Urban Folk Tales
A man searches the New York City West Village streets one Friday night for another man—the one, particular man, the answer to all his sexual, emotional, and philosophical problems, who happens to be a gay-bashing sociopath he’s longed for ever since their previous fateful encounter.
Cast Requirements
8 men
1 woman
Set Description
Flexible set
Honors
L.A. Weekly Theater Critics Award: Best Play
Drama-Logue Award: Best Play
Ovation Award Nomination: Best Play
Press
"In Daniel Reitz's gritty dark comedy, Urban Folk Tales, New Yorkers trade urban myths among themselves the way children tell ghost stories ... A daringly comic and original vision, as well as a memorably twisted character with a dash of evil all his own."
--The Los Angeles Times
Production and Development History
Produced: Mark Taper Forum New Work Festival; Coast Playhouse, Los Angeles.
Readings: Manhattan Class Company; Public Theater.