The TWEED Fractured Classicks Series: Celebrating time-honored works— with a twist or on the rocks. The Series is a renegade showcase offering a fresh look at staples of American stage and screen. Irreverent casting (often cross-gendered) and frequent “one-night-only” surprise-scheduling add to the excitement, delirium and cult status of these popular and startling productions. Our roster of stars has included drag legend Charles Busch, Amy Sedaris, Lisa Kron, Justin Vivian Bond, Joey Arias, Varla Jean Merman, Tony Award winners Daisy Eagan and Jeff Whitty. Our staged reading of The Women at Town Hall was a particularly notorious production (our version was called Jungle Red). This was the first-ever production to blatantly fly in the face of the Claire Booth Luce Estate and cast men in the lead parts— despite specific instructions not to. Subsequently, TWEED presented CAGED at Town Hall starring Lily Tomlin, Isabella Rossellini, Joan Rivers, Jackie Hoffman, Lypsinka and others.
IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
1995
November 20, 1996
June 3, 1997
A Benefit for God's Love We Deliver and TWEED Theaterworks
December 1, 1997
August - September, 1998
September 1, 1998
September - October 1998
January 27, 28, 29; February 3, 4, 5, 1999
A Benefit for God's Love We Deliver
February 19, 2001
Suddenly This Summer (Suddenly Last Summer)
June 13, 2001
The Other Play About The Baby
(Agnes of God)
June 25, 2001
Screen Door
(Stage Door)
A Benefit for God's Love We Deliver
February 18, 2002
This Is No Dream, This Is Really Happening! (Rosemary's Baby)
April 23, 2002
Pig at a Hot Tin Trough (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
September 18, 2003
November 6-24, 2002
Extra-Ordinary People (Ordinary People)
March 5, 2007
Posteriors (Interiors)
January 27, 2008
October 8-9, 2012
Pic-Up (Picnic)
September 18-20, 2009
August 4-5, 2011
Raisinets in the Sunshine
(A Raisin in the Sun)
September 17-18, 2012
October 18-21, 2012