70/70 AFTER PARTY!!!

Join us for the AFTER PARTY sponsored by ZYR Vodka, Bean Post Pub and Cape Ann Brewing Co., with DJ Grancentral spinning some of the hottest beats!!! Entry to After Party is $10 bucks, cash only at the door if you're not able to attend the earlier festivities. Tixs to entire event can be bought at http://www.smarttix.com/.

Here's a little bit about our guest DJ:

Grancentral is multi instrumentalist and producer Giancarlo Colaianni. Part of the band Raw Paw, grancentral toured the US and Europe with Ghostly International recording artist 'Michna' throughout 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px19J_NC51s&feature=related
Grancentral has been hitting the arts scene pretty hard this year, first performing a original composition at Fader First Fridays at the Museum of Natural History with Michna, and a full set of original music at the Bronx Museum for the boutique film production company Friends We Love.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/21300567/Bronx-Museum-TK-Wonder-Friends-We-Love-GranCentral-Real-Live-Show
Friends We love also used his music in a documentary film on street artist D*Face.
http://www.babelgum.com/4006761/dface-all-your-dreams-belong-us.html
Rounding out a year of collaborations, an avant garde sound design piece with film maker Richard Cohen, which debuted at the years Scope Art Fair at Lincoln Center.
http://vimeo.com/9920013
As a Dj, grancentral has held down funk/soul nights at the recently defunct lounge Marion's, as well as a monthly soul party at the Greenpoint bar the Keg and Lantern. Spinning a mix of R&B/Soul from the 50's 60's and 70's, grancentral turns parties out and gets people dancing with an eclectic mix of 80's pop, hip-hop and club bangers that keep people moving all night long.
-- http://twitter.com/grancentralNYChttp://soundcloud.com/grancentral

70/70 Horovitz Project 3/31/10

Stephen Adly Guirgis steps in to direct Unexpected Tenderness...

We are excited to announce acclaimed playwright and director will step in to direct the reading of Unexpected Tenderness this coming Wednesday for our 70/70 Horovitz Project. Previously slated director, Terry Kinney had to bow out due to work in Chicago. We wish him well and many congrats!

Stephen Adly Guirgis is an award winning playwright and the co-artistic director of LAByrinth Theater Company. His new play,The Motherf**ker With the Hat, will premiere in New York in the 2010-2011 season. Some of his other plays include: Jesus Hopped the A Train, Our Lady of 121st Street, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, In Arabia We'd All be Kings, The Little Flower of East Orange, Dominica: the Fat, Ugly Ho, and Den of Thieves.

Marcia Jean Kurtz joins the cast this Wednesday

Lynn Cohen has gotten work on Law & Order and had to bow out of the reading of Unexpected Tenderness this Wednesday. We are thrilled to announce that Marcia Jean Kurtz will take her place. Upcoming film: BLACK SWAN - Darren Aronofsky Dir. Film Credits Include: BIG FAN- Robert Siegel, Dir; ARRANGED – Stefan Schaefer, Diane Crespo Dir. MIRACLE OF SANTA ANNA – Spike Lee, Dir., BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD – Sidney Lumet, Dir. THE WRESTLER – Darren Aronofsky, Dir., WEDDING BROTHERS – M. Canzoniero/M. Ricci, Dir FIND ME GUILTY – Sidney Lumet, Dir, INSIDE MAN – Spike Lee, Dir. PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK – Jerry Shatzberg, Dir, IN HER SHOES – Curtis Hanson, Dir FROM OTHER WORLDS – Barry Strugatz, Dir, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM – Darren Aronofsky, Dir KING OF THE SKINS – A. Yaffe, Dir, BORN TO WIN – Ivan Passer, Dir ONE TRUE THING – Carl Franklin, Dir, CENTER STAGE – Nicholas Hytner, Dir. NIGHT FALLS ON MANHATTAN-Sidney Lumet, Dir, THE DAY THE PONIES CAME BACK – Jerry Shatzberg, Dir RUNNING ON EMPTY-Sidney Lumet, Dir, ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA – Sergio Leone, Dir DEATHWISH- Michael Winner, Dir, DOG DAY AFTERNOON – Sidney Lumet, Dir, THE STOOLIE-John Avildsen, Dir. Numerous Television Credits; Broadway and Off-Broadway including: WHEN SHE DANCED Playwrights Horizon Obie Award/Drama Desk Nomination; THE LOMAN FAMILY PICNIC Manhattan Theatre Club Obie Award

the world renowned playwright, Israel Horovitz

ISRAEL HOROVITZ’S plays have been translated and performed, worldwide. His 70+ plays include Line (now in 36th year, off-Broadway), The Indian Wants The Bronx, Rats, Morning, The Primary English Class, The Wakefield Plays, The Widow’s Blind Date, Today I Am A Fountain Pen, Park Your Car In Harvard Yard, North Shore Fish, Fighting Over Beverley, Lebensraum , My Old Lady, Free Gift, Cat-Lady, Stations of the Cross, One Under, 50 Years of Caddieing, Speaking Well of the Dead, Unexpected Tenderness, Fast Hands, Security, A Mother’s Love, Sins of the Mother, 6 Hotels (including The Audition Play, Fiddleheads and Lovers, Speaking of Tushy, 2nd Violin, Beirut Rocks, and The Hotel Play), Compromise, The Secret of Mme. Bonnard’s Bath, and The P Word. Screenplays include Author! Author!, The Strawberry Statement (Prix du Jury, Cannes Film Festival), Sunshine (European Academy Award – Best Screenplay), New York, I Love You, and EMMY-nominated James Dean. Horovitz wrote, directed and performed the award-winning documentary 3 Weeks After Paradise, shown in the USA on Bravo, now on stage in Paris. Awards include the OBIE (twice), the Prix de Plaisir du Théâtre, The Prix Italia (for radio plays), The Sony Radio Academy Award (for Man In Snow), The Writers Guild of Canada Best Screenwriter Award, The Christopher Award, The Drama Desk Award, an Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Elliot Norton Prize, a Lifetime Achievement Award from B’Nai Brith, The Literature Prize of Washington College, an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Salem (Massachusetts) State College, Boston Public Library’s Literary Lights Award, The Walker Hancock Prize, and many others. Horovitz is Founding Artistic Director of Gloucester Stage, and active Artistic Director of the New York Playwrights Lab. He teaches a master class in screenwriting at Columbia University and La Fèmis, France’s national film school. Horovitz visits France, frequently, where he often directs French-language productions of his plays. He is the most-produced American playwright in French theatre history, and has recently been named to receive France’s coveted Order of Merit in Arts and Letters. (March, 2009.)

Bean Post Pub helps us celebrate!

The BEAN POST PUB is located on the corner of 76th St. & 5th Ave. in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn! If you're looking for a true, laid-back, fun time, then we are the place for you!!
Here's a little bit of info on one of our sponsors for this coming celebration: 1st Anniversary of the 70/70 Horovitz Project this coming Wednesday, March 31st, 2010.  Cocktail Hour begins at 7pm.  

Bean Post Pub
We are famous for the coldest (and BEST) tap beer in Bay Ridge plus, with our diverse (and constantly updated) selection of bottled beer, we now offer over 60 different types of beers!!! Add to that one of the most varied selections of liquors and an intoxicatingly good time is all but assured!!!
Our kitchen may be the best kept secret in Bay Ridge!! Our WINGS are a neighborhood favorite and you HAVE to try our "mini-burgers" (we call them COASTERS)!! You are guaranteed to love them, EVERYONE does!!!
Our NEW digital jukebox has over 250 albums on it plus thousands more that you can download from the Internet! It's proven to be a real crowd pleaser!
So, if you're looking for a GREAT time with ice-cold beer, tasty food, a state of the art Juke Box & NEVER any hassles, then the BEAN POST PUB is the place for you!!!

Annabella Sciorra completes casting for Unexpected Tenderness...

March 31st, 2010 is Israel Horovitz's 71st birthday, and it is also the anniversary of our 70/70 Horovitz project, a celebration of Israel's work with readings, workshops, and full productions of (almost) all of his plays being done all over the world. To mark the occasion, we're throwing a party bigger than last year's!!

The event will include a cocktail hour with open bar, snacks, live music, and photo opportunities on the red carpet followed by a reading of Horovitz's Unexpected Tenderness directed by Terry Kinney (HBO's Oz, co-founder of the Steppenwolf Theater Company) and featuring Annabella Sciorra (Jungle Fever, What Dreams May Come, Law & Order), Michael Stuhlbarg (2009 Golden Globe nominee for A Serious Man, Drama Desk Award winner for The Pillowman), Lynn Cohen (Munich, Sex And The City), Sol Frieder (original NYC cast, "oldest working actor in New York"), and Barefoot Theatre Company members Anna Chlumsky (In The Loop, My Girl), Joseph Sousa (Teeth Of The Sons), andChristopher Whalen (PS I Love You, Sins Of The Mother at GSC), with stage directions read by Ron Cohen. The event will take place at the official venue for the 70/70 Horovitz Project, The Bleecker Street Theatre, 45 Bleecker Street, NYC.

Directly after the reading: THE AFTER PARTY. We will party into the night with music spun by DJ Grancentral and drinks supplied by Zyr Vodka, Cape Ann Brewing Company, and the Bean Post Pub. Coffee, provided by Starbucks, will be available in the lobby. Stick around and mingle with the Barefoot Theatre Company and our guests. The cocktail hour starts at 7:00. The reading starts at 8:00.