INDEPENDENT THEATRE
Some of my favorite projects in New York's indie theatre spaces
THE
TEM
PEST
WM.
SHAKESPEARE
Arclight Theatre
Koteles and Jacobs, who also brought the award-winning comedy Bald Diva! The Ionesco Parody Your Mother Warned You About to the very first Fresh Fruit Festival 10 years ago, are returning with another Ionesco-inspired play."
Broadway.com
WINNER!
Best Direction, Fresh Fruit Festival 2013
A F T E R
T H E
CHAIRS
BY
DAVID KOTELES
Fresh Fruit Festival
An afternoon of pleasantries quickly turns into a boiling teakettle of tension...the ending of the play is subtle and numbingly powerful."
Letters From the Mezz
I want the audience to look at the Founding Fathers through a lens that includes class, race and gender."
Call Me Adam
M Y
FIRST
LADY
BY
DAVID KOTELES
Metropolitan Playhouse
The REAL First Ladies of Washington City give the dish on the 1801 Election."
Call Me Adam
Jacobs believes the choice of first-person perspective gives the audience an immediate point of entry. It's "that very human, individual response" missing from statistics-heavy news stories."
Seven Days
THE
BOY
COTT
BY
KATHRYN BLUME
Arclight Theatre
Seven Days
As the story quickly moves from situation to situation, cleverly staged by Jason Jacobs on a minimalistic set ... (Sheinmel) begins to discover the meaning behind initially irrelevant occurrences and that life is full of the unexpected."
Theatre Is Easy
The antidote to the surfeit of soulless synthetic musical comedies on Broadway awaits you at The Club at La MaMa, in the form of Post Modern Living, a musical (kind of) by Richard Sheinmel, with songs by Clay Zambo, whose casual informality, honesty, and warmth are rivaled only by its dazzlingly high entertainment quotient."
NYTheatre.com
POST-MODERN
LIVING / LOST
IN STATEN ISLAND
BY
RICHARD SHEINMEL
LaMama
NYTheatre.com
An evening of Jewishly inflected, queer songs brings Weimar Germany back to life with humor and music."
Tablet
Out of this minimal landscape, director Jason Jacobs creates a vibrant, small-scale panorama with his precise staging. Lawrence glides around, often stands still totally, but remains mesmerizing due to Jacobs’ command of visual technique."
TheatreScene.net
LAVENDER
SONGS
Jeremy
Lawrence
Pangea
a beautifully realized evocation of a club in Germany in the ‘30s ... a thrilling reminder of the power and strength of cabaret at its best.”