Current Season
BALM IN GILEAD
By Lanford Wilson
Directed by Peter Jensen
October 14 – November 21, 2010
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Balm in Gilead, Lanford Wilson’s first full-length play, captures the lives of the disenfranchised, the lost, and the derelicts who hang out at an all-night diner on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Joe and Darlene, two young people who desire better lives, are at the center of the maelstrom, caught in the crosshairs of the turbulent 1960s. Poetic and haunting, Balm in Gilead resonates as strongly today as it did at its 1965 premiere at Ellen Stewart’s Café MaMa.
Balm In Gilead Photo: Torso XXI by Colm McCarthy http://www.colmmccarthy.net
CHANGING ROOM
By David Storey
Directed by Terry Schreiber
February 24 – April 3, 2011
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A Tony Award nominee for Best Play, David Storey’s Changing Room is a brilliant documentary drama set in the locker room of a Northern England rugby league team. Every Saturday, the working class athletes leave their monotonous lives and take to the field. This finely-observed play follows the athletes’ pre- and post-game rituals and the ups-and-downs of their season, offering a powerful view of how people relate to one another, particularly in the stressful trenches of life.
YOU NEVER CAN TELL
By George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Robert Verlaque
May 12-June 19, 2011
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Who knew that a trip to the dentist could be so enjoyable? George Bernard Shaw’s rarely produced You Never Can Tell is a splendid confection full of frothy wit and delicious absurdity. The Clandon family returns to England after an 18-year self-imposed exile in Spain. When they invite a local dentist, Valentine, and his landlord for lunch, the Clandons are shocked to learn the landlord is the family’s long-estranged father! As the entire family reacts to the sudden reunion, Valentine uses shameless flattery and intellectual guile to win over the free-thinking, strong-willed eldest daughter.
