HARD TIMES

New show from Mark Crispin Miller

Featuring: Mark Crispin Miller Direction: Gregory Keller

3 performances only: Tuesday, March 15, 7:30pm Tuesday, March 22, 7:30pm Tuesday, April 5, 7:30pm

Reserve tickets: Tickets to Hard Times are free and are available by reservation only. Reservation hotline at 212-780-9037 x123.

4th Street Theatre
83 East 4th Street
Located between Bowery and Second Avenue in the East Village.

Free

Mark Crispin Miller and directed Gregory Keller, who teamed up for 2004's Patriot Act: A Public Meditation, return to NYTW with a new show, Hard Times.

Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of media studies at New York University. His writings on film, television, propaganda, advertising, and rock music have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Nation and The New York Times. He has appeared as a commentator on programs including "The Newshour" and "Frontline" on PBS, Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor," NPR's "All Things Considered," and "Morning Sedition" on the newly launched Air America. In 1988, he published his first book, "Boxed In: The Culture of TV," followed by "Seeing Through Movies," a collection which he edited for Pantheon Books in 1990. He is also the author of "The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder" (Norton), and "Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order" (also from Norton). Miller is the editor of "American Icons," a new book series from Yale University Press, and for that series will be authoring a volume on the Marlboro Man. Soon thereafter he will be completing "Mad Scientists: Paranoid Delusion and the Craft of Propaganda," a study that he has been working on for several years. Miller earned his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1971, and earned his doctorate in English from Johns Hopkins University in 1977. Although he specialized in Renaissance literature, Miller is best known as a media critic. Before joining the faculty of NYU, Miller served as director of film studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Gregory Keller directs both theatre and opera. Opera credits include: Don Giovanni, Lulu, and Die Zauberflöte at the Metropolitan Opera. Original productions include: L'incoronazione di Poppea in the Barns at Wolf Trap Opera; Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King for Eos Orchestra performed both in New York at the Ethical Culture Society and in East Hampton's Guild Hall; La Cenerentola for the OK Mozart Festival; Les Contes d'Hoffmann and Luisa Miller for Sarasota Opera. Theatre works include Mark Crispin Miller's one-man political satire, Operation American Freedom at the Cherry Lane Theater; the New York premiere of Jean-Claude van Italie's Ancient Boys at LaMaMa E.T.C..; Water Over Time, a one-woman show about the life of the first Italian physicist, Laura Bassi; David Ives' Variations on the Death of Trotsky and The Red Address at Ensemble Studio Theater. He has received grants for his directing projects from The Howard Gilman Foundation, the Florence Gould Foundation, the Martha Boschen Porter Fund, and the Drama League of New York. Mr. Keller graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University.