In honor of our 20th Season we pull four special plays from NPTC's repertoire for this year's TIS calendar.

A THEATRICAL "RE-PAST"

Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks:

Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.

The founder's you; the table is this place:

The carvers we; the prologue is the grace.

Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.”

George Farquhar, 17th Century Irish Dramatist

THEATRE IS SERVED brings a new perspective to a long-standing tradition: the marriage of theatre and eating!  The combination of food, drink, and NPTC’s interactive performance style goes to the heart of the New Perspectives mission: celebrating the communal nature of all theatrical endeavors! 

Quarterly events include:

• Concert Reading of a play from a different time period/culture
• Dinner paired with time period/culture w/ dessert and libation
• Comprehensive Playbill with historical facts and the socio/political context of each play

It's a mini-Theatre History Course and Epicurean Adventure, all rolled into one!

GREAT GIFT IDEA!  Use a FLEX PASS to:

Treat your wife, bring the kids, have a Mommies’ Night Out, an Alumni Event, or just come by yourself and meet other interesting folks!  Seating is always limited, to maintain an intimate atmosphere, so book NOW!  Price includes Food & Drink with vegetarian and non-alcoholic options available (vegetarian option must be requested in advance).

The THEATRE IS SERVED Series is set with seasonal holidays and cultural celebrations in mind.  The 2011-12 Schedule is drawn from NPTC's repertoire of original and classic plays:

• Tuesday, October 18, 2011, Macbeth by Wm. Shakespeare (Halloween)
• Tuesday, March 20, 2012, TBD (Women's History Month))
• Tuesday, June 12, 2012, Jihad by Ann Chamberlin  (NPTC's Official Birthday, & first Award-Winning Play!)

ALL EVENTS BEGIN AT 6:30PM WITH COCKTAILS AND SCHMOOZING

PERFORMANCE STARTS AT 7:00PM

TOTAL EVENT TIME IS 2.5 to 3 HOURS

LOCATION: 

Reservations (required) at: contact@nptnyc.org or 212-630-9945.

NPTC created THEATRE IS SERVED in the spring of 2009 to celebrate our heritage as theatre artists and highlight an important part of our mission—that Theatre is above all about gathering the Community to explore, evaluate and investigate the BIG life questions.  The Greeks (who gave us the word Theatre from Theatron) believed that engaging the entire community (in spaces that could accommodate up to 25,000!) would generate enough power and synergy to raise these questions up to the heavens, and that the Universe/Gods would eventually provide answers and insight. The Greeks also gave us the word IDIOT which to them meant someone who refused to participate in the life of the community! 

Offerings began in May 2009 with (of course) a Greek comedy, Lysistrata by Aristophanes, the anti-war vehicle that is still being produced today.  The program has since produced the following:

• The Jewish King Lear by Jacob Adler (19th Century Yiddish Theatre classic)
• The Convent of Pleasure by Margaret Cavendish (17th Century English Restoration)
• Good Morning Miss Millie by Alwin Bully (Jamaica, 1969)
• La Mandragola by Niccolò Machiavelli (Italian Renaissance)
• A Day of Absence by Douglas Turner Ward (Modern Black Theatre, 1966)
• Everyman, author unknown (Medieval Morality Play)
• The Group, A Farce by Mercy Otis Warren (American Revolution)