To inaugurate its new 99-seat Atlantic Stage Two space, Atlantic Theater Company will present Ten By Twenty, a one-act festival of twenty ten-minute plays running June 14 through July 1. The festival will feature works by past Atlantic artists Hilary Bell, Jez Butterworth, Kia Corthron, Tom Donaghy, John Guare, Peter Hedges, Kevin Heelan, Tina Howe, Rolin Jones, Howard Korder, Quincy Long, Craig Lucas, David Mamet, Joe Penhall, David Pittu, David Rabe, Keith Reddin, Edwin Sanchez, Jeff Whitty and Bill Wrubel. Ted Danson, Kathryn Erbe, John Benjamin Hickey, Kristen Johnston and Carolyn McCormick are among the notable actors who will take part.
The festival will be divided into three segments. For the first June 14 - June 17, the company will present Bell's Three Little Words with Erbe and Kate Blumberg, Butterworth's Leavings with Peter Maloney, Guare's Milos with Patrick Breen, Rolin Jones' Our Favorite Child with Linda Gehringer, Jonathan Rossetti and Ray Anthony Thomas, Mamet's Home with Jordan Lage and Erbe, Long's The Muse with Blumberg and Brennan Brown and Wrubel's On Story with Breen, Brown, Jim Frangione, Maloney, Emily Peck and Patrick Taylor. On tap for the second segment June 21 - June 24 is Corthron's Master Disaster with Donna Duplantier and Zabryna Guevara, Donaghy's It Takes an Orchard with McCormick, Hedges' Maybe 21 with Kristen Johnston and Hickey, Korder's Quotidian with Danson, Lucas' He's Come to Take the Children Home with Ryan King and Mark Webber, Penhall's The Burning with Alex Draper and Steven Hawley and Reddin's Mutterliebe with Jen Albano, Matt Dawson and Jan Maxwell. The third and final session June 28 - July 1 will feature Heelan's The Compassioneer with Christian Parker and Steven Skybell, Howe's Through a Glass Darkly with Blumberg and Peter Jacobson, Pittu's Untitled with Pittu and Peter Bartlett, Rabe's Hello. Northwood Mental Health Center with Ronnie Butler, Robert Maxwell and Christa Scott-Reed, Edwin Sanchez' Jody's Mother with Roberta Maxwell and Whitty's The Intervention with Susan Pourfar, Christa Scott-Reed, Ronnie Butler and Mike Doyle.
After this festival, Atlantic Stage Two located at 330 West 16 Street will house two productions of new works each season and serve as a home theater for the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School.
