Monday, January 9, 2012

New Victory Dutch Treat Theater Offers Premieres from Netherlands

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A scene from Wuthering Heights. Photo: Joep Lennarts
To introduce New York audiences to some of Dutch companies, the second half of the  New Victory Theatre season offers Zoem! New Dutch Theater. The series, which includes four U.S. premieres all performed in English, runs through Jan. 29.
The series launched with Rumplestiltskin (run is complete) by Stella Den Haag and will be followed by Miss Ophelia by Het Filiaal, then Hands Up! by Lejo, a regular puppeteer on “Sesamstraat,” and finally, a stage adaptation of Wuthering Heights by Theater Artemis.

“The companies chosen to participate represent some of the best of what the Dutch have to offer in the world of performing arts for youth and family audiences today," said Cora Cahan, President of The New 42nd Street. "We are delighted to bring these highly original works to The New Victory, Duke on 42nd Street and the New 42nd Street® Studios, as they reflect the high artistic standards that our programming embraces.”

As widely reported over the summer, the Dutch government is significantly cutting its arts funding, with the performing arts evidently taking a dramatically hard hit. “As a result of the budget cuts, some of the companies performing at The New Victory may cease to exist after 2013,” said Anja Krans of the Theater Instituut Nederland, an organization funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science that documents, supports and promotes Dutch theater in the Netherlands and abroad.
Theater-goers who buy tickets for three or more New Vic shows qualify for free Membership benefits, including up to 35-percent savings with tickets as low as $9. Full-price tickets for individual productions are as low as $14 each. To purchase tickets online, visit NewVictory.org, and to purchase by phone, call 646-223-3010. The New Victory Theater box office (209 West 42nd Street) is open Sunday and Monday from 11am to 5 pm and Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 7 pm.
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Lauren Yarger is Executive Director/Producer with Masterwork Productions, Inc. She has written, directed and produced numerous shows and special events for both secular and Christian audiences. She co-wrote a Christian musical version of “A Christmas Carol” which played to sold-out audiences of over 3,000 in Vermont and was awarded the 2000 Vermont Bessie (theater and film awards) for “People’s Choice for Theatre.” She also has written two other dinner theaters, sketches for church services and devotions for Christian artists.

Yarger trained for three years in the Broadway League’s Producer Development Program, completed the Commercial Theater Institute's Producing Three-Day Training and produced a one-woman musical about Mary Magdalene that toured nationally and closed with an off-Broadway run.

In 2008 she was a Fellow at the National Critics Institute at the O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. She writes reviews of Broadway and off-Broadway theater with an added Christian perspective for Masterwork Productions at http://reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com/. She is editor of The Connecticut Arts Connection (http://ctarts.blogspot.com), an award-winning website featuring theater and arts news for the state. She is a contributing editor for BroadwayWorld.com and previously served as Connecticut theater editor for CurtainUp and as Connecticut and New York reviewer for American Theater Web.

Yarger is a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly and freelances for other sites. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

She is a freelance writer and playwright and member of The Drama Desk, The Outer Critics Circle, The American Theater Critics Association and The League of Professional Theatre Women. She is a judge for the SDX Awards presented by the Society of Professional Journalists. She also is a member of the CT Press Club, the Connecticut SPJ and the Connecticut Critics Circle.

A former newspaper editor and graduate of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, Yarger also worked in arts management for the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. She lives with her husband in West Granby, CT. They have two adult children.

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