A new immersive theatre company debuts in Brooklyn It’s 1682; the “witch hunter” has come to town to investigate yet another suspicious incident. Will he find witchcraft or some other form of evil? The young girl in question is one, poor Anne Gunter. And she has been afflicted with something terrible: eyes rolling into the back of her head, flailing limbs, babbling verse, and even spitting out pins, to her father Brian’s astonishment. Her family are concerned and have called in two specialists; however, the two priests on the scene are more inclined to use patience and prayer as their primary weapons. Both Father Wake (an authoritative, wise-sounding Daniel Harray) and Father Prideaux (an eager, unsettling Brian Lore Evans) have traveled great distances to the Gunter family home in order to complete their investigation. But we’re not in just any old family home: we are in the storied Wyckoff House, which is the oldest house in New York City. It has been lovingly restored in the colonial style and now functions as a museum, except for tonight, when it has been transformed into the set for The Visitation. This very old, worn house is mostly dark on this brisk November evening, save […] Read More
The Visitation, an immersive play about historical witchcraft, Opens Off-Broadway on November 3. The new show transports the audience to 1682 in the Wyckoff House, the oldest building in NYC. For three nights only, audiences are invited to the Wyckoff House for a new immersive theatrical experience that places them at the center of a witchcraft inquest. The Visitation transports the audience to 17th-century New York. A young girl has fallen ill. The cause, she claims, is witchcraft. As a foreboding winter rolls in, two priests are dispatched to her family’s rural home, tasked with investigating the claims. As the evening progresses, the inhabitants of the house begin to uncover dark secrets – about one another and themselves. Based on a true historical witchcraft case, this lantern-lit promenade immersive theater piece is written by Michael Bontatibus and directed by Drew Gregory. The cast features Brian L. Evans, Ben Gougeon, Rae Haas, Daniel Harray (Orange is the New Black), and Virginia Logan (Sleep No More). Audience members will be free to follow characters throughout the rooms and grounds of the Wyckoff House, which dates from 1638 and is the oldest structure in New York City. Playing to only 40 audience members a night, the close-quarters, […] Read More
“People like us, who believe in physics,” Albert Einstein once said, “know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” Einstein meant it as consolation — he was speaking at the funeral of a friend — but alas, for André (Ted van Griethuysen) the distinction has melted and he is in terror. A man of great dignity and self-possession, Andrei finds himself facing some disconcerting uncertainties. Is he in his apartment, or his daughter Anne’s (Kate Eastwood Norris, or, sometimes, Erika Rose)? And who is that man (Daniel Harray or, sometimes, Manny Buckey) in the apartment with them? Why doesn’t his other daughter, Elise, come to visit them any more? And where is his damn watch? Ted van Griethuysen and Kate Eastwood Norris in Studio Theatre’s The Father. (Photo: Teresa Wood) The Father comes to us as a comedy might: André, having terrorized his nurse into resigning, now must confront his daughter, who has a terrible dilemma. It is this: she is moving from Paris to London to be with her lover, and must find a solution for her father, who is slipping into dementia. She cannot look after him, and if she can’t […] Read More
Daniel will appear in THE FATHER at Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C. from May 10, 2017-June 18, 2017. THE FATHER 05/10/17 – 06/18/17 WRITTEN BY FLORIAN ZELLER TRANSLATED BY CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON DIRECTED BY DAVID MUSE Florian Zeller’s internationally acclaimed and theatrically thrilling exploration of who we are to ourselves when our signposts disappear, starring Ted van Griethuysen. https://www.studiotheatre.org/plays/play-detail/2016-2017-the-father Read More
Daniel plays Cyrano de Bergerac in CYRANO at Sierra Repertory Theatre through October 16, 2016: http://www.sierrarep.org/page.html?20160923-ES “A show that can make you feel again as deeply and unashamedly as you did when you were 17. … Cyrano, with all of its heartbreaking panache, achieves that in aces. Three cheers and a flourish of a feathered hat to that.” – Oregon ArtsWatch By Edmond Rostand Translated by Michael Hollinger Adapted by Michael Hollinger & Aaron Posner Read More
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