THE 2002 LINEUP
2002 Season Plays | |
All the World's a Stage |
By Donna StearnsAll The World's A Stage is an updated gay-friendly musical farce based on As You Like It. Except ... well ... this ain't Shakespeare anymore! It's a soap opera! Lust triangles! Lesbian Celia is hot for Rosalind who is pursuing a porn-fixated boy who is dating another boy, who, by the way, is actually Rosalind in disguise. Then there are two sets of brothers who can' t get along until porn-boy saves Oliver from a hungry lion and Frederick becomes a repentant minister. As each character makes a new home in the forest, they also find a way to be themselves, cross-dressers and all. Donna Stearns is a long-standing member of Women In Music (WIM), a dynamic group of music industry professionals working together to support, cultivate and recognize the talent of women in the field, and has served as National Liaison, Vice President-Workshop Series, moderator of two publishing panels, and staff writer for WIM's newsletter. As a singer-songwriter, her WIM credits include CB's Gallery, Barnes and Noble, and Red Lion. |
apple |
By Canadian playwright Vern Thiessen (American Premiere)A courageous piece of playwriting about betrayal, guilt, death, and love. Beautiful, spare, poetic, even erotic. Andy's marriage is broken, and when he gets downsized from his middle-management job, he starts to spend his days in the park. On one of these sojourns, he meets a mysterious young woman. What happens next shatters Andy's image of who he is and what he thinks he wants. Elegant yet emotionally complex, apple is a Garden of Eden parable exploring the nature of sex, secrets and second chances. apple won the Alberta Playwrights' Award for Best New Play in 2001. Starring: Margaret Reed, a DramaLogue Award winner is best known as Shannon O'Hara McKechnie on As The World Turns; Phoebe Jonas, from VH1's Sledgehammer and Rock of Ages; and Doug Barron (Law & Order, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Mr. Destiny, Just Visiting), directed by Randy White (Underneath the Lintel). |
Belles of the Mill, A Musical Drama |
Book by Rachel
Rubin Ladutke
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Beyond the Veil |
By John Chatterton
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Boulevard X |
By Susan N. Horowitz
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Buon Natale, Bruno |
Written and performed by Terianne FalconeREALITY THEATER: Buon Natale, Bruno is a solo show written by Terianne Falcone and directed by Gary Austin. The piece is composed of characters taken from local news headlines, making each as realistic as our neighbors we encounter daily. The play centers on Bruna, a brutally honest older Italian woman who lacks an iota of self-consciousness. Through Bruna's observations we meet her tenants, whose lives are as roller-coaster-like as her own. There is no voting off the stage, devouring of grotesque substances, or catty arguments -- just a peek behind the closed doors of everyday people ... as real as it gets. |
Cirrius, Nebraska |
By Nick VigoritoTwo worlds collide when a stranger from New York City visits Cirrius, Nebraska, the smallest town in America. The weary businessman who is used to all that New York can offer is now confronted with a place so small that there is only one cab, one room at the inn, and a mayor who is also the postmaster and town judge. Still, a guy could get used to the slower pace, small-town friendliness, and daily fresh baked goods for breakfast, if only he could figure out what is the town secret that everyone is hiding from him. Come find out for yourself in Cirrius, Nebraska, a tender comedy about understanding, loss, love, and cinnamon nut rolls. |
City of Dreams |
Music by Joseph Zellnik
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Dirty Laundry |
By Deborah Louise OrtizDirty Laundry follows the path of two women, Diane and Liz, sharing their experience of a life-changing encounter. The encounter forces each to reflect upon their personal lives and question the road ahead. Through introspection and conversation the two delve heavily into the topics of friendship, love, and most important, relationships and their effect on us as individuals. The bond these two women form teaches Liz the various dimensions of love and guides Diane to truly care about herself. |
The Durang Project: Five Short Plays |
By Christopher Durang
Featuring the plays: The Doctor Will See
You Now, DMV Tyrant, Funeral Parlor, Kitty the Waitress, and Business Lunch in
the Russian Tea Room.
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Faustus |
By Christopher Marlowe
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Flack |
By Tina PosterliFlack, a dark comedy, is an inside look into the world of pharmaceutical public relations. When leading asthma drug Nasoflo makes headline news for killing and incapacitating 50 people in a clinical trial, five young public-relations executives are put in charge of the fate of the product. Over the course of one afternoon, the team must spin a media strategy that will counteract the potentially fatal news and save their agency's largest account as well as their jobs. |
Heavy Mettle |
By Richard HoehlerHeavy 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. |
Heroes |
By Jonathan Brady
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I Love Myself and Who are the People in Your Neighborhood? |
Two one-man shows by John TedeschiHell's Kitchen is made up of a diverse buffet. When walking in its confines one might experience - labels. These labels fall over the poor, the rich, the strong, the weak, the ethnic, the homosexual, the businessman, the civil worker, the successful, and the barely making it. Who are the People in Your Neighborhood? explores ten people, as portrayed by one actor, who make up a community, side by side, without knowing anyone around them. These characters define loneliness, alienation, ambition, tenacity, despair, and strength by the stereotypes they choose to walk in or the individuals they would rather be. I Love Myself probes the crucial balance of taking one's false mask off to allow one's true self to emerge; as one removes the mask the true self is available to give and experience love. I Love Myself takes Narcissus by the hand, educates him, and allows him to discover unconditional and unobjectified love. Through songs by Queen, Journey, Blitzstein, Lloyd Webber, The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, vintage ditties, and patter of life's adventures, the audience and the performer learn the invaluable platitude, "You can't love another without loving yourself." |
I Love New York -- What's Your Excuse? |
By David Kosh
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Loola |
Euphrasy ProductionsEnter the world of LooLa, where girl meets boy in a funkified dance-theatre piece. Choreographed and staged by Tesha Buss, LooLa tells the tale of a young woman's exploration of sexuality, urban survival, and pop culture. A collage of contemporary and classic pop music combined with streamlined city sounds creates a backdrop by which we see our heroine pulse her way through survival in the "big city." Extracting movement from the classic elements of ballet, musical theatre, and jazz, this ensemble-driven dance story is turned upside down by pushing the limits of its own athleticism. These central themes are visualized through a swing-driven pas de deux, a hip-hop trio, and a fully realized cityscape montage. |
More Bitch Than a Bitch |
By John PaulFollowing the brutally honest tradition of Neil LaBute and Caryl Churchill, More Bitch Than a Bitch strips sexual politics to the bone. This searing black comedy is the tale of Calvin Carney, male secretary. Be dazzled by the pathetic spectacle of his life. Be mystified by his complete lack of backbone. Be aroused by his dominatrix boss, Marisa. Be terrified by his nightmare memories of jailhouse assaults. Brought to you by the people behind last year's Scrape, voted by Show Business Weekly "most likely to gag Camille Paglia." |
Mustard -- It's a Gas! |
By Ben Murphy A musical comedy based on the life of Fritz Haber, who almost single-handedly invented modern chemical warfare. Haber invented many of the earliest chemical weapons, including mustard gas. He was also instrumental in discovering how to use these weapons on the battlefield. |
My Life in the Trenches |
Written and performed by Jill Dalton
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Rubber |
By Tom Sleigh
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Saints and Singing |
By Gertrude Stein
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Star Crossed Lovers |
By Charles Battersby
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Time Machine 2.0 |
Book, Music & Lyrics by Mark Weiser
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Will And The Ghost |
By Aoise Stratford and Conal Condren
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Woman vs. Superman |
By Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons
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