2010 – 2011 Season
CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION by Annie Baker
October 1 – 17 Winner of three OBIE awards in 2010, including Best New American Play. Circle Mirror Transformation follows five small town Vermonters as they take a community acting class, each with their own expectations. They soon learn more about each other and themselves than they bargained for.Circle Mirror Transformation premiered at Playwrights Horizons in New York in October 2009 for a scheduled month long run. Due to its enormous popularity and critical acclaim (The New York Times called it “absorbing, unblinking and sharply funny”), it was extended several times and ran through January 2010. Featuring Pat Langille, Jeannie Hines, Bill Chappelle*, Tony Greenleaf and Grace Sylvia.
FULLY COMMITTED by Becky Mode
December 3 – 19 This devastatingly funny play follows a day in the life of Sam, an out-of-work actor who mans the red-hot reservation line at Manhattan's number-one restaurant. Coercion, threats, bribes, histrionics—a cast of desperate callers will stop at nothing in their zeal to land a prime reservation, or the right table. Amid the barrage, Sam's got his own needs to contend with—his recently widowed dad wants him home for Christmas, and he's up for a choice part at Lincoln Center. While juggling scheming socialites, name-dropping wannabes, fickle celebrities and egomaniacal bosses, can he manage to look out for himself? A hilarious and touching play, Fully Committed features forty wildly diverse characters played by a single versatile performer.MAURITIUS by Theresa Rebeck
February 4 – 20 Stamp collecting is far more risky and dangerous than you might think. After their mother's death, two estranged half-sisters discover a book of rare stamps that may include the crown jewel for collectors - the one penny and two penny stamps from Mauritius. One sister tries to collect on the windfall, while the other resists for sentimental reasons. In this gripping tale, a seemingly simple sale becomes dangerous when three scheming, seedy, high-stakes collectors enter the sisters' world, willing to do anything to claim these rare stamps as their own.BOSTON MARRIAGE by David Mamet
March 18 – 27 Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming “women of fashion” who have long lived together on the fringes of upper-class society. Anna has just become the mistress of a wealthy man, from whom she has received an enormous emerald and an income to match. Claire, meanwhile, is infatuated with a respectable young lady and wants to enlist the jealous Anna's help for an assignation. As the two women exchange barbs and take turns taunting Anna's hapless Scottish parlor maid, Claire's young inamorata suddenly appears, setting off a crisis that puts both the valuable emerald and the women's futures at risk. A wickedly funny comedy - a witty comedy of manners, entirely lacking in manners.MATCH by Stephen Belber
May 6 – 22 Theatre, film and television actor James Handy returns from Los Angeles to create the character of Tobi Powell, a flamboyant ex-dancer and choreographer. Mike and Lisa Davis arrive at his Manhattan apartment to interview him about his professional life, but it is soon evident that their agenda is as complex as the life story that Tobi tells them. What happens next will either ruin or inspire them - but it will definitely change all their lives forever. The Daily News called it “uproariously funny, deeply moving, enthralling theatre.” TITLES AND DATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE
*Member of Actor's Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
