SPEED THE PLOW
 Sex and money battle for blood in the 20th anniversary revival of Speed-the-Plow, David Mamet’s classic skewering of Hollywood power brokers. Jeremy Piven ("Entourage") and Raúl Esparza (Company) play two film producers hungry to impress the Studio Head with the next big blockbuster. Cut to a sexy new secretary (Elisabeth Moss, “Mad Men”), armed with a plan to tear them apart. Directed by Neil Pepe, Speed-the-Plow features sets by Tony-winner Scott Pask, costumes by Laura Bauer and lighting by Tony-winner Brian MacDevitt.
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NOVEMBER
 Two-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane stars alongside Laurie Metcalf (“Roseanne”) and Dylan Baker (Spiderman 2 & 3) in the world premiere of David Mamet’s newest play, November, which opened at the Barrymore Theatre on Broadway on January 17, 2008. The comedy is set a few days before an election in which President Charles Smith, played by Lane, is running as an incumbent. The action unfolds over one day and involves civil marriage, gambling casinos, lesbians, American Indians, presidential libraries, questionable pardons and campaign contributions. Directed by two-time Tony winner Joe Mantello (The Odd Couple, Wicked), NOVEMBER features sets by Tony-winner Scott Pask, costumes by Laura Bauer and lighting by Tony-winner Paul Gallo.
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THE HOMECOMING
 Harold Pinter’s 1967 Tony Award-winning Best Play returns to Broadway in a new production under the direction of Tony Award-winner Daniel Sullivan (Rabbit Hole, Proof) and featuring all-star cast including Ian McShane (HBO’s “Deadwood”), Raul Esparza (2007 Tony nominee, Company), Eve Best (2007 Tony nominee, A Moon for the Misbegotten) and Michael McKean (The Pajama Game, Best in Show, “Laverne & Shirley). Undoubtedly Pinter’s most sexually provocative work, THE HOMECOMING is an edgy and compelling tale of lust, seduction and deception, telling the story of a dysfunctional family that welcomes the homecoming of its estranged brother and competes for the attention of his dangerously alluring wife. Opened December 13, 2007 at the Cort Theatre on Broadway.
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BAREFOOT IN THE PARK
 The first Broadway revival of Neil Simon’s second play opened at the Cort Theatre in the Winter of 2006 and starred Patrick Wilson (Oklahoma!, The Full Monty) as young lawyer Paul Bratter and Amanda Peet (“Studio 60”, The Whole Nine Yards) as his free-spirited newlywed bride Corie. The show follows the young couple as they move from the giddy joy of a honeymoon at The Plaza into the crazy reality of starting married life in a fifth-floor walk-up in New York City. Co-starring two-time Academy Award nominee Jill Clayburgh as Corie’s mother and two-time Tony nominee Tony Roberts (who replaced Robert Redford as Paul in the show’s original Broadway run) as the eccentric upstairs neighbor, Victor Velasco. BAREFOOT IN THE PARK was directed by Scott Ellis (The Women, Present Laughter) and featured sets by Derek McLane, lighting by Jason Lyons and costumes by Isaac Mizrahi.
STEEL MAGNOLIAS
 The first Broadway revival of Neil Simon’s second play opened at the Cort Theatre in the Winter of 2006 and starred Patrick Wilson (Oklahoma!, The Full Monty) as young lawyer Paul Bratter and Amanda Peet (“Studio 60”, The Whole Nine Yards) as his free-spirited newlywed bride Corie. The show follows the young couple as they move from the giddy joy of a honeymoon at The Plaza into the crazy reality of starting married life in a fifth-floor walk-up in New York City. Co-starring two-time Academy Award nominee Jill Clayburgh as Corie’s mother and two-time Tony nominee Tony Roberts (who replaced Robert Redford as Paul in the show’s original Broadway run) as the eccentric upstairs neighbor, Victor Velasco. BAREFOOT IN THE PARK was directed by Scott Ellis (The Women, Present Laughter) and featured sets by Derek McLane, lighting by Jason Lyons and costumes by Isaac Mizrahi.
THE FALLEN
 A three-sided story about German, Italian, and American soldiers directed by Ari Taub, THE FALLEN is set in Northern Italy during the final weeks of the World War II. On the one side, a group of American supply soldiers delivers ammunition to the front line, a journey that becomes a descent into hell, the success of the mission becomes less likely with every setback. On the other, a doomed German unit and their ragtag Italian partners struggle to maintain morale and discipline amongst their beleaguered troops in the face of certain defeat. Torn between these are the divided loyalties of the Italians, both fascist soldiers and communist partisans, who have turned brother against brother in a bloody civil war. The film looks at the everyday life of the soldiers, their encounters on the road, their hopes and dreams, and the differences in values, morals, and patriotism between the cultures at the end of that era. An official selection of the 2005 Moscow International Film Festival, and winner of the Best Film and Best Director awards at the 2005 Milan International Film Festival.
PAPER
CLIPS
 Whitwell, Tennessee might seem like an unlikely spot for a Holocaust memorial. There are few, if any, Jews in the rural two-stoplight town on the edge of Appalachia, which lies just a few miles down the road from both the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan and the site of the Scopes Monkey Trial. But that inauspicious heritage didn't stop the students and administrators of Whitwell Middle School from mounting an ambitious tribute to the victims of Nazi genocide. They set out to collect 6 million paper clips -- one for each Jew killed in the Holocaust. This poignant documentary chronicles the school's efforts, which succeeded so spectacularly that the project soon expanded to include a unique memorial -- and made sleepy Whitwell a center of national attention. Ergo is proud and honored to have served as Executive Producers for this important movie, a 2005 Christopher Award winner and a 2006 Emmy Nominee for Best Documentary.
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PRIVATE
JOKES, PUBLIC PLACES
 A provocative and hilarious glimpse into the world of contemporary
architecture, “Private Jokes, Public Places” opened
as the inaugural production at the Theatre at the Center for
Architecture in New York City on November 5, 2003. Sexual
tensions and intellectual pretensions intertwine as a graduate
student defends her thesis for a public swimming pool to an
all-male jury. As the son of renowned architect Moshe Safdie
and a former architecture student himself, Oren Safdie uses
his extensive knowledge of the industry to capture the full
character of architectural discourse as well as examine issues
ranging from sexism and race to academia and the failure of
postmodernist culture. The play asks compelling questions
about the state of the male-female power struggle, fears of
disrupting the status quo, and ultimately, the importance
of challenging tradition.
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LONG
DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
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Brian
Dennehy, Vanessa Redgrave, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Robert
Sean Leonard starred in this revival of Eugene O'Neill's classic,
directed by Robert Falls, which opened at the Plymouth Theatre
for a limited 18-week run in April 2004. The play follows
the Tyrone clan through a mesmerizing day and night, as they
battle their demons, their pasts, and one another in four
extraordinary personal struggles. James Tyrone (Dennehy),
an aging but once promising actor, has long ago sacrificed
his art for commerce, choosing to tour in the same pedestrian
stage play year after year. Oldest son Jamie (Hoffman) is
a troublemaking alcoholic, envious of the writing talent of
his ever more sickly younger brother, Edmund (Leonard). Unable
to confront Edmund's illness and bitter from her husband's
emotional and financial selfishness, matriarch Mary Tyrone
(Redgrave) relapses into a morphine addiction that has already
had dire consequences on her personal and familial well-being.
The play depicts the riveting events of the next 16 hours
as each family member drifts further into drug-induced oblivion
and reveals his or her struggle for survival. Ergo served
as Associate Producers for this critically-acclaimed production
that shattered box office records for a play on Broadway and
won three 2004 Tony Awards.
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 SOMETHING
OLD, SOMETHING NEW
David
“Dudu” Fisher, the international singing sensation
and award-winning recording artist, returned to New York in
Something Old, Something New, an intimate musical evening of
story and song, which played a critically-acclaimed limited
engagement at the Mazer Theatre in the heart of Manhattan’s
historic Lower East Side during the Fall and Winter of 2002.
Directed by Richard Jay-Alexander (whose previous credits include
concerts for Barbra Streisand, Bernadette Peters, Russell Watson
and many more), Something Old, Something New was specifically
created by Mssrs. Alexander and Fisher in conjunction with Ergo
Entertainment, to showcase Dudu’s extraordinary talents
by covering a broad range of musical genres and styles including
traditional Jewish standards, pop hits from Elvis Presley and
the Red Hot Chili Peppers among others, and a wide variety of
Broadway showtunes by composers such as Berlin, Gershwin, Rodgers,
Bernstein and Sondheim.
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 LET
IT SNOW
Let
It Snow is a comedy with "issues". When James was
4, Grammy told him the family curse: "We're doomed in love.
The men leave and the women go crazy." But on one magical
New England snow day, James, now 18, meets Sarah. From the moment
he touches her flat head, they are linked for life. Unfortunately,
the "family curse" comes true. Four years later our
former young lovers are isolated Manhattanites. Sarah sleeps
with her beeper. James goes to "open-mike therapy"
at a stand-up comedy club. Go to the
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 BLACK
PEOPLE HATE ME AND THEY HATE
MY GLASSES
Writer/star Andrew Gurland (Co-Director, Frat House, Grand Jury
Prize – Documentary, Sundance 1997) and director Salamo
Levin put an hysterical spin on social stereotypes in this witty,
fast and original short film. Told on a street corner on a sunny
New York afternoon, A waiter on a cigarette break unravels a
frenetic, non-linear tale to his fellow co-workers in an attempt
to explain the African-American conspiracy to destroy his glasses,
no matter what the cost. A celebration of storytelling and astigmatism.
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