ALUMNI PRODUCTIONS
(All Drama League Alumni are notated with an asterisk*)
For a listing of some of our alumni by name, click here!
CURRENTLY RUNNING NEW YORK CITY PRODUCTIONS
MEMPHIS
Christopher Ashley* (Direction)
Sam S. Shubert Theatre
225 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
www.memphisthemusical.com
Box Office: Telecharge: (212) 239-6200/(800) 432-7250
Memphis, the winner of the 2010 TONY AWARD® for Best Musical – is a Broadway musical with heart, soul and energy to burn. She’s a black singer whose career is on the rise, but who can’t break out of segregated clubs of 1950’s Memphis, Tennessee. He’s a white radio DJ whose love of music transcends race lines and airwaves. When the two collaborate, her soulful music reaches radio audiences everywhere, and the Golden Era of early rock ‘n’ roll takes flight. But as things start to heat up, whether the world is really ready for their music – or their love – is put to the test.
UPCOMING NEW YORK CITY PRODUCTIONS
THE ILLUSION
Michael Mayer* (Director)
Signature Theatre Company
The Peter Norton Space
555 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
www.signaturetheatre.org
May 17 – July 10, 2011
Tony Kushner’s loose adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s L’Illusion Comique about a father, seeking the son he banished 15 years before, who is presented with three unique visions of his son’s possible life.
A LITTLE JOURNEY
Jackson Gay* (Director)
Mint Theatre Company
311 West 43rd Street, Suite 307
New York NY 10036
www.minttheater.org
Box Office: 212-315-0231
May 5 – July 3, 2011
A Little Journey by Rachel Crothers was a nominee for the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama and not produced anywhere since 1918. A Little Journey tells the story of a disillusioned young woman whose money and luck have run out. With no other options, and embittered by her personal and economic failure, she leaves New York, boarding a train at Grand Central Station where she find an unexpected chance at redemption.
ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER
Michael Mayer* (Director)
Broadway TBA
Fall 2011
Michael Mayer and Peter Parnell’s re-imagined version of Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane’s 1965 musical.
SEX LIVES OF OUR PARENTS
Davis McCallum* (Director)
Second Stage Theatre Uptown
The McGinn/Cazale Theatre
2162 Broadway at 76th Street, 3rd floor
New York, NY 10024
www.2st.com
Box Office Phone: 212-246-4422
June 7 – July 3, 2011
Virginia is getting married. As her wedding day approaches, unwanted ghosts of her mother’s past appear, unearthing a shocking past she never knew — nor wanted to. A provocative comic nightmare about the mysterious hollows between parents and children and things that may be better left unsaid.
THE TALLS
Carolyn Cantor* (Director)
Second Stage Theatre Uptown
The McGinn/Cazale Theatre
2162 Broadway at 76th Street, 3rd floor
New York, NY 10024
www.2st.com
Box Office Phone: 212-246-4422
August 1 – 27, 2011
The Clarke family is dealing with some very tall problems. Just ask 17-year-old Isabelle Clarke. Negotiating Catholicism, politics and virginity in the 1970s can make the tallest girl feel really small. A comic drama about coming of age when life’s lessons come in all sizes.
CURRENT AND UPCOMING REGIONAL PRODUCTIONS
(OUTSIDE NEW YORK CITY)
BIRTHDAY BOY
Wes Grantom* (Director)
Berkshire Theatre Festival at the Unicorn Theatre
6 East Street
Stockbridge MA 01262
www.berkshiretheatre.org
Box Office Phone: 413-298-5576
Aug. 30 – Sept. 3, 2011 and Sept. 29 – Oct. 16, 2011
As Matt nears his fortieth birthday, he finds himself at a crossroads in his life. His wife Arianne wants to take a mud season vacation to Vermont. His job is safe, though far from stimulating. When he begins a flirtation with a comely colleague he finds himself discovering just how absurd everyday life can be. This world premiere work provides a comic look at marriage, life and growing older.
THE CLEAN HOUSE
Michael Barakiva* (Director)
Syracuse Stage
820 East Genesee Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
www.syracusestage.org
Box Office: 315-443-3275
May 4 – May 22, 2011
Matilde (pronounced Ma-chil-gee) has a problem: she’s a cleaning lady who doesn’t like to clean. She’d rather think up the perfect joke. Now that her parents (once the funniest people in Brazil) are dead—her mother died laughing—she is the funniest person in her family. Mathilde works for a doctor named Lane, who has a problem: Lane’s husband Charles, a surgeon, has found his soul mate, and it’s not Lane. It’s Ana, a vibrant Argentinean woman, who is dying, and that is Charles’s problem. Sarah Ruhl is an exceptional playwright and MacArthur Foundation Fellow whose work has garnered Pulitzer nominations and justified recognition from Broadway to theatres across the country. The Clean House is one of her best, a compassionate, theatrically bold, and emotionally rich comedy. The perfect joke is worth the wait.
A DRAM OF DRUMCHHICIT
Christopher Ashley* (Director)
La Jolla Playhouse
2910 La Jolla Village Drive
La Jolla, CA 92037
www.lajollaplayhouse.org
Box Office Phone: 858-550-1010
2011-2012
An American entrepreneur has found the perfect Scottish island on which to build his new golf course. But as secrets — and bodies — are unearthed, the true nature of the island wreaks comic havoc. Artistic Director Christopher Ashley directs the world premiere of acclaimed playwright Arthur Kopit and Anton Dudley’s supernatural comedy.
ENGAGING SHAW
Henry Wishcamper* (Director)
The Old Globe
1363 Old Globe Way
San Diego, CA 92101-1696
www.theoldglobe.org
Box Office Phone: 619-234-5623
July 29 - September 4, 2011
This unexpected new comedy follows the battle of wits and the real life romance between socialite Charlotte Payne-Townshend and playwright George Bernard Shaw. When wealthy heiress Charlotte Payne-Townshend sets her sights on the famed author of Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and Major Barbara, the challenge of romancing this confirmed bachelor, philanderer and unromantic man is more complicated than in any of his stories. The New York Times hailed, “Engaging Shaw is a charming romantic comedy. If there’s a minute of the play that’s less than clever, you’ll be hard pressed to find it” and Variety cheered, “A spirited and intelligent combat of words and sparkling banter.”
THE FLEA AND THE PROFESSOR
Anne Kauffman* (Director)
Arden Theatre Company
40 N. 2nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
www.ardentheatre.org
Box Office Phone: 215-922-1122
May 4 – June 12, 2011
A young professor loses everything in the world but the flea who lives in his vest. And that turns out to be plenty. He and the flea become the best of friends, start a circus act, and set off to tour the world. Together our heroes must overcome shipwrecks, cannibals, and tickling. Adapted from the last story by the author of The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, and The Emperor’s New Clothes, this new musical odyssey celebrates the excitement of the unknown.
GUYS AND DOLLS
John Rando* (Director)
Barrington Stage Company
30 Union Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201
www.barringtonstageco.org
Box Office Phone: 413-236-8888
June 21 – July 16, 2011
MILK LIKE SUGAR
Rebecca Taichman* (Director)
La Jolla Playhouse
2910 La Jolla Village Drive
La Jolla, CA 92037
www.lajollaplayhouse.org
Box Office Phone: 858-550-1010
2011-2012
Stuck in dead-end town and ignored by her family, 16-year-old Annie decides to create her own future by entering into a pregnancy pact with two of her high school friends. With savage humor and gritty poetry, Kirsten Greenidge’s new play explores the challenges of choosing between the safety of the life you know and the danger of the life you desire.
PORGY AND BESS
Diane Paulus* (Director)
American Repertory Theater
64 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
www.americanrepertorytheater.org
Box Office Phone: 617-547-8300
September 2011
In a meeting with the creative team, Diane Paulus commented, “The Gershwin and Heyward estates have given us the charge to create a version of Porgy and Bess that will have a unique identity as a musical. I am delighted to be working with Suzan-Lori Parks on making the characters in the story more fully realized. With one of the most incredible scores ever written, we want to bring Porgy and Bess to life on the musical stage in a way that feels essential, immediate, and passionate.”
THE WIZ
Kevin Moriarty* (Director)
Dallas Theater Center
2400 Flora Street
Dallas, TX 75201
www.dallastheatercenter.org
Box Office Phone: 214-880-0202
July 8 – August 7, 2011
It’s got rock. It’s got gospel. It’s got soul. And oh my, the dancing! In a dream collaboration, Dallas Theater Center and Dallas Black Dance Theatre, the city’s oldest continuously operating dance company, fill the Wyly Theatre with dancing, singing and laughter for the dazzling musical that won seven Tony Awards when it opened on Broadway in 1975. Featuring Brierley Resident Acting Company members Liz Mikel and Cedric Neal, this eye-popping, high-energy family hit starts with a tornado and keeps lifting from there, as Dorothy, the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion “Ease on Down the Road” and ultimately learn there’s no place like home.
YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU
Christopher Ashley* (Direction)
Williamstown Theatre Festival
1000 Main Street, On Route 2
Williamstown, MA 01267
www.wtfestival.org
Box Office: Telecharge: (413) 597-3400
July 1 – 23, 2011
You Can’t Take It With You is Hart and Kaufman’s masterwork which portrays the colorful, freethinking Sycamore family and the mayhem that ensues when their daughter’s fiancé brings his conservative, straight-laced parents to the Sycamore residence for dinner on the wrong night. Literal and figurative fireworks erupt over the course of the evening in a household that appears to be a madhouse but proves, in fact, to be the opposite: a sanctuary from the lunacies of the outside world.
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