New York Animals June 26, 2010

ROGUE MACHINE proudly presents the WORLD PREMIERE of

NEW YORK ANIMALS

 by Steven Sater

OPENING Saturday, June 26, 2010

Bitingly funny entertainment as twenty one characters wind their way through each other’s lives during one long day and night in Manhattan.  This insidiously devastating and modern “Our Town” ultimately reveals who we are now, and how we live.

STEVEN SATER (Playwright) won the Tony Award for Best Book and Best Score, the Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle Award for Best Lyrics, the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and the 2010 Olivier Award for Best New Musical for Spring Awakening.  Other awards include the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award, the Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics' Circle, and Drama League Awards for Best Musical.  Plays include the long-running Carbondale Dreams; Perfect for You; Doll (Rosenthal Prize); Umbrage (Steppenwolf New Play Prize); A Footnote to the Iliad (New York Stage and Film); Asylum (Naked Angels), and a reconceived musical version of Shakespeare’s Tempest (Lyric Hammersmith).  In addition to Spring Awakening, he has collaborated with Duncan Sheik on Umbrage (HERE); Nero (Magic Theatre, New York Stage and Film); The Nightingale (La Jolla Playhouse and American Conservatory Theater); the critically acclaimed album Phantom Moon (Nonesuch); and a new musical version of Alice in Wonderland.  Steven is currently at work with Serj Tankian (System of a Down's; 2006 Grammy Award, 4 Grammy nominations) and Burt Bacharach on new musicals.  Additionally, he works as a pop/rock lyricist and a screenwriter (the forthcoming Chitty Chitty Bang Bang remake for Sony Pictures).

NEW YORK ANIMALS opens June 26th and runs (in rep with FOUR PLACES, Thursdays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm thru July 25th) thru August 8, 2010.  After July 25th the schedule is Thursday, Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm  (dark July 4th)  ROGUE MACHINE is located at 5041 Pico Blvd., LA, CA 90019.  Tickets are $25 and may be purchased by calling or (323) 960-7792 at http://www.roguemachinetheatre.com