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SUMMARY:David Greenspan Film of Icon Evening May 4\, 2025
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URL:https://westbeth.org/event/david-greenspan-westbeth-icon/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Westbeth Icon: David Greenspan  actor and playwright
DESCRIPTION:Sunday May 4\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestberth Community Room\n155 Bank Streety\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NYT 100124 \nWestbeth Artists Residents COunceil (WARC) designed the Icons project to honor Westbeth artists who have continued to work in the arts and a are an inspiration to others. \nSix-time Obie recipient David Greenspan (The Patsy\, Strange Interlude\, Four Saints in Three Acts\, On Set With Theda Bara)\, Drama Desk nominee Mona Pirnot (I Love You So Much I Could Die) and two-time Obie recipient Ken Rus Schmoll (Middletown\, The Internationalist\, Telephone\, Map of Virtue). \nDavid Greenspan has appeared in his plays Dead Mother\, She Stoops to Comedy\, Go Back to Where You Are\, I’m Looking for Helen Twelvetrees\, The Memory Motel and his solo plays The Argument and The Myopia\, performed solo renditions of three American plays from the 1920’s: Barry Conners’ comedy The Patsy\, Eugene O’Neill’s six-hour\, nine-act drama Strange Interlude\, Gertrude Stein’s experimental Four Saints in Three Acts and solo renditions of Stein’s lectures Plays\, Composition As Explanation and What Are Masterpieces and acted in many contemporary plays\, notably Terrence McNally’s Some Men\, Joey Merlo’s solo play On Set With Theda Bara and revivals of Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band and Goethe’s Faust. Honors include Guggenheim\, Lortel and Fox fellowships\, Alpert\, Lambda Literary\, Helen Merrill Playwriting awards\, a RUTHIE and six OBIES.
URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-icon-david-greenspan/
LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room
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SUMMARY:David Greenspan in " I'm Assuming You Know David Greenspan"
DESCRIPTION:January 8 – February 9\, 2025 \nAtlantic Theater\n336 West 20th St\nNew York\, NY  \nClick Image for Ticket info \nwritten by Mona Pirnot\ndirected by Ken Rus Schmoll\nperformed by… David Greenspan \n“Yes friends\, you’ve read the title correctly.  One\, it’s funny.  Two\, I’m not a character.  Three\, I play young women.  Ticket link below.  Mona Pirnot is a terrific playwright.  I’m being directed by Ken Rus Schmoll – and it’s doesn’t get better than that!  Tickets are selling briskly!  January 8 – February 9.  I sure hope you can make it.” – David Greenspan \nOne 69-year old man plays four millennial women in a comedy (that’s full of drama) about how to make a living as a playwright (or to try). \nSix-time Obie recipient David Greenspan (The Patsy\, Strange Interlude\, Four Saints in Three Acts\, On Set With Theda Bara)\, Drama Desk nominee Mona Pirnot (I Love You So Much I Could Die) and two-time Obie recipient Ken Rus Schmoll (Middletown\, The Internationalist\, Telephone\, Map of Virtue). \nMore About David Greenspan\nDavid Greenspan has appeared in his plays Dead Mother\, She Stoops to Comedy\, Go Back to Where You Are\, I’m Looking for Helen Twelvetrees\, The Memory Motel and his solo plays The Argument and The Myopia\, performed solo renditions of three American plays from the 1920’s: Barry Conners’ comedy The Patsy\, Eugene O’Neill’s six-hour\, nine-act drama Strange Interlude\, Gertrude Stein’s experimental Four Saints in Three Acts and solo renditions of Stein’s lectures Plays\, Composition As Explanation and What Are Masterpieces and acted in many  contemporary plays\, notably Terrence McNally’s Some Men\, Joey Merlo’s solo play On Set With Theda Bara and revivals of Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band and Goethe’s Faust.  Honors include Guggenheim\, Lortel and Fox fellowships\, Alpert\, Lambda Literary\, Helen Merrill Playwriting awards\, a RUTHIE and six OBIES. \nDavid Greenspan been associated with New York’s Off-Broadway theater for over forty years.  After graduating with a theater degree from the University of California at Irvine\, he settled in New York and found his way into the downtown theater scene – writing\, directing and performing.  He came to the attention of Joseph Papp who made him a director-in-residence at the Public Theater.  He has appeared in his own plays\, most notably The Home Show Pieces\, Dead Mother\, She Stoops to Comedy\, Go Back to Where You Are\, I’m Looking for Helen Twelvetrees\, The Memory Motel and his solo plays The Argument and The Myopia – and performed solo renditions of Gertrude Stein’s lectures Plays\, Composition as Explanation and What Are Masterpieces.  Between 2011 and 2022 he developed and performed solo renditions of three American plays from the late 1920’s: Barry Conners’ 1925 romantic comedy The Patsy\, Eugene O’Neill’s 1927 six-hour\, nine-act modernist drama Strange Interlude and Gertrude Stein’s 1928 radically experimental Four Saints in Three Acts.  His plays and solo projects have been produced by the Public\, Playwrights Horizons\, Target Margin Theater\, The Foundry\, Transport Group and the Lortel Theatre.  He has acted in many contemporary plays\, notably Terrence McNally’s Some Men\, Joey Merlo’s solo play On Set With Theda Bara and revivals of Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band and Goethe’s Faust.  He enjoys close collaborative relationships with directors David Herskovits\, Leigh Silverman\, Jack Cummings III\, Ken Rus Schmoll and Morgan Green and is the recipient of Guggenheim\, Lortel and Fox fellowships\, Alpert\, Lambda Literary\, Helen Merrill Playwriting awards\, a RUTHIE and six OBIES.
URL:https://westbeth.org/event/david-greenspan-appears-in-im-assuming-you-know-david-greenspan/
LOCATION:Atlantic Theater
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SUMMARY:Westbeth Day at Little Island
DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nThursday June 27\, 2024\n6:30 – 7:30pm\nThe Glade  \nPerformances by Westbeth artists and friends. \nPele Bauch is an interdisciplinary choreographer who combines dance with theater and weaves mixed media and set design into unique performances. Bauch’s choreography has been selected for presentation at many venues including the Brooklyn Museum of Art\, the Chocolate Factory\, Danspace Project\, Movement\nResearch at the Judson Church\, Joyce SoHo\, HERE’s TALR and the Best f TALR\, Dixon Place\, and BAX. \nLegendary Indie Rock trio BETTY\, Alyson Palmer (vocals\, bass\, guitar)\, Elizabeth Ziff (vocals\, guitar\, electronic programming) and her sister\, Amy Ziff (vocals and cello)\, use beguiling melodies\, compelling lyrics and signature harmonies to create energetic live shows that mix music\, performance art\, politics and comedy.\nBETTY sings of joy\, love\, longing\, sex\, food\, heartbreak\, and the universal hilarity of human existence. More than a band\, BETTY uses music to channel their passion for representation\, fairness and equality. From the beginning\, they’ve blended their voices for causes they fight for\, their talents in collaboration with other artists of every medium\, and their time in support of women and girls\, worldwide. \nJazz guitarist Peter Bernstein has been a part of the jazz scene in New York and abroad since 1989. During that time he has participated in numerous recordings and performances with musicians from all generations. As a leader\, Peter has released nine albums and a DVD. As a sideman Peter has appeared in groups led by Sonny Rollins\, Bobby Hutcherson\, George Coleman\, Lou Donaldson\, Dr. Lonnie Smith\, Fathead Newman\, Joshua Redman\, Brad Mehldau\, Diana Krall\, Lee Konitz\, Jimmy Cobb and many more. Current projects include his album\, Monk\, with Doug Weiss and Bill Stewart\, a recently released solo record\, Solo Guitar – Live at Smalls\, and the highly acclaimed organ trio with organist Larry Goldings and drummer Bill Stewart. \nNew York City-based alto saxophonist\, bandleader\, composer and educator Mike DiRubbo has been the most swinging and soulful artist on his instrument for nearly 30 years.DiRubbo’s nine previous recordings as a leader from 1999 to 2018 include: From the Inside Out\, Keep Steppin’\, Human Spirit\, New York Accent: Live at the Kitano\, Repercussion\, Chronos\, Four Hands\, One Heart\, Threshold and Mike DiRubbo Quartet – “Live at Smalls.” DiRubbo has been featured in articles\, reviews\, and interviews in magazines such as Jazziz\, Hot House\, JazzTimes\, Down Beat and JazzWise. He’s also a perennial presence in The Down Beat Critics Poll in the Rising Star: Alto Saxophone category. \nReed player and composer Michael Moss has been actively involved in the downtown music scene for many years leading 4 Rivers\, Free Energy\, and Zone. Moss has performed with William Parker\, Dave Liebman\, Richie Beirach\, Greg Kogan\, Sam Rivers\, McCoy Tyner\, Elvin Jones\, Paul Bley\, Cal Massey\, Grant Green\, Burton Green\, Wilber Ware\, Mike Mahaffay\, Sabir Matin\, Ras Moshe\, Jackson Krall\, Mark Hennen\, Dan Rose and led the JCOA Jazz Composers Orchestra as well as the Free Life Communication Jazz Orchestra in his own compositions. Moss is following a life-long passion for expanding jazz improvisation to include musical traditions from around the world and has written original music to reflect these different ethnic traditions. \nTheo Bleckmann is a multi GRAMMY® nominated vocalist\, composer and ECM recording artist who has recorded over 17 albums and collaborated with artists such as Ambrose Akinmusire\, Sheila Jordan\, Kneebody\, Ben Monder\, John Hollenbeck\, Phil Kline\, David Lang\, Ulysses Owens\, Bang on a Can All-Stars\, and\, most prominently\, with Meredith Monk since 1994. Bleckmann has been interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air and appeared on the David Letterman show with Laurie Anderson. He has consistently appeared in top spots in DownBeat polls\, and is a recipient of the prestigious JAZZ ECHO award from the Deutsche Phono-Akademie in his native Germany. \nAs a freelance artist\, Judith Moss has conducted workshops and classes at the Rotterdanse Academie in Holland\, Mudra in Belgium\, The Place in England\, Centraalpark Studio in Berlin\, Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts\, Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean and Dance Omnium in Alaska. A recipient of fellowship awards in choreography from the National Endowment of the Arts\, Arts Councils in New York\, Wisconsin\, and Pennsylvania\, The Arts Council of Great Britain and the Turks & Caicos Friends of the Arts Foundation\, Ms.Moss has created more than fifty dances for Judith Moss & Dancers\, repertory companies and college dance departments. \nHaving first come to prominence as a member of the funk-jazz collective Fat Mama\, pianist/composer Erik Deutsch has taken his talents across the globe to play with some of the finest musicians alive. Born in Washington D.C. and currently a 13+ year resident of Brooklyn\, NY\, Erik exists in many musical worlds\, performing and recording with jazz\, pop\, rock\, bluegrass and country artists like The Black Crowes\, Dixie Chicks\, Norah Jones\, Rosanne Cash\, Citizen Cope\, Charlie Hunter\, Leftover Salmon\, Shooter Jennings\, Alice Smith\, Shelby Lynne\, Theo Bleckmann\, Al Green\, Jessi Coulter\, Joe Russo\, Allison Moorer\, Phillip Phillips\, Dori Freeman\, Joey Arias\, Since 2022 Erik has been the full-time keyboardist for rock legends The Black Crowes. \nA classicist in experimental clothing\, 6 time Obie winner David Greenspan is a playwright who is also passionately involved in the theatre as an actor and director. From his early more autobiographical plays (one of which\, Principia\, took inspiration from the shifting modalities of Joyce’s Ulysses) to more recent works inspired by (and at times adapted from the work of) Hawthorne\, Stein\, Molnar\, and Thorton Wilder\, Greenspan’s theatre is a place where anything can happen. Deliciously complicated\, incredibly funny\, the work\, whether tragic\, tender\, mysterious or cruel\, betrays a profoundly empathic imagination. Both wildly conjured and deeply attentive to diverse literary and theatrical traditionsfrom vaudeville and Greek mythology to the Bible and boulevard comedyGreenspan’s plays ask big questions about history\, creation\, sexual behavior\, the complications of family and the very act of performing a play. \nMarianela Fernandez was born in Buenos Aires\, but spent most of her life in the cities of Córodoba and New York. She has a masters degree in Filósophy and a BA in Classical Studies. Passionate teacher\, she has been philosophy professor in a variety of High Schools\, Community Colleges and in the Universidad Nacional de Villa María\, in Argentina. Currently she is a teacher in the progressive school “City and Country” in New York. In 2010 she published her first poem “The Other Woman”. Her poems have been published in different anthologies and compilations. Currently she is a candidate for the MFA in Spanish creative writing at NYU.
URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-day-at-little-island/
LOCATION:The Glade\, LIttle Island NYC
CATEGORIES:past-events
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SUMMARY:David Greenspan: Something Wicked This Way Comes
DESCRIPTION:June 21\, 2024 5pm – 7pm\nAbolitionist Place\nBrooklyn\, NY\n:I’m doing a twenty-minute riff on my experience playing Witch #! in a production of Macbeth in Cleveland.  Stage blood is slippery when wet and sticky when dry… and that’s just the beginning of it.  This is an En Garde Arts presentation\, and the program features some other groovy performers (see below).  June 21 at Abolitionist Park in Brooklyn\, 110 Willoughby Street.  5 p.m. – 7 p.m. performance.  And the price is right: FREE.”
URL:https://westbeth.org/event/david-greenspan-something-wicked-this-way-comes/
LOCATION:Abolitionist Place\, Brooklyn\, NY
CATEGORIES:past-events
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SUMMARY:David Greenspan: On Set with Theda Bara Tues and Wed Discount Tickets!!!!!
DESCRIPTION:All photos: Emilio Madrid \n \n \nFebruary 6 – March 9\, 2024\nThe Brick\n579 Metropolitan Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY 11211 \nIn this hallucination of a one-person show\, a genderqueer teen who goes missing and their gay detective father come face-to-face with the supernatural and consciousness-devouring Theda Bara\, the real-life vamp and silent film star of the 1910s. On Set with Theda Bara is part gothic coming-of-age story and part campy melodrama about identity consumption and the horror of not knowing who you are. \nTransport Group and Lucille Lortel Theatre are proud to present the full-length Off-Broadway debut of On Set with Theda Bara\, written by Joey Merlo\, directed by Jack Serio (Uncle Vanya)\, and performed by the incomparable six-time Obie winner David Greenspan. \nThe run time is 65 minutes\, with no intermission.\nOn Set with Theda Bara was first showcased at an eight-night only presentation by The Brick and The Exponential Festival in 2023. \nHey Friends\,\nFollowing a wildly enthusiastic response last year\, I’m returning in the compelling and surprisingly poignant rollercoaster of a solo play\, On Set With Theda Bara\, by Joey Merlo\, directed by Jack Serio. For those who didn’t catch it the first time around\, it’s a haunted and humorous 65 minutes at The Brick in Williamsburg – two quick stops on the L (or for the cognoscenti of Brooklyn and Queens) the much-beloved G. See below for tickets and description. I hope you can catch it. – David \nTicket information and website:\nThe Transport Group https://transportgroup.org/project/on-set-with-theda-bara/ \nProfiles in Art: Interview with David Greenspan\nWestbeth Artist Page: David Greenspan
URL:https://westbeth.org/event/david-greenspan-on-set-with-theda-bara-tues-and-wed-discount-tickets/
LOCATION:Brick Theater\, Brooklyn NY
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