The Cave

by Carrie Louise Nutt

Sunday, October 11 at 7:30pm. George Street Playhouse Black Box (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ) . This is a FREE reading

The Orphanage is the only new play reading series in downtown New Brunswick, providing a home for local theater artists and a safe environment for playwrights to develop their work.

Come for a beer and a burger, stay for the play! This is a FREE Reading.

REVELATION
by Samuel Brett Williams

A New Play Network commission of a new play based on the Book of Revelations.

Samuel Brett Williams is a 2008 Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award winner. He was in the Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project 07-08 season under Charles Fuller with his play “The Woodpecker” that he initially developed at the O’Neill conference. He went to the Kennedy Center last summer to develop his play “The Revival.” He holds an MFA in playwriting from MGSA.

The Orphanage is the only new play reading series in downtown New Brunswick, providing a home for local theater artists and a safe environment for playwrights to develop their work.

Tumulty’s (361 George Street) is located in the heart of Downtown New Brunswick right on George Street, between Bayard and Paterson Streets. Free side street parking is available, as well as free deck parking at the Wolfson Deck, entrance located on the corner of Liberty and Nielson Streets.

Saturday, August 1 at 8pm, located at George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ). $6 tickets available ONLINE HERE.

Pandora’s Box is hosted by coLAB Member and spoken word rockstar Pandora Scooter and features live music, stand up and sketch comedy, poetry, and spoken word.

What IS Pandora’s Box?  A hilarious variety/comedy show featuring stand-up comics, sketches and a whole lot of laughing.  It’s a fun, funny, fun-a-licious show. Don’t miss a night of laughter and serious silliness!

Featuring stand up comic RON LONG. He’s previously been an opener for Chris Rock and featured at the Apollo Theatre, Caroline’s, and the Comedy Store (LA).

Musical guest, virtuoso bassist Mark Wallace.

Sketch Comedy performers: Corynn Egreczky, Dianna Jones, James Herrera, Suze Chic, MooseJaw Muldoon, and Jack Leary.

THE ORPHANAGE

The Orphanage is the only new play reading series in Downtown New Brunswick, providing a home for local theater artists and a safe environment for playwrights to develop their work. This year’s Breakthrough Arts Fest will feature readings of three new plays by both emerging and early career playwrights.

The Orphanage series happens on Saturday, July 18, 25 and August 1st and is FREE, located at George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901).

Saturday, July 18, 3pm – The Orphanage: a staged reading of Lia Romeo’s “SUPER”

A New York yuppie discovers he has super powers. Aided by a homeless guy who is similarly “challenged” he picks up the call to fight crime. But when it interferes with the life and relationship he’s trying to rebuild, what choice should he make?

Lia Romeo is an MFA playwrighting graduate from MGSA Theatre. She went to the Kennedy Center last summer with her play “Green Whales” which will be getting its world premiere this season at the Unicorn Theatre in Kansas. With her brother, Lia co-authored the book “11,002 Things To Be Miserable About.”

Saturday, July 25, 3pm – The Orphanage: a staged reading of “Night Cycle” by Jessica Corn

If having the perfect life means making everyone around you happy and making yourself miserable is the perfect life worth having? Should one compromise one’s dreams for security?

Jessica Corn is a graduate of Wheaton College and has worked previously at Trinity Rep, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and Highwire Theatre Company . She currently works at George Street Playhouse as manager of education where she teaches playwrighting and is co-producer of the coLAB new play development program, The Orphanage.

Saturday, August 1, 3pm – The Orphanage: a staged reading of “Fraternity” by Samuel Brett Williams

Samuel is a 2008 Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award winner. He was in the Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor project 07-08 season under Charles Fuller with his play “The Woodpecker” that he initially developed at the O’Neill conference. He went to the Kennedy Center last summer to develop his play “The Revival”. He is an MFA in playwriting graduate from MGSA Theater.

Friday, July 31 at 7pm. Email info@colab-arts.org for address. $6 tickets.

Hands on:
This ArtHouse (like the past few) will have interactive elements where the audience can artfully engage the theme including:

**Group Mural: Throughout the night people will be able to contribute to the painting of an ArtHouse banner!

Artists and Performers TBA
Please contact Cat (trestini@eden.rutgers.edu) if you are a visual artist and want to show work and Elena Callahan (dansingirl8@gmail.com) if you would like to perform.
If you would like to help plan and/or volunteer contact Avianna Perez (avianna@colab-arts.org).

ArtHouse celebrates the artists who stay and fight; to all those who strive to build something new, original and promising. A place for those who work to make New Brunswick a city we’re proud to call home.

Saturday, July 25 at 8pm, George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ). Tickets are $6 each and are available ONLINE HERE.

WHAT IS A PUPPET SLAM?

It’s an evening of short varied theatrical mini-plays for adults that use (or sometimes abuse) puppets for all or part of the drama. Each piece is performed by a different artist or artists, and the content can be wide-ranging; some are elegant or poignant, others are satiric, irreverent, or humorous, and still others can be passionate, political, or spiritual in nature. The performers range from the seasoned professional to the nascent puppeteer, and often include poets, musicians, dancers, mimes, actors, and other sundry affiliated artists.

Featuring work by Mary Gragen Rogers, Jean Marie Keevins, Alissa Hunnicutt, + others TBA!

THE ORPHANAGE

The Orphanage is the only new play reading series in Downtown New Brunswick, providing a home for local theater artists and a safe environment for playwrights to develop their work. This year’s Breakthrough Arts Fest will feature readings of four new plays by both emerging and early career playwrights.

The Orphanage series happens on Saturday, July 18, 25 and August 1st and is FREE, located at George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ).

Saturday, July 18, 3pm – The Orphanage: a staged reading of Lia Romeo’s “SUPER”

A New York yuppie discovers he has super powers. Aided by a homeless guy who is similarly “challenged” he picks up the call to fight crime. But when it interferes with the life and relationship he’s trying to rebuild, what choice should he make?

Lia Romeo is an MFA playwrighting graduate from MGSA Theatre. She went to the Kennedy Center last summer with her play “Green Whales” which will be getting its world premiere this season at the Unicorn Theatre in Kansas. With her brother, Lia co-authored the book “11,002 Things To Be Miserable About.”

Saturday, July 25, 3pm – The Orphanage: a staged reading of “Night Cycle” by Jessica Corn

If having the perfect life means making everyone around you happy and making yourself miserable is the perfect life worth having? Should one compromise one’s dreams for security?

Jessica Corn is a graduate of Wheaton College and has worked previously at Trinity Rep, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and Highwire Theatre Company . She currently works at George Street Playhouse as manager of education where she teaches playwrighting and is co-producer of the coLAB new play development program, The Orphanage.

Saturday, August 1, 3pm – The Orphanage: a staged reading of “Fraternity” by Samuel Brett Williams

Samuel is a 2008 Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award winner. He was in the Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor project 07-08 season under Charles Fuller with his play “The Woodpecker” that he initially developed at the O’Neill conference. He went to the Kennedy Center last summer to develop his play “The Revival”. He is an MFA in playwriting graduate from MGSA Theater.

Sunday, July 26 at 7pm, located at George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ). $6 tickets are available at the door and ONLINE HERE.

coLAB’s core includes some of the most talented and exciting artists in New Jersey. The Membership Showcase is an opportunity to see their work realized in stripped down productions. Featured work includes theater, film, music, and dance. Friday, July 17 feature coLAB members Dan Swern and Jack Leary. Sunday, July 26th features members Jessica Lipman and Avianna Perez.

• Untitled, a short film by Jessica Lipman.

Street corners, basements, classrooms, bars, dance studios.  Abandoned
spaces, forgotten spaces. Dancers of Insurgo Stage Project, a New
Brunswick-based experimental dance and theatre troupe, use multiple
forms of expression to take up, and take back, New Brunswick spaces.

Jessica Lipman is a Studio Mentor in the Rutgers English Department’s
Plangere Culture Lab, and is the Collaborative Arts Series Coordinator
of coLAB Film Festival.  Currently, she is the resident videographer
of Insurgo Stage Project.  She made this film in collaboration with
Insurgo Stage Project’s director, Avianna Perez, as well as the
dancers of Insurgo Stage Project.

• Untitled, a new solo dance piece with text by Justin Woo and Avianna Perez. Performed by Avianna Perez.

Intention, objective, purpose, direction, aspiration.  In her latest work,  Avianna Perez explores these ideas in hopes of arriving at a new understanding of her intention as an artist (and as a human), and why these questions are important.

Saturday, July 18 and Sunday, July 19 @ 8pm. Tickets are $6 in advance and are ONLINE HERE!

“Samuraization” is a hilarious one-woman show about having your cake and eating it, too – with Samurai values as icing on the cake. The show explores how to live life to its fullest – and it’s a show for all who are mortal.

Pandora Scooter is an awesome, hilarious “spoken word rock star” who has performed at universities up and down the East Coast — Boston, NYU, George Washington Universities among many others.  Her passionate rhymes and rants thrill and inspire audiences. She’s been put into categories including everything from stand-up comedy to hip-hop to folk poet to performance artist. Her work defies conventional labels, just as she does herself. A self-identified QUEERMAMASAPIEN, Pandora is pro-people, in all their glorious individualizations. She is an unyielding advocate on behalf of misfits and ‘fits,’ of all walks and talks.

On the specific-tip, Pandora has performed at venues including: NJPAC’s Alternate Routes Hip Hop Festival 2 and 3, HIP HOP: Out, Loud and Proud, PhaseFest, Philly Queer Rock Show, Baltimore Pride, Mississipi’s OUToberfest, Capitol Rainbowfest (Trenton, NJ’s Pride Celebration), Cornelia Street Cafe’s Pink Pony Series (NYC), Nuyorican Youth Slam (NYC), as well as featuring at numerous open-mics throughout New Jersey and Philadelphia.

Friday, July 17th at 8pm. Tickets are $6 each at the door and ONLINE HERE.

coLAB’s core includes some of the most talented and exciting artists in New Jersey. The Membership Showcase is an opportunity to see their work realized in stripped down productions. Featured work includes theater, film, music, and dance. Friday, July 17 feature coLAB members Dan Swern and Jack Leary. Friday, July 24th features members Jessica Lipman and Avianna Perez. See all 4 new works on Sunday, July 26 at 5pm.

• “Castle On a Hill,” a staged reading of a play by Dan Swern

A high school principal and two students – one past and one present. One apart and one tearing at the seams. Is the principal their only hope or a gilded monster. Fictional characters based on the true events of Teaneck High School in 2003 and 2007.

Dan Swern is a co-founder of Collaborative Arts. Previous positions include NY Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, Studio 42, 365 Days/365 Plays Festival, NYC Fringe Festival, Godlight Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club. Currently works at George Street Playhouse and coLAB. Primarily a director, this is the first play that Dan has written.

• “Make It,” the premiere of Jack Leary’s music/performance happening

“Make It” is an exciting exploration into creating music – it’s part jam band, part audience interaction and an all enthralling music experience.  This unparalleled show will appeal to everyone who would have flocked to Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead and their spiritual descendants.