| Axis Theatre's New Staging of TWELFTH NIGHT, Sept 25 - Oct 26 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 08:16 pm EDT 09/20/24 | |
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| AXIS THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS ENCORE ENGAGEMENT OF CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED NEW STAGING OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S TWELFTH NIGHT, SEPT 25 – OCT 26 Director Randall Sharp Brings Her Signature Stark and Musical Touch to Shakespeare's Most Heart-Breaking Comedy Live Music by Paul Carbonara in Streamlined Adaptation by Marc Palmieri Due to popular demand and critical acclaim, Axis Theatre Company is thrilled to present an encore engagement of its celebrated new staging of William Shakespeare's most heart-breaking comedy, Twelfth Night. Directed by Axis Theatre's founder and Artistic Director Randall Sharp, this streamlined production is adapted by playwright and dramaturg Marc Palmieri and features original music by Paul Carbonara performed live. Previews begin September 25 at Axis Theatre (1 Sheridan Square, Manhattan), with a press opening set for September 28, for a limited run through October 26, 2024. Tickets are now on sale at www.axiscompany.org . Even in a season of the darkest calamities, does the human will to be happy ever surrender? Shall there be cakes, ale, dancing and love, as the darkness ever looms? Director Randall Sharp brings her signature stark and musical touch to one of Shakespeare's most hilarious, yet heart-breaking tales of unrequited love. Sharp's radical interpretation focuses on the yearning for human connection. Marc Palmieri remarked, "Twelfth Night premiered in 1602 at a time of great anxiety in England that included violent religious division, recent theatre shutdowns following the London Plague, tension over who would succeed Queen Elizabeth I, and the growing ultraconservative Puritan movement in Parliament. Sound familiar?" "Axis Theatre Company's new adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is something to celebrate," declared Deirdre Donovan in Off Off Online. "Directed by Randall Sharp, and superbly performed by a 12-member ensemble cast, this Twelfth Night is a wild and wonderful romp through Illyria." Holli Harms in Front Row Center wrote , "Marc Palmieri's brilliant adaptation… is pure story; accessible, lovely and flowing. Director Randall Sharp's staging is clean and simple, allowing the heart of the story to be presented… there is a rainbow of color in the music of the play that adds all kinds of texture… the ensemble is prodigious, using the space with grace of movement that glides and flies from scene to scene. All strong solid performances." Mark Rifkin in This Week in New York remarked , "Twelfth Night demonstrates precisely what Sharp and Axis do best, whether offering an original play or a fresh take on an old chestnut." The 12-member ensemble cast of Twelfth Night includes Spencer Aste, Brian Barnhart, Eli Bridges, Andrew Dawson, George Demas, Katy Frame, Britt Genelin, Robert Ierardi, Brian Parks, Dee Pelletier, Jon McCormick, and Jim Sterling, along with musicians Paul Carbonara and Yonatan Gutfeld. The creative team for Twelfth Night includes Karl Ruckdeschel (costume design), David Zeffren (lighting design), Paul Carbonara (original music, sound design), Lynn Mancinelli (prop design, choreography), Will Vicari (wig design), Regina Betancourt (production stage manager), Marc Palmieri (dramaturgy), Jon McCormick (technical director), Amy Harper (assistant light designer), Laurie Kilmartin (assistant stage manager), Brian Barnhart (producing director), and Jeffrey Resnick (executive producer). Twenty performances of Twelfth Night will take place September 25 – October 26, 2024 at Axis Theatre, located at 1 Sheridan Square in Manhattan's West Village. Critics are welcome as of the first performance on September 25 for an opening on September 28. General admission tickets are $40 for adults, $20 for seniors/students, and $10 for artists and people under 30. Performances are Free for veterans and active U.S. service members and their families. Tickets can be purchased online at www.axiscompany.org. Marc Palmieri's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night will be published by TRW in the fall of 2024. Axis Theatre Company's production originally opened on April 27, 2024 and ran for twenty performances between April 25 – May 24, 2024. About the Artists Randall Sharp (director) is Axis Theatre Company's founder and Artistic Director. Her plays include the Drama Desk Award-nominated Last Man Club (published by DPS), Washington Square (published by TRW), Worlds Fair Inn, Nothing on Earth, Down There, Seven in One Blow (published by DPS and performed every December in NYC and around the country) and the long-running serial Hospital. Sharp wrote and directed The Vast Machine (2015) and co-wrote (with former Blondie member Paul Carbonara) and directed Solitary Light (2014) and Evening – 1910, which premiered to acclaim at Axis in 2016. Sharp's directing credits also include Last Man Club; Nothing on Earth; Down There; Seven in One Blow; Hospital ; Edgar Oliver's New York Trilogy (including East 10th Street: Self Portrait with Empty House, winner of the Fringe First Award, Edinburgh Fringe, In the Park, and Attorney Street) and London Paris; A Glance at New York (Edinburgh Fringe & NYC), Julius Caesar; and the U.S premiere of Sarah Kane's Crave, starring Deborah Harry. She also directed the feature film Henry May Long, winner of 13 international awards, and is the host of the popular YouTube cooking show "Dinner Party Tonight." Paul Carbonara (original music, sound design) was born in Greenwich Village and has been a performing musician for 30 years. He was the guitarist and musical director for the seminal pop band Blondie from 1997 through 2010. Carbonara has performed with Ray Davies, Coolio, Jose Carreras, and Chubby Checker, among others, and was the guitarist for the New York art rock band Giant Metal Insects in the 1990s. He has composed music for three independent movie soundtracks, including Randy Sharp's Henry May Long and Jyllian Gunther's Pull Out. He has composed commercial jingles for Nickelodeon, SBLI, and Waterworks. Paul composed music for the noted choreographer Robert Moses' work Faith and Fable, presented at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. Carbonara performs and records with his own band The Mudlarks. He has also toured much of the world with the Mary McBride Band since 2010, traveling to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. He is a graduate of NYU and studied with the noted jazz guitarist Sal Salvador. Marc Palmieri (adaptation / dramaturgy) teaches courses in Shakespeare at Mercy University, where he is an assistant professor. He has also taught Shakespeare at The City College of New York, where he is a guest faculty member of the MFA program in Creative Writing. Marc's plays include the New York Times' "Critic's Pick" Levittown , The Groundling, Carl the Second, Poor Fellas, and Waiting for the Host. All are published by Dramatists Play Service. His screenplays include Miramax Films' Telling You (1999). He has published prose in Fiction, The Global City Review, (Re), An Ideas Journal, and has one-act plays, scenes and monologues in anthologies by Applause Books, Smith & Kraus and Rowan & Littlefield. Marc's memoir, She Danced With Lightning, (Post Hill Press, 2022) has been an Amazon #1 Best Seller in multiple categories. www.marcpalmieri.com About Axis Theatre Company Axis Theatre Company was founded in 1996 by Randall Sharp as a theatrical haven for stories that awaken an audience's curiosity for little known parts of American history. Through Sharp's plays and that of like-minded artists like Edgar Oliver, David Crabb, and Marc Palmieri, Axis Theatre uses intricate visual and sound design to maximize a viewer's insight into these historical moments and shared experiences. In 1998, Axis acquired a permanent home at 1 Sheridan Square in New York City's West Village. Built in 1834 by Samuel Whitmore, the building once housed Café Society, the historic site of performances by Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughn, Art Tatum, Big Joe Turner and other jazz greats; and later was the home of Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatrical Company. Axis transformed the interior performance space into one where audiences are totally immersed, surrounded by the experience of a theatrical production the moment they enter. Distractions from the material are minimal. Among the wide variety of works that Axis has produced in the theater are Beckett's Play ; Benjamin Baker's 1848 vaudeville A Glance at New York (also at the Edinburgh Festival); the U.S. premiere of Sarah Kane's Crave, starring Deborah Harry; the premieres of Edgar Oliver's East 10th Street (New York Times Critic Pick; Fringe First Award at Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Spoleto Festival, USA) and In the Park; David Crabb's Bad Kid ( New York Times Critic Pick, now an acclaimed book published by HarperCollins Perennial); Marc Palmieri's The Groundling; and Sharp's The Vast Machine, Last Man Club (Drama Desk nomination), Solitary Light, Worlds Fair Inn, Washington Square, Nothing on Earth, Down There, Seven in One Blow, Hospital , Dead End, and High Noon. Axis Theatre is accessible via the 1 train at Christopher St./Sheridan Square and the A, B, C, D, E, F and M trains at West 4th Street. |
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