Photo Flash: THE UMBRELLA PLAYS in Rehearsal at The Tank

Written by Stephanie Janssen and directed by Daniel Talbott (art. dir. Rising Phoenix Rep, Keep Your Baggage With You [At All Times]), The Umbrella Plays connects six snap-shot-sized plays, each offering a glimpse into the lives of a disparate (and sometimes desperate) cast of characters, as they work their ways through inclement weather of the literal and figurative variety, searching for shelter in whatever form it can be found. The smallest and most common-place of objects, the simple umbrella, becomes the entry point into these stories, reminding us that there is more than meets the eye in the most innocuous-seeming pieces of a life, and the most fleeting of moments. Storms crash in and leave their marks, lovers are sought and lost and found again, ambitions jump the tracks and hopes get renewed, and in the swirl of these six stories, an umbrella is never, ever just an umbrella.

March 31, April 1-2 at 7:30 pm & April 3 at 3 pm; April 7-9 at 7:30 pm & April 10
at 3pm at The Tank - 354 W. 45th Street (between 8th & 9th Avenues)

Tickets are $15.00, available at the box office: 212-563-6269 or http://www.thetanknyc.org/.

Photo Credit: Daniel Talbott