CAN YOU DIG IT?!?!

Hello All You People…

I am proud to announce my new project, THE MEET! I coerced 10 theater/production companies into representing themselves over four nights at Center Stage, NY.

Each company will represent themselves in scenes no longer than 20 minutes. No other limitations on style or theme was given. Come out and see what these companies come up with, and cheer your favorite company on.

This is an exhibition, not a competition. But since each company has their own audience, own style, own reputations… and all on one stage. Well, I doubt they will do anything less than put their best foot forward.

THE MEET takes place August 18th through the 21st, 2010 @8 PM. Here is the schedule:

AUGUST 18th & AUGUST 20th 2010:

Boomerang Theatre Company
Lighthouse Theatre Company
Red Elevator Productions
StuFF FiLMS
We Be 3

AUGUST 19th & AUGUST 21st 2010:

Impetuous Theater Group
Regroup Theatre Company
The Rats
Overturn Theatre Ensemble
Sneaky Snake Productions

Tickets are on Sale NOW!!

$15

You can buy tickets now here:

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/120123 (Price includes service fee!)

or

Cash only at the door!

All shows take place at Center Stage, NY
48 West 21st Street, 4th Floor, Dial 401#
Between 5th and 6th Avenues

All proceeds go towards Developing Artist Theater Company and Center Stage, NY.

More updates to come!!!!

Your email:

No one benefits from this. It is one place less to practice this art form that goes back to Neanderthals grunting stories in front of their tribe, illuminated by recently discovered fires. Today, when the right people wield the stage, their stories become just as important to us. I feel it’s my responsibility as a human and, or, Neanderthal, to try to help a theater in need when I see one. This note is for anyone who feels the same.

There are a lot more theaters closing down in this city than there are opening up. Its just simple mathematics. Most high rise condo developers don’t have theaters in mind when they design their retail space.  Hard working immigrants are not rushing to empty store fronts to open theaters, they’re opening Jamba Juices and Dunkin Donuts.

So until someone makes theater edible, tasty, and refreshing, we face this problem of diminishing theater space. But there is hope. And that hope is us. No point in waiting for someone to come fix the problem. The best one can do is support all you can when you know a theater needs it.

Center Stage, NY, or CSNY, is one of these theaters in our great city. The people at Center Stage strive to keep prices for artist at an affordable rate. This interest conflict with those who run the building Center Stage is housed in. So, it’s time to fight the bad guys and raise this rent.

I can’t begin to tell you what we loose if we lose CSNY. Many theater companies have started there, or went through the space. Labyrinth, Vampire Cowboys, Terranova, countless individual artists, and the entity known as J. Anthony Roman. If Center Stage closes, we loose everything that would have come after.

So if you would like to help, please do. You will not be judged on the size of your donation. Six cents to six figures will be accepted. To donate, please contact Jill DeArmon at jill@centerstageny.com  

And if you want more bang for your donation, this Sunday CSNY is having a series of events to benefit the space. This includes celebrity panels giving you information about life in the arts. Successful life. If interested, check out the facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=118546604842921

 It all culminates with an old school all nighter which promises to be a great party. Starts at 8PM and goes for as long as it has to. $10 admission. If you can’t come to the party and still want to help,again, contact Jill DeArmon at jill@centerstageny.com

IN THE BOX PARTY

May 23^rd, 2010   8PM on

$10 CASH at the door

48 West 21^st Street between 5^th and 6^th Ave

4^th Floor, dial 401

My writing is back at Backyart! And since the weather is shaping up, one can enjoy Backyart as is was meant to be, in the backyard, soaking in the sun. Unless it rains. In that case, one can enjoy it in a cool basement surrounded by art. Either way you will be entertained, and a little sweaty.

This scene went up in March and had a great showing at Rebel Verses.  I’m thrilled its at Backyart.

Love:Underground is about a couple coming to the end of their long relationship and relizing their best days were spent within the Subway System.

It will be directed by Lia Woertendyke and features Jenny Gomez and Nic Grelli.

The fun starts at 7PM

BACKYART   649 Metropolitan Avenue

L train to Lorimer, exit at Metropolitan.

Hope your 2010 has been going well so far. Got some theater coming up in the next two weeks at the Rebel Verses 10th anniversary.

First, this week I’m in a piece by Jedidiah Clarke. Jed has a unique style that needs to be witnessed. This play, Woah Mama,is about making the universes greatest pizza.  The rest of the cast includes Alex Flores, Adam Cohen, Leon Pease, and Elanna White. Directed by James David Jackson.

Woah Mama, plays Thursday the 25th, and Saturday the 27th at 8PM.  Along with performances by these other acts: MCC Theater, Gina Laino, Urban Word NYC, Education @ Roundabout, Scott Hudson, RMK & Crew, TYT Reader’s Theater.

My new scene, Love:Underground, goes up the following weekend at Rebel Verses, Wednesday March 31st, and Friday April 2nd at 8PM.

Love:Underground is about a couple coming to the end of their long relationship and relizing their best days were spent withing the Subway System.

It will be directed by Lia Woertendyke and features Jenny Gomez and Nic Grelli.

Sharing the stage with us that night are Life Stories Youth Ensemble, Michael Ferrell, Larkin Clark, Adriana Rivera & Adam Cohen, Raul Castillo, and Teatro El Puente.

All shows start at 8PM $10 Cash only!

@ Center Stage, NY  48 West 21st Street, 4th Floor, Dial 401# (Between 5th and 6th)

It’s my birthday on the 30th, so both these shows fall into celebration territory!

God speed.

Happy Thanksgiving people,

Where ever you are, I hope it’s bearable. There isn’t a Backyart event until December, so I read the chapter in different locations around Queens and put it on youtube. So watch me battle the elements, and my diction as I read by clicking on the links below.

Video and page done by Joseph Galatioto.

I’ve also posted Max Woertendyke’s Backyart Previously on videos if you wanted to catch up on the story! For this, scroll down below chapter eleven.

CHAPTER 11: Halloween’s verdict is disclosed, and Mikey and Gerald live life after the fall. (In 7 parts)

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/janthonyroman#p/u/10/Nc_qTTVWfcY

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew2bGjS1Zy8

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/janthonyroman#p/u/8/iRceZL6WLwg

Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/janthonyroman#p/u/7/y5zY_E_Xbbo

Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/janthonyroman#p/u/6/9Y0ehuVRocg

Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/janthonyroman#p/u/1/TItC1SL6BUE

Part 7: http://www.youtube.com/janthonyroman#p/u/0/G0uoDisTmcg

RECAPS HERE:

Chapter 1-6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lifxjnm_3_E

Chapter 7 http://www.youtube.com/janthonyroman#p/u/4/_lnJ1gqKkfU

Chapter 8-9 http://www.youtube.com/janthonyroman#p/u/3/bSyMUmv4Bjk

Chapter 10 http://www.youtube.com/janthonyroman#p/u/2/Z8ZwRtWUVoo

…Belated Apocalypse will be concluded next month at Backyart’s and the Invitational’s “XXX” event at Center Stage, NY!

bRUGAL!

Okay, so if you know me, you know my life has revolved around theater since I was a kid. I know I send out a lot of invites to things that I’m doing. So much so, it’s probably very easy to delete because there will be another coming soon. Two things: One, I plan to slow things down some after the new year. Two, this is the first time a full length I wrote is getting a full production (We have previews and everything?!!). 

If you have seen any of my work in the past, you’ll want to see this. If you haven’t seen anything I’ve worked on, and have been meaning to, please make this play the one you catch. If you have always gotten my invites and told yourself, “I’ll never go see anything he’s involved in, but I wont tell him to stop sending me invites because I’m polite”, you still want to come see this show. If not for me, than for the work Jill DeArmon is doing with the cast, and what the cast is doing with her direction.

In a nutshell, I’m proud of this play, and what everyone who is working on it is accomplishing. Real proud. And not that evil biblical pride, I’m talking real peer admiration, blood! So throw on some bell bottoms and join us in the summer of ’77!

God speed humans. 
J. Anthony Roman

Blackouts
Written by J. Anthony Roman
Directed by Jill DeArmon 

1977 and 2003. Two blackouts. Two generations of artists. One Hell’s Kitchen apartment. Unwanted legacies from the past push the destiny of future generations. Where did it all go? And what will it look like when the lights come back on?

Featuring: Zachary Fletcher, Jamie Klassel*, Lisa Snyder, and Max Woertendyke*

Stage Manager: Shannon O’Neil
Assistant Stage Manager: Adriana Rivera
Set Design: Jennifer Price
Lighting Design: Joshua Rose
Sound Design: Shane Rettig
Costume Design: Hollie Nadel
Technical Direction: Raven Solano

Producers: Jennifer Conley Darling, Amanda Feldman, Lisa Snyder
Associate Producer: Derek W. Shore

For more info on the show, visit www.swandivestudio.com

Previews: October 7, 8 at 7pm
Opening Night & Art Show Extravaganza: October 9 at 8pm (Tickets $30)
Runs: October 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22 at 7pm October 10, 16, 17, 23, 24 at 8pm

All performances at:
Center Stage, NY
(48 W. 21st Street, 4th Floor)

Tickets: 
$18 General Admission
$15 Students / Senior (with ID)
Brown Paper Tickets 1-800-838-3006 
www.brownpapertickets.com

*=AEA

A Situation on the Moon: 3 Plays That Shine At Night by J. Anthony Roman will go up at Center Stage, NY on September 10th, 11th, and 12th at 8PM. These actors and directors have pulled this together in a very short time. Everyone is working really hard, so we would love a nice big audience to play in front of. Please come if you are available. Details below, and more info to come!

A Situation on the Moon: 3 Plays that shine at Night by J. Anthony Roman

September 10th, 11th, and 12th @ Center Stage, NY. 8pm!

Straight Men in the West Village

Directed by Deborah Wolfson

2 men speak about women and death, after hours, in a restaurant in the West Village.

Victorian Trade

Desperation plays itself out on a stoop in Flatbush Brooklyn

Last Chapter

Directed by Kristy Dodson

*This play in a companion piece to my novel Belated Apocalypse. Last Chapter takes place 6 years after the events in the novel, so… spoiler alert:

Michael and Gerald are both former drug dealers from Bushwick, NYC. Michael used his experiences to become a one hit wonder author. Gerald used his mental condition to stay out of prison. Now roommates, the situation in their apartment reach a breaking point.

All proceeds for this event go towards Center Stage, NY!

Center Stage, NY

48 West 21st Street, 4th Floor, Dial 401#

Between 5th and 6th Avenues

$10 at the door, cash only

Produced by Adriana Rivera, Adam Cohen, and J. Anthony Roman

Eat with caution...

Mikey’s Birthday: In which Mikey and Gerald visit Bedford Avenue, and things begin to unravel.

Plus more! Visit: http://backyartbrooklyn.blogspot.com/

649 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, New York (L to Lorimer or Grand)

August 29th, 2009
6:30-7:30pm
Performances Start @ 8:00pm.
Tent is up, so don’t be shook about the weather.

After 8 years of writing and re-writing, my full length Blackouts will be getting a full production starting October 6th, 2009!

Directed By Jill DeArmon

Staring Max Woertendyke, Jamie Klassel, Lisa Snyder, and Zachary Fletcher

Produced by Jennifer Conley Darling and Swandive Studios

Center Stage, NY- 48 West 21st Street, 4th Floor, Dial 401#

MORE INFO TO COME!

God Bless America.

Independence Day: In which Mikey and Gerald throw a party, and make an enemy of an old lady on their work block.