Arthur Kopit

Celebrated but impetuous film director Guido Contini succumbing to the pressures of filming his latest film epic (a musical version of the Casanova story) suffers a midlife crisis. One by one women from his past and present - including his mother his wife his mistress and his leading lady - haunt instruct scold seduce and encourage him until he finally learns to grow up. This new Ensemble version of the hit Broadway musical has an updated score and offers more flexible casting for productions featuring fewer performers. Ninewas also adapted into a major motion picture from Rob Marshall the acclaimed director of the 2002 film version ofChicago. Of the Broadway musical Marshall said it is "a sumptuous and emotional work that translates naturally to the film musical genre because of its seamless relationship between fantasy and reality." Composer and lyricist Maury Yeston worked on the film adaptation and created three new songs for the movie musical which was released in December 2009.

Red Bull Theater - New York City's "most exciting classical theater" (Time Out NY) - offers the fourth volume of curated plays from its popular annual Short New Play Festival. This collection features 16 ten-minute plays of heightened language and classical themes from today's hottest writers, including commissions from established playwrights Tina Howe, Arthur Kopit, Dael Orlandersmith, and Doug Wright, along with winning entries by writers such as Rachel Leopold, Amanda Quaid, Anya Martin, and Christian Simonsen, chosen from a competition that receives nearly 300 submissions each year. In the hands of great playwrights, the ten-minute play is a highly entertaining dramatic form. These delightfully compact works - some downright silly, and others powerfully moving - are from the seventh and eighth years of Red Bull Theater's Short New Play Festival. Dive in and enjoy Authors include: Charlotte Ahlin, Uriah Celaya, Frederick Dennehy, Justin Aaron Halle, Tina Howe, Arthur Kopit, Rachel Leopold, Anya Martin, Dael Orlandersmith, Jason Gray Platt, Amanda Quaid, Aubrey Saverino, Christian Simonsen, Samara Weiss, Daniel Wilson, Doug Wright.

Emily, a fiercely independent aviator and wing walker, suffers a stroke that destroys her sense of reality. Fragments of her life come together as she struggles to find her voice and herself.

This remarkable play starred Constance Cummings in a Tony-winning performance on Broadway. Emily Stilson seventy years old and a celebrated former aviatrix and stunt pilot suffers a stroke and is plunged into a world of disorientation and grief. Memories flood in between painful attempts to relearn the basic functions of everyday life. Aided by a dedicated young therapist Emily's flights of memory and emotion create an evocative portrait of the ability of the human spirit to renew and survive

ComedyCharacters: 6 maleInterior Set Despite the title, it has intense meaning for these times. The scene is a room in a wealthy country club, to which the men's committee is hastily summoned early one morning after a carousing dance. Problem: what to do about the 16 luscious but low life females who drove up in a Rolls Royces and then proceeded to the tennis courts, where they are now disporting. While the committee huddles, we learn that they are the vulgar, crass people. They are good for nothing but blustering and simpering. It is the attendant, far more refined than they, who is invited out to play with the bevy of beauties, just before the final assault and the collapse of their cardboard world in The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis and Other Plays.

30m, 7f, plus ensemble (doubling possible.) / Ints./exts. This mesmerizing Phantom is traditional musical theatre in the finest sense. The Tony award winning authors of Nine have transformed Gaston Leroux' The Phantom of the Opera into a sensation that enraptures audiences and critics with beautiful songs and an expertly crafted book. It is constructed around characters more richly developed than in any other version, including the original novel. "Everything is first rate." - N. Y. Daily News "Rhapsodic music that entrances, moves and haunts... A welcome link to musical theatre's golden past." - The New York Times

Adaptation from the Italian by Mario Fratti Musical / 1m, 22f, 4 boys (or 10 m, 13 f, 4 boys) / Unit set This spectacular winner of the 1982 Tony Award for Best Musical delighted Broadway theatergoers in a hit revival in 2003 starring Antonio Banderas. Based on Fellini's classic film 8 1/2, Nine is the story of a celebrated film director Guido Contini and his attempts to come up with a plot for his next film as he is pursued by hordes of beautiful women, all clamoring to be loved by him and him alone. Flashbacks reveal the substance of his life-which will become the material for his next film: a musical version of the Casanova story. "A rich and thrilling night of theatre." -N. Y. Post "A galloping fantasy [with a] ravishingly inventive and tuneful score." -N. Y. Times "Has been impressively reborn... Yeston's score comes across with extraordinary power." -N. Y. Daily News

Arthur Kopit has been one of our most imaginative, acclaimed, and produced playwrights. Now his three classics plays are available in one volume: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You In The Closet And I'm Feelin' So Sad, Indians, and Wings. "Kopit is one of America's most playful and prophetic playwrights, by turns ingenious, hilarious and sensational. His plays are among the high-water marks of American theatre."--The New Yorker