Women's Project Announces 31st Season

A world premiere, Virginia Woof's only play, a Hothouse production, and a site-specific theatrical event top Women's Project 31st season of providing a stage for women who create theater.

Women's Project launches its season with a world premiere dark comedy about emigres who need both love and a green card by a celebrated Romanian poet, journalist and playwright Saviana Stanescu.  Aliens with Extraordinary Skills is directed by award-winning theater artist and Bosnian emigre Tea Alagic and runs September 22 though October 26 at Women's Project, 424 West 55th Street.

Aliens with Extraordinary Skills centers on a clown from the unhappiest country in the world, Moldova, who pins her hopes on a US work visa by creating balloon animals.  Chased by Homeland Security, a deportation letter deflates her enthusiasm, and a pair of spike heels might be all it takes to burst her American Dream.

Trying to out do Aliens with Extraordinary Skills requires a female playwright of extraordinary skills.  Not being afraid of Virginia Woolf, Women's Project has teamed up with Anne Bogart's SITI Company to present the only play written by one of the greatest women writers in history, Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941).  Written in 1923, revised in 1935, and never produced professionally in the United States, Virginia Woolf's Freshwater creates a deliberately witty and wacky universe peopled with a tribe of artists, friends and lovers in a playful mood.  Legendary director Anne Bogart directs this theatrical escapade set in a Victorian garden on a summer evening, and a perfect diversion for audiences during the winter 2009.  Freshwater runs January 15 through February 15.

"WP is turning 31, and we're young, healthy, and coming off our best season in our history.  The season will kick-off our fourth decade in style, with profoundly theatrical works that are visceral, meaningful, and smart.  It's the kind of theater that will make you happily abandon your fuzzy bunny slippers and Netflix, and hurry to the Julia Miles Theater," said Julie Crosby, Producing Artistic Director of Women's Project.

Women's Project's spring Hothouse  workshop production has not yet been selected, but will be soon.

Women's Project's 2009 site-specific production in May is entitled Global Cooling: The Women Chill at an indoor public space to be announced soon.  Global Cooling: The Women Chill follows up on the success of Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$ (2007) and Corporate Carnival (2008) in lower Manhattan, so expect to be astonished and surprised.

In addition, Women's Project is planning one-night-only concerts and special events all season long. Watch your inbox for future announcements.