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HORSE TRADE ENCORES!
APAP SHOWCASE

Kraine Theater and Red Room
January 7th-15th

This Season's Showcases includes Drama Desk Nominees, IT Award winners, multiple Fringe Favorites and hand-picked performances from up and coming New York luminaries. These are the shows that will peak the interest of the collegiate and young professional community and bring fresh, new, high quality work to your existing audience.

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	Michael Birch's One Man Hamlet A 90 minute presentation of William Shakespeare's the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark with all the roles portrayed by Michael Birch. This is Hamlet for a modern audience. Our goal is to bring the classic to life in an accessible way with out losing the beauty of the language that makes Shakespeare great.
	In The Boudoir Rampaging about the stage in a frothy white hooped tutu and sparkly heels, throwing plates of cold spaghetti around and trying desperately to make an impression on -- and be impressed by -- the opposite sex, In the Boudoir tells a deceptively simple story about a young female comedienne's love life. Matters of the heart can be messy and In The Boudoir delights in making a mess. Veering erratically and erotically between the cliches of the helpless, ditzy female and the aggressive femme fatale, Shapiro both explodes stereotypes while making us recognize the universal desires for romantic passion within us all.
	Commencement A rigorous storytelling session packed with enough emotional intensity to feel like a boxing match rather than a bedtime tale. Now entering its second decade of critically acclaimed performances, this season's edition of The Pumpkin Pie Show, commencement centers around three women drawn together in the grim aftermath of a high school shooting. The mother of the shooter, one of the shooter's victims, and the mother of that victim, each performed by Hanna Cheek.
	The Event A man stands in a pool of light and attempts the ultimate magic trick: disappearing while remaining in full sight. A thought-provoking, comic journey beyond the 4th wall into the dangerous slippery territory that lies beneath the written word.
	Hobo Grunt Cycle A war and peace epic colliding connections between wounded soldiers, illegal dog fighting, and the hierarchy of circus performers and military personnel.
	Legs and All A man in an attic meets a woman in a box. As they lure one another into their worlds, their curiosity unfolds and exposes a hilarious, mind-bending, innovative allegory for the classic man-meets-woman story. San Francisco's beloved physical comedienne Summer Shapiro, teams up with Peter Musante (Blue Man Group - NY), for 55 minutes of kinetic comedy and subtle pathos, all supported by a tango-meets-bluegrass score.
	Man 1 Bank 0 Patrick Combs tells the amazing-but-true story of how he deposited a $95,093.35 junk-mail check marked 'non-negotiable' - hoping to spread a little banking cheer to tellers - and how it erupted into a staggering and funny David vs Goliath-like adventure that still continues today if you count his internationally touring, award winning, off-Broadway one-man show about the incident.
	Paradizo Dance Company A high-flying, explosive, intimate acrobatic dance company providing world-class entertainment and theatrical shows that present a new genre of performance at the intersection of dance, acrobatics, theater, and partnering. The union of Dave Paris and Zoė Klein intergrates backgrounds as diverse as modern dance, circus, trapeze, acrobatics, Salsa and even football.
	Radio Star Written and performed by Tanya O'Debra with original music by Andrew Mauriello, is a 1940's radio detective spoof. Miss O'Debra plays ten different characters while her soundman stages live sound effects. Watch (but mainly listen) as Nick McKittrick: Private Dick hilariously solves a murder in "The Case of the Long-Distance Lover".
	The Time Machine Blast off with the Drama Desk nominated Radiotheatre and their new live stage version of the most influential science fiction story of all time...H.G.Wells' THE TIME MACHINE! Complete with a great cast of storytellers, an elaborate soundscape, and an original orchestral score!
	Wanderlust A man embarks on a solo trip deep into Africa. There he demands an Epiphany... Any Epiphany at all. Dockery brings his unique brand of highly energetic storytelling to this one-of-a-kind hilarious and true adventure.