by Ellen McLaughlin
A DISCOVERY SERIES PRODUCTION
SEPTEMBER 15 - 24, 2011
Edwards Black Box Theatre
Ellen McLaughlin peeks at these invisible players in a history determined by others. Chrysothemis is the most dutiful member of the Atreus family-daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, sister of Orestes and Electra, niece to Helen of Troy-and in grave lyricism, gradually comprehends her unstoppable fate in a barbarous world of revenge that begins with the slaughter of her sister, Iphigenia, by her father. She faces her lonely life of helpless waiting with dignity and whimsy, and these women lost to time remain trapped until Orestes returns from battle, and Iphigenia learns how to release them all from the endless cycle of violence.
by Mark Camoletti
Translated by Beverley Cross & Francis Evans
[an ATLANTIC STAGE production in cooperation with Coastal Carolina University Theatre]
OCTOBER 13 - 30, 2011
79th Avenue Theatre
Boeing-Boeing, the high-flying, Tony award-winning comedy that had London and Broadway audiences airborne with laughter, is taking off at Atlantic Stage. Bernard, a successful architect living in a posh Paris apartment, has been deftly juggling three fiancees who are all flight attendants. It's easy, with good timing and a bit of assistance from his reluctant housekeeper who plays romantic air-traffic controller. Bernard's supersonic lifestyle hits turbulence when his old college friend visits and each of his three fiancees change their flight schedule. Recommended for adults and children ages 12 and older.
music & lyrics by Cole Porter
original book by P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton, and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
new book by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman
A PREMIERE SERIES PRODUCTION
NOVEMBER 3 - 12, 2011
Wheelwright Auditorium
The age-old tale of boy-meets-girl and the complications that ensue intrigue every audience, and no musical puts it on stage better than Anything Goes. This show is an amusing story wrapped around one of Cole Porter's magical scores. It's a wonder that all the romances are sorted out and disaster is averted aboard the magical ship where anything goes!
A NEW MUSICAL
book by Adrien Royce
music and lyrics by Mark Hollman
[an ATLANTIC STAGE production in cooperation with Coastal Carolina University Theatre]
JANUARY 26 - FEBRUARY 11, 2012
79th Avenue Theatre
In this new musical with music and lyrics by Tony-winner Mark Hollman (URINETOWN), novice scriptwriter and shoe-size eleven narrow, Bernie Bernstein, broke and broken-hearted, accepts an assignment to write a documentaryon the Bigfoot. On her journeyof discovery, she meets an on-the-lam Weatherman, a Bigfoot expert and his wife, an illegal Scottish cable-access camera crew, a female sheriff/Vietnam-war-vetaran, two entangled FBI agents, and a couple of pothead paramedics. In the process of truth-finding about The Big Guy, Bernie Bernstein also learns some stuff about herself and the baby she didn't even know existed.
by Carlo Goldoni
Adapted by Constance Congdon from a translation by Christina Sibul
A DISCOVERY SERIES PRODUCTION
FEBRUARY 16 - 25, 2012
Edwards Black Box Theatre
Identities are mistaken, engagements are broken, and lovers are reunited in Carlo Goldoni’s commedia dell’arte masterpiece when the wily—and chronically hungry—servant Truffaldino hatches a zany scheme to double his wages (and his meals) by serving two masters at once.
by Neil Simon
[an ATLANTIC STAGE production in cooperation with Coastal Carolina University Theatre]
FEBRUARY 23 - MARCH 10, 2012
79th Avenue Theatre
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award® for Best Play, Lost in Yonkers is about finding one’s way through the tangled web of family relationships without losing the sense of self or sense of humor. Set in Yonkers, NY in 1942, the play focuses on two young brothers, Arty and Jay, left in the care of their feuding relatives, Grandma Kurnitz and Aunt Bella. Lost in Yonkers epitomizes Neil Simon’s trademark mix of comedy and drama. The New York Post hailed Lost in Yonkers, “The best play Simon ever wrote.”
by Moisès Kaufman &
The Tectonic Theatre Project
A PREMIERE SERIES PRODUCTION
MARCH 22 - 31, 2012
Wheelwright Auditorium
In October 1998, Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, beaten, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming, and left to die. Five weeks later, Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of New York City’s Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, where they conducted more than 200 interviews with townspeople. From those interviews they wrote the play The Laramie Project, a chronicle of the life of the town in the year after the murder. A reviewer for the Associated Press calls The Laramie Project “astonishing. Not since Angels in America has a play attempted so much: nothing less than an examination of the American psyche at the end of the millennium.”
Second Stage Season!
COMING SOON
