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Theater for the New City
Executive Director Crystal Field Presents:
OBIT
A Play by Rebecca Chace
SEPT 17 - OCT 4
Wolves roam the college campus. A blizzard rages in full force. Society teeters on the brink of collapse as journalist Maya Hawthorne arrives at the home of the famous Philip Stern.
Maya, an "advance" obituary writer for the New York Times, arrives not with a bouquet, but with a pen and a lifetime of cold fury. She is here to draft the final account of Philip Stern—an aging college president who sees this interview as the crowning jewel of a storied career.
To Maya, he is the man who ruined her life years earlier, an architect of systemic rot. As the snow begins to bury the house and the howl of wolves echo outside the walls, the interview begins.
This is not a story about sexual assault; it is a female revenge play set against the backdrop of a society on the edge.
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In order for us to bring Obit to the stage we need to raise $35,000.
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Ends June 30th 2025
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Receive a signed copy of Rebecca Chace's new novel, Talking to the Wolf.
$100
Receive a signed copy of Talking to the Wolf, and a $25 gift certificate to the Strand Bookstore.
$250
Receive two tickets to opening night, September 17, 2026 and receive a signed copy of Talking to the Wolf.
$500
Receive two tickets to opening night, a signed copy of Talking to the Wolf, and a copy of the "Book of the Dead," a collection of New York Times obituaries from the paper's archives.
$1,000
Receive a limited edition print by Brooklyn artist, Ken Buhler, from his "Birdlands" series; a collaboration with Cecily Parks, and Jungle Press: https://www.kenbuhler.net/prints
$2,500
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