TIME TO STORM and Suzanne Corso present Franco D'Alessandros MAXIMUM HAPPINESS -two inter-locking plays by the award winning playwright.

After two sold out Off-Off Broadway runs of THE SWEET LIFE in June 2001 and WORLDS COLLIDE... (at the bottom of a glass) in Winter 2001/2002, TIME TO STORM is back on the NYC theater scene. This innovative evening of fresh theater will feature live musical performances by Josh Joplin.

(PRWEB) July 28, 2003 -- After two sold out Off-Off Broadway runs of THE SWEET LIFE in June 2001 and WORLDS COLLIDE... (at the bottom of a glass) in Winter 2001/2002, TIME TO STORM is back on the NYC theater scene. This innovative evening of fresh theater will feature live musical performances by Josh Joplin.

In these two interlocking plays, we discover people who live and love in states of discontentment. The very ways in which they are leading their lives is detrimental to their happiness -both as individuals and as couples. In "One Hundred Dollars Worth of Change" an engaged couple returns from a vacation in Italy and to their busy schedules and routines. A visit from a drug dealer and their ensuing conversation alters the soon-to-be husband's life.

In "Venice, Again" two couples vacation together in Italy as they witness their lives and marriages crumble through lies and deception. The audience never sees the one person who connects these to plays and who -through his death- offers some chance at redemption and change.

This is the second annual production, which will be dedicated to TTS founding member, actor Kevin Cleary, who was killed on September 11th, 2001.

WHAT:   MAXIMUM HAPPINESS (Happiness Maximus) Two New Interlocking Plays by two-time Edward Albee Residency Award recipient Franco D'Alessandro, author of the acclaimed play ROMAN NIGHTS.

WHO:   WORLDS COLLIDE continues The TIME TO STORM commitment to innovative theater by premiering two new two-act plays by resident playwright
Franco D'Alessandro. The evenings plays are entitled "One Hundred Dollars Worth of Change" and "Venice Again" and will feature the lyrics and music of folk/rock sensation Josh Joplin.

WHEN:   TBA    (Fall 2003)

WHERE:   TBA   (New York City)

Visit:   www.timetostorm.com and www.francodalessandro.com

TIME TO STORM -- A New Theatrical Group of actors, directors, and writers, devoted to the cultivation of burgeoning talent, and meaningful and provocative theatre, is not about fancy sets, big budgets and elaborate stage productions. We are in essence, a group of artists eager to explore the dynamic between writer, actor and director; the essentials of theater. TIME TO STORM is a 501-C-3 theater company funded in part with the generous support of The Kevin Cleary Memorial Fund.

Franco D'Alessandro is a two time recipient of the Edward Albee Foundation Award Residency, a 2001 Eugene ONeill Playwrights Conference Finalist, a member of The Cherry Lane Alternative and the Dramatists Guild of America. DAlessandros acclaimed play "Roman Nights" about Anna Magnani and Tennessee Williams, premiered Off-Broadway at the DR-2 September 2002. His new play "The Shattering" is being work-shopped with Olympia Dukakis and will premiere in 2004.