My wife and I absolutely love watching the performances by New City Players! We've seen two shows so far and both have been truly incredible. The amount of talent they consistently bring to the stage is remarkable and it's what keeps us coming back!
Right now they're based out of Island City Stage, which is a cozy, well-kept, and inviting location with around 50 seats. Partly due to the seating arrangement and partly to the aforementioned talent, NCP does a great job of bringing the audience along for the ride. The audience as a whole are encouraged to participate in amusing and welcoming ways that really draw audience members into the story!
Also, there are several tasty restaurants around which make dinner and a show an easy date night 😊
Bottom line: we will be back. Thanks, New...
Read moreNew City Players production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is a full-throated depiction of the complicated relations among denizens of a New Orleans quarter in the 1940s. The acting is first-rate, and the nuanced sibling relationship between Stella and Blanche is a revelation to anyone who has seen the play before. The portrayal of Stanley is powerful, a commanding presence, and yet there are just enough hints of a tenderness underneath. The whole cast is replete with talented contributors to making a long play seem to fly by. The set, props, lighting design and musical interludes are the finishing touch in carrying the audience away from today's preoccupations. This is a theatrical production that has the polish of committed actors and a company...
Read moreNew City Players presented an evening of five short plays, and succeeded in linking them together, disparate as they are, through an interesting narrative combining history, poetry and a little science. The actors, through the words of the plays, drew us close to the vision of the playwrights, while the direction gave a fresh spin, continued to spread the flow of the evening, enhanced the humor present in all the...
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