Award-winning Off-Broadway playwright Larry Myers’ new play, “Twitter Theater,” about the networking phenomenon Twitter, will preview in a special March 21 performance at 7 p.m., Saval Auditorium at 101 Murray Street. The play is part of Dr. Myers’ Theater Project at St. John’s University, and will be directed by Kat Georges.
Myers, Associate Professor, has recently sent the “Twitter Theater” script into cyberspace & already garnered advance reviews on blog sites of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Retriever Weekly, CNET and more. His goal is to have an International Playwriting Center at the SJU Manhattan campus (across the street from the World Trade Center). This project is part of the strategy to involve St. John’s theater students in the production of professional theater in Manhattan giving them the chance to work with cutting edge professional directors, actors and theater technicians. Ms. Georges, now based in New York, was founder and artistic director of San Francisco’s Marilyn Monroe Memorial Theater for 10 years.
Called by the New York Daily News “one of Off-Broadway’s wittiest & more prolific playwrights,” Myers’ works have been seen in Rome, Italy at Teatro Olimpico & Scotland’s Edinburg Festival, as well Anchorage, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Louisville, & two summer long reps in San Francisco & Los Angeles. His work “Stephen Crane & Dangerous Women” was staged at the Crane Museum in Asbury Park, NJ & his “Past Life=Kerouac” was part of Lowell, Massachusetts’ Kerouac Festival. Myers’ plays have had two decades of New York productions both Downtown and Uptown.
The Saval Theater is at 101 Murray St. (between Greenwich & West). Take the #1 train to Chambers Street, walk down two blocks, over two. This project is an open classroom project & there is no admission fee. Email threeroomspress@mac.com.
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Playwright LARRY MYERS is in LA attending services at Mel Gibson's private Catholic Church in Malibu. He doesnt necessarily agree with some of its more antideluvian aspects but is joyous that such a great Cathoic is doing so much good for so many people!
Just read LARRY MYERS "Twitter Script" in Los Angeles. Much Movie & Tv interest in this fabulous play. Larry is the new Wilde--No Larry Is Oscar Wilder!
Dr Myers is being much talked about in devout Catholic circles in Hollywood.
He sees playwriting as an attempt to return to the sacred in all of us--accessing our Divine. He is beginning an International Palywriting center across teh street from the World Trade Center at St. John's U in Manhattan. This man means "serious business" Myers attests that his return to the blessed roots of theater arts has been learned from both bitter & twitter experience. In any event Dr Myers is a Super Intelectual whose vast knowledge of both religion & dramatic arts informs his work!
Myers plays are staggering & his preseence illuminates a room. He has been interviewed by high profile Hollywood types (young enough to be his grandchildren) who might actually learn something
froma true theater innovator & socially conscious playwright. His plays are prayers & grenades.
They said of Percy Bysee Shellety his "fame was written on water" & it seems savvy, sophisticate/spiritualist playwright MYERS' fame is written on Perrier water. Don't let the silly faddish surfaces fool you----this man is subversive & pure theater,.
Larry Myers has ascended to a level above mere mortals. He has access to akashic phones. He speaks to the great writers of the past and they speak back to him.
It's spooky.
Who will bring Larry and his plays to Columbus,Ohio?
His poetry reading at The Kerouac Cafe reverberates and beckons still
kind of sad how much megalomania is in this guy's attempts to hype himself
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