Theater in Foucs 

Disposable Men
by James Scruggs
Here Arts Center
King Kong, African-American men, and Frankenstein collide in James Scruggs˙ richly interactive multimedia performance exploring the uncanny relationship between African-American men and classic Hollywood monsters. Live performance and eight channels of video examine the unfounded fear of and imaginative ways both are killed.

Fear & All of Me

by Corina Katt Ayala
The Producer˙s Club
This one-woman show by recording artist Ayala confronts psychological issues with a personification of fear, symbolized by a pair of projected, larger-than-life, ruby-red lips. An eclectic, multi-media montage comprised of Corina˙s scrapbook of memories includes Ayelet, a sexually repressed Israeli woman, and Nena, an in-your-face Latina from El Barrio

Little Mary
by William S. Leavengood
Sanford Meisner Theater
William S. Leavengood˙s drama tells the story of a conservative Roman Catholic cardinal and his protégé, a progressive California bishop. The priests find their lives thrown into turmoil when a fifteen-year-old Mexican-American girl in their care, dubbed “Little Mary” by the media, creates an international sensation by claiming that the seven babies she carries are the children of God.

Woman Before a Glass
by Lanie Robertson
Promenade Theatre
Mercedes Ruehl is Peggy Guggenheim, the tempestuous lover of men and art who spent her life supporting and loving the greatest artists of the 20th century. This Promenade Theater production follows the great triumphs and supreme disappointment of the legendary grande dame of the art world.

True West
by Sam Shepard
Charlie Pineapple Theatre
Brooklyn˙s Charlie Pineapple Theatre presents a revival of Sam Shepard˙s rough-and-tumble drama about two estranged brothers who reunite at their mother˙s home, igniting passions that result in a violent personality swap between the two. Mark Vanderbeets and Rob McCarthy star.

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