard, Inc., is a non-profit, 501c3 charitable corporation dedicated to producing documentaries, plays, and other media forms of the highest quality.  American Storyboard was the producer of an important sports documentary titled Women in American Horse Racing, a finalist for a prestigious Billie Awards.  A previous feature, Gloucester's Adventure: An American Story, won national awards, including a TELLY and GOLD AURORA, and was aired on PBS outlets.  Tax deductible donations may be made to American Storyboard, Inc.
Location:  The Producers' Club, 358 West 44th Street New York, NY  10036
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012      12:00 AM
High-powered improv from Magnet's own Super Groups. Our resident ensembles gather to dazzle audiences with various forms of improv comedy. The forms are constantly evolving, and no two shows are the same. Come see what your favorites are up to this week. Every Wednesday at 7pm, 8pm, 9pm, and 10:00pm. Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York’s improv masters and visiting international artists on Mondays through Sundays in February at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each night’s line-up can be found at www.magnettheater.com. Tickets are $7; reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (212) 244-8824.
Location:  Magnet Theater 254 W. 29th Street New York, NY 10001
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