Mario Cantone, Ralph Macchio, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Rosie Perez, Christopher Denham, Joan Copeland, Chip Zien, Peter Riegert and Mickey Sumner are some of the actors who have recently performed in The Bleecker Company New Play Series.
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Revered New York actress, Anne Meara, joins Lowell Byers, Donna de Matteo and Paul D’Amato in a public reading of the award-winning play Chip Off the Moon by Bill Quigley on Friday, January 20th at 8:00pm. Chip Off the Moon is a family drama with a ferocious comic underbelly, set in a working-class neighborhood in the Bronx in 1953. Lucy Marino works six days a week in a baking factory making ‘Smiley Cookies’. She and husband, Marty, share their modest apartment with Grace, Lucy’s aging mother, who has no idea she’s battling dementia. Grieving the loss of one son killed in World War II, Lucy has been estranged from her one remaining son, Tommy. Much to Lucy’s disapproval and bewilderment, Tommy lives in the very foreign land of Greenwich Village and consistently rebuffs his mother’s repeated and aggressive attempts to find him a girl. Chip Off the Moon hilariously and heartbreakingly explores the eternal dynamic of parents and children and how they often torture each other with their dreams and expectations.
BILL QUIGLEY is Playwright-In-Residence with the Bleecker Company, as well as a member of the HB Playwrights Unit. The Beverly Hills Theatre Guild recently awarded Chip Off the Moon Third Prize in The Julie Harris National Playwright Awards Competition. Bill’s play, DON’T ASK, had its West Coast Premiere at the New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco in 2010. Bill’s screenplay version of DON’T ASK has been optioned by Oscar-nominated producer Stuart Benjamin (Ray, La Bamba) and Matthew Benjamin – Benjamin Productions . His newest play, Tomorrow Morning, had its World Premiere in April 2011 at the HB Playwrights Theatre. Another full-length play of his, An Aeroplane As Far As Des Moines, is being workshopped by the Bleecker Company. Bill and collaborator, C.S. Drury, won the 2010 Alan Minieri Playwriting Award for their play, So Long Lives This, which is due to be published in The Best Short Plays of 2011. Several of his short plays have had NYC productions; Perhaps, Now Boarding, Patron of the Arts and Birthday Party in Madagascar.
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The Bleecker Company has temporarily moved its programming to The Arclight Theatre (152 West 71st St) and readings are performed at The Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South). We continue to work to save the Theater at 45 Bleecker. For more info, or to join our efforts to save this historic theatre space, please feel free to email us.
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