Description
This voucher entitles you to TWO (2) THREE SHOW SUBSCRIPTIONS
Performances Include:
November 7 - December 22, 2018
DOWNSTAIRS
By Theresa Rebeck
Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt
Featuring Tyne Daly, Tim Daly, and John Procaccino
THERESA REBECK, one of the country?s most acclaimed and widely-produced playwrights, returns to Primary Stages with the gripping new family drama, Downstairs. This thrilling production will star real-life siblings TYNE and TIM DALY, who will be appearing together for the first time on the New York stage. In Downstairs, Teddy is a bit lost and has found himself staying in his older sister Irene?s unfinished basement, which has infuriated her husband Gerry (played by JOHN PROCACCINO.) As Irene and Teddy struggle with this less-than-ideal living arrangement, they quickly find themselves grappling with the burden of their family?s troublesome history. While trying to mend the past, the pair unearths a foreboding danger threatening to break the perilously thin bonds holding them together.
January - February, 2019
GOD SAID THIS
By Leah Nanako Winkler
Directed by Morgan Gould
Proudly developed during award-winning playwright LEAH NANAKO WINKLER?s tenure as part of the Primary Stages Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, God Said This is a provocative and surprisingly funny new drama about five Kentuckians facing mortality in very different ways. With her mom undergoing chemotherapy, Hiro, a NYC transplant, returns home to Kentucky after years away, struggling to let go of the demons she inherited. Sophie, her born-again Christian sister, confronts her faith while tackling inevitable adversity. James, their recovering alcoholic father, wants to repair his fractured relationship with his daughters. And John, an old classmate and thirty-something single dad, worries about leaving a lasting legacy for his only son. Wry and bittersweet, God Said This is a portrait of five Godless and God-loving people finding that their struggles bring them together in unexpected ways.
May - June, 2019
LITTLE WOMEN
By Kate Hamill
Based on the novel Louisa May Alcott
Directed by Sarna Lapine
Featuring Kate Hamill as "Meg"
In the spring, Primary Stages will welcome back KATE HAMILL, playwright and star of our hit production of Pride and Prejudice, with her fresh new take on Louisa May Alcott?s classic novel of love and duty, Little Women. Jo March doesn't want to be like other girls; in fact, she's not even sure that she wants to be a girl. Jo is ambitious, rough around the edges, headstrong, and yearns for a future she can?t yet articulate. As the nation is torn apart by civil war, Jo and her sisters struggle with what it means to grow up. Gender roles, political beliefs, poverty, and even love itself threaten to break family ties, as the March sisters try to reconcile their identities with society?s demands. How do you stay true to yourself when the world wants you to become a perfect little woman?
Primary Stages ? Cherry Lane Theatre
www.primarystages.org
VALID FOR 2019 ? 2020 SEASON
Performance Schedule: Tues-Fri 8pm; Sat 2pm & 8pm; Sun 3pm TO
Item Special Note
ABOUT
Primary Stages is an Off-Broadway not-for-profit theater company dedicated to inspiring, supporting, and sharing the art of playwriting. We operate on the strongly held belief that the future of American theater relies on nurturing playwrights and giving them the artistic support needed to create new work. Since our founding in 1984, we have produced more than 130 new plays, including A.R. Gurney?s Black Tie, Indian Blood, The Fourth Wall, Strictly Academic, and Buffalo Gal; Theresa Rebeck?s Poor Behavior; Kate Hamill?s Pride and Prejudice; Sharon Washington?s Feeding the Dragon; Tanya Saracho?s Fade; Michael McKeever?s Daniel?s Husband; Horton Foote?s The Roads to Home, The Day Emily Married, Harrison, TX, and Dividing the Estate (two 2009 Tony Award nominations); David Ives? All in the Timing (original 1993 production and 2013 revival) and Lives of the Saints; Donald Margulies? The Model Apartment (1995 premiere and 2013 revival); Billy Porter?s While I Yet Live; Deborah Zoe Laufer?s Informed Consent; Charles Busch?s The Tribute Artist and Olive and the Bitter Herbs; In Transit by James Allen-Ford, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Russ Kaplan, and Sara Wordsworth (which transferred to Broadway in 2016); Daisy Foote?s When They Speak of Rita and Him; Terrence McNally?s Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams and The Stendhal Syndrome; Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter?s In the Continuum (which went on to tour the U.S., Africa, and Scotland); and Conor McPherson?s St. Nicholas (which marked the playwright?s U.S. debut).
Our productions and artists have received critical acclaim, including numerous Tony, Obie, Lortel, Off-Broadway Alliance, AUDELCO, Outer Critics? Circle, Drama League, and Drama Desk awards and nominations. Primary Stages supports playwrights and develops new works through commissions, workshops, readings, and our education, access, and training programs: The Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, the Marvin and Anne Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA), the Fordham/Primary Stages MFA in Playwriting, Teenwrights, the Free Student Matinee Program, the Internship Program, TixTeen, PS35, and the newly launched Primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral History Project. Through these programs, Primary Stages advocates for our artists, helping them make important?and often transformative?connections within the theater community.
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