They Came To The Castle

As we enter a week before opening night, the women who came to the castle invite you to meet them.
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY PORTRAYS A TIME WHEN NYC WELCOMED IMMIGRANTS IN A NEW PLAY BY AWARD-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT BARBARA KAHN
Theater for the New City, Crystal Field, Executive Director, presents They Came to the Castle: Immigrants, a Tenor and Lola Montez, written and directed by Barbara Kahn. November 4-21, Thursday – Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm. 155 1st Ave. (9th & 10th Sts.). Res/Info: 212-254-1109. Tkts: $15, seniors/students $12, TDF accepted. Set design by Mark Marcante, Lighting by Alexander Bartenieff, Costumes by Everett Clark. Featuring JC Augustin, Drew Brock Baker, Grace Canahuati, Christine Fiala, Christopher Lowe, Lisa Monde, Adara Totino, Ciaran Walsh, Rebekah D. Wilson. Music by Allison Tartalia.
They Came to the Castle: Immigrants, a Tenor and Lola Montez is a historical play set in the mid-19th century in a now landmarked building in Battery Park--the entry point to the United States prior the facility on Ellis Island. Newly-arrived travelers share their hopes and dreams, seeking love and success in a new land. An Irishman fleeing the potato famine; an Italian man who escaped from forced child labor in the sulfur mines of Sicily; the sole survivor of a pogrom (organized violence against Jews) in a Russian village; a woman who “always felt different” and ran from an arranged marriage; a freeborn African American woman who works for the NYC Commission on Immigration. Castle Garden was briefly a prominent entertainment center. In a re-imagining of a night’s entertainment, the Italian tenor Lorenzo Salvi performs and the infamous dancer Lola Montez recreates her notorious “Spider Dance.”

New York City has long been a melting pot as well as a cultural center. My play celebrates that legacy. If you are an immigrant, descendant of immigrants, a theater artist or a theater lover, Irish, African American, bi-racial, le***an, heterosexual, Jewish, Italian, my FB friend or friend IRL, located in the New York metropolitan area or in travel distance, I wrote this play for you

Come to the Castle

A love Story