For their work on Stolen Chair's The Accidental Patriot: The Lamentable Tragedy of the Pirate Desmond Connelly, Irish by Birth, English by Blood, American by Inclination, two members of the creative team received nominations from the 2008 New York Innovative Theatre Awards.

Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role: Cameron J. Oro ("Desmond Connelly")
Outstanding Choreography: Barbara Charlene (Fight Director)

Congratulations to Cameron and Barbara! We wish them the best of luck at the awards ceremony in September.

The Theatre Is Dead and So Are You is a vaudevillian meditation on mortality that will stare death in the face and laugh. Audiences will enter an East Village performance space transformed into a Bowery music hall circa 1890, where twelve variety veterans will burlesque Death, using Vaudeville's unsentimental vernacular to theatricalize one of the most sentimental (and sensitive) subjects.

Development has just begun on the project and the company will go into retreat in mid-September to create the work. Read all about the process on Stolen Chair's blog.

Lonely Planet is a comedy about Jody, owner of his own map store, who holes himself in as the AIDS crisis of the 90's rages on outside. When a chair appears in his shop, brought in by his friend Carl, Jody finds that reality becomes harder and harder to ignore.

The Spoon Theatre
38 West 38th Street, 5th floor
Between 5th and 6th Aves
Tix: www.smarttix.com   Code: STOLEN = $12 TIX
Web: www.reddtale.org
Aug 7 - 10, 14 - 16
Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8pm
Saturday 2pm
Sunday 7pm