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Now Playing  //  Fridays  //  6:30pm - 8:30pm  //  Bryant Park  //  Thru August 13th only

In Bryant Park there is a large and beautiful box with a mystery star inside.  Audience participants line up to wait their turn to find out who is inside of the box.  Prior to entrance, participants sign a non-disclosure agreement to ensure that the mystery star will remain a mystery.  Art.party.theater.company investigates the culture of fame and hype with remarkable panache and intelligence. 

Don’t miss this show.  Click here for WNYC’s terrific video piece.

Art.Party.Theater.Company makes bold performances which engage the creativity of an audacious audience.  Catching the eye of The New York Times, Time Out New York, and others in its first year, art.party explodes form to illuminate content.  The Foundry Producers Chair supports artistic producers leading the development and/or premiere of new theatrical works.  This fellowship provides financial support, office space and mentorship to the coming generations of intrepid and visionary artistic leaders.

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Now starting, opening May & June 2011

NYC… JUST LIKE I PICTURED IT   4 new works and a Musical that re-imagines the city we’d like to live in. 
Created collaboratively by the ultimate dreamers:  artists & social justice communities. 

As the follow up to last year’s remarkable THIS IS MY CITY series, the Foundry will again commission four new theatrical works to be created by collaborating artists and membership-based social justice organizations.  This year instead of asking participants to create works that explore the city we live in, we are asking them to make works that imagine another city.  What might neighborhoods, food, education, safety, transportation, families, health care or other such structures of our daily urban lives look like if they were shaped by our imaginations?  And there will be a fifth project:  director Lear deBessonet will stage a full scale musical theatre production with FUREE (Families United for Racial and Economic Equality) which The Foundry will produce as our mainstage production this season. 

 Please stay tuned for updates on all the projects.

We’re currently accepting applications from artists and community organizations for this program.  Participants
will be selected based primarily on the best matches to be made between those artists and organizations who apply. 
The original deadline of August 23rd has been extended to August 30th.   

To download applications in English or Spanish

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Now in development, Scheduled for premiere in the fall of 2011 

THE COST OF VALUE (working title) written by Kirk Lynn, created with Melanie Joseph.   

We’re thrilled to be working with writer Kirk Lynn again (LIPSTICK TRACES, MAJOR BANG.)  He and Foundry Artistic Producer, Melanie Joseph are developing an interactive theatrical work that will explore the concept of "value" in all its poetic iterations - quantitatively through our relationship to money and qualitatively by asking us to consider what we hold dear.  Asking is the operative word since the play will actually be built out of questions - narratively constructed -- posed by actors to audience members about how they've lived their lives, what plans they've made for the future, and what advice they can offer to us and to one another as we all attempt to create lives of value. 

The process of developing this piece includes meetings with as many different groups of people (15-20 each) as possible to test and refine the content and structure of the questions.   We have held 18 sessions so far and we are currently planning another round in NYC in November and again in February.  Through these sessions we are building a “company” of audience members who will travel with us through the evolution of this piece, attending workshops and showings once we begin to stage the work with actors.   We invite you to join us in this exploration.  It’s been a memorable journey so far.

To join the Cost of Value “audience company” or to host a value gathering, click HERE

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