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A weekly series of one-act plays by award-winning
writers read by an alternating repertory of guest stars.
Click here
for a word about Food for Thought from Susan Charlotte, Artistic Director.
For directions to
Food for Thought events, click here.
For our 2007 Cocktail Hour Schedule, click here.
For our Spring 2007 Schedule, click here.
For our Fall 2007 Schedule,
click here.
To join our
mailing list, click here.
For a synopsis
of some this season’s plays, click here.
“Three times a week, culture hungry
New Yorkers flock to… for Food
for Thought.”
~ The New York Times ~
SPRING
2007
Food for Thought Productions
is the primary company in New York
dedicated to providing a venue for one-act plays. Our flagship series, Lunch
Hour Theatre, launched in September 2000. In September 2005, The Players began
hosting and co-sponsoring the show in the historic landmark Edwin
Booth Mansion
in Gramercy Park.
The union has proven to be a tremendous success.
Lunch Hour Theatre
began as the brainchild of playwright and Artistic Director, Susan Charlotte,
to provide a home for the oft neglected one-act play, and to couple it with a
light lunch. Patrons arrive at The
Players before 1 p.m., enjoy a
delicious buffet-style sandwich lunch, and then take in a one-act play by an
award-winning writer read by New York’s
finest actors. The plays are presented simply, without the trappings of
lights or sets - just the actors and the text. The audience is then privy to
an intimate question and answer period with the actors, directors, and
writers.
Additionally, our
evening event, Cocktail Hour Theatre, replaces lunch with drinks and hors
d’oeuvres, while faithfully maintaining the rest of the afternoon “menu”: the
finest writing, acting and directing talent our City has to offer.
Lunch Hour
Theatre is presented seasonally, two to three times a week.
Subscription packages are available. Nighttime events are
offered monthly. See schedules listed above and below. Call 212-362-2560 or 646-366-9340 to make
reservations or for more information.
For directions to
Food for Thought events, click here.
For our 2007 Cocktail Hour
Schedule, click here.
For our Spring 2007 Schedule,
click here.
For our Fall 2007 Schedule,
click here.
To join our
mailing list, click here.
For a synopsis
of some this season’s plays, click here.
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Price
Structure
(prices are valid as of January 1, 2007)
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Single tickets: $62
All tickets include:
buffet lunch, one-act play reading and Q & A.
Special Events,
Opening and Closing shows include reception and are a separate price.
Opening and
Closing shows are included in subscription packages.
Lunch at 12:30 · Reading at 1:30
Group Rates Available.
(Add $3.00 per
ticket for handling fees.)
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Subscriptions (Also includes Table Seating)
8 Tickets (Jan.
2007 - June 2007): $420
10 Tickets (Jan.
2007 - June 2007): $520
16 Tickets (Jan.
2007 - Dec. 2007): $820
20 Tickets (Jan.
2007 - Dec. 2007): $1,000
30 Tickets (Jan.
2007 - Dec. 2007): $1,485
40 Tickets (Jan.
2007 - Dec. 2007): $1,960
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Visit KT Sullivan’s
website… click the address… www.ktsullivan.com.
Visit Danny
Aiello’s website… click the address… www.dannyaiello.com.
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news and events
Schedules
updated daily…
- Master
Classes (now named
“Pre-Theatre Seminars”) are a hit! Taught by Food for Thought
Founding Artistic Director, Susan
Charlotte, the classes cover selected playwrights’ works, as well as
the craft involved. For further details and dates, please click on the
appropriate schedule to the left.
- Food for Thought opens its Spring 2007
Season in grand style with The
Real Thing by Henry James,
adapted for the stage by Susan
Charlotte. Our cast includes 2006 Drama Desk Award winner LOIS SMITH, KRISTEN LOWMAN, KENT
BROADHURST, LISA BOSTNAR and
MICHAEL CITRINITI. JOHN GOING directs… Monday,
lunchtime, February 26th. Our traditional Opening Week Post
Show Party immediately follows the Q&A.
- Reserve your seats now for The Chairs. TONY ROBERTS and TAMMY
GRIMES star in Eugene Ionesco’s
absurdist “tragic farce” which opens our Spring
2007 Season on Wednesday, lunchtime, February 28th. Our
traditional Opening Week Post Show Party immediately follows the
Q&A.
- HARRIS
YULIN and KRISTEN LOWMAN return to Food for Thought in
Ashes to Ashes by Nobel Prize
winning writer Harold Pinter.
Make your reservations now! We look forward to seeing you on Thursday,
lunchtime, March 8th.
- Here they are: Food for Thought
favorites FRANCES STERNHAGEN and
FRITZ WEAVER are back for Here We Are by Dorothy Parker. We hope you’re there,
too. Make your reservations now! We look forward to seeing you on
Thursday, lunchtime, March 8th.
- Our stars love coming back to Food
for Thought. Our audiences love that, too. TONY ROBERTS returns to lend his interpretive voice to Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. Don’t be the last one
to reserve… call now!! Thursday, lunchtime, April 5th.
- Back by popular demand… if you missed it last
time, you now have a second chance to see TYNE DALY
and AMY VAN NOSTRAND as Food for Thought presents The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gillman,
adapted for the stage by Susan
Charlotte. Don’t miss it this time… Tuesday, cocktail hour, April 17th.
- Where there’s smoke… On Wednesday, lunchtime, March
14th, we’ll present Why Do You
Smoke So Much, Lily? and Auto-Da-Fé by
Tennessee
Williams. TAMMY GRIMES and KARL
KENZLER are on hand to fan the flames. Reserve now to help extinguish
the fire.
- Steps
Must be Gentle by Tennessee Williams with MARIAN SELDES… need we say more?
Monday, lunchtime, May 21st.
- “The Sopranos” is about to start its final
season… however, it is our pleasure to announce the Food for Thought debut
of LORRAINE BRACCO. Ms. Bracco will perform in two plays by Edward Pomerantz:
I Hate When It Gets Dark So Early and
A Change of Pace; along with Susan Charlotte’s Come On. Reserve your seats now… Tuesday,
lunchtime, May 8th.
- Writers love to come back to Food
for Thought, as well. We welcome back Joyce Carol Oates on Tuesday, cocktail hour, May 22nd.
- COMING
SOON… LUCIE ARNAZ! Check back
with us for further details!
- TEN
TERRIFIC TUESDAYS! Come
celebrate Tuesday nights… just because. Food for Thought
presents our celebrated cocktail hours. The 2006 Cocktail Hour Season
is posted. For
further details - see and click on the information listed to the left. Call now… 212-362-2560 or
646-366-9340.
All reservations (single tickets
and subscriptions) are non-refundable.
Transfers available with 24 hours
notice.
Casts and plays are subject to
change.
Special Events are separate from
subscription tickets.
Credit card charges appear as “FOOD
FOR THOUGHT THEATRE” on your statement.
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