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Two
1st Stage
by debbie tucker green
Directed by Deidra LaWan Starnes
March 13 - 30, 2025
One crime. One room. Three people. A woman’s unspeakable decision as the criminal’s fate hangs in the balance. Set in a haunting world where every word is a revelation and every silence speaks volumes, this electrifying production will take you on a journey through the complexities of justice and human nature. This 2015 hit from London’s Royal Court is provocative, touching, and darkly humorous.
The Nance
Ned
1st Stage
by Douglas Carter Beane
Directed by Nick Olcott
April 4 - 21, 2024
This witty, Tony Award-winning play, filled with music, dance, and comedy sketches, introduces us to Chauncey Miles, a gay burlesque performer at the Irving Place Theater. The Nance recreates the naughty, raucous world of burlesque’s heyday and tells the backstage story of Chauncey and his fellow performers. At a time when it was easy to play gay and dangerous to be gay, Chauncey’s uproarious antics on the stage stand out in marked contrast to his offstage life. A “funny but bittersweet portrait of a vanished era”.
-The Chicago Tribune
The Last Match
Tim/Sergei Understudy
1st Stage
by Anna Ziegler
Directed by Alex Levy
June 8 - 25, 2023
Played out under the bright lights of the U.S. Open Semifinals, The Last Match pits rising Russian star Sergei Sergeyev against American great Tim Porter in an epic showdown that follows two tennis titans through pivotal moments in their lives both on-and-off the court. This deep and intimate exploration of humanity and motivation serves as a perfect parallel to the back-and-forth play of life’s wins and losses.
Proof
Hal
Peter’s Alley at Theatre on the Run
Photo by: Rachel Zirkin Duda
by David Auburn
Directed by Aly B. Ettman
October 8 - 31, 2021
On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father’s who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father’s madness—or genius—will she inherit?
A Misanthrope
Clitandre
WSC Avant Bard
by Matt Minnicino
Directed by Megan Behm
June 4 - 30, 2019
A Misanthrope is a brisk, biting comedy about a cynic who thinks insincerity is a sin. But the joke’s on him when he falls for an ingenue who’s more than his match. Matt Minnicino’s A Misanthrope distills Molière’s best-known farce into quippy rhyming couplets. And it pokes social flattery with a hot take on the absurdity of modern hot airs. Hypocrisy has never been more hilarious. If we got snarky tweets from 17th-century France, they would sound something like this.
columbinus
Dylan Klebold
1st Stage
Photo by: Teresa Castracane
Helen Hayes Award Nomination: Outstanding Lead Actor
by Stephen Karam & PJ Paparelli
Directed by Alex Levy & Juan Francisco Villa
March 28 - April 20, 2019
Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the tragic 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, this docudrama combines fact and fiction to illuminate the dark realities of adolescence. Weaving together excerpts of real interviews with parents, survivors, and community leaders and powerful characterizations of contemporary teens, columbinus thoughtfully explores the Columbine shooting and the conversations that continue to this day. The New York Post hailed columbinus as “a powerful and important piece about the churning rage that’s all too likely to bubble over again.”
In the Closet
John
Rainbow Theatre Project
Photo by: RCG Photography.
by Siegmund Fuchs
Directed by H. Lee Gable
August 16 - September 15, 2018
Four men at the different ages of man look at their life in the place where all gay men begin, in the closet.
