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First Flight is devoted to presenting the plays of 20th century American playwright Maxwell Anderson as well as other playwrights who instill poetry in their writing.
First Flight Theatre Company
OUR 2023 SEASON Continues
A play reading of WHITE DESERT by Maxwell Anderson took place on Sunday, May 14 at the Jefferson Market Library in NYC. Anderson's first Broadway production, coordinated and stage managed by Frank Farrell*, featured Stella Berrettini, Danny Crawford*, Christopher Davis, Claudia Egli* and Richard Width*. The play takes place in North Dakota during the great Winter Snow Storm of 1888.
* Indicates Actors and Stage Manager are members of Actors’ Equity Association.
Next up is a play reading of Shakespeare's ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA on Saturday, June 24 at 1pm ET
at the Yorkville Library, 222 East 79th Street in NYC. Admission is FREE.
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Photos below from ELIZABETH THE QUEEN, FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS FROM OUR FORGOTTEN WAR, & SEA-WIFE (NYC cast) assisted by Stage Manager Claudia Egli. Photos also from THE SCARECROW & DICKENS BY CANDLELIGHT: A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
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More Photos from Past Productions followed by a brief video of Maxwell Anderson's 1923 Broadway play WHITE DESERT from our Zoom production in 2021.
The Cast of The Scarecrow at
The Hermitage
David Green, Lynn Manuell,
Alexa Elmy, Zander Kirby,
Charles Kennedy,
Julio Ramon, Richard Width,
Maddie Kirby and Frank Farrell
Two of three cast members from DICKENS BY CANDLELIGHT: A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
Karen Eterovich and Frank Farrell
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WHAT'S NEXT FOR FIRST FLIGHT?
Next up is a play reading of Shakespeare's ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA on Saturday, June 24 at 1pm ET
at the Yorkville Library, 222 East 79th Street in NYC. Admission is FREE.
William Shakespeare's ANTHONY & CLEOPATRA
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WHAT'S IN A NAME
Where did the name First Fight Theatre Company come from? Pictured is a postage stamp called "First Flight Wright Brothers 1903." It's a cool stamp! But the company was not named after the Wright Brothers flight. It was named after Maxwell Anderson's third Broadway production called First Flight, about young Andrew Jackson when he was a frontier lawyer and how he was trying to convince the soon to be West Virginia territory to become part of the United States of America. Our company is devoted to producing plays by Maxwell Anderson, specifically poetic dramas where poetry is part and parcel of the language spoken in the play. First Flight is a good name for a company with that poetic theatre agenda.
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