From: Winding Road [mailto:windingroadte@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 4, 2013 6:05 PM
Subject: Winding Road Theater Ensemble 2013-14 Season Announcement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
WINDING ROAD THEATER ENSEMBLE WELCOMES NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, ANNOUNCES 2013 SUMMER PRODUCTION AND 2013-14 SEASON
Winding Road Theater Ensemble proudly welcomes Christopher Johnson to his new post as Artistic Director after serving as Co-Artistic Director with Founding Ensemble Member Glen Coffman during the 2012-13 season.
As Artistic Director, Johnson will usher in Winding Road’s most ambitious season yet, expanding the usual order of 3 annual theatrical productions to 6, including WRTE’s first foray into late-night, 2 Arizona Premieres, 2 Tucson Premieres and an aggressive re-imagining of a beloved Kander & Ebb musical...
THE ALTRUISTS
by Nicky Silver
Directed by Christopher Johnson
PRODUCED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE BASTARD (THEATRE)
ARIZONA PREMIERE
June 13-30, 2013
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 PM, Sundays at 2:00 PM
A rag-tag group of radical social activists learn the hard way that “fire bombs don’t grow on trees.” This furiously fast-paced black comedy by Nicky Silver locks horns with extreme liberalism like only an extremely liberal playwright could.
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GOOD PEOPLE
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Christopher Johnson
ARIZONA PREMIERE
August 29-September 15, 2013
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 PM, Sundays at 2:00 PM
Welcome to Southie, a Boston neighborhood where a night on the town means a few rounds of bingo, where this month's paycheck covers last month’s bills, and where Margie Walsh has just been let go from yet another job. Facing eviction and scrambling to catch a break, Margie thinks an old fling who's made it out of Southie might be her ticket to a fresh new start. But is this apparently self-made man secure enough to face his humble beginnings? Margie is about to risk what little she has left to find out.
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CABARET
Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Directed by Christopher Johnson and Evan Werner
November 28-December 15, 2013
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 PM, Sundays at 2:00 PM
At the dawn of the 1930s in Berlin, the Nazi party quietly grows stronger. Set in the seedy underbelly of the infamous Kit Kat Klub, CABARET revolves around 19-year-old English cabaret performer Sally Bowles and her relationship with a young American writer. A sub-plot involves a doomed romance between German boarding house owner Fräulein Schneider and her elderly suitor Herr Schultz, a Jewish fruit vendor. Overseeing the action is the enigmatic Master of Ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub, who serves as a constant metaphor for the tenuous and threatening state of late Weimar Germany.
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BOOM
by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Directed by Christopher Johnson
TUCSON PREMIERE
January 30-February 16, 2014
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 PM, Sundays at 2:00 PM
“Sex to Change the Course of the World” -- A grad student's online personal ad lures a journalism student to his subterranean research lab under the pretense of an evening of "no strings" sex. But when a major global catastrophic event strikes the planet, their date takes on evolutionary significance and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.
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GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES
by Rajiv Joseph
Directed by Christopher Johnson
TUCSON PREMIERE
January 31-February 15, 2014
Fridays and Saturdays at 10:00 PM
Over the course of 30 years, the lives of Kayleen and Doug intersect at the most bizarre intervals, leading the two childhood friends to compare scars and the physical calamities that keep drawing them together.
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BURN THIS
by Lanford Wilson
Directed by Glen Coffman
March 27-April 13, 2014
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 PM, Sundays at 2:00 PM
It all begins shortly after the funeral of Robbie, a young gay dancer who drowned in a boating accident. Robbie's roommates: his sensitive dance partner and choreographer, Anna, and confident gay ad man Larry are soon joined in Robbie's lower-Manhattan loft by screenwriter Burton (Anna's longtime lover), and Pale (Robbie's coke-snorting, hyperactive restaurant manager brother). In the face of their shared tragedy, the quartet attempts to make sense of their lives and reconsider their own identities and relationships.
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Winding Road Theater Ensemble (Christopher Johnson, Artistic Director; Toni Press-Coffman, Company Manager and Glen Coffman, Founding Ensemble Member) is a group of artists whose mission is to tell dynamic, theatrical stories that illuminate the human condition and celebrate the theater’s power to entertain us, to move us, and to bring us joy. Inspired by the disparate creative journeys that eventually brought us together, WRTE has a special commitment to developing new work by living American playwrights. We fulfill our mission by producing seasons of contemporary and classic works representing diverse styles, themes, and perspectives; and by presenting readings, workshops, and full productions of new plays.
2013-14 Performance Venue TBA. Season Auditions to take place in late April -- more detailed information coming soon.
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