Live Theatre Workshop 2017-2018 season

 

From: LTW Publicity [mailto:publicity@livetheatreworkshop.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 4:02 PM
Subject: Live Theatre Workshop 2017-2018 season

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Live Theatre Workshop

Proudly announces its 2017 - 2018 Season

 

 

July 13-August 19, 2017

SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR

By Bernard Slade

One of the most popular romantic comedies of our era, Same Time, Next Year ran four years on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for lead actress Ellen Burstyn, who later recreated her role in the successful motion picture with comedy-great Alan Alda. Slade's heartwarming tale remains one of the world's most widely produced plays. The plot follows a 25 year love affair between two people, Doris and George, married to others, who rendezvous once a year.

 

"Delicious wit, compassion, a sense of humor and a feel for nostalgia." - The New York Times

"Genuinely funny and genuinely romantic." - The New York Post

 

 

August 24-September 23, 2017

SEMINAR

By Theresa Rebeck

Four aspiring young novelists sign up for private writing classes with Leonard, an international literary figure. Under his recklessly brilliant and unorthodox instruction, some thrive and others flounder, alliances are made and broken, sex is used as a weapon and hearts are unmoored. The wordplay is not the only thing that turns vicious as innocence collides with experience in this biting Broadway comedy.

 

"FIVE STARS! Sexy, savvy and uproarious!" -  Time Out New York

"BIG LAUGHS! AN AUTHENTIC RUSH OF PLEASURE." - The New York Times

 

 

 

 

 

October 5-November 11, 2017

BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY

By Ken Ludwig

Get your deerstalker cap on and prepare to laugh—the play is afoot! From the award-winning mastermind of mayhem, Ken Ludwig (THE GAME'S AFOOT and MOON OVER BUFFALO) comes a fast-paced comedy about everyone's favorite detective solving his most notorious case. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must crack the mystery of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" before a family curse dooms its newest heir.

 

 

 

November 16-December 23, 2017

THE VOICE OF THE PRAIRIE

By John Olive

Three actors winningly take on more than 20 roles while guiding the audience through a nostalgic journey of young love on the run and middle-aged longing, a sepia-tinged early America of prairie lands and radio days, "a strange (and lovely) world where wooden boxes can pull ghosts out of the sky. "Winner of a 2005 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Special Commendation and Lucille Lortel Award for Best Solo Show.

 

"Endearing."- The New York Times

"A skillful play with a deft heart."- The Los Angeles Times

 

 

 

 

 

January 4-February 10, 2018

THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES

By John Guare

This wildly funny dark comedy tells the tale of Artie Shaughnessy, a zookeeper by day and a songwriter with visions of glory by night.  Artie dreams of escaping his humdrum life in Queens, and making it big writing songs for the movies in Hollywood. It's 1965. Pope Paul VI is visiting New York.  The Vietnam War is about to begin in earnest. Can Artie's old high school buddy, now a Hollywood movie producer, give him a shot at the big time?

Or will a blessing from the Pope do the trick?

 

"A brilliant play...beautifully fashioned...Wacky and sometimes sad... combined hilarity, poignancy, outrage and tragedy." - The New York Daily News

"Enchantingly zany and original farce." - The New York Times

 

 

 

February 15-March 24, 2018

THE BEST BROTHERS

By Daniel MacIvor

A bittersweet comedy from one of Canada's most beloved playwrights, Bunny Best has met her unfortunate end after a mishap at a Gay Pride parade. Now her two sons, Kyle and Hamilton, have the task of arranging her funeral and caring for her most beloved companion, a troublesome Italian greyhound named Enzo. In the bustle of obituary-writing, eulogy-giving, and dog-sitting, sibling rivalry quickly reaches its peak and years of buried contentions surface. A witty and amusing tale of woe. You'll leave the theatre desperately wanting a dog!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 29-May 5, 2018

WOMEN IN JEOPARDY

By Wendy MacLeod

Thelma and Louise meets The First Wives Club in this fun and flirtatious comedy. Divorcees Mary and Jo are suspicious of their friend Liz's new dentist boyfriend. He's not just a weirdo; he may be a serial killer! After all, his hygienist just disappeared. Trading their wine glasses for spy glasses, imaginations run wild as the ladies try to discover the truth and save their friend in a hilarious off-road adventure.

 

 

May 10-June 9, 2018

MISS WITHERSPOON

By Christopher Durang

This irreverent and insightful comedy follows Veronica on her wildly comic journey through the afterlife. Gandalf, Jesus, and a Hindu Spirit help guide us through this screwball look at life, death and reincarnation.

 

 "This is Durang at the top of his metaphysical, apocalyptic, high-and-pop cultural game…thoroughly lovable. And funny." —NY Newsday. 

 "A delightful eighty-minute crazy-quilt fantasy." —Associated Press.

 

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