The Nest: Things to See in Decemeber
Check out where you can catch Larkees in production around New York in the coming months!
THE CIVILIANS
Let Me Ascertain You: War on Christmas
Joe's Pub
December 8
Near and dear to us is The Lark's own Office Manager,Megan McClain, who also leads the Research and Development Writing Group for The Civilians. In this one night only cabaret, The Civilians will present an evening of verbatim interview excerpts and new music that gives voice to diverse cultural and religious minorities in America, focusing on their experiences and responses to the commercialization of Christmas.
WOMEN'S PROJECT THEATER
Dear Elizabeth
McGinn Cazale Theatre
November 30-December 5
This is the final week to catch Mia Katigbak, an actor who has loaned her talents to The Lark many times, in the New York premiere of Sarah Ruhl's play, Dear Elizabeth. Drawn from the famed correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell – two of the twentieth century’s most brilliant poets – Dear Elizabeth tells a tale of unconventional friendship and intimacy that spanned thirty years and more than 400 letters, with postmarks from Maine to Key West, from London to South America.
ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY
Skeleton Crew
January 6-February 14
In Dominique Morisseau’s third play in her Detroit trilogy, a makeshift family of workers at the last exporting auto plant in the city navigate the possibility of foreclosure. Power dynamics shift, and they are pushed to the limits of survival. When the line between blue collar and white collar gets blurred, how far over the lines are they willing to step? Dominique is a long time Larkee. She was the PoNY Fellow in 2012-13, and Skeleton Crew was developed at The Lark in our BareBones program.
THE LEE STRASBERG THEATRE & FILM INSTITUTE
Pulp Vérité
Marilyn Monroe Theatre
December 10-12
Playwright, and friend of The Lark, Crystal Skillman received The Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission to develop and present Pulp Vérité. In this play, a graduate filmmaker returns to the states from Syria to reunite with her fellow classmates gathered in Martha's Vineyard with the goal of finishing their documentary film. But what once began as a story about creating art to survive in a war torn country becomes personal as the classmates record themselves attempting the impossible: bringing the last member of their filmmaking crew home.
NETFLIX
Jessica Jones
Larkees abound on the small screen as well as on the stage! Catch actors Aaron Costa, Nedra McClyde and Jon Norman Schneider in the new Marvel series, shot in New York. Jessica Jones, played by Krysten Ritter, is a down and out superhero who has left her do-gooder days behind her in exchange for a life as a whiskey guzzling Private Investigator, a la Philip Marlowe. That is until a young girl who falls victim to the mind control powers of a mysterious man in a purple suit needs her help.
