The Barrow Group Theatre Company, the Drama Desk award-winning company that developed this season's Broadway blockbuster A Steady Rain, and last season's Off-Broadway hit The Temperamentals, announces a one-night-only encore performance of Martin Moran's award-winning The Tricky Part, as a benefit for The Barrow Group's new play development programming.
A true story of sexuality, spirituality and the mystery of human experience, The Tricky Part is one of the most heralded one-man plays in recent memory. Between the ages of 12 and 15, the author had a sexual relationship with an older man. Now 42 and an established New York actor, he has transformed his story of finding and confronting the man into a riveting, often funny and always surprising journey through the complexities of Catholicism, desire and human trespass. The New York premiere received a 2004 Obie award and two Drama Desk nominations including Outstanding Play.
One-Night-Only Performance on Tuesday, February 9th at 8pm.
Tickets are $25 and available at www.smarttix.com or by calling 212-868-4444.
The Tricky Part was first presented in a workshop at The Barrow Group (Seth Barrish & Lee Brock, Artistic Directors). It was subsequently produced by James B. Freydberg, CTM Productions, Wendy vanden Heuval, Sharon Rosen in association with True Love Productions at The McGinn Cazale Theater in New York City, opening on April 12, 2004. It was directed by Seth Barrish; Set design by Paul Steinberg; the lighting design was by Heather Carson.
Martin Moran was awarded a 2004 OBIE and two Drama Desk Nominations for his one-man play, The Tricky Part, based upon his memoir of the same title. Broadway performances include: Spamalot, Cabaret, Titanic, Bells Are Ringing, Big River, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, A Christmas Carol, Oliver! National Tour: Doonesbury. Off-Broadway: A Man Of No Importance, Lincoln Center Theater, The Cider House Rules, Atlantic Theater Company, Floyd Collins Playwrights Horizons. Regional: Long Wharf, Williamstown Theater Festival, Trinity Repertory Company, American Conservatory Theater, The Intiman, San Jose Rep, Shakespeare and Company. Film/TV: Possible Side Affects; The Next Big Thing; Private Parts; Law &Order; Law & Order Criminal Intent; Dellaventura; Mary and Rhoda. Martin received the 2005 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers and 2005 Lambda Literary Awards for his memoir: The Tricky Part: A Boy's Story of Sexual Trespass, A Man's Journey To Forgiveness. www.thetrickypartbook.com
Seth Barrish is the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of The Barrow Group-a non-profit theatre company in New York City. Mr. Barrish has worked as an actor, director, composer, and musical director internationally, Off-Broadway, Off Off Broadway, and in regional theatres for over 30 years. Directing credits include: Mike Birbiglia's "Sleepwalk With Me" (Nightlife Award for OUTSTANDING COMEDIAN IN A MAJOR PERFORMANCE), David Edgar's Pentecost (Drama Desk Nomination for BEST PLAY), Martin Moran's The Tricky Part (OBIE Award, Drama Desk Nominations for BEST PLAY and BEST SOLO SHOW), Nicolette & Aucasin, Old Wicked Songs (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award & Garland Award for BEST DIRECTION), Thy Kingdom's Coming, Lonely Planet, Good (Straw Hat Award for BEST DIRECTION), Ghost in the Machine, Tales From Hollywood, Greetings, Beau Jest, Three Sisters, and When You Comin' Back Red Ryder?. Theatres: The Signature Theater, Asolo Center for the Performing Arts, The Promenade, The McCarter, Long Wharf, Sundance Theatre lab, The Geffen Playhouse, Playhouse 91, La Mama e.t.c., The Perry Street Theatre, Provincetown Rep, Capital Rep, Miniature Theatre of Chester, and The Barrow Group. Mr. Barrish has made numerous film and television appearances and is a professional acting and directing teacher at The Barrow Group School in New York City. He recently served as a Master Teacher at the International Director's Symposium in Spoleto, Italy. He is author of the book An Actors Companion-99 Bits of Craft.
Under the direction of Co-Artistic Directors Lee Brock and Seth Barrish, founded in 1986, The Barrow Group (TBG) has earned its award-winning reputation for unconditional dedication to the art of acting. Originally founded and operated out of a railroad flat on Barrow Street, TBG has grown into a mid-size theatre organization currently housed in the "Theatre Building" in Midtown. TBG received a 2005 Drama Desk Nomination for Best Play for Pentecost and received the 1995 Drama Desk Award for Off-Off Broadway Excellence.
TBG's commitment to developing new plays is currently witnessed with the:
Broadway production of A Steady Rain, which received a workshop at TBG in 2007
Recent Off-Broadway hit and Drama Desk Award Nominee Sleepwalk With Me, starring Mike Birbiglia and developed and directed by Seth Barrish
Jon Maran's The Temperamentals, which began in our Reading Series receiving subsequent runs in both our Studio Theatre and on our Main Stage as a co-production of Man Underdog and Daryl Roth Productions
