SHELTER PLAYDATE
MONDAY, MARCH 25 @ 7PM
THE ARTIST CO-OP
The Shelter invites you to make a date with a new play. Here’s how it works: Our staff specially selects a fresh off the vine play that we’re really excited about. We pair the play with an insanely gifted director and cast. They rehearse. Then we present the play to you.
Make a date with DR. HYDRA AND THE EYE by Philip J. Kaplan, directed by Anna Strasser, starring Michael Bernstein and Meghan E. Jones. Marta has sacrificed her life to care for her ailing father, Herman. Enter Ken, an awkward comic book historian, searching for proof that Herman wrote Dr. Hydra and the Eye, a short-lived, but influential comic book. Ken has written a Dr. Hydra screenplay, but needs the rights in order to get it produced. Marta is willing to help but she knows nothing of this aspect of her father’s past, and Herman has advanced Alzheimer’s. But there are boxes to explore and secrets to uncover.
Philip J. Kaplan is the author of HOLLYWOOD MUSICALS: BEST, WORST AND MOST UNUSUAL. He has also been published in three volumes of Best Ten Minute Plays (Smith and Kraus). Full Length plays include, THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE, Vintage Theatre (2019), BUNNYBOY, The Growing Stage 2019 New Works Festival, THE CUPCAKE CONSPIRACY (w/ C.J. Ehrlich), Rover DramaWerks (2015), Florentine Players (2017), I, VERMIN: A HOLLYWOOD SUCCESS STORY, NY Fringe Festival (2002), and EXTREMELY HOT IN CLEVELAND. philipkaplan.weebly.com
DIRECTOR
Anna Strasser
CAST
Michael Bernstein
Cate Cortelyou
Meghan E. Jones
ADDRESS
The Artist Co-op
500 W 52nd St Suite 3W
New York, NY 10019
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