A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2020)

DATES Dec. 4 - Dec. 24, 2020

RUN TIME 110 minutes | No Intermission

PLAYWRIGHT Charles Dickens

DIRECTOR Anita Stewart

About The Play

Celebrate the holidays with this timeless tale that embodies the season: love, family, and the spirit of goodwill. See it brought to life on-stage, with charming costumes, delightful music, and a few ghostly apparitions. This magical production is perfect for the entire family, guaranteed to warm the heart of every Scrooge. Start a family tradition of your own.
*Not included in subscription series.

Prices

  • In-Person $35-$50
  • Seniors 65+ $4 off
  • Students 16+ $20
  • Children 4-15 $15
  • Digital on Demand $25

Pay-What-You-Can

  • Fri, Dec. 4  7:00 pm
  • Sat, Dec. 5 7:00 pm
  • Digital on Demand Available by calling the Box Office

Virtual Discussions

  • Curtain Call: Crafting a Carol  Sun, Dec. 13  5:30 pm

Charles Dickens

Dickens’ poignant and action-packed novels lifted him from a lower-middle-class childhood to become an international celebrity of the Victorian era, and remain popular today. Still, in book after book, from Oliver Twist to Great Expectations, he remained true to his roots: calling attention to hypocrisy, injustice, and the plight of the poorest among us.

Actor Joel Leffert*

Foley Artist Nancy Nichols

*denotes member of AEA

**denotes member of USA

Director Anita Stewart**

Set Design Anita Stewart**

Costume Design Anita Stewart**

Light Design Tayva Young

Sound Design Seth Asa Sengel

Stage Manager Myles C. Hatch*

Portland Stage presents The Winnipesaukee Playhouse production

OR,

DATES Jan. 29 - Feb. 14, 2021

RUN TIME 100 minutes | No intermission

PLAYWRIGHT Liz Duffy Adams

DIRECTOR Aileen Wen McGroddy

About the Play

​Life’s tough when you’re England’s groundbreaking first female playwright.  And a spy.  And you have a famous actress hiding in your closet. And her lover – the king – knocking on your door.  And your ex-lover, a double-agent who may (or may not) be trying to murder said king showing up at your doorstep.  It’s all in a day’s work for Aphra Behn, in Liz Duffy Adams’ fictionalized account of what may (or may not) have happened to this real-life historical figure. You’ll be asking yourself if this really is the 1660s in this double-crossing, bodice-ripping sex farce about art, politics, poetry, and intrigue.

Prices

  • Preview Fri & Sat  7:00 pm  $26-$48
  • Wed thru Sat  7:00 pm $35-$62
  • Thu  2:00 pm  $35-$62
  • Sat & Sun  2:00 pm  $40-$68
  • Digital on Demand  $25

Pay-What-You-Can

  • Sat, Jan. 30  7:00 pm
  • Thu, Feb. 11  2:00 pm
  • Digital on Demand – Available by calling the Box Office

Virtual Discussions

  • Curtain Call  Sun, Feb. 7  5:30 pm
  • Artistic Perspective  Sun, Feb. 14  5:30 pm

Liz Duffy Adams - OR, premiered off-Broadway at WP Theater and has been produced over 60 times since. She’s a New Dramatists alumna and has received a Lillian Hellman Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, Weston Playhouse Music Theater Award, MacDowell residencies, and the Will Glickman Award. Other plays include BORN WITH TEETH; THE SALONNIERES; WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD; DOG ACT; BUCCANEERS; WET OR, ISABELLA THE PIRATE QUEEN ENTERS THE HORSE LATITUDES; ONE BIG LIE; and THE RECKLESS RUTHLESS BRUTAL CHARGE OF IT OR, THE TRAIN PLAY. Her work has been produced or developed at the Magic Theatre, Round House Theatre, Seattle Rep, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Humana Festival, PlayPenn Conference, Portland Center Stage, Flux Theatre Ensemble, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, Cutting Ball, Shotgun Players, and Crowded Fire, among other places. Publications include DOG ACT in “Geek Theater: Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Plays” (Underwords Press 2014); OR, in “Best Plays of 2010” (Smith & Kraus); POODLE WITH GUITAR AND DARK GLASSES in “Best American Short Plays 200–2001” (Applause Books); and several plays in acting editions by Playscripts, Inc. and Dramatists Play Service. BFA: New York University; MFA: Yale School of Drama. She was the 2012–2013 Briggs-Copeland Visiting Lecturer in Playwriting at Harvard. She has dual Irish and American citizenship. More at lizduffyadams.com.

Aphra Behn Rebecca Tucker

Nell Gwynne & others Haley Jones

King Charles II & others Nicholas Wilder

Director Aileen Wen McGroddy

Set Design Anita Stewart

Costume Design DW

Light Design Tayva Young

Stage Manager Kimberly D'Agnese

Rebecca Tucker

Haley Jones

Nicholas Wilder

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Talley’s Folly (2020)

About the play

After a year of writing letters, Matt Friedman travels from St. Louis to Lebanon, Missouri to try and convince Sally Talley to marry him. As the two re-examine their relationship, they explore the complexities of human connection and the different forms that a romantic partnership can take.

Pricing

  • IN-PERSON $25-$53
  • Seniors 65+ $4 off
  • Students 16+ $20
  • DIGITAL ON DEMAND $25

Pay-What-You-Can

  • Fri, Oct. 4  7:00 pm
  • Sat, Oct. 5 7:00 pm
  • Thu, Oct. 12 2:00 pm
  • Digital on Demand – Available by calling the Box Office

Virtual Discussions

  • Curtain Call Sun, Nov. 8  5:30 pm
  • Artistic Perspective Sun, Nov. 15 5:30 pm

Lanford Wilson - (April 13, 1937 – March 24, 2011) was an American playwright. His work, as described by The New York Times, was “earthy, realist, greatly admired [and] widely performed.” Wilson helped to advance the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement with his earliest plays, which were first produced at the Caffe Cino beginning in 1964. He was one of the first playwrights to move from Off-Off-Broadway to Off-Broadway, then Broadway and beyond.

Salley Talley Kathy McCafferty*

Matt Friedman David Mason*

*member of Actors Equity Association

**member United Scenic Artists

Director Sally Wood

Set Design Anita Stewart**

Costume Design Kathleen Payton Brown

Light Designer Christopher Akerlind**

Sound Designer Seth Asa Sengel

Stage Manager Myles C. Hatch*

The Music of Johnny Cash

RING OF FIRE

DATES Aug. 3 - Aug. 29, 2021

RUN TIME estimated: 2 hours

PRICE $25-$75

PLAYWRIGHT RICHARD MALTBY, JR.

ADAPTED BY Conceived by WILLIAM MEADE

About the Play

This production takes place at Portland Stage • 25A Forest Ave • Portland, ME • Portland Stage is Air Conditioned.


From the songbook of Johnny Cash comes this unique musical about love and faith, struggle and success, rowdiness and redemption, and the healing power of home and family. More than two dozen classic hits — including “I Walk The Line,” “A Boy Named Sue,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” and the title tune — performed by a multi-talented cast, paint a musical portrait of The Man in Black that promises to be a foot-stompin’, crowd-pleasin’ salute to a unique musical legend! Though he is never impersonated, Johnny Cash’s remarkable life story is told through his music, climaxing in a concert that will both move and exhilarate!

Created by RICHARD MALTBY, JR. | Conceived by WILLIAM MEADE
Orchestrations by Steven Bishop and Jeff Lisenby
Ring of Fire was originally produced on Broadway by William Meade, CTM Productions, Bob Cuillo, GFour Productions, and James B. Freydberg

In-Theater Pricing

  • Aug 3 – Aug 5 $44-$63
  • Aug 5 – Aug 29  $51-$70

Discounts Available

  • Seniors 65+ Available On-line, by Phone and In-Person
  • Groups of 10+ contact groupsales@portlandstage.org
  • StudentRush available day of show, In-person only.
  • Rush35 available day of show, In-person only.

Digital on Demand Pricing

Richard Maltby Jr. (creator) BROADWAY: Conceived and directed two Tony Award winning musicals: AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ (1978: Tony, N.Y. Drama Critics, Outer Critics, Drama Desk Awards — also Tony Award for Best Director); FOSSE (1999: Tony, Outer Critics, Drama Desk Awards); as well as RING OF FIRE, (2006). With composer David Shire: director/lyricist: BABY (1983, seven Tony nominations); lyricist: BIG (1996, Tony nomination: Best Score; also Dominium Theatre London 2019). With Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, co-lyricist: MISS SAIGON (Evening Standard Award, London 1990; Tony nomination: Best Score, 1991); co-lyricist: THE PIRATE QUEEN (2007). Director: THE STORY OF MY LIFE (2009). Director/co-lyricist: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s SONG & DANCE (1986 Tony Award for star, Bernadette Peters.) OFF-BROADWAY: with David Shire: director/lyricist STARTING HERE, STARTING NOW (1977, Grammy nomination) and CLOSER THAN EVER, (1989, two Outer Critics Circle Awards: Best Musical, Best Score; also Off-Broadway Alliance Award, Best Musical Revival 2013; and London Jermyn Street Theatre 2014,). Director: JUST JIM DALE, (Roundabout Theatre 2014, Vaudeville Theatre, London 2015). REGIONAL: Lyricist/conceiver, TAKE FLIGHT (Menier Chocolate Factory, London 2010; McCarter Theatre 2012); book and lyrics, WATERFALL (2015, Pasadena Playhouse and Seattle’s Fifth Avenue Theatre); Lyricist, new musical SOUSATZKA (2017, Toronto). FILM: Screenplay, MISS POTTER, (2007: Christopher Award, best screenplay.). Contributes cryptic crossword puzzles to Harpers Magazine. Son of well-known orchestra leader; Five children: Nicholas, David, Jordan, Emily, and Charlotte

William Meade (Concept)

Actor Scott Moreau*

Actor Morgan Morse*

Actor Elizabeth Nestlerode*

Actor Katie Barton*

Actor Ben Hope*

[*member Actors' Equity Association]

[**member of United Scenic Artists]

Director Ben Hope

Associate Directors Katie Barton & Scott Moreau

Music Director Eric Anthony

Scenic Designer Anita Stewart**

Costume Designer Katie Barton

Lighting Designer Jamie Grant

Sound Designer Christopher Sutton

Stage Manager Myles C. Hatch*

Assistant Stage Manager Meg Lydon*

Ben Hope

Katie Barton

Scott Moreau

Elizabeth Nestlerode

Morgan Morse

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Carl Jung’s patient & lover, Sabina Spielrein, pioneered the movement that changed psychology. Finally her story will be told.

SABINA

DATES May 4 - May 22, 2022

RUN TIME Approximately 2 hours & 15 minutes, including intermission. There will be no concessions at this performance

PRICE In-Theater $20-$68 • Digital on Demand $25

PLAYWRIGHT WIlly Holtzman

MUSIC & LYRICS Louise Beach & Darrah Cloud

SABINA

About the Play

From celebrated Maine playwright Willy Holtzman, comes a new musical, Sabina. From Carl Jung’s patient, to lover, to student, Sabina pioneered the feminist movement that changed psychoanalysis forever and brought Jung and Freud together. Nearly forgotten to history, her story will be sung.

The turbulent relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud is well-known.  But the story of Sabina Spielrein – Jung’s patient, protege, and lover – was nearly lost to history.  Sabina introduced him to an inner world of archetype and shadow that became the foundation of Jungian psychology.  She later brought Jung and Freud together and, in many ways, surpassed them as a pioneering feminist psychoanalyst who was the hero of her own story.

Pricing

  • Preview • 1st Wed & Thu $20-$53
  • Wed thru Sat $25-$62
  • Thu Matinee $25-$62
  • Sat & Sun $30-$68
  • Digital on Demand  $25

Pay-What-You-Can

  • Wed, May 4 7:30 pm
  • Sat, May 14 8:00 pm
  • Thu, May 19 2:00 pm
  • Digital on Demand – Available by calling the Box Office

Discussions

  • Page to Stage Tue, Apr 19 • 6:00pm • Virtual
  • Artistic Perspective  TBD
  • Curtain Call  TBD

Willy Holtzman The Morini Strad, Inside Out, and The Real McGonagall received full productions at Portland Stage Company. Sabina and The First Mrs. Rochester were developed at The Little Festival of the Unexpected. New York productions include The Morini Strad, Sabina, Something You Did, Bovver Boys (Primary Stages), Inside Out (Theater for a New Audience), San Antonio Sunset, The Last Temptation of Joe Hill, The Closer (The Working Theatre). His plays have been produced regionally at City Theatre, The Long Wharf Theater, Geva Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, People’s Light, and Theater, Theatre J, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, The Colony Theater, Asolo Repertory Theatre, The Goodspeed Opera House, The Alliance Theatre, Northlight Theatre, and New York Stage and Film. He wrote and produced the Independent Film Edge of America for which he received the Peabody Award, the WGA Award, and The Humanitas Prize. He is a board member at New Dramatists and PlayPenn.

Louise Beach writes music for the concert stage as well as for the theater, and her chamber works are widely performed. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her musical adaptation of Sabina and won the National Art Song Competition for her Songs of Dusk. With a Masters in Composition from Purchase Conservatory, she was a composer in the New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio and a long-time member of the Advanced Class of the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, where Sabina was developed alongside shows such as Avenue Q and Next to Normal.

Darrah Cloud’s full-length play, TURNING, premieres in March 2020 at Centenary Stage in NJ. OUR SUBURB premiered at Theater J in Washington, DC in 2014. JOAN THE GIRL OF ARC premiered at Cincinnati Playhouse in January 2014, then toured. Other plays produced in New York, Europe and across the U.S. include WHAT’S BUGGING GREG?, THE STICK WIFE, THE MUD ANGEL, DREAM HOUSE, BRAILLE GARDEN, and THE SIRENS. Her produced musicals, written with composer Kim D. Sherman, include HEARTLAND, (Madison Repertory Theatre, The Majestic Theatre in Dallas, TheatreWorks Palo Alto) THE BOXCAR CHILDREN (Theatreworks USA, tour), HONOR SONG FOR CRAZY HORSE (TheatreWorks Palo Alto) and the stage adaptation of Willa Cather’s O PIONEERS!, which has received over 100 productions in the United States and was filmed starring Mary McDonnell for American Playhouse. She has won numerous awards, including the Macy’s Prize for Theatre for Young Audiences, an NEA and a Rockefeller. She has had over 10 movies-of-the-week produced on CBS and NBC, is a proud alum of the Iowa Writers Workshop and New Dramatists, and co-directs Howl Playwrights in Rhinebeck, NY. She is the Town Supervisor of Pine Plains, NY.

Carl Jung Philip Stoddard*

Sabina Spielrein Stephanie Machado*

Ludwig Binswanger Jason Michael Evans*

Emma Jung Sarah Anne Fernandez*

Sigmund Freud Bruce Sabath*

[*member Actors' Equity Association]

[**member United Scenic Artists]

[***member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society]

Co-Director Danilo Gambini

Co-Director Daniella Topol***

Musical DIrector Bradley Vieth

Scenic Designer Anita Stewart**

Costume Designer Fabian Fidel Aguilar**

Lighting Designer Christopher Akerlind**

Sound Designer Charles Coes**

Stage Manager Myles C. Hatch*

Danilo Gambini

Daniella Topol

Philip Stoddard

Stephanie Machado

Jason Michael Evans

Sarah Anne Fernandez

Bruce Sabath

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I AND YOU

DATES Mar 30 - Apr 17, 2022

RUN TIME 90 Minutes, No Intermission

PRICE In-Theater $20-$68 • Digital on Demand $25

PLAYWRIGHT Lauren Gunderson

One afternoon, Anthony arrives unexpectedly at classmate Caroline’s door bearing a beat-up copy of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, an urgent assignment from their English teacher. Homebound due to illness, Caroline hasn’t been to school in months, but she is as quick and sardonic as Anthony is athletic, sensitive, and popular. As these two let down their guards and share their secrets, this seemingly mundane poetry project unlocks a much deeper mystery that has brought them together.
I and You is an ode to youth, life, love, and the strange beauty of human connectedness.

Anthony Pascal Arquimedes*

Caroline Sarah Lord*

[*member Actors' Equity Association]

[**member United Scenic Artists]

Director Cait Robinson

Scenic Design Riw Rakkulchon**

Costume Design Fabian Fidel Aguilar**

Light Design Molly Tiede**

Sound Design Kathy Ruvuna

Stage Manager Meg Lydon*

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LAST SHIP TO PROXIMA CENTAURI (2022)

DATES Mar 2 - 20, 2022

RUN TIME tbd

PRICE In-Theater $20-$68 • Digital on Demand $25

PLAYWRIGHT Greg Lam

About the Play

2021 Clauder Competition Winner
World Premiere

In futuristic sci-fi, planet Earth has become uninhabitable. The last escape ship from Earth arrives at its new home centuries after all the others. The pilots are not prepared for what they find there.

Pricing

  • Preview • 1st Wed & Thu7:30 pm  $20-$53
  • Wed thru Sat  7:30 pm $25-$62
  • Thu  2:00 pm  $25-$62
  • Sat & Sun  2:00 pm  $30-$68
  • Digital on Demand  $25

Pay-What-You-Can

  • Wed, Mar 2 7:30 pm
  • Sat, Mar 12 8:00 pm
  • Thu, Mar 17  2:00 pm
  • Digital on Demand – Available by calling the Box Office

Discussions

  • Page to Stage Wed • Feb 16 • 6:00 pm • Virtual
  • Digital Interview with the Cast and Crew see video above

Greg Lam is a playwright, screenwriter, and board game designer who is a transplanted Bostonian now living in the Bay Area. He is the co-creator of the “Boston Podcast Players” podcast (bostonpodcastplayers.com) Boston’s virtual podcast stage for new works by local playwrights. He is the co-founder of the Asian-American Playwright Collective and a member of The Pulp Stage Writer’s Room.

Morris Emerson Tom Ford*

Adelaide "Addie" Russell Marcy McGuigan*

Henry Hirano Kennedy Kanagawa*

Tunde/Control 2 Jamal James*

Paz/Control 1 Octavia Chavez-Richmond*

[*member Actors' Equity Association]

Director Kevin R. Free

Scenic Design Germán Cárdenas-Alaminos

Costume Design Haydee Zelideth

Light Design Jamie Grant

Sound Design Seth Asa Sengel

Stage Manager Myles C. Hatch*

[*member Actors Equity Association]

Kevin R. Free

Tom Ford

Marcy McGuigan

Jamal James

Kennedy Kanagawa

Octavia Chavez Richmond

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SENIOR LIVING

DATES Jan 26 - Feb 13, 2022

RUN TIME tbd

PRICE In-Theater $20-$68 • Digital on Demand $25

PLAYWRIGHT Tor Hyams & Lisa St. Lou

About the Play

WORLD PREMIERE

A play with music about people dying to live. At Riverdale Manor, a retirement community in the Bronx, seniors contemplate the possibility of dying from a broken heart, if divorce is even worth it at a certain age, and when is the right time to have sex again. A talent show, with the promise of cake for dessert, sets the scene for a series of life-changing vignettes that debate what to do with the time we have left.

Pricing

  • Preview • 1st Wed & Thu7:30 pm  $20-$53
  • Wed thru Sat  7:30 pm $25-$62
  • Thu  2:00 pm  $25-$62
  • Sat & Sun  2:00 pm  $30-$68
  • Digital on Demand  $25

Pay-What-You-Can

  • Wed, Jan. 26 7:30 pm
  • Sat, Feb. 5 8:00 pm
  • Thu, Feb. 10  2:00 pm
  • Digital on Demand – Available by calling the Box Office

Discussions

  • Page to Stage Tue • Jan 18 • 6 pm • Virtual
  • Artistic Perspective  Sun • Jan. 30 • 5:30 pm • Virtual
  • Curtain Call Discussion  Sun • Feb 6 • 5:30 pm • Virtual

Tor Hyams and Lisa St. Lou (Playwrights) Grammy nominated songwriter, Tor Hyams, and Broadway performer, Lisa St. Lou (The Producers) offer a unique blend of comedy and heart through musicals, plays and screenwriting. Original theater works include Stealing Time, where a woman struggles to reconcile her place in a failing marriage (premiered NYMF/2012); The Skylight Room, a collection of stories about lonely people searching for connection, with actor/writer, John Cariani; Howie D: Back in the Day, a family musical about belonging and race, based on the real-life experience of Backstreet Boy, Howie D (world premiere at The Rose Theatre – Omaha, NE January 2020); and Collateral Beauty, an adaptation of the film starring Will Smith (with screenwriter, Allan Loeb). Commissions include a musical adaptation of the legendary television show, Green Acres; Ensemble, a collection of previously unpublished letters by Tennessee Williams; Untitled, a “Golden Age” musical for middle and high school age students; and aTypical Family, a story about a family coping with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Tor & Lisa have adapted Senior Living into a 1/2 hour television show. Additional TV pilots include The Lou, the story of a singer/songwriter forced to return home and face her dysfunctional family in St. Louis; Animal Control, about an elite squad in Beaver County, OK who keep us safe from the animals and the animals safe from us; Clusterf*ck, the story of two forty-something’s who stop at nothing to “write” all the wrongs of life’s banalities; and The Whites, the story of a black family living in a wealthy, white suburb during the Obama years.

Lynn / Alice / Mary / Ellen Cynthia Barnett*

Angelina / Edith / Susan Grace Bauer*

Lily / Carol / Denise Beth Glover*

Morty / Richard / Paddy / Brobson / Lou Steve Vinovich*

Frank / Robert / Joe / Dr. Miller David Wohl*

[*member Actors' Equity Association]

Director Judith Ivy***

Scenic Designer David Goldstein**

Costume Designer Vanessa Leuck**

Lighting Designer SeifAllah Salotto-Cristobol

Sound Designer John Morrison

Stage Manager Meg Lydon*

[*member Actors Equity Association]

[**member United Scenic Artists]

[***member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society]

Judith Ivy

Cynthia Barnett

Grace Bauer

Beth Glover

Steve

David Wohl

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2021)

DATES Dec. 18, 2021 – Jan. 4, 2022

PLAYWRIGHT Charles Dickens

About the Play

Celebrate the holidays with this timeless tale that embodies the season: love, family, and the spirit of goodwill. See it brought to life on-stage, with charming costumes, delightful music, and a few ghostly apparitions. This magical production is perfect for the entire family, guaranteed to warm the heart of every Scrooge. Start a family tradition of your own.

Pricing

  • In-Theater $20 – $65
  • Children 5-15 $15
  • Groups of 10 or more save 20%
  • Digital on Demand  $25

Pay-What-You-Can

  • Digital on Demand – Available by calling the Box Office

Discussions

  • There are no scheduled discussions for A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens’ poignant and action-packed novels lifted him from a lower-middle-class childhood to become an international celebrity of the Victorian era, and remain popular today. Still, in book after book, from Oliver Twist to Great Expectations, he remained true to his roots: calling attention to hypocrisy, injustice, and the plight of the poorest among us.

Ebenezer Scrooge Tom Ford*

Bob Cratchit Dustin Tucker*

Ghosts Marcy McGuigan*

Nephew Fred Jared Mongeau

Mrs. Cratchit Samantha Rosentrater*

Belle Reanne Acasio*

Jacob Marley Alex Purcell*

[*member Actors Equity Association]

Director Sally Wood

Scenic Designer Anita Stewart**

Costume Designer Susan Thomas

Lighting Designer Bryon Winn**

Sound Designer Christ Fitze

Stage Manager Myles C. Hatch*

[*member Actors Equity Association]

[**member United Scenic Artists]

[***member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society]

Tom Ford

Marcy McGuigan

Alex Purcell

SEARCHING FOR MR. MOON

DATES Nov. 3 - Nov. 21, 2021

RUN TIME tbd

PRICE In-Theater $20-$68 • Digital on Demand $25

PLAYWRIGHT Richard Topol & WIlly Holtzman

SEARCHING FOR MR. MOON

About the Play

Featuring Broadway Star Richard Topol

At the moment of his daughter’s birth, Rich Topol searches for a father to replace the one he lost and finds two – his famous father-in-law Lukas Foss and himself.  Foss’ eclectic music underscores Rich’s funny and poignant journey to fatherhood. Searching for Mr. Moon is a play for anyone who has contemplated the mysteries of parenthood and mortality and curious about the lives of contemporary classical music icons and Broadway stars.


WARNING • Strobe effects and other intense lighting will be used during this show. It will not be safe for those with epilepsy and other conditions with sensitivity to light.


Pricing

  • Preview • 1st Wed & Thu7:30 pm  $20-$53
  • Wed thru Sat  7:30 pm $25-$62
  • Thu  2:00 pm  $25-$62
  • Sat & Sun  2:00 pm  $30-$68
  • Digital on Demand  $25

Pay-What-You-Can

  • Available in-person, day of performance
  • Wed, Nov. 3 7:30 pm
  • Sat, Nov. 13 8:00 pm
  • Thu, Nov. 18  2:00 pm
  • Digital on Demand – Available by calling the Box Office

Discussions

  • Page to Stage Tue • Oct. 19 2021 • 6:00 pm • Virtual
  • Artistic Perspective  Sun • Nov. 7 2021 • Following the show
  • Curtain Call  Sun • Nov. 14 2021 • Following the show

Richard Topol – He is making his playwriting debut with Searching For Mr. Moon, and he thanks his co-writer Willy for the idea in the first place, and his patience and sense of humor along the way. As an actor he has previously appeared at Portland Stage in Loot and Scapin. He has performed on Broadway numerous times including as Lemml in the Tony Award winning production of Indecent, for which he was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award; with Larry David in Fish in the Dark; with Al Pacino in The Merchant of Venice; with Denzel Washington in Julius Caesar; with Mark Ruffalo in the Tony Award winning revival of Awake and Sing; with Joe Mantello in the Tony Award winning revival of The Normal Heart, and with Morgan Freeman and Frances McDormand in The Country Girl, directed by Mike Nichols. His off-Broadway appearances include productions at the Atlantic, Classic Stage Company, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center, The Public, The Vineyard and Primary Stages. His film and TV credits include Lincoln, Indignation, Mickey Blue Eyes, Party Girl, Curb your Enthusiasm, The Blacklist, all the Law & Order series and recurring roles on Billions, Godfather of Harlem, Manifest, Genius: Einstein, The Practice, Perception, and many others. Richard has received two Drama Desk Awards, a Cullman award from Lincoln Center, and an Audelco Award. He holds an MFA in Acting from NYU and a BA in Political Science from Brown University.

Willy Holtzman – His The Morini Strad, Inside Out, and The Real McGonagall received full productions at Portland Stage Company. Sabina and The First Mrs. Rochester were developed at The Little Festival of the Unexpected. New York productions include The Morini Strad, Sabina, Something You Did, Bovver Boys (Primary Stages), Inside Out (Theater for a New Audience), San Antonio Sunset, The Last Temptation of Joe Hill, The Closer (The Working Theatre). His plays have been produced regionally at City Theatre, The Long Wharf Theater, Geva Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, People’s Light, and Theater, Theatre J, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, The Colony Theater, Asolo Repertory Theatre, The Goodspeed Opera House, The Alliance Theatre, Northlight Theatre, and New York Stage and Film. He wrote and produced the Independent Film Edge of America for which he received the Peabody Award, the WGA Award, and The Humanitas Prize. He is a board member at New Dramatists and PlayPenn.

Julia Gibson directed Greater Tuna at Portland Stage several years ago and is very happy to return! She has directed with Rattlestick, Barrow Street, Origin Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Source, and Epic Theatre Ensemble in New York City; and at Chautauqua Theater Company, Gulfshore Playhouse, New London Barn, Juilliard, NYU Graduate Acting, SMU in Dallas, The Actors Center Conservatory, A.C.T. Conservatory in San Francisco, Stony Brook University, and Stella Adler Conservatory. She was Associate Director of the revival of Angels in America at the Signature Theatre. As an actor, she has performed on and off Broadway and at major theaters across the US, as well as on TV and film. She is currently Co-Head of the Graduate Acting Program at UNC Chapel Hill where she also serves as a company member of PlayMakers Repertory Company. She received her MFA in Acting from New York University (alongside Richard Topol), is a founding member of The Actors Center in New York City and of the National Alliance for Acting Teachers; she is a Fox Fellowship recipient and has narrated over 160 audio books. Julia recently received a Carolina Women’s Center Faculty Scholarship grant to create a theater piece about women and aging.

Rich Richard Topol

[*member Actors' Equity Association]

[**member United Scenic Artists]

[***member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society]

Director Julia Gibson

Scenic Designer Anita Stewart**

Costume Designer Anita Stewart**

Light Designer Mari Yokoyama**

Sound Designer David Van Tieghem**

Projections Designer Michael Commendatore

Stage Manager Meg Lydon*

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