Playing with Canons, the new anthology from the New York Theatre Experience is finally here:

" 18 plays by some of indie theatre’s most exciting playwrights in a single volume celebrating the enduring power and spirit of classic literature and drama. These remarkable plays reshape familiar material in challenging, innovative, and unexpected fashion, pushing these timeless works into the 21st century in resoundingly resonant high style."
-Martin Denton, Editor

This anthology is the only place you can find Stolen Chair's live silent film for the stage, The Man Who Laughs. Find out more about the anthology in this NYtheater.com podcast.

There will be numerous launch parties, readings, and signings over the next year, but the first one is coming up in just a few days:

DATE: Tuesday, October 17, 2006

TIME: 7:30pm - 9:30pm -- doors open at 7:00pm -- presentation starts at 7:30pm

PLACE: Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue (85th Street)

FEATURING PERFORMANCES OF EXCERPTS FROM FOUR OF THE PLAYS INCLUDED IN PLAYING WITH CANONS:
* Genesis by Matthew Freeman
* Uncle Jack by Jeff Cohen
* Bald Diva! The Ionesco Parody Your Mother Warned You About by David Koteles
* Northanger Abbey by Lynn Marie Macy

Performances will be followed by a reception with editor Martin Denton and the playwrights, who will be available to sign your book!

Books will be on sale at the event for $26. The event is FREE; light refreshments will be served.

Stolen Chair presents the second installment of its CineTheatre Tetralogy, a timely absurdist film noir for the stage as Ionesco might have imagined it, creating comic chaos out of the possibility that American life might actually be pointless .

A leggy redhead is shot dead in the middle of her act and Ben Farrell, American private detective, is on the case. The list of suspects grows to include a fatalistic femme fatale, an avaricious publisher, and a millionaire playboy who pens a serialized crime novel called…Kill Me Like You Mean It. Turns out that art imitates life and Ben Farrell finds his own life in the pages of the playboy’s pulp fiction while the redhead’s simple murder mystery quickly degenerates into a sick game for which Farrell never learned the rules.

Be the first to hear Kiran Rikhye's absurdist film noir for the stage at Kill Me...'s first (and FREE) lab reading:

DATE/TIME: Tuesday, October 17th @ 8:30pm

LOCATION: The Red Room, 85 East 4th St (between 2nd and 3rd Ave), 3rd Floor, No Wheelchair Access

And if you can't make it, you can browse the production's press release, some goofy rehearsal photos, an an excerpt from Act 1.

In anticipation of the opening of Kill Me Like You Mean It, Stolen Chair has created our most comprehensive publicity campaign to date, but we won't be able to accomplish it alone. If you have any experience or interest in non-profit or arts marketing/publicity, we'd love you to join our team for a couple of hours each week until Kill Me... opens. You will be given real responsibilities and creative input on our strategies, plus a Stolen Chair T-shirt and free tickets to the show! If you're a student, it might also be possible to receive academic credit for your work!

If you'd like to apply for the position, please send a short letter of interest to info@stolenchair.org. Tell us how you know Stolen Chair, a little bit about your background/interests in PR and non-for-profit theatre, and what you'd like to achieve with the internship.