Dear Friends and Neighbors,
We're thrilled to present the third installment of our Jackson Heights Trilogy, JACKSON HEIGHTS, 3AM! Our run in Jackson Heights is a bit shorter this time around, as we're at PS 69 for two weeks and then moving to Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Park for two weeks. We're very excited about the transfer, but also want to make sure that all of our Jackson Heights friends get to see the play while we're here! We've had such amazing experiences researching the piece in Jackson Heights for the past 8 months!
So....here is all the info! Tickets are available via our website,
www.theatre167.org!
Happy New Year!
Ari Laura Kreith
Artistic Director--Theatre 167
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A new play inspired by late nights in the most diverse neighborhood in the world! From the creators of 167 TONGUES and YOU ARE NOW THE OWNER OF THIS SUITCASE...
Theatre 167 in association with Queens Theatre is thrilled to announce the world premiere of
JACKSON HEIGHTS 3AM!Conceived and Directed by Ari Laura Kreith
Written by Jenny Lyn Bader, J. Stephen Brantley, Ed Cardona, Les Hunter, Tom Miller, Melisa Tien and Joy Tomasko
At PS 69 in Jackson Heights Jan 13-Jan 22
At Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Park Jan 27-Feb 5, 2012
A Bangladeshi cab driver working the midnight shift yearns for an Ecuadorian woman who rises at dawn to bake bread, but does not speak her language. A closeted policeman from Long Island comes to Jackson Heights for a date. At Club Atlantis, a drag pageant contestant has a run-in with one of her fans, while farther down Roosevelt Avenue a Russian immigrant discovers that redemption comes in the strangest ways. A rookie cop tries his best to do right by everyone, a beloved dog mysteriously disappears, and in Elmhurst Hospital a heartbroken ER doctor helps her patients fulfill their deepest dreams. Car dispatchers, sex workers, drag queens, E.R. doctors, gamblers, and insomniacs collide in the colorful world of Jackson Heights after hours.
Seven playwrights explored the most culturally diverse neighborhood in the world from 10pm-4am — its brightest lights and loneliest corners — in dance clubs, all-night bakeries, sex shops, laundromats, side streets, and alleyways. They ate arepas prepared by the “sainted arepa lady†and, two blocks away, saw the homeless fed by the local hero a.k.a. “Angel of Queens†under the elevated trains. They interviewed numbers-players, sex trafficking experts, bartenders, cops, and crossÂdressers. They were invited to dance, to gamble, and to watch an undercover police operation. And they were invited to let their imaginations run dark, funny, sexy, and very very late...
WARNING: This one's not for all ages.
Co?produced as part of Queens Theatre's new play development program, the Immigrant Voices Project, JACKSON HEIGHTS 3AM will play January 13-22 at PS 69 in Jackson Heights and January 27-February 5 at Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Tickets for both engagements are $18.
Starring Roberto Araujo, Varin Ayala*, Farah Bala*, Cynthia Bastidas, Rajesh Bose*, J. Stephen Brantley, Arlene Chico-Lugo*, Ross DeGraw*, Nick Fehlinger, Marcelino Feliciano, Kevin Hoffman, John P. Keller*, Alex Kip*, Ephraim Lopez*, Neal Mayer*, Nina Mehta*, Sergey Nagorny, Flor De Liz Perez*, Indika Senanayake*, Josie Whittlesey* and Shivantha Wijesinha
Stage Manager: Sean McCain*?
Costume and Prop Design: Georgie Landy?
Scenic and Projection Design: Andrew Lazarow?
Sound Design: Ben Rodman
Lighting Design: Xavier Pierce
*Performing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association. AEA approved Showcase.
IN JACKSON HEIGHTS at PS 69, 77-02 37th Ave (E, F, M, R or 7 to Roosevelt Ave/Jackson Heights)
TICKETS/INFO at www.theatre167.org or 1-800-838-3006
Friday Jan 13 at 8pm?
Saturday Jan 14 at 2pm and 8pm?
Sunday Jan 15 at 7pm
Friday Jan 20 at 8pm?
Saturday Jan 21 at 2pm and 8pm?
Sunday Jan 22 at 7pm
At QUEENS THEATRE, 14 United Nations Avenue South in Flushing Meadows Corona Park
TICKETS/INFO: 718.760.0064 or www.queenstheatre.org
Friday Jan 27 at 7:30 pm?
Saturday Jan 28 at 8pm?
Sunday Jan 29 at 3pm?
Friday Feb 3 at 7:30 pm?
Saturday Feb 4 at 8pm?
Sunday Feb 5 at 3pm
This event is made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Queens Council on the Arts.
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PRAISE for YOU ARE NOW THE OWNER OF THIS SUITCASE:?
“wonderful theatre... full of humor, heart, and imagination... with highly inventive writing.�— NYTheatre
"An irreverent imaginative collage of contemporary folk tales and bumpy real lifeâ€â€”Brooklyn Rail
"Not to be missed"—OnVerge
"A work of constantly shifting light, always moving, transforming, reinventing itself. Absolutely delightful... Don’t think for a second that all the great acting happens in Manhattan�—HardSparks
—Time Out New York: a Good Odds pick
?“Completely local, totally meta, quietly groundbreakingâ€â€”Create Culture
PRAISE FOR 167 TONGUES
?“I had the feeling I was seamlessly dropping in and out of all these different cultures just by walking down the streetâ€...?—The New York Times?The rich diversity of the neighborhood provides ample material for works inspired by and about the various cultures in flux...?—American Theatre magazine?“
PICK OF THE WEEK: (A) tight collaboration of 11 talented playwrights and 29 actors, —Offoffonline
“I just returned from seeing something truly wonderful"--QueensBuzz
