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Jerry Seinfeld to Make Directorial Stage Debut at Greenwich Village Theater

By DNAinfo Staff on June 3, 2010 3:12pm

"Seinfeld" funnyman is coming to the Village as a stage director.
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By Nicole Breskin

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

GREENWICH VILLAGE — Jerry Seinfeld, whose uptown-based sitcom once portrayed the corner of First Avenue and First Street as some seedy and mysterious “nexus of the universe,” is daring to come below 14th Street.

The famous Upper West Sider is set to direct "Saturday Night Live" alum Colin Quinn in “Colin Quinn Long Story Short,” a one-man show that will run from June 19 to Aug. 17 at the Bleecker Street Theatre (45 Bleecker St.) in Greenwich Village.

“We’re thrilled to have Seinfeld come here,” said Bleecker Street Theatre’s box office manager Tom Sime, who speculated that the first-time stage director will be in the audience for a handful of shows.

“It will bring extra interest to Quinn’s show and make us a bigger dot on the theater map.”

“Colin Quinn Long Story Short” takes a satirical look at the history of civilization, and charts a comical, if scary, connection between the fall of Rome and the forces undermining America today.  

Tickets can be purchased here. Previews start June 9.