Sunday Scoop Week of 7/21//19 -What's Happening This Week or Coming Up Soon

In This Week's Scoop

1) Broadway Bounty Hunter Ten Week Limited Engagement Starts July 23
2) Upcoming at State Theatre New Jersey
    Free Summer Movie, Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse
3) Upcoming at Lincoln Center
    Out of Doors 2019
4) Upcoming at New York City Center Encores! Off Center
    Road Show  July 24-27
5) Upcoming at Lincoln Center
    Out of Doors 2019
6) Upcoming at iPlay America
    Linda Shields, the Jersey Shore Medium
7) News from Kelsey Theater
    Tom Sawyer

PR Firm Roundup

8) News from Andrea Alton PR
    Tour Dates Announced - Free Shakespeare in the Parks - 5 Boroughs, NJ & LI
9) News from DDPR
    Broadway Bound Theatre Festival Expands Lineup and Moves to Theater District 7/30 - 8/25
10) News from Press Room PR
      Psychic and Medium, Thomas John Brings Interactive Show to NYC This Summer

1) Broadway Bounty

TEN-WEEK LIMITED ENGAGEMENT

TO OPEN AT GREENWICH HOUSE THEATER

ON TUESDAY, JULY 23, 2019

MUSIC AND LYRICS BY TONY NOMINEE JOE ICONIS

BOOK BY JOE ICONIS, LANCE RUBIN & JASON SWEETTOOTH WILLIAMS

DIRECTED & CHOREOGRAPHED BY JENNIFER WERNER

BROADWAY BOUNTY HUNTER, is now playing its New York Premiere engagement Off-Broadway at Greenwich House Theater (27 Barrow Street). Previews began Tuesday, July 9, 2019, with an official opening night of Tuesday, July 23, for a limited engagement of ten weeks through Sunday, September 15. 

Broadway Bounty Hunter follows down-on-her-luck actress Annie (Annie Golden) who has just about had it with showbiz, when along comes a gig no one could have predicted: the opportunity to become a real-life, Kung Fu-fighting bounty hunter. 

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE & TICKETS:  Tickets are now on-sale via www.BroadwayBountyHunter.com. The regular performance schedule forBROADWAY BOUNTY HUNTER is as follows: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00PM; Fridays at 8:00PM; Saturdays at 2:00PM & 8:00PM; and Sundays at 3:00PM & 7:30PM.  At Saturday matinees, the title role is performed by Anne L. Nathan. 

For more information, visit www.broadwaybountyhunter.com

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2) Upcoming at State Theatre New Jersey

15 Livingston Ave.

New Brunswick, NJ

Free Summer Movie

Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse

Tuesday July 23, 10:30 AM & 7:00 PM

For more information, visit www.stnj.org/event/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse

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3) Upcoming at Lincoln Center

Out of Doors 2019

July 24 - August 11

Three Weeks of Free Music, Dance, and Spoken Word Performances including:

•  A celebration of Lincoln Center’s groundbreaking Black art and culture festival in 1972, Soul at the Center, and its coproducer Ellis Haizlip, with Legacy: Lalah Hathaway sings Donny Hathaway, and The Illustrious Blacks

• Prolific songwriter, guitarist, producer, and Wilco front man Jeff Tweedy

• NPR Music’s Turning the Tables Live: The Motherlode, the kick-off event for the third installation of this highly relevant series, will unveil eight iconic female artists whose work shaped the path of popular music, with musical direction by Terri Lyne Carrington and performances by Rhiannon Giddens, Xiomara Laugart, Ledisi, Amina Claudine Myers, Cleo Reed, Valerie Simpson, Charenée Wade, and Lizz Wright

• Dance nights include a performance by Caleb Teicher & Company followed by a screening of iconic concert film Liza with a “Z”, plus flamenco phenomenon Jesús Carmona performing Amator

• MTV & Save The Music featuring H.E.R. and Samm Henshaw

• Look at My Soul: The Latin Shade of Texas Soul, a musical tribute to Texas-grown Chicano soul sounds, plus Lee Fields & the Expressions, and the Black Pumas

• The sublime Latin fusion of La Santa Cecilia and a screening of Disney/Pixar’s Coco

• An Evening of Standup Comedy with Roy Wood Jr. & Guests

• A blending of traditional Indian music and dance with hip-hop, tap, and more for desi:NOW
• OkayAfrica’s Gold & Soul with urban highlife singer Adekunle Gold and DJ Poizon Ivy
• Americanafest NYC, in collaboration with Americana Music Association, closes season with Patty Griffin and Yola on August 10, plus more to be announced for August 11

All events are FREE, require no tickets, and take place on Lincoln Center’s campus between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, from West 62nd Street to West 65th Street (except where noted). See below for individual locations and addresses.

Visit LCOutOfDoors.org for more information and program updates.

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4) Upcoming at New York City Encores! Off Center

Road Show

July 24 - 27

As the final production of their 75th Anniversary Season, Road Show marks the eighth production of a Stephen Sondheim musical produced on their stage, and the second collaboration between Sondheim and John Weidman.

Loosely based on a true story, Road Show is a larger-than-life account of two brothers—schemer Wilson Mizner (Raúl Esparza) and his more thoughtful sibling Addison (Brandon Uranowitz)—who are fueled by a modest inheritance to stake their claim on a piece of the world. During their ambitious and ultimately ill-fated quest for gold, Addison eventually separates from his unscrupulous brother and finds love in partner-muse Hollis Bessemer (Jin Ha). Yet, after all else is lost, the brothers find that their exceptional bond cannot be broken.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit www.nycitycenter.org/pdps/2018-2019/road-show

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5) Upcoming at iPlay America

Linda Shields, the Jersey Shore Medium

Friday July 26, Doors 6:00 PM, Buffet 6:00 PM- 7:00 PM, Event 7:00 PM

A night with psychic Linda Shields, The Jersey Shore Medium at iPlay America. General Admission ticket includes admission to a buffet dinner and the show. She will use her psychic senses of hearing (Clairaudience), tasting/smelling (Clairsentient), and physical feeling or being an Empath during the reading.

For more information, visit www.iplayamerica.com/event/linda-shields-the-jersey-shore-medium.

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6) Upcoming at Kelsey Theatre

1200 Old Trenton Rd.

West Windsor, NJ

Tom Sawyer

July 26 - August 4 Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays

Don't miss this highly imaginative, highly theatrical adaptation of Mark Twain's incomparable classic. 

The musical features the thrill of mischief-making, the fickleness of first love, the cold shivers that linger after an adventure gone very wrong and the unbridled joy at discovering real buried treasure.

Perfect for the whole family, this story is for anyone who has ever been a kid and celebrates all that is grand and glorious about childhood.

For more information or to purchase tickets. visit 

www.kelseyatmccc.org/Tom%20Sawyer.shtml

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PR Firm Roundup

7) News from Andrea Alton PR

Tour Dates Announced - Free Shakespeare in the Parks - 5 Boroughs, NJ & LI

Hip to Hip Theatre Company is pleased to announce their summer tour dates which will include performances in fifteen parks throughout Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, The Bronx, New Jersey and Long Island. The company’s 2019 Free Shakespeare in the Parks tour runs July 24 – August 25.

Audiences will have a chance to enjoy the romantic comedic romp, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (directed by S.C. Lucier), and the historic tragedy Richard III (directed byDavid Frederick Mold), under the stars. The two productions will perform in rotating repertory. Hip to Hip’s popular interactive children’s workshop “Kids & the Classics,” will be offered thirty minutes before each performance. Audience members are encouraged to bring a blanket or low chair, picnic fare and enjoy a Shakespeare play in the open air. No tickets are necessary.''

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Four young lovers escape the tyranny of the court to find love in a magical forest. On the same night and in the same forest, the king and queen of the fairies declare war on each other and a company of amateur actors meet to rehearse a play. See what happens when a mischievous sprite called Puck weaves their three stories into one.
 
Richard III
After a long civil war, England enjoys a period of peace under King Edward. But Edward’s younger brother Richard, who helped him to the throne, grows restless in the shadows. Shakespeare’s searing drama chronicles the bloody rise and fall of the last English king to die on the battlefield.

Kids & the Classics
“Kids & the Classics” is the companion piece to Hip to Hip’s program of "Free Shakespeare in the Parks.” This free interactive workshop is offered 30 minutes before every performance, and is designed for children ages 4 to 12. It gives children a chance to interact with the text by previewing the characters and situations and creating links between the text and their own lives.

2019 Performance Schedule

*Kids & the Classics, interactive workshop begins 30 minutes prior to each performance.
 
Wednesday, July 24 @ 7:30 pm - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
QUEENS Flushing Meadows Corona Park (@ the Unisphere)
 
Thursday, July 25 @ 8:00 pm - Richard III
QUEENS Cunningham Park (Union Turnpike & 196th Street)
 
Friday, July 26 @ 7:30 pm - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
BROOKLYN Fort Greene Park (Monument Steps) 
 
Saturday, July 27 @ 5:00 pm - Richard III
MANHATTAN Jackie Robinson Park Bandshell (85 Bradhurst Avenue @ 148th Street)

Tuesday, July 30 @ 8:00 pm - Rain date

Wednesday, July 31 @ 7:30 pm - Richard III
BROOKLYN Bushwick Inlet Pop-Up Park (50 Kent Avenue)

Thursday, August 1 @ 7:30 pm – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
QUEENS Crocheron Park (35th Avenue & Corbett Road) 

Friday, August 2 @ 7:30 pm - Richard III
BROOKLYN Fort Greene Park (Monument Steps) 
 
Saturday, August 3 @ 5:00 pm - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
STATEN ISLAND Alice Austen House (1000 Richmond Terrace)
 
Sunday, August 4 @ 5:00 pm - Richard III
QUEENS Socrates Sculpture Park (32-01 Vernon Boulevard)

Wednesday, August 7 @ 7:00 pm - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
JERSEY CITY Newport on the Green (14th St & River Drive S.) 
 
Thursday, August 8 @ 7:00 pm - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
QUEENS LeFrak City (59-17 Junction Boulevard, Corona)
 
Friday, August 9 @ 7:30 pm - Richard III
QUEENS Voelker Orth Museum (149-19 38th Avenue, Flushing)
 
Saturday, August 10 @ 7:30 pm - Richard III
QUEENS Gantry Plaza State Park (4-09 47th Road) 
 
Sunday, August 11 @ 5:00 pm - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
QUEENS Socrates Sculpture Park (32-01 Vernon Boulevard)

Tuesday, August 13 @ 7:00 pm – Rain date

Wednesday, August 14 @ 7:30 pm - Richard III
QUEENS Sunnyside Gardens Park (48-21 39th Avenue @ 49th Street)
 
Thursday, August 15 @ 8:00 pm - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
QUEENS Cunningham Park (Union Turnpike & 196th Street)
 
Friday, August 16 @ 7:30 pm - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
QUEENS Voelker Orth Museum (149-19 38th Avenue, Flushing)
 
Saturday, August 17 @ 7:30 pm - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
QUEENS Gantry Plaza State Park (4-09 47th Road) 
 
Sunday, August 18 - 6:00 pm - Richard III
BRONX Van Cortlandt Park (Broadway & 245th Street) 

Tuesday, August 20 @ 8:00 pm – Rain date
 
Wednesday, August 21 @ 7:30 pm - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
QUEENS Sunnyside Gardens Park (48-21 39th Avenue) 
 
Thursday, August 22 @ 7:30 pm - Richard III
QUEENS Crocheron Park (35th Avenue & Corbett Road) 

Friday, August 23 @ 7:30 pm - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
SOUTHAMPTON Agawam Park (25 Pond Lane) 
 
Saturday, August 24 @ 7:30 pm - Richard III
SOUTHAMPTON Agawam Park (25 Pond Lane) 

Sunday, August 25 @ 5:00 pm - Rain date

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8) News from DDPR

BROADWAY BOUND THEATRE FESTIVAL 
ANNOUNCES 2019 LINEUP WITH 18 CURATED NEW WORKS ON THE MAINSTAGE AND THREE STAGED READINGS
IN ITS INCUBATOR READING SERIES

THE FESTIVAL CELEBRATES ITS THIRD YEAR WITH A MOVE TO THE THEATER DISTRICT JULY 30 - AUGUST 25 AT THEATRE ROW

In a celebratory move uptown to the theater district, the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, celebrating its third year in Manhattan announced today, its 2019 season lineup at Theatre Row, 410 West 42^nd Street. In just three short years BBTF has evolved into an elevated and sophisticated theatre festival, upping the ante and the exposure for its participating playwrights, but still maintaining its reputation and classification as a boutique festival, featuring 18 curated new works on its main stage and three staged readings in its Incubator Reading Series. 

BBTF has earned the reputation for being very selective because each play is highly evaluated and critiqued and playwrights are expected to continue developing their plays as they learn how to self-produce, which is part of the festival's mission. The move to Theatre Row was made with those playwrights in mind.

For more information and for the schedule, visit https://www.broadwayboundfestival.com

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9) News from The Press Room PR

THOMAS JOHN,
WORLD-RENOWNED CELEBRITY PSYCHIC AND MEDIUM,
BRINGS INTERACTIVE THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE
DEAD SERIOUS
TO NEW YORK CITY THIS SUMMER
LIMITED ENGAGEMENT JULY - SEPTEMBER

Thomas John, the world-renowned psychic and medium, known to many as the “Seatbelt Psychic”  from Lifetime TV’s popular half-hour series, brings his interactive theatrical experience, Dead Serious, to New York City’s Theatre Center (210 West 50th Street) this summer. Dead Serious will play a limited engagement from July 16 - September 4. Tickets may be purchased by calling 800-745-3000 or online at DeadSeriousShow.com

Pulling from his personal stories, this incredibly unique production explores his past and journey in embracing his gift as a medium. Each night, he connects audiences with loved ones on the other side, creating a once-in-a-lifetime encounter that will leave you stunned.

As the author of the book Never Argue with a Dead Person: True and Unbelievable Stories from the Other Side and star of the hit TV show “Seatbelt Psychic,” Thomas John is one of the most sought-after, unique voices in the metaphysical and psychic medium space today. With a five-year waiting list for a private reading, he travels around the world sharing his ability to communicate to the dead to help the living. 

Dead Serious plays July 16 & 17; August 6 & 7; and September 3 & 4 at The Theater Center (210 West 50th Street). All performances are at 8:00 pm.  Tickets may be purchased by calling 800-745-3000 or online at http://deadseriousshow.com

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And that's the scoop. Tune in Monday for another Talking Topic.