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Jewish Plays Project – In Every Generation

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In Every Generation

Jewish Plays Project | National Tour

By Ali Viterbi

The Jewish Plays Project just announced their Top 7 finalists for their 8th annual Jewish Playwriting Contest, including IN EVERY GENERATION. “Selected from over 150 submissions, these 7 plays point the way to the future of Jewish drama: vibrant, challenging, culturally-specific, yet universal.”

IN EVERY GENERATION will  tour to cities across North America, including Houston, Charlotte, Chicago, Hartford, Fairfax, Palo Alto, New York, and more! 

For more information, please visit the Jewish Plays Project tour website! 

 

In Every Generation

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In Every Generation

Wednesday, August 22nd @ 4pm

The Barrow Group | New York, NY

By Ali Viterbi

Directed by Gabrielle Hoyt

After two successful staged readings at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska and the North Coast Repertory Theatre in San Diego, IN EVERY GENERATION will have its first New York public reading at The Barrow Group!

IN EVERY GENERATION is a mystical journey through continents, languages and generations of a family and nation’s stories. An Italian Jewish family joins together for Passover Seders year after year, era to era. Over matzah ball soup and (vegan) brisket, sibling rivalries simmer, plagues fall, and miracles are both remembered and forgotten. IN EVERY GENERATION asks what happens to a people once they are no longer in danger? How does a community collectively adjust to freedom?

Period Sisters

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Period Sisters

August 24-25 @ 7pm, August 25-26 @2pm

SubletSeries@HERE | HERE Arts Center | New York, NY

 

By Ali Viterbi

Directed by Gabrielle Hoyt

Produced by Emma Hills

After freshman Joni joins sorority Theta Beta, she learns that sisterhood means more than the colors you wear. Accompanied by her troubled best friend Kate, Joni spirals down a rabbit hole of bulimia dream ballets, Bachelor restoration comedies, and Dirty Disney ragers. Confronted with a world that confounds her expectations, Joni forces all the members of Theta Beta to ask: what do women owe other women? Period Sisters, a 2018 O’Neill finalist, creates a searing portrait of life as a young, 21st century woman. A fierce new voice in the American theater, playwright Ali Viterbi mixes fun with fury, creating the feminist theater you didn’t know you needed.

For more info about the show, and to purchase tickets, click here. 

Tickets: $15

Deadheads – The Barrow Group

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Deadheads

April 29th, 2017 @ 7pm

The Barrow Group | New York, NY

Playwrights’ Reading Series in the Studio Theater

Written by Ali Viterbi

Directed by Noam Shapiro; Featuring Sarah Babb and Josh Mendelow

The Barrow Group
312 West 36th Street 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10018
Studio Theatre
You may reserve your tickets here!

This full-length, non-linear, two-actor play chronicles Sadie and Ethan’s twenty-year relationship as they tour with the Grateful Dead across the country. As Sadie and Ethan travel from concert to concert, the audience follows the triumphs and travails of their relationship—from collegiate concerns to marital challenges. Each scene is set in a different year and different motel room, as Sadie and Ethan, played by the same actors, fall in and out of love with the Dead, as well as with each other. The play investigates how healthy relationships become abusive, and why people remain committed to each other over time. Played to the music of the Grateful Dead, DEADHEADS asks “Where does the time go” when you think you’re in love.  

 

The Thay Bay Play – Second Public Staged Reading

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The Thay Bay Play

April 23rd, 2017 @ 7pm

The Loft at Davenport Theatre | New York, NY

A new play by Ali Viterbi

Directed by Gabrielle Hoyt; Produced by Emma Hills

Please join me for the second public staged reading of my newest play, THE THAY BAY PLAY, at the Loft at Davenport Theatre (354 West 45th Street, New York, NY). There will be a small reception following the reading.

Even while critiquing the highly traditional and inimitably American rituals of sorority life, The Thay Bay Play embraces the redemptive power of female friendships. At its core sits Joni’s burgeoning friendship with Kate, her cynical and struggling sorority ‘Big Sister’, who has long since given up on fitting in. Supported by an all-female “Greek Chorus”, Joni and Kate strive to please those around them while retaining personal autonomy; an all-too-familiar task for American women today. When an allegation of sexual assault shatters the sorority’s status quo, Kate and Joni must both decide who they are, what they want, and whether their blood really does run aquamarine-and-ivory. A stylized, surreal, and theatrical work, The Thay Bay Play mixes pop culture with pageantry, superficial with sacred, to create a searing portrait of life as a young, 21st century woman.