Last fall New Colony scored a well-deserved mini-hit with James Asmus’s domestic drama Calls to Blood, about an achingly perfect young married couple torn apart after their deep, dark secret comes to light. That secret is so improbable and melodramatic the play should collapse as quickly as the protagonists’ relationship, but Asmus holds everything together with uncanny insights into the most extremes of human emotions (oh, and the actors were amazing). Since then he’s changed the title to the unfortunate Hearts Full of Blood, and in August New Colony took the production, with original cast intact, to the New York International Fringe Festival where it garnered generally positive reviews — and Asmus scored an Outstanding Playwright nod. Now the company’s invited back for four performances at the FringeNYC Encore Series, which runs September 9 to 14. They’ll be housed at The Players Theater at 115 MacDougal Street in the West Village. They’ll probably lose their shirts on airfare and housing, but hey, what a resume stuffer. You can reserve your tickets at here.
