Four men address recent events in solo shows this fall: the extraordinary tale of New Orleans medical personnel's actions during the Katrina disaster, an intense examination of the never-ending conflict in Gaza, a tour-de-force poetic drama about six African-American men who find their lives inextricably linked, and a dramatic, unnerving thriller co-created by Teller (of Penn & Teller fame).

	001: FIRST, DO NO HARM In 2005 Katrina hit New Orleans, the levees broke, the water rose, the power went out, Memorial Medical Center was stranded, and the country looked away. Ordinary people did extraordinary things. Some call it mercy. Some call it MURDER! What would you have done, had you been there? A new one-man drama by Dave McCracken. The Dionys.us. Performances begin October 5.
	THE HUMAN SCALE Following up on his essay "Captives" published in the November 9, 2009 issue of The New Yorker, Pulitzer Prize Winner Lawrence Wright performs his newest piece, THE HUMAN SCALE, an unsparing and graphic exploration of the ongoing crisis in Gaza. Wright's last play, My Trip to Al-Qaeda, premiered at The New Yorker Festival in 2006, and then enjoyed a sold-out run at The Culture Project. Directed by Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis.  3LD Art & Technology Center. Performances begin October 2.
	PLAY DEAD You're never more alive than when you're scared to death. Teller and Todd Robbins invite Death out to play in PLAY DEAD, a new spirit-shaking Off-Broadway show that explores themes of death, darkness and deception. As the guide for the evening, Todd Robbins draws audiences into an unknown haunted world full of frightful surprises and diabolical laughter. Although very much a theatrical work, it is hardly a typical “play,” but rather a dramatic, unnerving thriller – here and now in an “abandoned” theater, illuminated by a single ghostlight – in which audiences test their nerves and face their fears as they are surrounded by ethereal sights, sounds and even touches of the returning dead – all achieved by wry, suspenseful storytelling and uncanny stage illusions. Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street. Previews begin October 21, opens November 10.
	THROUGH THE NIGHT Six characters. Three generations. One extraordinary man. Obie Award Winner Daniel Beaty shines as writer and performer of a range of characters from hopeful, wide-eyed child to admired, elder preacher, spinning a tale where lives collide to show how hope, faith and love have the ability to pull anyone THROUGH THE NIGHT. Supported by some of the country’s most revered performers and respected educators, including Bill Cosby, Ruby Dee, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., THROUGH THE NIGHT is “a thing of beauty, wit, grit and piercing lyricism” (The New York Times).Union Square Theater. Previews begin September 10, opens September 26.