Critically Acclaimed A Brooklyn Love Story Back In NYC After Successful Run in LA

NEW YORK - March 14, 2013 - PRLog -- Critically acclaimed play originally opened Off Broadway at The Cherry Lane Theatre and then had a successful run at Hollywood's Theatre 68. The play, which was penned and performed by Brooklyn's own Chiara Montalto and was directed by GENERAL HOSPITAL'S RONNIE MARMO.

It is now back in its hometown at:
Manhattan Repertory Theatre
March 17, March 21 and March 23

What Critics are Saying:

“A playwright was born” Denis Hamill, NY Daily News
“Chiara Montalto…performs…skillfully under Ronnie Marmo's tight, brisk direction” – LA Weekly
“In this 75 minute one woman production, Montalto achieves an acting tour de force... a roller coaster of emotions... the twin masks of comedy and tragedy have left their mark…the seamlessly choreographed metamorphoses are a constant and entertaining surprise…” Barbara Malinsky, iNK Magazine
“The exceptionally bright actor offers the audience a quaint flavor that has all but disappeared from our social culture!” Cinesnatch

About The Show

What happens when a twenty-something Italian-American granddaughter moves in with her widowed eighty something grandfather? Set in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn in the early 2000’s, A Brooklyn Love Story is the often hilarious and always touching true story of the relationship between Chiara, and her grandfather, Pop.  A Brooklyn Love Story is wrought with lots of laughter, hilarious love scenes, meatballs, and a ride around Brooklyn in a Buick Century that you will not soon forget. It is a profound tale about the effect a grandfather and a granddaughter have on each other, as one’s life is ending and the other’s is just beginning.

A Brooklyn Love Story was a sell-out at New York City's Emerging Artists Theatre One Woman Standing Festival, before being produced at the famed and historic Cherry Lane Theatre. It has been featured by Denis Hamill of the New York Daily News, on I-ITALY, Centanni Broadcasting, Examiner.com, New York Press and the Star-Ledger.

A Brooklyn Love Story  
Manhattan Repertory Theatre
303 West 42nd Street  6 th Floor

Sunday March 17 @ 6PM
Thusday March 21@ 7PM
Saturday March 23@ 7PM
Tix are $20 and are reserved by
MRTRESERVE@gmail.com

www.chiaramontalto.com

Chiara Montalto – (Playwright / Actor)  
Montalto has appeared in numerous NYC productions, including the 40th Anniversary production of Lanford Wilson’s Balm in Gilead, Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?  and Joe Pintauro’s Metropolitan Operas.  She also appeared in an Italian language production of Pirandello’s La Giara. A Brooklyn Love Story was previously called Emergency Used Candles. It was a sell-out at New York City’s Emerging Artists Theatre: One Woman Standing Festival before being produced Off -Broadway. Montalto is thrilled to have this opportunity to perform it in Los Angeles. The play is currently being developed into a feature film.