90 min. / Theatre L / $15
Heavy Mettle (Tough Tales of New York's Gentle Men), celebrates the lives of some of New York's anonymous denizens -- the guy handing out flyers on the street, the homeless man sleeping in a storefront, the lonely retiree out on a park bench looking for companionship. A human comedy steeled with tragedy, it is a play about hope and survival that takes a good hard look at the overlooked faces in the crowd. At times funny, touching, and biting, the characters in Heavy Mettle prove with unexpected wit and insight the simple truth that everyone, no matter what their station, counts.