Ashes. Out of the torment of a couple who cannot have the children they so dearly want, British Playwright David Rudkin fashions a drama that is too desolating for tears.
The Shadow Box. A group of terminal patients face death with pervasive fear and arresting dignity in this luminous play by Michael Cristofer. Launched at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and restaged at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, this play went on to Broadway to win the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize, heartening proof of the growing strength and creativity of the U.S. regional theater.
Otherwise Engaged. With biting wit and wisdom, Playwright Simon Gray has various characters invade the privacy of a man who wants to be left alone.
American Buffalo. A fiendishly curious ear for language and a trio of pungent and hilarious characters earned David Mamet the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best American Play.
Gemini. Albert Innaurato’s rollicking ethnic comedy is savory and Saroyanesque.It is also rich in moments of bitter and abrasive truths that seem, at times, searingly unbearable.
I Love My Wife. A musical spoof of wife swapping. Michael Stewart’s book and lyrics and Cy Coleman’s music deftly plunge two would-be swinging couples into sex, but they only manage to get their toes wet. As a howlingly funny (k)night errant, Lenny Baker lies in a bed he has not made.
The Gin Game. In this first work by Playwright D.L. Coburn, Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn feint and parry with a sparkling professional finesse polished through decade after decade after decade.
The Night of the Tribades. Swedish Playwright Per Olov Enquist’s broodingly impressive drama on the life of Strindberg, in which Max von Sydow made a powerful Broadway debut.
Dracula. This beautifully mounted show shivers the funny bones. As the eerie, spectral count, Frank Langella drinks deep of the Pierian spring of fame.
Chapter Two. Neil Simon, funny as ever, but with an added flavor of serious personal feeling.
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