2009 TCG Fall Forum on Governance - Chelsea and more...
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Performances
We strongly encourage you to attend productions at any of the New York area TCG member theatres while you are in town for the Forum. The following theatres provided information to us about their current productions and are offering special discount ticket prices to Fall Forum participants; please remember to use the discount code, if one is provided, when placing your order.
The Barrow Group
| Website: www.barrowgroup.org B.O. Website: , www.smarttix.com |
Fax: 212-760-2962Email: tbg@barrowgroup.org |
| Phone: 212-760-2615 |
The Thickness of Skin
By Clare McIntyre, directed by Jacob White
In this American Premiere, McIntyre asks ‘in what ways are we responsible to help our fellow human beings’? She highlights the humorous and humanistic side of life while encouraging us each to reflect and perhaps transform.
The Barrow Group - TBG Studio Theatre, 312 W. 36th Street, 3rd Floor at 8th Avenue
Show times & Prices: Offering discount – use code TCG15
Saturday, 11/7 @ 8:00 p.m. ($15)
Sunday, 11/8 @ 3:00 p.m. ($15)
Sunday, 11/8 @ 8:00 p.m. ($15)
Castillo Theatre
| Website: www.castillo.org | Fax: 212-941-8340 |
| Phone: 212-941-1234 | Email: boxoffice@allstars.org |
Safe at Third (or Josh Gibson Don't Bunt)
By Fred Newman, directed by Fred Newman
Four historical figures — Albert Einstein; the great Negro League slugger Josh Gibson, Otto René Castillo, the martyred Guatemalan poet and revolutionary; and the legendary aviator Amelia Earhart — find themselves stranded at third base with no way home in this whimsical fantasy.
Castillo Theatre, 543 West 42nd Street
Show times & Prices: Offering 40% of discount
Saturday, 11/7 @ 7:30 p.m. ($35 (before discount))
Sunday, 11/8 @ 2:00 p.m. ($35 (before discount))
Cherry Lane Theatre
| Website: www.cherrylanetheatre.org | Phone: 212-989-2020 |
The Lady With All The Answers
By David Rambo, directed by B.J. Jones
With wit, charm, and chutzpah, Ann Landers provided millions of Americans their daily dose of advice, etiquette, and encouragement. And for nearly half a century, one Eppie Lederer was Ann Landers. With both grace and a touching vulnerability, two-time Tony Award winner Judith Ivey’s Landers is a tribute and celebration of a cultural icon.
Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street off of 7th Ave. South
Show times & Prices: Offering $5 off regular ticket prices – use code LADY09
Thursday, 11/5 @ 8:00 p.m. ($41)
Saturday, 11/7 @ 8:00 p.m. ($51)
Sunday, 11/8 @ 3:00 p.m. ($41)
Classic Stage Company
| Website: www.classicstage.org | Phone: 212-352-3101 |
THE AGE OF IRON
By From William Shakespeare’s Troilus & Cressida, adapted & directed by Brian Kulick
This epic retelling of the Trojan War, drawn from the works of two of the most dynamic Elizabethan playwrights, takes us from the rape of Helen to the sack of Troy. Together these two authors create a grand Elizabethan Iliad that brings Homer’s long lost world vividly to life.
Classic Stage company, 136 East 13th Street (bewteeen 3rd and 4th Avenues)
Show times & Prices: Offering discount – use code TCGFALL
Saturday, 11/7 @ 8:00 p.m. ($37.50)
Sunday, 11/8 @ 2:00 p.m. ($37.50)
Sunday, 11/8 @ 7:00 p.m. ($37.50)
The Pearl Theatre Company
| Website: www.pearltheatre.orgB.O. Website: www.nycitycenter.org | Phone: 212-581-1212 |
THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD
By J.M. Synge, directed by J.R. Sullivan
J. M. Synge's eccentric, high-spirited comedy celebrates the grand poetry and reckless abandon of the Irish imagination. Starring Obie-winner Sean McNall and introducing Lee Stark.
CITY CENTER STAGE II, WEST 55TH ST BET. 6TH AND 7TH
Show times & Prices: Offering discount – use code COR (box office and phone) or 5348 (web)
Thursday, 11/5 @ 7:30 p.m. ($40)
Saturday, 11/7 @ 7:30 p.m. ($50)
Sunday, 11/8 @ 2:30 p.m. ($50)
Playwrights Horizons
| Website: www.playwrightshorizons.org | Phone: (212) 279-4200 |
Circle Mirror Transformation
By Annie Baker, directed by Sam Gold
When four lost New Englanders enrolled in Marty’s community center drama class experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won. Annie Baker’s new comedy is a beautifully crafted diorama, a petri dish in which we see, with hilarious detail and clarity, the antic sadness of a motley quintet.
Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 416 West 42nd Street (between 9th & 10th Avenues)
Show times & Prices: Offering discount – use code CMCG
Thursday, 11/5 @ 7:30 p.m. ($35-$50)
Saturday, 11/7 @ 7:30 p.m. ($35-$50)
Sunday, 11/8 @ 2:00 p.m. ($35-$50)
Sunday, 11/8 @ 7:00 p.m. ($35-$50)
This
By Melissa James Gibson, directed by Daniel Aukin
Jane is not okay. She’s a promising poet without a muse, a single mother without lessons to pass along. Her dating life’s in shambles, and her helpful friends are only helping make things more complicated. This bright, witty, un-romantic comedy captures the uncertain steps of a circle of friends backing their way into middle age.
Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater, 416 West 42nd Street (between 9th & 10th Avenues)
Show times & Prices: Offering discount – use code CMCG
Saturday, 11/7 @ 8:00 p.m. ($40-$65)
Sunday, 11/8 @ 2:30 p.m. ($40-$65)
Sunday, 11/8 @ 8:00 p.m. ($40-$65)
Repertorio Español
| Website: www.repertorio.org | Fax: 212-225-9085 |
| Phone: 212-225-9920 | Email: tickets@repertorio.org |
Captain Pantoja & The Special Service
By Mario Vargas Llosa / Jorge Alí Triana, directed by Jorge Alí Triana
A musical adaptation of this outrageous novel about the Peruvian Army's endeavors to start a visiting service of women for the garrison, by one of Latin America's most renowned writers. Presented in Spanish with live simultaneous English translation.
Repertorio Español, 138 East 27th Street New York, NY 10016 (between Lexington and Third Avenues)
Show times & Prices: Offering discount – use code TCGFALL
Saturday, 11/7 @ 8:00 p.m. ($15 tickets (Reg. $25-$60))
Sunday, 11/8 @ 2:30 p.m. ($15 tickets (Reg. $25-$60))
Sunday, 11/8 @ 6:30 p.m. ($15 tickets (Reg. $25-$60))
Thalia Spanish Theatre
| Website: www.thaliatheatre.org | Fax: 718-729-3388 |
| Phone: 718-729-3880 | Email: info@thaliatheatre.org |
The Best of the Best of Colombia!
Directed by Armando Moreno
An exuberant program of music and dance from Colombia and Latin America. With Mestizo Dance Company and its Grupo Musical.
Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Avenue, Long Island City, Queens - between 41st and 42nd Streets
Show times & Prices: Offering discount – use code TCG2010
Saturday, 11/7 @ 8:00 p.m. $25
Sunday, 11/8 @ 4:00 p.m. ($30)
Women's Project
| Website: www.womensproject.org B.O. Website: www.broadwayoffers.com |
Phone: 212-947-8844 |
OR,
By Liz Duffy Adams, directed by Wendy McClellan
A world premiere comedy starring Maggie Siff (Mad Men; Sons of Anarchy), Andy Paris and Kelly Hutchinson. In OR, Aphra Behn is getting out of the spy trade and into showbiz, if only she can write her play without interruptions from her love life.
Julia Miles Theater, 424 West 55th Street, between 9th & 10th Avenues.
Show times & Prices: Offering discount – use code OR4WPF
Thursday, 11/5 @ 8:00 p.m. ($32)
Saturday, 11/7 @ 8:00 p.m. ($32)
Sunday, 11/8 @ 3:00 p.m. ($32)
The following are TCG member theatres that we know also have productions running during the Fall Forum:
Ensemble Studio Theatre
Website: www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org
Phone: (212) 247-4982
Octoberfest: A Festival of New Works-in-Progress from EST Member Artists
Here Arts Center
Website: www.here.org
Phone: (212) 352-3101
The Lily's Revenge
By Taylor Mac, directed by Paul Zimet, Rachel Chavkin, Faye Driscoll, Aaron Rhyne, David Drake and Kristin Marting
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
Website: www.lamama.org
Phone: (212) 475-7710
A Quarreling Pair
Aphids Puppet Theatre of Australia
Lincoln Center Theater
Website: www.lct.org
Phone: (212) 239-6200
In the Next Room, or the vibrator play
By Sarah Ruhl, music by Jonathan Bell, directed by Les Walters.
Broke-ology
By Nathan Louis Jackson, directed by Thomas Kail
Manhattan Theatre Club
Website: www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com
Phone: (212) 947-8844
The Royal Family
By George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber, directed by Doug Hughes
Nightingale
By Lynn Redgrave, directed by Joseph Hardy
New Georges
Website: www.newgeorges.org
Phone: 646-336-8077
Creature
By Heidi Schreck, directed by Leigh Silverman
New York Theatre Workshop
Website: www.nytw.org
Phone: (212) 460-5475
I Got Sick Then I Got Better
By Jenny Allen, directed by James Lapine & Darren Katz
Pregones Theater
Website: www.pregones.org
Phone: (718) 585-1202
Aloha Boricua
Adapted and directed by Jorge B. Merced, lyrics by Pregones ensemble, Rosalba Rolon and Jorge B. Merced and music by Desmar Guevara and Jorge B. Merced
The Public Theater
Website: www.publictheater.org
Phone: (212) 239-6200
The Brother/Sister Plays Parts 1 & 2
By Tarell Alvin McCraney, directed by Tina Landau and Robert O'Hara. Co-production with McCarter Theatre, NJ.
Idiot Savant
Written and directed by Richard Foreman Co-production with the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, NY.
Roundabout Theatre Company
Website: www.roundabouttheatre.org
Phone: (212) 719-1300
After Miss Julie
By Patrick Marber, directed by Mark Brokaw
Ordinary Days
Music by Adam Gwon, directed by Marc Bruni
The Understudy
By Theresa Rebeck, directed by Scott Ellis
Second Stage Theatre
Website: www.secondstagetheatre.com
Phone: (212) 246-4422
Let Me Down Easy
By Anna Deavere Smith, directed by Leonard Foglia.
Signature Theatre Company
Website: www.signaturetheatre.org
Phone: (212) 244-7529
The Orphans' Home Cycle: Part 1
By Horton Foote, directed by Michael Wilson. Co-production with Hartford Stage, CT.
Vital Theatre Company
Website: www.vitaltheatre.org
Phone: (212) 579-0528
Matthew Takes Mannahatta
Book by Aurin Squire, lyrics by Sammy Buck, music by Daniel S. Acquisto.
For further information about TCG member theatres and their seasons, visit the Theatre Profiles section of our website.
Various sites with theatres listing and discounts include: Playbill Online, TheatreMania, Broadway.com and Theatre Development Fund (discounted member tickets and the TKTS discount ticket booth located in Times Square)
Art Galleries
Since the mid-1990s, Chelsea has been a center of the New York art scene, as art galleries moved there from SoHo. From 19th Street to 29th Street, between 10th and 12th Avenues, there are more than 350 art galleries that are home to modern art from upcoming and respected artists. Among the many notable galleries, visitors to the area can find the Barbara Gladstone Gallery (515 W. 24th St., near Tenth Ave.; 212-206-9300) which specialized in bankable names like Anish Kapoor and Sarah Lucas; David Zwirner’s gallery (525 W. 19th St., near Tenth Ave.; 212-727-2070) which regularly pushes the envelope by featuring artists like Chris Ofili (whose work has incorporated elephant dung) and Lisa Yuskavage (whose recent show included fleshy portraits of women); the influential Gagosian Gallery (522 W. 21st St., near Tenth Ave.; 212-741-1717) whose Chelsea gallery is just one of three in New York that regularly make artists into stars; Matthew Marks (523 W 24th St., near Tenth Ave.; 212-243-0200) featuring new shows from old masters like Ellsworth Kelly and Willem de Kooning; and Zach Feuer Gallery (530 W. 24th St., near Eleventh Ave.; 212-989-7700) a risk taking venture that displays emerging names like Jules de Balincourt and Dana Schutz. Along with the art galleries, Chelsea is home to the Rubin Museum of Art (150 West 17th Street) - with a focus on Himalayan art and the Chelsea Art Museum (556 West 22nd Street).
For more information, visit http://nymag.com/visitorsguide/neighborhoods/chelsea for a full listing of galleries in the area.
View Chelsea Art Galleries in a larger map
Gallery Exhibitions in Chelsea:
* Most galleries are open until 6pm. Check the gallery’s website for specific hours.
Norihiko Saito
Dillon Gallery
555 West 25th Street
http://www.dillongallery.com/index.php?p=exhibits&id=upcoming&exh=
Sarah Anne Johnson House on Fire
Julie Saul Gallery
535 West 22 Street 6th Floor
Her third solo exhibition
http://www.saulgallery.com/chronicle/johnson_house.html
New paintings by Mark Sheinkman
Von Lintel Gallery
520 West 23rd Street Ground floor
Graphite powder, oil paint and alkyd paint
http://www.vonlintel.com/links/Sheinkman-index.html
Les LaLanne on Park Avenue
Paul Kasmin Gallery
511 West 27th Street
More than eight monumental works will span multiple-sites on Park Avenue
http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/exhibitions/2009-09-13_les-lalanne-on-park-avenue/
Zsolt Bodoni - The Foundries of Ideology
Ana Cristea Gallery
521 West 26th Street
New work by the young Hungarian artist, Zsolt Bodoni b. 1975 and his first solo show in NY
http://www.anacristeagallery.com/exhibitions.html
The Journey Home
Sputnik Gallery
547 W 27th St, #518
Videnin allows us a glimpse into the intimate emotions of regular but extraordinary subjects from today's rural Russia
http://www.sputnikgallery.com
Before Again - Joan Mitchell, Louise Fishman, Harriet Korman, Melissa Meyer, Jill Moser, Denyse Thomasos
Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.
514 West 25th Street
The six artists in this exhibition have each pursued an individual approach to abstract painting
http://www.lennonweinberg.com
Dortothea Tanning & Friends: All In This Together
Kent Gallery
541 West 25th Street
Tanning & ARP, Balanchine, Calder, Cornell, Duchamp, Ernst, Giacometti, Man Ray, Matta, Miro, Motherwell, Oppenheim and others
http://www.kentgallery.com
Abstract works - Street Exhibit
ArtBridge Public Street Installation
23rd between 9th and 10th, north side
Features abstract works on the facade of London Terrace Gardens on West 23rd Street
Yvonne Jacquette: The complete woodcuts, 1987-2009
Mary Ryan Gallery
527 West 26th Street
Amir Mogharabi & Jefferey Perkins
Daniel Reich Gallery
537 A W 23 St
http://www.danielreichgallery.com
Sarah Morris
Friedrich Petzel
537 West 22nd Street
Agora Gallery Unveils A Collective Fine Art Exhibition: Altered States of Reality, Elements of Abstraction and Portals of Perception
Agora Gallery
530 West 25th Street
http://www.agora-gallery.com/receptionexhibitions/10_29_2009.aspx
Chiharu Shiota and Gego
Goff+Rosenthal
537B West 23rd Steet
http://www.goffandrosenthal.com/upcoming-exhibitions/
Mark Manders
Tanya Bonakdar
521 West 21st Street
http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com
Rowann Villency Solo Exhibition_Illuminating Nature
Walter Wickiser Gallery
210 11th Avenue #303
http://www.walterwickisergallery.com
Greatness: Andy Warhol Polaroids of Sports Champions
Danziger Projects
534 West 24th Street
http://www.danzigerprojects.com/exhibitions/2009_10_greatness/
A Kind of Rapture
Yossi Milo Gallery
525 West 25th Street
Robert Bergman, American, born 1944
http://www.yossimilogallery.com
Avec le Temps
Robert Miller Gallery
524 West 26th Street
http://www.robertmillergallery.com/exhibitions/future/future.html
Parks
The High Line
The High Line is located on Manhattan's West Side. It runs from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to 34th Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues. Section 1 of the High Line, which opened to the public on June 9, 2009, runs from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street.
For park information, please call the High Line Information Line: (212) 500-6035
Hours
The High Line is open from 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM daily.
Access
Access to the High Line is possible via any of the access points listed below.
In the event the High Line reaches capacity, you may be asked to enter via the Gansevoort Street stairs (or 16th Street elevator if you need elevator service) only, to ensure public safety and the safety of the park itself.
- Gansevoort Street
- 14th Street (Elevator under construction - not yet open.)
- 16th Street (elevator access)
- 18th Street
- 20th Street
About the Park
The High Line was originally constructed in the 1930s, to lift dangerous freight trains off Manhattan's streets. Section 1 of the High Line is open as a public park, owned by the City of New York and operated under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Friends of the High Line is the conservancy charged with raising private funds for the park and overseeing its maintenance and operations, pursuant to an agreement with the Parks Department.
When all sections are complete, the High Line will be a mile-and-a-half-long elevated park, running through the West Side neighborhoods of the Meatpacking District, West Chelsea and Clinton/Hell's Kitchen. It features an integrated landscape, designed by landscape architects James Corner Field Operations, with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, combining meandering concrete pathways with naturalistic plantings. Fixed and movable seating, lighting, and special features are also included in the park.
Restaurants
New York is home to some of the finest restaurants in the world. Here are a few choice selections (hand picked by our own Chelsea resident advisor and TCG executive director, Teresa Eyring). We strongly recommend calling ahead for availability.
156 10th Avenue (@20th Street)
212-924-4440
"American with a nod to the Mediterranean..."
227 10th Avenue (between 23rd and 24th Avenues)
212-242-1122
"American inspired cuisine and a relaxed atmosphere..."
La Lunchonette
130 Tenth Avenue (@ 18th Street)
212-675-0342
"Authentic French cuisine..."
848 Washington Street (@ 13th Street)
212-645-4100
"American Bistro"
420 West 13th Street (between 9th Avenue and Washington Street)
212-924-1200
"... refined and genuine flavors from the South of France, Italy and Spain."
La Bottega @ The Maritime Hotel
88 9th Avenue (@ 16th Street)
212-243-8400
"Rustic Italian cuisine."
205 10th Avenue (between 22nd and 23rd Streets)
212-675-8805
"Tapas from the richly varied regional cuisines of Spain from Galicia to Andalucía, the Basque Country to Cataluña."