it's our last night to not be allegories. tomorrow we'll all be symbols of something lasting, again.

dear denizens of the blue box world,

Our new show

I Am Not an Allegory (these are people i know)
is up tonight for the last time, 8 pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery b/w Houston & Bleecker

tickets are $15 at the door, $12 advance with code blueboxworld (bbw) buy tickets here.

Here's a glimpse. 

The show features the super fantastic creative team of:
Duv, Stacy Rock, Rachel Klein, Libby Emmons, Ali Ayala & Rebecca Lowry

Starring the acting talents of:
David Marcus, Havilah Brewster, Dan Cozzens, Race Brown, Anna Lamadrid, Lindsay Torrey, Ali Ayala, Eve Udesky, and Matthew Murumba

Hope you can make it!

all our love,
blue box world

we love NYTR

here's why.

nytr talks to libby and ali about the play

you can read about it here.

these are the people in your neighborhood.

it's a video for the show, which happens tonight and tomorrow and then it's gone forever.

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now we know what the plays are

Here's what we've got on tap for Friday:

Sticky

and we're back at the bar

Friday, March 16, 7 pm

Bowery Poetry Club

308 Bowery, NYC

$10 at the door

musical guest: Kaylin Clinton

I Am Not an Allegory  (promo)

by Libby Emmons, directed by Ali Ayala

starring Eve Udesky, Matthew Murumba and Ali Ayala

Mysteries of the Bowery

written and directed by David Marcus

starring Zoe Metcalfe-Klaw, Dewey Caddell and Tim Scott

Uncle Moonbeam
by Lila Holtzworthy, directed by Mae Avdotya Romanovna
starring Bethany Chase and Herman Forthwith, as Uncle Moonbeam 

It's Goodbye

by Adrienne Dawes, directed by Christopher Burris

starring Sean-Michael Bowles and Jordan Dann

A Bad Case of the Noisemaker Blues

by J. Holtham, directed by Cate Bottiglione

starring Lipica Shah, Kelly Klein, Stacie Lents and Angela Millin

 

ny times

we got listed.

Sticky made a video

We love this. I mean, obviously.

Plays shown are by: Louis Vega, Sandra Hosking, J. Michael Grey, David Marcus, Eric Meyer, Sean Gill, Derek McPhatter, Libby Emmons & Michael Smith

Actors shown are: Molly McAdoo, Imran Sheikh, Kelly Kelin, Louis Vega, Bernardo Cubria, Laurel Flynn, Zoe Metcalfe-Klaw, David Marcus, Ali Ayala, Eric Alba, James Pravasilis, Elizabeth Stewart, Lori Parquet, Lindsay Torrey, Sean-Michael Bowles, Dan Cozzens and Matthew Murumba


with Direction by David Marcus, Ali Ayala, Libby Emmons, Laura Ramedei, David Mendizabel and Christopher Burris.

all photos KL Thomas.

the line-up for Sticky 03/16

Dan Cozzens & Matthew Murumba in Mike Smith's Detroit on a Grand, directed by Ali Ayala, photographed by KL Thomas

Sticky
and we're back at the bar

Friday, March 16, 7 pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, NYC
$10 at the door

musical guest: Kaylin Clinton


with plays and performances by:
Ali Ayala, Cate Bottiglione, Lipica Shah, Angela Millin, Stacie Lents, Kelly Klein, Eve Udesky, Matthew Murumba, Tim Scott, Zoe Metcalfe-Klaw, Dewey Caddell, David Marcus, Eleni Kourti, Libby Emmons, Christopher Burris, Sean-Michael Bowles, Adrienne Dawes, and Jordan Dann

Check it out! A press release, and an image.

photo by Jon Marcus, graphics by Lila Holtzworthy

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Blue Box World presents

I Am Not an Allegory

(these are people i know)

Thursday, March 29 & Friday, March 30 @ 8 pm

Bowery Poetry Club

For Immediate Release, Please:

Blue Box World presents a two-night mini-run of Libby Emmons I Am Not an Allegory (these are people i know), at Bowery Poetry Club, directed by Ali Ayala. After nearly a decade of producing Sticky in New York City, Blue Box World is taking the basic elements of its popular short play program, and for the first time, using them to produce a full length play. The play runs for two nights at Bowery Poetry Club: Thursday, March 29th and Friday, March 30th at 8 pm, 308 Bowery. Tickets are $15 at the door, $12 in advance through www.ovationtix.com. More info at www.blueboxworld.com

Set in a small American city, I Am Not an Allegory (these are people i know), confronts sex, faith, and race from outside the perspective of the educated coastal class. Nine actors step off the stage and into reality to perform a play that takes place at this exact moment in your actual life. Outside the rush and tumble and race to the top of megatropolis America, six women and the men in their lives try to find meaning in lives that after 30 years, have moved from fantasy to reality.

Libby Emmons plays include Zeropia (Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission), The Girls from Afar (Desipina & Co., East West Players, Open Rehearsal at INTAR, finalist Yale Drama Series), The Little Room (finalist Eugene O'Neill Conference, BBC International Radio Play Competition), and RU610 (Williamstown Theater Festival commission), among others. She is curator of the Sticky series, and resident playwright at Blue Box World. Libby and director Ali Ayala have worked together on the Sticky series, and other projects of Blue Box World, since 2003. Ali Ayala is the resident director at Blue Box World, and recently directed Eschaton Cabaret at the Bowery Poetry Club.

The cast of six women and three men have all been part of the Sticky series, and includes:  Matthew Murumba (Death in Mozambique, Cherry Lane), Havilah Brewster (RadioPlay with Reggie Watts), Race Brown (Another Bank Robbery, Delaware Opera Co.), Dan Cozzens (The Tenant, Woodshed Collective), Anna Lamadrid (Enfrascada, Clubbed Thumb), Eve Udesky (Uncle Vanya, Boomerang Theater Co.), Lindsay Torrey (Alice or the Scottish Gravediggers, Polybe + Seats), Ali Ayala (Sticky, Blue Box World), and David Marcus (Artfuckers, Theater for the New City).

Blue Box World is a New York City based theater project whose signature show Sticky has run for 9 years. In that time Sticky has premiered plays from Adam Szymkowicz, Tommy Smith, Rehana Mirza, Adam Rapp, Libby Emmons, Jon Kern, Clay McCloud Chapman and over 100 others. As an unsubsidized theater project, Blue Box World has eschewed the exorbitant costs of theater making, while maintaining the highest artistic standards. This mini run of I Am Not an Allegory (these are people i know) marks the beginning of a new way of producing full length work.

I Am Not an Allegory (these are people i know) runs for two nights at Bowery Poetry Club: Thursday, March 29th and Friday, March 30th at 8 pm, 308 Bowery. Tickets are $15 at the door, $12 in advance through www.ovationtix.com. More info at www.blueboxworld.com

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Please RSVP to Lila Holtzworthy at blueboxlila@gmail.com