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Mourn the Living Hector Wins for Outstanding Playwrighting

Mourn the Living Hector

We are so very pleased to report that Paul Cohen won the 2008 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Playwrighting for Mourn the Living Hector!

Thanks to all who came out to see Paul’s great new play at the Fringe Festival.  Your attendance and support made the whole enchilada of the ’08 Fringe worthwhile.

If you missed your chance to see Mourn the Living Hector, be sure to check out our great reviews from The New York Times, The Village Voice and Time Out.

Stay tuned for more exciting projects from PL115, including

  • Our co-production of a new play by Ashlin Halfnight with our friends at Electric Pear, coming up in the Spring of 2009
  • Caucasian Chalk Circle version 2.0, which will be re-constituted, re-constructed, and entirely re-imagined for a July 2009 appearance at The Chocolate Factory in Long Island City, NY

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As always, we rely on your ongoing support to make our productions come to life.  If you have the desire and means to help PL115, please consider making a tax deductible donation.

And if money’s not so much your thing but you’d like to donate some of your time, get in touch with us!  We have many, many ways to put creative people like you to work!

posted by Jeff on Monday, August 25, 2008  

Critical Praise for Mourn the Living Hector

We are pleased to report that Time Out New York has selected Mourn the Living Hector as a Critics Pick for this year’s New York International Fringe Festival, recommended our show on their home page, and given it a four star review!

You can read the complete review on Time Out NY Online.

Also, be sure to check out the great press we’ve gotten from NYTheatre.com.

UPDATE: Anita Gates of The New York Times just called Mourn the Living Hector ‘beautifully acted and elegantly written.’ Check out the full review in the NYTimes Theater section!

We’ve only got 3 shows left and tickets are selling out, so if you haven’t gotten a chance to see this great new play be sure to get your tickets today!

MOURN THE LIVING HECTOR

plays:
MON 8/18 @ 7:30
THUR 8/21 @ 5:00
SAT 8/23 @ 9:30

at the Flamboyan Theatre (CSV Cultural Center)
107 Suffolk Street 
(Rivington & Delancey Streets) [view map]

posted by Jeff on Sunday, August 17, 2008  

Pre-Fringe Press for Mourn the Living Hector

PL115 has been fortunate enough to get a couple of of pre-Fringe publicity teasers for Mourn the Living Hector!

  • On July 27th, we recorded a 5 minute mini-performance and interview on NYTheatre’s FringeNYC Preview Podcast. Listen to the podcast here
  • Just yesterday, Mourn the Living Hector was included in The Voice’s Fringe preview article with one of our press photos thrown in above the fold!
  • Yahoo’s Broadway Blog Two on the Aisle used one of our press photos as the lead image for their 2008 FringeNYC pre-Festival coverage.

Check them out!

posted by Jeff on Thursday, August 7, 2008