Our 2007/2008 season… We are intensely excited to be able to continue our mission of bringing South Florida audiences a new work, a contemporary play and an updated classic or revival each season. As we continue to grow and connect with our audiences so does the work we are able to present. That "connection" is the theme that runs through our 4th season and these exciting plays. |
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| ....................................................................................................................................................................................... The 2007-2008 season will be the second full season in residence at Nova Southeastern University, Farquar College of Arts & Sciences. The season will be performed in both the beautiful Mailman Hollywood Theatre located on the 2nd floor of the Mailman Hollywood Center and the University Arts Center Black Box behind the Alvin Sherman Library. RED TIDE by JUAN C. SANCHEZ Directed by Margaret M. Ledford October 12 - 28, 2007 WORLD PREMIERE Red Tide is an intense psychological thriller examining the relationship between two brothers and the woman that comes between them. Mr. Sanchez's last play Buck Fever was Carbonell Nominated for Best New Work in 2005 and also received its World Premiere at TPT. Red Tide was commissioned by The Promethean Theatre and was written under the mentorship of Leslie Ayvazian as part of Downstage Miami, a program administered by the Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council that supports Miami-based playwrights. The play was work- shopped at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis this past August under the direction of Hayley Finn, dramaturgy by Sally Oswald, and featured actors Lee Mark Nelson, Brian Skellenger and Maren Bush. TPT's World Premiere is Directed by Resident Director Margaret M. Ledford with dramaturgy by Jane G. Duncan, TPT Artistic Associate. About The Playwrights' Center... Founded in 1971 by five writers seeking artistic and professional support, The Playwrights' Center is now "the biggest and most innovative playwriting center in the country" (Michael Bigelow Dixon, Guthrie Theater Literary Director). http://www.pwcenter.org/ "Any self-respecting playwright [should be involved with] The Playwrights' Center." -Edward Albee Pulitzer Prize Winner Nilo Cruz’s TWO SISTERS AND A PIANO Directed by Margaret M. Ledford Friday February 29, through March 16, 2008 Maria Celia and her sister Sofia, under house arrest in their family home, take refuge in their writing and music. For these two passionate, artistic siblings, their punishment is an excruciating test of the soul. When political censorship denies Maria Celia her husband’s love letters, Lieutenant Portuondo, who oversees their sentence offers to read them to her, but at a price. In this piercing and passionate play, this Pulitzer Prize-winning, Cuban-born playwright deftly shows audiences the intimate joys and sorrows of one family in a fascinating, politically charged country. About the playwright... Nilo Cruz is an Cuban-American playwright, the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Born in Matanzas, Cuba in 1960, Cruz immigrated to the "Little Havana" area of Miami in 1970 on a Freedom Flight, and eventually became a US citizen. His interest in theater began with acting and directing in the early 1980s. He studied theater first at Miami-Dade Community College, later moving to New York City, where Cruz studied under fellow Cuban María Irene Fornés. Fornes recommended Cruz to Paula Vogel who was teaching at Brown University. Cruz received his M.F.A. from Brown in 1994. In 2001, he served as the playwright-in-residence for the New Theatre in Coral Gables, Florida, where he wrote Anna in the Tropics, winner of the 2003 Pulitzer and the Steinberg Award for Best New Play. A year later it received its Broadway premiere with Jimmy Smits in the lead role. Cruz's other plays include Betty and Gauguin, Dancing on Her Knees, A Park in Our House, Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams, A Bicycle Country, Night Train to Bolina, Two Sisters and a Piano, Beauty of the Father, and Lorca in a Green Dress. He has translated two plays by Federico García Lorca, Doña Rosita and The House of Bernarda Alba. He adapted a short story by Gabriel García Márquez into a children's play A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings. He also translated and adapted Pedro Calderón de la Barca's Life is a Dream which opened in February, 2007 at South Coast Repertory.Some of the theatres that have developed and performed his works include New York’s Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, McCarter Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, The Alliance, New Theatre, Florida Stage and the Coconut Grove Playhouse.Cruz has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including two NEA/TCG National Theatre Artist Residency grants, a Rockefeller Foundation grant, San Francisco's W. Alton Jones award and a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays award. Cruz is an alumnus of New Dramatists, has taught playwriting at Brown University, the University of Iowa and at Yale University. He presently lives in New York City. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ticket prices for 2007/08 season are as follows: Adults - $25 Seniors (65 and over) - $15 Students (w/ valid ID) - $10 South Florida Theatre League and Actors Equity members ask about our discounts for you! (Discounts vary and cannot be guaranteed for each production ~ valid membership card required ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Audition information for our 2007/08 Season |
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