A Part of the Noise

Based on the Life and Times of Franz Kline

Monday, November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM

FREE

$5 Suggested Donation

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THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th & 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

The year is 1959, and Franz’ art dealer, Sidney Janis, refuses to include his new color abstractions in an upcoming one-man show. Franz wants to include two new ones and Sidney threatens that if he does, this will be his last show at his gallery.
Later, at the Cedar Tavern, Franz’ interview with young art critic Artie Mendelbaum starts a roller coaster ride of stories, surprises, and a cavalcade of emotions ranging from grief to laughter.
The show at Sidney’s gallery presents a twist involving his biggest collector, a couple of disguises, and Sidney.

CAST
Franz Kline: Daniel Yaiullo
Sidney Janis: Jack Kerouac, Ben Shaw
Dr. Marsh: Peter Welch
John the Bartender: David Dobbs: John Barilla
Artie Mendelbaum: Alex Elmaleh
Jerry: Dr. Fenneman, Jackson Pollock
David Amram: Peter Welch
Willem de Kooning: Prologue
Robert Motherwell: Alex Elmaleh
Joan Mitchell and Elizabeth: Zoe Anastassiou
Grace Hartigan and Annie: Alexandra Laliberte

BIO
Carl Kline has been a farmhand, a factory worker, a soil conservationist, an actor, a teacher, and a writer who received a BS in Agronomy from Delaware Valley College, worked for the USDA Soil Conservation Service, and received an MFA in Theatre from Michigan State University. While living in Los Angeles in the late ‘80’s and early ‘90’s, he started writing poetry because he thought that he had something to say.
Since then, acting and writing have been like two slow horses limping neck and neck, pulling his many jobs and his imagination along with them. Writing won. To date, writing has spawned a cookbook, The Cookbook for Actors and Other Survivors, a book of fiction, Blue Collar Kids, a book of poems, On My Sleeve, and his play, A Part of the Noise.