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
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Pam MacKinnon* (Direction)
The Booth Theatre
222 West 45th Street
New York, NY 10036
www.virginiawoolfbroadway.com
Box Office: Telecharge: (212) 239-6200/(800) 432-7250
Through March 3, 2013
Directed by Tony Award® nominee Pam MacKinnon (Clybourne Park), the critically acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of EDWARD ALBEE’S WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? opened on Broadway on Saturday, October 13, 2012, exactly 50 years to the day after the play’s original Broadway opening on Saturday, October 13, 1962. The production features the original Steppenwolf cast, led by Tracy Letts and Amy Morton, the playwright and the star of the Pulitzer and Tony Award®-winning smash hit August: Osage County. Letts and Morton face off as George and Martha, one of theatre’s most notoriously dysfunctional couples in Albee’s hilarious and provocative masterpiece. They are joined by Carrie Coon and Madison Dirks as the unwitting young couple invited over to George and Martha’s for an unforgettable night of cocktails and crossfire.
THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD
May Adrales* (Direction)
The Pershing Square Signature Center
480 West 42nd St
New York, NY 10036
www.signaturetheatre.org
Box Office: 212-244-7529
Through March 24, 2012
On a California mountaintop in 1867 near the Transcontinental Railroad, two Chinese workers struggle through poverty and hunger to reconnect with the traditions of their homeland. THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD follows the twice-extended GOLDEN CHILD as the second production in the Residency One: David Henry Hwang Series.
PETER AND THE STARCATCHER - Off-Broadway Season begins March 18, 2013
Alex Timbers* and Roger Rees (Direction)
New World Stages
340 W. 50th St
New York, NY, 10036
www.peterandthestarcatcher.com
Box Office: 212-239-6200 or 800-447-7400
PETER AND THE STARCATCHER is the most mayhem-filled evening of madcap fun on Broadway! Hailed by The New York Times as ”The most exhilarating storytelling on Broadway in decades”, this hilarious romp through the Neverland you never knew won 5 Tony Awards®and Broadway.com’s Audience Choice Award as Favorite New Play. Don’t miss this epic origin story of one of popular culture’s most enduring and beloved characters and discover the Neverland you never knew.
THE FLICK
Sam Gold* (Direction)
Playwrights Horizons
416 West 42nd St
New York, NY, 10036
www.playwrightshorizons.org
Through March 31, 2013
In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35 millimeter film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on screen. With keen insight and a finely-tuned comic eye, The Flick is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world.
THE LYING LESSON
Pam MacKinnon* (Direction)
Altantic Theater Company
Linda Gross Theatre
336 West 20th St
New York, NY
www.atlantictheater.org
Through March 31, 2013
In a remote seaside village in Maine, a woman who may or may not be a legendary movie star shows up to buy the home of an elderly couple. Escorted by a young local woman who appears never to have heard of her, “Ruth” stakes a claim on her distant past, and plays a relentless game of cat and mouse with her new “assistant.” In this hilarious and unsettling homage to the films of Hollywood’s Golden Age, the celebrated author of Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless and The Light in the Piazza twists and turns the audience around essential questions about memory, identity and truth-telling.
RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA
Mark Brokaw* (Direction)
Broadway Theatre
1681 Broadway (at 53rd St)
New York, NY
www.cinderellaonbroadway.com
Box Office: 212-239-6200, 800-432-7250
NOW IN PREVIEWS
Rodgers + Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA has arrived on Broadway for the first time ever! With a new book by four-time Tony Award® nominee Douglas Carter Beane’s (Sister Act, Xanadu), this delightfully romantic and hilarious take on the ultimate makeover story features all the classic elements you remember—the pumpkin, the glass slipper, the masked ball and more—plus some surprising new twists! Rediscover some of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s most beloved songs, including “In My Own Little Corner,” “Impossible/It’s Possible” and “Ten Minutes Ago” in this outrageously fun Broadway musical for dreamers of all ages.
ALL IN THE TIMING
John Rando* (Direction)
59E59 Theatre
59 East 59th St
New York, NY
www.primarystages.org
Through April 14, 2013
Primary Stages is thrilled to present the 20th anniversary revival of David Ives’ hilarious All in the Timing. When this evening of six one-act comedies premiered in 1993, Vincent Canby of The New York Times said “Ives is wizardly…magical and funny…a master of language.” Canby also told audiences “Drop-everything-and-go!”–and audiences did, for more than 600 performances. This new production, directed by John Rando, includes plays like “Sure Thing” and “The Universal Language” which have become contemporary classics, and marks the show’s first major revival in New York City since its original premiere.
HENRY IV, PART I
Davis McCallum* (Direction)
The Pearl Theatre Company
555 West 42nd St
New York, NY, 10036
Through March 17, 2013
Henry Bolingbroke won the crown, but the fight to keep it has barely begun. But while the king prepares for war, brash Prince Hal and a boisterous crew of robbers, ruffians, and rascals, laugh at the gathering storm. Whirling us into a world where the rule of Henry and the magnificent misrule of Jack Falstaff are about to collide, Shakespeare tells a rousing tale of comic conspiracies, heroic deeds, and of how a prince’s coming of age will shape the fate of a nation—one way or another.
FROM WHITE PLAINS
Michael Perlman* (Direction)
Faultline Theatre Company
The Pershing Square Theatre Center
480 West 42nd St
New York, NY 10036
www.FaultlineTheater.org
Through March 9, 2013
Just because it gets better doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. After a shocking announcement on international television, 30 year old Ethan Rice finds himself finally having to confront who he was and what he did as a teenager. From White Plains follows four men, straight and gay, as they attempt to take responsibility for past actions and move beyond them, aided and frustrated by social media and viral videos. The play examines how male relationships change as boys grow into men and asks who speaks for a victim of bullying when he is no longer here to speak for himself.
BELLEVILLE
Anne Kauffman* (Direction)
New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th St
New York, NY 10003
www.nytw.org
Through March 31, 2013
Heralded by the New York Times as “thrillingly good,” Belleville, the newest drama from acclaimed playwright Amy Herzog (4000 Miles, After the Revolution) and director Anne Kauffman (Detroit, This Wide Night), is a chilling, Hitchcockian, look at the limits of trust, truth, deception and dependency in a world where both love and loss can be pathological and cathartic. Of its 2011 premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre, Charles Isherwood of The New York Times wrote, Belleville “confirms [Herzog's] reputation as one of the brightest new talents in the theater”. Abby and Zack – young, American and married – have abandoned the stability of a comfortable post-graduate life in the states for Belleville, a bustling, bohemian, multicultural neighborhood in Paris. In an attempt to build a life together away from family and friends, their passive-aggressive and aggressively passionate relationship is put to test after an awkward afternoon discovery, a landlord’s ultimatum and a cracked toenail.
LUCK OF THE IRISH
Rebecca Taichman* (Direction)
The Claire Tow Theater, Lincoln Center
150 West 65th St
New York, NY
www.lct.org
Through March 10, 2013
LCT3 presents Luck of the Irish, a new play by Kirsten Greenidge (Bossa Nova, Milk Like Sugar), to be directed by Rebecca Taichman (Orlando, The Scene). When an upwardly mobile African-American couple wants to buy a home in an all-white neighborhood of 1950′s Boston, they pay a struggling Irish family to “ghost-buy” a house on their behalf. Fifty years later, the Irish family wants “their” house back. Moving across two eras, LUCK OF THE IRISH explores racial and social issues and the universal longing for home.
UPCOMING NEW YORK CITY PRODUCTIONS
PIPPIN
Diane Paulus* (Direction)
Music Box Theatre
235 West 45th St
New York, NY, 10036
www.PippinTheMusical.com
Previews begin March 23, 2013
Everything has its season… and this season, PIPPIN returns to Broadway for the first time since it first thrilled audiences 40 years ago! With a beloved score by Tony Award® nominee STEPHEN SCHWARTZ (GODSPELL, WICKED) that includes the favorites “Magic to Do,” “Glory” and “Corner of the Sky,” PIPPIN tells the story of a young prince on a death-defying journey to find meaning in his existence. Will he choose a happy but simple life? Or will he risk everything for a singular flash of glory? Direct from an acclaimed run at Boston’s American Repertory Theater, PIPPIN is directed by DIANE PAULUS, director of the 2009 and 2012 Tony Award winners for Best Musical Revival (HAIR and THE GERSHWINS’ PORGY AND BESS). This captivating production features sizzling choreography in the style of BOB FOSSE and breathtaking acrobatics by LES 7 DOIGTS DE LA MAIN, the creative force behind the nationwide sensation TRACES. Join us… for a magical, unforgettable new PIPPIN.
CURRENT AND UPCOMING REGIONAL PRODUCTIONS
(OUTSIDE NEW YORK CITY)
ROUNDELAY
Adam Immerwahr* (Direction)
Passage Theatre
205 E. Front St, Trenton, NJ
www.passagetheatre.org
March 21-April 7, 2013
A wild, multi-character, globe-hopping tale of people trying to make love happen. Tony is ready to fly around the world to make it happen. Francisco hacks into computers, Priya travels to a tropical paradise, and more than one person may be pretending to be someone else. From Boston to India to the Kenyan coast, playwright R.N. Sandberg spins a rich, funny, and deeply moving tapestry that explores what it means to pursue, run away from and, finally, surrender to the siren song of love and desire.
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