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March 18th thru April 6, 2003

SALAAM Theatre
Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director invites you to attend The National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) responds to the impending war on Iraq.

The National Asian American Theatre Company
presents

AIR RAID's only previous known production was as a radio play, which reached a vast American audience in 1938 when it was broadcast by CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System).  MacLeish -- a playwright, cultural adviser to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and poet known as "America's Poet Laureate" -- used powerful poetic language in AIR RAID to address Americans' fears as World War II loomed on the horizon.  Sixty-five years later, the play's warnings about the perils of fascism remain shockingly timely, in reverse, as the U.S. prepares to wage a war with Iraq, largely without the support of governing world bodies.

Archibald MacLeish's
Air Raid
Directed by Stephen Stout

featuring:
Irma Adlawan-Marasigan, Michi Barall*, Jennifer Chang, Geeta Citygirl, Joel de la Fuente*, Reena Dutt, Siho Ellsmore, Mel Gionson*, Nancy Kim, Jodi Lin*, Han Ong, Gita Reddy, Eileen Rivera*, Aaron Yoo.

*Appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association

HERE Arts Center
145 6th Avenue
(Between Spring & Broome Streets)
Manhattan, NYC 10013
Box Office: 212-647-0202
Tickets: $19
Students: $12
TDF accepted

For more information:
NAATCO - http://www.naatco.org
HERE Arts Center - http://www.here.org

Three Previews as follows:
First preview - Tuesday, March 18th at 8:30 pm
Second preview - Wednesday, March 19th at 8:30 pm
Third preview - Friday, March 21st at 10:30 pm

We officially open on Saturday, March 22nd, 2003!!!

Schedule is as follows:

Saturday, March 22nd at 5:00pm
Sunday, March 23rd at 5:00pm and 8:30pm
Monday, March 24th at 8:30pm
Tuesday, March 25th at 8:30pm
Wednesday, March 26th at 8:30pm
no performance on Thursday
Friday, March 28th at 10:30pm
Saturday, March 29th at 5:00pm
Sunday, March 30th at 5:00pm and 8:30pm
Monday, March 31st at 8:30pm
Tuesday, April 1st at 8:30pm
Wednesday, April 2nd at 8:30pm
no performance on Thursday
Friday, April 4th at 8:30pm
Saturday, April 5th at 5:00pm and 8:30pm
Sunday, April 6th at 5:00pm

Stage Managers:John Roque and Cynthia Curtis
Set Design: Sarah Lambert
Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli
Costume Design: Elly van Horne
Sound Design: Dave Morreale
Produced by NAATCO - Mia Katigbak, Artistic Director

This production is being presented through HERE's Supported Artist Program, which provides artists with subsidized space and technical and administrative support.

This production is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
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The National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO), a tax-exempt (501(c)3) organization, was founded in 1989 by Richard Eng and Mia Katigbak to: promote and support Asian American actors, directors, designers, and technicians through the performance of European and American classical and contemporary works; actively develop an Asian American audience and encourage Asian Americans to become a significant part of a more diverse audience in American theatre; cultivate in non-Asian Americans an appreciation of Asian American contributions to the development of theatre arts in America today.

HERE supports artists' INDEPENDENCE within an interdependent COMMUNITY which provides ACCESS, arts management INNOVATION and non-profit ENTERPRISE. In addition to producing and presenting a number of our own projects annually, HERE offers artists creative work space at subsidized, below-market rates, which allows us to showcase a broad spectrum of programming 365 days a year. In seven years, HERE has served over 7,000 artists, presenting over 600 original works, including nearly 100 exhibitions, and has created a home base for 40 core member artists and 23 emerging performance companies. "One of the most unusual arts spaces in New York---and possibly the model for the cutting edge arts space of tomorrow." - The New York Times

Peace, Paz, Paix, Shanti, Shalom and SALAAM.
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SALAAM Theatre is a not-for-profit professional theatre company celebrating South Asian American artistic excellence through creative risk-taking and experimentation that challenges all boundaries, connects all peoples and links all the arts.

Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
SALAAM  - South Asian League of Artists in AMerica
http://www.SALAAMtheatre.org