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Petie Written by Lori Fischer Directed by Martha Banta Presented by Theatre East at Urban Stages, NYC September 23 - October 8, 2017

How many places have you gone in the past 10 days? Now what about in the past ten years? The matriarch at the center of Lori Fischer's world-premiere play Petie hasn't ventured beyond her Tennessee yard in the decade since her young son's death, an event that continues to bind the remaining family members' lives as surely as the property line bounds hers. Presented by Theatre East, a company that concentrates on new plays with socially relevant themes, Petie asks whether the family can become more than a prison and a site of fracture for these characters.   

The eponymous Petie (Grayson Taylor) -- pronounced Petey but with a visual echo of petit -- takes his affectionate appellation from his father, Pete (co-founder and Artistic Director of Theatre East Judson Jones), a.

Theatre East presents the next installment in its Neighborhood Reading Series upstairs at O'Lunney's, 145 West 45th Street bet. Broadway amp 6th Ave., tonight, May 30th 600 pm is a Mixer with the reading at 700 pm. Dominic Chianese of The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire stars in Prodigal. From the same writer and producers that premiered Harvest Smith and Kraus Best New Play of 2008, BackStage Critics Pick, comes a reimagining of the age old story of loss, forgiveness, and ultimately coming home. Directed by Judson Jones.

Theatre East presents the next installment in its Neighborhood Reading Series upstairs at O'Lunney's, 145 West 45th Street bet. Broadway amp 6th Ave., on Thursday, May 30th 600 pm is a Mixer with the reading at 700 pm. Dominic Chianese of The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire stars in Prodigal. From the same writer and producers that premiered Harvest Smith and Kraus Best New Play of 2008, BackStage Critics Pick, comes a reimagining of the age old story of loss, forgiveness, and ultimately coming home. Directed by Judson Jones.