To support the creative visionaries of the current Off-Off-Broadway world, Judson Memorial Church presents MAGIC TIME, a free monthly series of staged readings of fresh plays by the movement’s astonishing voices.

Each month, a new playwright is provided with free space, a small stipend, and whatever magic we can muster to conjure his or her vision to life in the very space where it all began, the Judson Memorial Church Meeting Room. What results is a party with a brand new play smack-dab in the middle of it. 

Up Next... 

May 16th at 55 Washingtong Sq S. - Doors open at 7pm - Drinks and snacks from 7pm to 8pm - Show at 8pm

METHTACULAR

Through wildly outrageous anecdotes and hilarious song stylings, METHTACULAR! is Steven’s Strafford’s hilarious and harrowing account of his life as a crystal methamphetamine addict in Chicago. Told with humor, grace, panache andperhaps most importantly, with honesty and without fear, METHTACULAR! will make you laugh, cry and laugh again while being taken on a roller coaster ride of humanity.

Steven Strafford (playwright, actor)

Steven Strafford is a Brooklyn-born, Jersey raised actor and writer. Credits include multiple roles in Spamalot (Vegas Company); The Herald in the Asian tour of Cinderella (w/ Lea Salonga); Cecco (u/s Smee) in the National Tour of Peter Pan (w/ Cathy Rigby); Lord Edgar and Jane Twisden in The Mystery of Irma Vep (Portland Stage Company) Chicago credits include: Thurio in Two Gentlemen of Verona; Erskine in Blair Fell’s Naked Will; Bilge in P.S. Pirates and The Padre in Man of la Mancha. His show, All of Me: All for You has been seen in sold out runs in both NYC and Sacramento. He has been featured on UCB Tv in the skit “Glitzy Babes” and he can be seen in the independent film, The Homecoming. He is the author and performer of Methtacular! coming to NYC in September 2012 www.methtacular.com He will next be seen in As Bees in Honey Drown at the Cape Playhouse in June/July.

 

Adam Fitzgerald (director)

Adam is a founding member of kef theatrical productions. With kef, Adam has directed many productions and readings including Killing Women, Lyric is Waiting, V, Roll, Corpus Christi, Artists Rising, Michael Pesce’s Old Fashioned Piano Party, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl and The Female Terrorist Project. In the past, Adam has served as a Directing Fellow at Playwrights Horizons assisting Wilson Milam, Bartlett Sher and Kate Whoriskey on plays by Nicky Silver (Three Changes with Maura Tierney), Craig Lucas (Prayer for my Enemy with Victoria Clark and Jonathan Groff) and Christina Anderson (Inked Baby with LaChanze); as the Artistic Associate at Playhouse West (where his production of Defiance garnered Critics Circle nominations for Director and Production; Top Ten Productions of 2007 by the Contra Costa Times) and the Associate General Manager at Theatre Row. Other directing credits include Ground Up Productions, EST Youngbloods, 12 Miles West, Diverse City Theater, First Look Theatre Co. (NYU), The SF Theater Festival, WE Theater (with Ironjaw Productions) and the FringeNYC (at the Cherry Lane) and Fringe Encores (at Soho Playhouse) productions of A Contemporary American’s Guide to Modern Marriage © 1959. Current projects in development include Steven Strafford’s Methtacular! and Don Creedon’s The Lobby (Producer Ellen Cohn).

 

The Inspiration for Magic Time

In the 1960s, New York City’s eager and growing population of playwrights found three new homes for their explosive work: Caffe Cino, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, and our very own Judson Poets’ Theater. The three major forces behind each of these establishments, Joe Cino, Ellen Stewart, and Al Carmines each had a unique vision that culminated in what we now call the Off-Off-Broadway theatre movement. Joe Cino's nightly exclamatory introduction to his shows has become our mantra: “It’s Magic Time!”

-------------------------------------------------

Directions

Judson Memorial Church is located at 55 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012.

Subway stops: W. 4th on the ACE / F/ B / M and the NYU-8th St. on the N / R, and Christopher St. on the 1/2.

Map your journey here.


View Larger Map

 
55 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 | phone: 212-477-0351 | fax: 212-995-0844