{"id":523,"date":"2009-06-01T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/06\/summer-play-festival-at-the-public.html"},"modified":"2009-06-01T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T19:01:00","slug":"summer-play-festival-at-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Summer Play Festival at the Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Summer Play Festival announced today that tickets are now on-sale for the annual theater festival. For the second year, SPF will be held at The Public Theater on Lafayette Street in New York City. The festival runs from Tuesday, July 7th \u2013 Sunday, August 2nd 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The 2009 Festival will feature seven new plays and one new musical. The productions include:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Chimes<\/span> by Kevin Christopher Snipes, directed by Adam Immerwahr<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Departure Lounge<\/span> by Dougal Irivine, directed by Christopher Gattelli<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Happy Sad<\/span> by Ken Urban, directed by Trip Cullman<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Reborning<\/span> by Zayd Dohrn, directed by Kip Fagan<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Sacrifices<\/span> by Alena Smith, directed by Sam Gold<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Tender<\/span> by Nicki Bloom, directed by Daniella Topol<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">We Declare You A Terrorist<\/span> by Tim J. Lord, directed by Niegel Smith<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Whore<\/span> by Rick Viede, directed by Stephen Brackett<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available at The Public Theater box office, 425 Lafayette Street in Manhattan, on Sunday and Monday from 1PM-6PM and Tuesday through Saturday from 1PM-7:30PM (212-967-7555). Tickets also are available for purchase online at the Summer Play Festival <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spfnyc.com\">website<\/a>. All tickets are $10.<\/p>\n<p>Founded by Arielle Tepper Madover (producer of such shows as Broadway\u2019s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Mary Stuart, Frost Nixon<\/span>, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Monty Python\u2019s Spamalot<\/span>, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Pillowman<\/span>, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A Raisin in the Sun<\/span>, and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Freak<\/span>), the non-profit organization The Living Room for Artists, Inc provides emerging writers, directors, designers and producers an opportunity to work on their craft in a protected environment, guided by established professionals at no cost to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Summer Play Festival announced today that tickets are now on-sale for the annual theater festival. For the second year, SPF will be held at The Public Theater on Lafayette Street in New York City. The festival runs from Tuesday, July 7th \u2013 Sunday, August 2nd 2009. The 2009 Festival will feature seven new plays &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Summer Play Festival at the Public<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2229,2230],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-new-playwrights","tag-public-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}