World Premiere of Acclaimed Playwright Simcha Borenstein's New Play The Guilty at Midwinter Madness Festival Wednesday February 23rd
A psychiatrist and a new patient try to manipulate each other into revealing secrets in an intense, faced paced battle of wits. Stars Mary Glasser and Gretchen Poulos.
New York, NY, January 20, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Acclaimed playwright-director Simcha Borenstein’s new play, The Guilty, will have its world premiere during the popular Midwinter Madness Festival on Wednesday, February 23, at 7:15PM at the Roy Arias Theater in New York City.
Borenstein will also direct his play. The Guilty stars Mary Glasser as a psychiatrist who engages in an intense psychological cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious new patient, played by Gretchen Poulos.
The Guilty will also be performed on Friday, February 25, at 9:45PM, and Sunday, February 27, at 1:15PM. The Roy Arias Theater is located at 300 West 43rd Street, Fifth Floor. Tickets are available by calling 212-868-4444/ http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=GUI1.
In addition to The Guilty, Simcha Borenstein has written Bogosity, Tammy, Eccstaticies and the Bicoastal Disorder, Another Saturday Story, Nothing Interesting Ever Happens Around Here, A Reappearing Act, Eagles Path, A Day at the Office, Young, Gifted and Turquoise, Giraffe and The Date.
He directed the first New York revivals of David Rabe’s Those The River Keeps and David Mamet’s The Old Neighborhood. Other directing credits include Mario Fratti's Iraq (Blindness), Edward Allan Baker's Dolores, Mara Lesemann’s Sunday with Albert and Mandy, Jane Anderson’s Lynette at 3 a.m., Carrie Goldstein’s Last Exit Before Toll, and three plays by Richard Lay: Bed and Breakfast, The Oboe Player, and Lunch at Armageddon. As an actor he was most recently seen in Gary Morgenstein's A Tomato Can't Grow in the Bronx and Carlo Fiorletta’s award-winning film Calamity 666.
Mary Glasser has had starring and featured roles in many New York City dramatic and musical productions, including George Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing, Agatha Christie's The Hollow, Venom!, Stepping Out, and Peter Pan. She is an internationally ranked martial artist, musician (A Funny Thing...Forum), speaker, and gourmet cook.
Gretchen Poulos performs regularly with NY Artists Unlimited in the touring children’s show, Isaiah’s Dream, as well as with the AIDS Theatre Project of New York in the show, Between the Seams. She shot an HBO pilot this past summer and is currently preparing to play super villain Serenity in an Indie Batman spin-off this winter. Notable roles include several national tours with Equalogy, Inc., the Off-Broadway two-woman show at the Abingdon Theatre Letters from the Inside and the lead role in a BMI workshop of new musicals.
Presented by John Chatterton, the annual Midwinter Madness Festival raises the curtain on a three-week festival of more than two-dozen one-act works, running February 7th to February 27th. From a woman contemplating leaping to her death from a subway platform to a struggling artist bemoaning the stress of his craft and twin sisters who believe their lives are going nowhere, Midwinter Madness offers situations where, out of depression and despair, opportunities for hope and change can materialize; if only one has the courage to take that final step and learn from what has come before.
For further information contact: simbor4@yahoo.com
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Borenstein will also direct his play. The Guilty stars Mary Glasser as a psychiatrist who engages in an intense psychological cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious new patient, played by Gretchen Poulos.
The Guilty will also be performed on Friday, February 25, at 9:45PM, and Sunday, February 27, at 1:15PM. The Roy Arias Theater is located at 300 West 43rd Street, Fifth Floor. Tickets are available by calling 212-868-4444/ http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=GUI1.
In addition to The Guilty, Simcha Borenstein has written Bogosity, Tammy, Eccstaticies and the Bicoastal Disorder, Another Saturday Story, Nothing Interesting Ever Happens Around Here, A Reappearing Act, Eagles Path, A Day at the Office, Young, Gifted and Turquoise, Giraffe and The Date.
He directed the first New York revivals of David Rabe’s Those The River Keeps and David Mamet’s The Old Neighborhood. Other directing credits include Mario Fratti's Iraq (Blindness), Edward Allan Baker's Dolores, Mara Lesemann’s Sunday with Albert and Mandy, Jane Anderson’s Lynette at 3 a.m., Carrie Goldstein’s Last Exit Before Toll, and three plays by Richard Lay: Bed and Breakfast, The Oboe Player, and Lunch at Armageddon. As an actor he was most recently seen in Gary Morgenstein's A Tomato Can't Grow in the Bronx and Carlo Fiorletta’s award-winning film Calamity 666.
Mary Glasser has had starring and featured roles in many New York City dramatic and musical productions, including George Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing, Agatha Christie's The Hollow, Venom!, Stepping Out, and Peter Pan. She is an internationally ranked martial artist, musician (A Funny Thing...Forum), speaker, and gourmet cook.
Gretchen Poulos performs regularly with NY Artists Unlimited in the touring children’s show, Isaiah’s Dream, as well as with the AIDS Theatre Project of New York in the show, Between the Seams. She shot an HBO pilot this past summer and is currently preparing to play super villain Serenity in an Indie Batman spin-off this winter. Notable roles include several national tours with Equalogy, Inc., the Off-Broadway two-woman show at the Abingdon Theatre Letters from the Inside and the lead role in a BMI workshop of new musicals.
Presented by John Chatterton, the annual Midwinter Madness Festival raises the curtain on a three-week festival of more than two-dozen one-act works, running February 7th to February 27th. From a woman contemplating leaping to her death from a subway platform to a struggling artist bemoaning the stress of his craft and twin sisters who believe their lives are going nowhere, Midwinter Madness offers situations where, out of depression and despair, opportunities for hope and change can materialize; if only one has the courage to take that final step and learn from what has come before.
For further information contact: simbor4@yahoo.com
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