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here the info if the flyer is too confusing;
Date:Friday, October 23, 2009 Time:4:00pm - 6:35pm Location:BROOKLYN SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL CULTURE 53 Prospect Park West @ 2nd StreetDescription Spread Love its the BROOKLYN WAYYYYY : YO, IF YOU LIKE MUSIC, DANCING, AND LITTLE BIT OF POETRY HIT UP THE OPEN MIC WE GOT YOU COVERED!!!! "SPREAD LOVE ITS THE BROOKLYN WAY" THE CONDOM PACKAGING AND PROTECTION FROM HIV/AIDS *YES REFRESHMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED

CREATURE

Your second performance is scheduled to follow your third class on October 28th!
Immediately following class you'll head downtown together to the OHIO THEATER to see the latest New Georges production....

CREATURE

a new play by Heidi Schreck
directed by Leigh Silverman

with  Marylouise Burke, Darren Goldstein, Sofia Jean Gomez,
Will Rogers, Tricia Rodley and Jeremy Shamos


The OHIO THEATRE 
66 Wooster Street, Soho
between Spring & Broome streets
N/R to Prince; C/E to Spring; any train to Canal


About the show:  After being pestered by devils for more than half a year, Margery Kempe* – new mother, mayor’s daughter, and proprietress of a highly profitable beer business – is liberated from her torment by a vision of Jesus Christ in purple robes. 

Visions are hard to come by, even in 1401.  Should we trust the new Margery, with her fasting and her weeping and her chastity fixation, or burn her with the other heretics?  Can a woman of insatiable appetites just up and audition for sainthood? 

Playwright and OBIE-winning actor Heidi Schreck conjures a collision of contemporary and medieval imaginations: a very funny, a little bit scary new play about faith and its messengers. 

County of Kings

Immediately following your first class, you'll head down to The Public Theater together for your first show!  The Public Theater is located at 425 Lafayette Avenue, just below Astor Place.  The closest trains are the N, R, W and 6.  The B, D, F, and V are also close by!

Half Puerto Rican.

Half Norwegian.
Two-time felon.
One Hell of a show.

Academy Award nominated director Spike Lee, Culture Project, Steve Colman, Jayson Jackson, and Tom Wirtshafter in association with The Public Theater present:

County of Kings  Written and performed by Lemon Andersen, and developed and directed by Elise Thoron, County of Kings begins performances Tuesday, September 29 for a six week limited engagement at The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street.

Featured earlier this year as part of The Public Theater’s Under The Radar Festival, Lemon Andersen’s County of Kings gives a tough, yet poignant autobiographical account of a good kid growing up in an unforgiving environment. Lemon, whose parents met at a methadone clinic and passed away from AIDS, served two prison sentences before he was 21 and won a Tony before he turned 30. His on-stage memoir touches on young love, the birth of hip hop, slinging crack, ballet, stealing car parts, prison, and poetry as he takes the audience on an astonishing and surprising one-man journey toward self-discovery. Weaving hard-edged drama with urban poetry, the Brooklyn born and bred performer tells his coming-of-age story with profound honesty, compassion and humor. A true story of finding passion in the arts and finding one’s way, Lemon paints a vivid portrait of his own life and the lives of countless other Brooklynites during the 1980s and 1990s.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Lemon Andersen has been featured as a regular on HBO’s “Def Poetry” presented by Russell Simmons and was also an original cast member and writer of Russell Simmons Tony Award winning Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. On screen Lemon has appeared opposite Denzel Washington in Spike Lee’s Inside Man and The Soloist starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.

Theater TRaC begins!

And you begin with a bang.  The first day of class you will meet Karen Hartman, your intrepid instructor for the fall (that's her over there on the right--->).  Not only is she a fantastic teacher, she's also a professional playwright.  Check out her bio here.   You'll also be meeting one another and getting right into what we're here to do.... talk theater and art!  And if that isn't enough, right away you'll be off to your first show called COUNTY OF KINGS at the Public Theater!

Action packed.

So, here's directions so you know where to go for your workshops every week.

DIRECTIONS to the Teachers & Writers Collaborative: 
520 Eighth Avenue, Suite 2020
New York, NY 10018
map it here.

The easiest way is to take the A, C, or E train to 34th Street, then walk up 8th Ave to building #520.  We're inbetween 36th and 37th Street.  Look for the revolving door.  Take the elevator to the 20th floor and head towards Suite 2020.  Look for the glass doors and tables and chairs.

The building looks like this:


...but that's kind of what all old New York buildings look like, so just look for the number and the revolving door.


Happy first day!