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BuskerAlley BlogPost: WorkShop #Theater serves up ���A La Carte: A Feast of New Plays���

Originally posted on Busker Alley:

If music be the food of love, then perhaps theater is nutrition for the soul. New York���s WorkShop Theater, under the artistic direction of Thomas Cot��, has laid out��a buffet of six short plays related to food.

�� LA CARTE: A FEAST OF NEW PLAYS ��at the�� WorkShop Theater

312 West 36th Street,��Fourth Floor East,��New York, NY 10018
(between 8th and 9th Avenues, on the south/downtown side of the street, a.k.a The Theatre Building)

Click here for tickets and information.

I asked the playwrights and director to��share their secret ingredients in��this platter��of

Mary Ruth Baggot and Susan Izott* in ���Eat Dessert First,��� one of the plays in A LA CARTE at the WorkShop Theater. (Photo: Gerry Goodstein)

dramatic delicacies.

���Food is woven into our childhoods, holidays, romances, tragedies, religions,��� said��artistic associate and project dramaturg Laura Hirschberg, who is also one of the playwrights. ���It���s a great jumping-off point���

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Robert Bruce McIntosh and Desir��e Matthews are a marvelously zany Manhattan couple franticly trying to conceive in Laurie Graff���s witty ���The Incredible Egg.”��Read whole review HERE

Robert Bruce McIntosh and Desir��e Matthews in a scene from ���The Incredible Egg��� by Laurie Graff (Photo credit: Gerry Goodstein)

Hatching the Egg, Playwright Laurie Graff and THE INCREDIBLE EGG.

What I want audiences to come away with after seeing my play at WorkShop Theater!

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���� LA CARTE: A FEAST OF NEW PLAYS

Plays inspired by Food

by the Playwrights of The WorkShop Theater

Directed by Leslie Kincaid Burby��

312 West 36th��Street, 4th��floor

(bet. 8th��and 9th��Avenues)

www.workshoptheater.org

Through May 2

BOTTOM LINE: Our highest recommendation! The most exciting new work of the Off-Broadway season. Six brilliant short plays by superb writers, performed by a stunningly talented cast and superbly orchestrated by a masterful director. A must for enterprising theater-goers!

Everyone in New York these days is one of another kind of foodie!���� So this brilliantly-conceived evening brings us six portrayals of people who relate variously to victuals: to eat or be eaten, to cook for Pussy Riot or to get pregnant, and to make contact with your deceased Mom or to find out if you���re gay.

Among the array of finely etched characters you���ll get to know an AWOL solider who haunts the Port Authority, a guy who wakes up to find himself inside Leviathan with an angel, Jesus Christ (who���s really pissed of at the lousy YELP review he���s gotten for his loaves and fishes ��� ���the fish was���dry���), and others that range from the deeply moving to the farcically hilarious.

The entire ensemble is astonishingly talented. Outstanding were Tess Frazer and Joe Boover as the young troubled pair who work out their fates together in the Port Authority;

Robert Bruce McIntosh and Desiree Matthews as a couple who bring down the house when they open their opus completely covered in bedsheets, trying to follow the instructions in a manual on how to conceive; Cody Keown and Joe Boover (he���s one of several actors who do double duty) in a gay escapade involving popcorn; C. K. Allen and Lauren Riddle as a would-be suicide and his rescuer; Allen again, together with Bob Manus as Jesus, in a Biblical send-up; and Susan Izatt and Mary Ruth Baggott in the poignant memory-play finale.

Please, WorkShop Company: Let���s have a another half-dozen courses from this delectable menu.

TIPS: Speaking of eating, a ���find��� for your pre-theater dinner is Stella 34 Trattoria implausibly ensconced in Macy���s on the 6th��floor.���� Also, to add to your enjoyment of the evening, check out the 2-minute video interviews with the director and some of the performers, on the WorkShop website (www.workshoptheater.org).

A terrific director, with Leslie Kincaid Burby

My wonderful actors Rob McIntosh and Desiree Matthews

A LA CARTE is playing to fun, full houses.

Check out workshoptheater.org and come on down.

Now through May 2.

Now through May 2nd… come on down!!