Monday, July 28, 2014
3:00 pm on the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage
The Moors
by Jen Silverman
directed by Jackson Gay
The Moors will be read by Bianca Amato* (Private Lives, King Lear at TFANA), Hannah Cabell* (Grounded, A Man For All Seasons) Billy Carter* (All That Fall, The Weir), Susannah Flood* (Love and Information, Mr Burns, a post-electric play), Mahira Kakkar* (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, When January Feels Like Summer) and Jeanine Serralles* (The Muscles In Our Toes, The Jammer) *courtesy of AEA
Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, and dream of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set all three on a strange and dangerous path. The Moors is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and visibility.
Friday, April 25, 2014
3:00 pm on the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage
The Quare Land
by John McManus
The Quare Land will be read by Denis Butkus (The Taming of the Shrew, The Coast of Utopia) and Peter Maloney* (Outside Mullingar, John Guare’s Three Kinds of Exile) *courtesy of AEA
In The Quare Land, 90-year-old Cavan bachelor farmer Hugh Pugh is taking his first bath in four years when he receives an unexpected visitor – Rob McNulty, a property developer under pressure to buy a field in order to extend his nine-hole golf course in Leitrim. He expects to be able to negotiate a quick deal but since Hugh seldom has any visitors to his lonely farmstead, he is not about to let Rob slip away without a big chat first. He regales the rather disinterested Rob with multiple stories of his adventures long ago in London, old pals in New York, ex-girlfriends who have passed on and the many escapades of his brother “the alco”. Rob eventually gets Hugh to discuss selling the field and when it comes to negotiating a price for the land Hugh proves himself to be far from the eejit he makes himself out to be. The two men eventually come to an agreement but at a cost to both of them.
Friday, March 28, 2014
3:00 pm on the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage
The Flood<
written by Daniel McCabe
The Flood will be read by Jessica Dick (New Dramatists, EST), John Duddy* (For Love, Father Who), Keira Keeley* (The Tribute Artist, Angels in America) and Michael Salinas* (Three Sisters, Festen) *courtesy of AEA
In The Flood, a raging storm gathers above New York and four friends come together to weather the tempest as their own private storm stirs within. The Flood is a play about forgiveness, perseverance and the urban paradox of solitude in a crowd of millions.
Friday, December 6, 2013
3:00 pm on the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage
The Ballad of Charlie & Cate
written & directed by Ed Malone
featuring:
Jo Kinsella …………Charlie Maloney
Laoisa Sexton ………………Cate The Great Maloney
The Ballad of Charlie and Cate is a darkly comic play that traces the rise and fall — and rise again — of two working class sisters, Cate and Charlie Maloney. The sisters were born and reside in Tallaght, a sexy, sassy but ultimately shambolic suburb of Dublin in the romantic Republic of old Ireland.
Jo Kinsella* and Laoisa Sexton* portray 26 characters in approximately 60 minutes at a rapid fire speed. The play’s language is choreographed as an exhilarating verbal ballet that includes love, death, sex, rock ‘n’ roll, ghosts, Gabriel Byrne, The Beatles, Abba, The Pogues, Simon Cowell, an unwanted son, a runaway Dad, a suicidal Mam, a predatory teacher, a sadistic landlord and the River Liffey. *courtesy of AEA
Friday, October 25, 2013
3:00 pm on the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage
Mathew Brady Presents
by Ray Sipherd
directed by Kevin McGuire
featuring:
John Cunningham ………… Matthew Brady
David Kenner ………………Joshua Stone
Ted Koch ……………………Adam Benedict
Mathew Brady described himself as “a poor boy, but of hardy Irish stock.” That poor boy rose to become one of the most celebrated photographers of his day and the great chronicler of the American Civil War. In Mathew Brady Presents, playwright Ray Sipherd looks at Brady years later when, forgotten and deeply in debt, the photographer has the chance to show his work before an elite Carnegie Hall audience. It’s a chance, boasts the struggling photographer, “to tell the world who Mathew Brady was and is!” Instead, Brady is drawn into a profound and personal battle.
Friday, September 20, 2013
3:00 pm in the W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre
Planet Belfast
by Rosemary Jenkinson
In Rosemary Jenkinson’s Planet Belfast, Alice is Belfast’s only Green politician. She plans to save Northern Ireland from the influence of big corporations, while at home she hopes a new baby will save her marriage. Her husband Martin is a controversial historian who is secretly planning an explosive new book, while his boss Danny is fighting to secure funding for victims of the Troubles. When their friend Claire unexpectedly re-enters their lives, the past and the future are set to collide spectacularly right over Belfast. Planet Belfast is a witty and ambitious new play about the choices we make for the public good versus our own private gain.
Planet Belfast will be read by Kelly AuCoin* (The Call, Julius Caesar), Stella Feehily* (The Seagull at The Culture Project), Drew McVety* (Cyrano De Bergerac,Charles Ives Take Me Home) and Rachel Pickup* (A Mind-Bending Evening of Beckett, Airswimming). *courtesy of AEA
The 2013-2014 Reading Series is underwritten in part by the members of our Patron’s Circle.