Let’s Go Out Tonight: Summer Short Shorts — July 31, 2008
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THEATER
SHORT SHORTS Tonight, four one-act plays make their debut in 59E59 Theaters’ second annual “Summer Shorts” festival. The lineup includes Leslie Lyles’s one-woman show “The Waters of March,” featuring Amy Irving as a career-oriented woman who comes to a crossroads. Other plays include Eduardo Machado’s “In Paradise,” about the reunion of an estranged husband and wife; Neil Koenigsberg’s “On a Bench,” about a teenage boy and a middle-aged woman who bond in Greenwich Village over a book on the 1969 Stonewall riots, and Roger Hedden’s “Deep in the Hole,” about an encounter between two women and some cheap vodka. The second wave of this festival, featuring four more new plays, begins next Wednesday, August 6. 8:15 p.m., 59E59 Theaters, 59 E. 59th St., between Madison and Park avenues, 212-279-4200, $18 general, $12.60 members.
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