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"URBAN LEGENDS" ONE ACT FESTIVAL 2014

The 2014 "Urban Legends" One Act Festival features nine plays over two distinct nights of entertainment, Night A and Night B. Night A and Night B will have eight performances each in November and December.

Both line ups offer something unique. Witness a surreal painting come to life on Night A, and laugh, but seriously be impassioned, at a conversation about race in America on Night B. The evenings center around a sharp and comedic tale about young love by Urban Theatre Movement's guest playwright, Stephen Adly Guirgis.

Night A

"Why Won't You Remember" by Alex Alfaro
Director / David Mancini

"Iron Cheffin' It" by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
Director / Isabel Davila

"Dominica: The Fat Ugly Ho" by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Director / Gary Perez

"Sebastian" by Kimberly Gonzalez
Director / Paul Tully

November performances: 11/13, 11/14, 11/15, 11/16, 11/20, 11/21, 11/22, and 11/23

Night B

"Warrior" by David Santana
Director / Martin Elicea

"Blue Hummingbird Jones Fell In Love" by Kerri-Ann McCalla
Co-Directors / Amery Ken Thao & Kate Bowen

"Dominica: The Fat Ugly Ho" by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Director / Gary Perez

"Objects of Affection" by Sean E. Zilke
Director / Sean E. Zilke

"LBS (Laughing But Serious)" by Gisla Stringer
Director / D'Shaun A. Booker

December performances: 12/4, 12/5, 12/6, 12/7, 12/11, 12/12, 12/13, and 12/14

Praise for Urban Theatre Movement and our season so far:

"Mr. Rosenfeld offers a series of unexpectedly sympathetic portraits After the first few scenes, the audience began to laugh and answer back, cheering or rejecting the characters' choices."
- The New York Times, about HANDBALL at SummerStage 2014

"Handball is a highly entertaining, well-acted, and thoughtful play that will get you wondering about your own attachments to this world, maybe even to the particular park you love." Lydia Kapp LifeInLA

""Handball" is a wonderful paeon to the Bronx, NYC, and the street life that flows within, amidst constant gentrification and urban renewal." LA Examiner

"Profane, funny, and packed with more crotch-grabbing than vintage Madonna, the current revival of Miguel Piñero's prison drama "Short Eyes" at the Los Angeles Theatre Center burns with vivid life." LA Times Theater