“Woody Guthrie Dreams” takes place in the final moments of the iconic American folk singer’s life. Guthrie, a hard-bitten Dust Bowl Balladeer, sign painter, social activist, WWII veteran, union man and author of “This Land is Your Land” spent the final decade of his life bedridden in a psychiatric ward. In the play, Guthrie dreams his way back through life, revisiting moments of his own biography, playing songs across the nation with Pete Seeger, Cisco Houston and Lead Belly. Guthrie is swept up in a whirlwind romance with the love of his life, Marjorie, a Martha Graham dancer. He battles his own fears, insecurities and a long debilitating illness, all the while throwing himself into a wild attempt at creating a better world, one sung chorus after another.

In the play’s New York City debut, Caleb Stine takes the role of Cisco Houston, a fellow musician and adventurer in Woody’s Hard Travelin’. The play runs from September 8 through October 1, 2011, Thursday through Sunday, at The Theater For The New City, an Off-Broadway house recognized for breaking new American plays into the theater world.

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