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IN THE NEXT ROOM, OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY
September 16 - October 9, 2011
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Robert Waterhouse
Starring Katie White, Christian Brandjes, Richard Lambert, Kelly Meg Brennan and Wendy Hall
The Tony-and-Pulitzer nominee that delighted off-Broadway!
In the 1880s, a new invention is being used to treat women for “hysteria”: the electric vibrator. This provocative, The Tony-and-Pulitzer nominee that delighted off-Broadway! In the 1880s,
a new invention is being used to treat women for “hysteria”: the electric vibrator. This provocative, lyrical, and witty play by one of the most important new voices in theatre explores a surprise awakening at the dawn of electricity.
VIVIEN
October 20 - November 13, 2011
By Rick Foster
Directed by Darleen Pickering-Hummert
A CO-PRODUCTION WITH
RED THREAD THEATRE CO.
Starring Josephine Hogan
as Vivien Leigh
This WNY premiere of the acclaimed, one-woman show about the troubled twilight of Vivien Leigh is produced here with special permission from the playwright and stars one of our most
celebrated talents.
PETER PAN
November 26 - December 23, 2011
By J.M. Barrie
Directed by Kelli Bocock-Natale
Starring RJ Voltz as Peter Pan, and Jessica McKay, Marie Costa, John Kreuzer, James Robert Steiner, Chrissy Golab, Chris Parada, Jose Rivera, Kurt Erb, and Eric Rawski as Captain Hook
A new, physicalized, ensemble-driven of the classic, adapted for our times by the director who stunned New Phoenix audiences with MACBETH last season.
COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA
March 29 – April 21, 2012
By William Inge
Directed by Joseph Natale
Starring Richard Lambert, Jen Leibowitz, Kelli Bocock-Natale, Mathew Nerber, Murry Galloway, Margo Davis, Jerrold Brown, Nickalaus Koziura, Keith Elkins, Jesse Abel
A revival for our times of the great American classic about the collisions between past and present, promise and reality. A student boarder peels away the paper from the cracks in this searing study of a marriage built on broken dreams and unrealized promise.
BUFFALO
SOUNDPAINTING
ENSEMBLE
Spring, 2012
Dates to be announced
A new collaboration between New Phoenix and the innovative
Buffalo Soundpainting Ensemble, whose mission is to create sonic environments using the human voice. Inspired by the Dadaists, Surrealists, and the theatre artist Antonin Artaud, Soundpainting is the live, composing sign language created by composer Walter Thompson, and is based on 750 gestures signed by a composer/conductor to an ensemble of performers who create new works with voices and fragments of text.
M&T PAY WHAT YOU CAN THURSDAY
PERFORMANCES AT 8.00pm
FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS AT 8.00PM
Matinees of VIVIEN only: Sundays at 2.00PM; select matinees of other productions to be announced.