We are excited to announce another post-show discussion after the Wednesday, May 2nd performance of Headstrong. The discussion will be moderated by Ivan Oransky, executive editor of Reuters Health, and will include clinical neuropsychologist Dr. Jill Brooks and others.
UPDATE: Just added to our 5/2 panel is Peter Keating, senior writer for ESPN The Magazine!
UNC Chapel Hill interviews alumnus & playwright Patrick Link about his involvement with Youngblood and his upcoming play Headstrong.
“Patrick Link graduated from UNC in 2007 with a major in dramatic art and a minor in writing for the screen and stage. Link, 27, is a member of the Youngblood Playwriting Program at the Ensemble Studio Theatre on West 52nd Street in New York. His new Off-Broadway play, “Headstrong,” is inspired by the ongoing struggles of professional athletes with head-related injuries, including, among others, Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster, who suffered from amnesia, dementia and depression before his death at the age of 50; and Philadelphia Eagles defensive back Andre Waters, who sustained numerous concussions as a player before committing suicide at age 44. The play previews April 18 and opens April 30. We asked Link about his new project in a recent email interview.”
Today kicks off the last week of Hand to Godat EST and all performances are SOLD OUT! In honor we present to you, Get the Hell Out written by Bobby Moreno and performed by Steven Boyer, Rabbi Darkside, Megan Hill & Bobby Moreno. Thanks to everyone involved in HTG for making the last few months so entertaining!
FAST COMPANY by Carla Ching Mable Kwan was a famous grifter who taught her sons the long con. One retired and became a magician; another, a sports writer. Blue, the youngest and the only girl, now studies game theory and may become the best con artist of the family. When the estranged trio is called home with a small fortune at stake, who will con who in the end? Thu March 29 @ 7pm, click here to RSVP
six (count ‘em, SIX!) brand new short pays that will put itching powder in your shorts and Saran Wrap on your toilet.
HOOVER by Clare Barron
NO SNOWGLOBES PAST THE SECURITY CHECKPOINT! by Lydia Blaisdell
HEY COMRADE LENIN REMEMBER WHEN WE USED TO BE FRIENDS? by Alex Borinsky
TIM TORRES PRESENTS THE FIRST APRIL FOOL’S DAY, THE STORY OF AN UNLIKELY HERO FEATURING THE MUSIC OF TIMMY T: A PAGEANT by Ryan Dowler
DAY DRINKING by Erica Saleh
ARCH NEMESIS by Leah Nanako Winkler
OUT OF ORBIT by Jennifer Maisel Sara lives on Mars time, spearheading the Mars Rover Expedition, visiting a planet she cannot touch. Her teenage daughter Lis, on earth time, falls under the spell of the cyber-cypher Edgar2330. An exploring woman and a longing-to-be-explored girl try to find each other in our increasingly disconnected universe. Fri March 23 @ 7pm, click here to RSVP
BEFORE YOU RUIN IT by Laura Jacqmin
Can one Player save the most influential computer game company of the 1980’s from certain doom? Matching wits against feuding founders, a changing adventure game marketplace, and a demonic CEO, one man attempts to rout disaster and score the maximum number of points. A theatrical text adventure based on the fall of Infocom. Mon March 19 @ 7pm, click here to RSVP
1967: one lone cosmonaut is launched into space on a fatally flawed rocket. As he hurtles back to earth, Vladimir Komarov is haunted by his past, present, and his now-inevitable future.
