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A New Festival Shows Off Creators Ready to Launch

August 22, 2019 Daniel Harray Uncategorized 0 comments

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If the eclectic clutch of productions in its first week is any indication, the Rave Theater Festival is off to a promising start. A variety of worlds — from a British ship of pilgrims to a maze populated with competing detectives — have been unfolding inside the neo-Gothic walls of a former school on the Lower East Side. Those worlds, and many others, are part of the first Rave Theater Festival, running through Aug. 25 at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center. It is the brainchild of the Tony Award-winning impresario Ken Davenport, who noticed festivals disappearing as the physical space for productions in New York became more limited. Read more in nytimes.com/…/rave-theater Read More

Rave Theater Festival Review: Noirtown. Immersive Bogarting

August 22, 2019 Daniel Harray Uncategorized 0 comments

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It was uncanny how much “Noirtown” made me feel as if I was living inside a film noir classic like “The Maltese Falcon” or “The Big Sleep” – stylish, seductive, tough-talking and unfathomable. For much of the time, I didn’t know what the hell was going on. “Noirtown” opened the inaugural Rave Theater Festival, which is presenting some 20 new works from August 9th through August 25th in a single building, The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center at 107 Suffolk Street on the Lower East Side. “Noirtown” unfolds on the second floor of the building, in Teatro Latea, a space with three rooms (two of them usually used as the backstage), two hallways, and a shallow mirrored alcove. This is an important detail, since the show, a production of a two-year-old immersive theater company called Witness, requires audience members to choose which characters to follow from room to room. As with the classic film noir, “Noirtown” begins in mystery, but also something close to clarity. Read more in https://newyorktheater.me… Read More

NOIR TOWN – AUGUST 2019

July 19, 2019 Daniel Harray Uncategorized 0 comments

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AUGUST 2019 STEP INTO THE SHADOWY AND SEDUCTIVE WORLD OF FILM NOIR… A trio of interlocking mysteries, each linked by the same enigmatic woman. Three private detectives who couldn’t be more different. The city by night, where no one can be trusted and nothing is as it seems. Step out of your seat, and choose who to follow on their journey into the underbelly of a world that swallows men whole. NOIRTOWN is the newest immersive experience from WITNESS, premiering August 2019 as part of the inaugural Rave Theater Festival. https://www.witnessimmersive.com/ Read More

SURGE By Tanya Perez Makes New York City Premiere At The Tank’s Darkfest

July 19, 2019 Daniel Harray Uncategorized 0 comments

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Blue Pavement Productions is thrilled to announce the premiere of SURGE, written by Tanya Perez ( Downtown Urban Theater Festival Finalist ‘Honor & Fidelity’ at the Cherry Lane Theater, 2017 Audioverse Writing Finalist for ‘ Rincón’) and directed by Rebecca Aparicio(2019-2020 Resident Director at The Flea, NYMF Winner ‘Pedro Pan: The Musical’). SURGE will be performed on August 4th at 7PM for a one night only limited engagement at The Tank (312 W 36th St, New York, NY 10018) as part of their DarkFest. In this Festival and environmental initiative, The Tank celebrates innovative performance that utilizes self-sufficient and alternative energy sources. Artists are using everything from glow-in-the-dark mouth guards to flashlights and more to shed some light on their work. -The Tank SURGE is about a couple going through a divorce stuck in the very last place they thought possible: a Florida motel room in the middle of a vicious hurricane. The cast features Lorraine Mattox (Temporary Distortion, former voice of WNYC Radio, Ophelia in Nine Theatricals’ production of Hamlet) and Daniel Harray (The 39 Steps Off Broadway, Orange is the New Black). Tickets are $15. For advance reservations, please visit https://www.thetanknyc.org/summer-festivals-at-the-tank. Read More

Review: SRT’s ‘Baskerville’ is well-directed comic entertainment

September 24, 2018 Daniel Harray Uncategorized 0 comments

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At the close of a long, hot summer, it is refreshing to escape into a cool theater and savor Sierra Repertory Theatre’s clever, imaginative and funny production, “Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery,” set in the misty moors of England. SRT co-founder Dennis Jones has returned to direct and design this production. He has created an atmospheric set enveloped in fog, with dogs baying and ominous howling winds. Modular sets representing trains, railroad stations and a gloomy mansion with moving walls add to the fun. Read full article in uniondemocrat.com/lifestyle…. Read More

“THE 39 STEPS”

July 06, 2018 Daniel Harray Uncategorized 0 comments

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This Summer, Daniel returns to “THE 39 STEPS” as Richard Hannay at Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre: A Lyceum Premiere! Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have the thrilling, and riotously funny whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre. This 2-time Tony® and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of 4), an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old-fashioned romance! A man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she’s a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called “The 39 Steps” is hot on the man’s trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale! A riotous blend of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive stagecraft, The 39 Steps amounts to an unforgettable evening of pure theatrical pleasure! MYSTERY RATED PG http://lyceumtheatre.org/occasion/the-39-steps/ Read More

“BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY”

July 06, 2018 Daniel Harray Uncategorized 0 comments

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This Fall, Daniel will play Dr. Watson in KEN LUDWIG’S “BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY” at Sierra Repertory Theatre: The Hound of the Baskervilles has never been funnier! Male heirs of Baskerville are being offed one by one so Sherlock and Watson must brave desolate moors before a family curse dooms its newest heir. Get caught up in a dizzying web of clues, silly accents, disguises, and deceit as five actors deftly portray more than forty characters. (Rated PG) August 31-September 30, 2018 Fallon House Theatre http://www.sierrarep.org/ken-ludwigs-baskerville-a-sherlock-holmes-mystery.html Read More

VISITATIONEXPERIENCE.COM

March 09, 2018 Daniel Harray Uncategorized 0 comments

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www.visitationexperience.com/about THE VISITATION a new immersive theater experience RETURNING FOR TWO WEEKENDS ONLY Thursday March 8, 2018 – Saturday, March 17, 2018 THE WYCKOFF HOUSE 5816 Clarendon Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11203 Read More

Cast and Creative Team Announced for The Old Globe’s THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

January 08, 2018 Daniel Harray Uncategorized 0 comments

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The Old Globe’s 2017-2018 Season continues with today’s announcement of the complete cast and creative team of a top-notch revival of Oscar Wilde’s endlessly entertaining comedy The Importance of Being Earnest. Maria Aitken will direct the Globe’s handsome production of this timeless world classic-an unmissable opportunity to see what the London Telegraph calls “the most perfect comedy in the English language.” The Importance of Being Earnest will run January 27 – March 4, 2018 on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Tickets start at $30.00 and are on sale now to the general public. Previews run January 27-31. Opening night is Thursday, February 1 at 8:00 p.m. Oscar Wilde’s wildly entertaining comedy sparkles with dazzling wordplay and hilariously unlikely situations. This “trivial comedy for serious people” features two carefree bachelors, Jack and Algernon, each with a carefully hidden double life. But when Algernon discovers that Jack has been posing as a man named Ernest to escape to the city, he promptly travels to Jack’s country estate to pose as the fictional figure himself! Silliness ensues with whimsical ingénues, jealous fiancées, indomitable dowagers, and the most famous handbag […] Read More

On December 18, 2017, Daniel will take part in: annadeaveresmith.org/iacd-at-nyu

December 11, 2017 Daniel Harray Uncategorized 0 comments

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IACD AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Anna Deavere Smith is the founder and director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue. The mission of the IACD is to support artists whose works address social justice and related themes. The IACD supports arts education, and creates a meeting place for artists, scholars, and audiences to exchange ideas and generate new work. To attend ourHidden Hate / Hidden Love event on Monday, December 18th, please rsvp: [email protected] To join our event mailing list, or to learn about other ways to get involved, drop us a line: [email protected] More about the IACD: Originally launched in 1997 at Harvard University as a series of summer symposiums, the IACD was among early experimental environments interested in the arts and civic engagement. During these summer convenings, the Institute produced artistic works from a variety of disciplines, each of them exploring a social issue. A percentage of the audience was “curated,” to discover whether the presence of an audience with an appetite for discussion of content (rather than form), might influence further development of the work. In 2001, the IACD relocated to New York, and it is currently housed at New York University, where it is active year-round, funded by a generous grant from the Provost’s office. More […] Read More