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COMPANY NEWS SUMMER HAPPENINGS The s we head into our 22nd Season, Killing of TACT moves into a brave new era as AFounding member and Co-Artistic Director, Cynthia Harris, steps down Sister from her artistic director duties and moves abundance into her new role as the Chair of the newly formed Advisory Council (more about that in a moment). In addition, Cynthia will George by remain an active member of the Acting Company, and a member of the TACT Board of Directors. She writes: “These last 21 years have been quite extraordinary by Frank Marcus and I feel privileged to have been able to help build the company to its present state. It is remarkable how much the company has accomplished and how we have gone from a little known entity to a company of excellence - one that is recognized for its fine artistic values.” The artistic direction of the company will continue this year under the guidance of the remaining two Co- Artistic Directors, Founding member Scott Alan Evans and Jenn Thompson. 2014-15 SEASON Lauren Miller recently joined TACT’s full-time staff as Development Associate & The Killing of Sister George, Abundance Outreach Coordinator, and is now spending her days working with her artistic mentors. TACT’s newly formed Advisory Council serves as an idea-engine for TACT, ithout a doubt, TACT’s 2014/15 in the UK in 1965. Provincial audiences season will be the year of the were shocked by the frankness of the play’s CONTINUES ON PAGE 4 Wwoman. The two dynamic and depiction of the central character’s lesbian powerful plays we are presenting focus relationship and walked out in droves. But on aspects of female love and friendship when the production reached the West with laser-like intensity and surprising hu- End, all that changed. What London audi- mor. Though widely dissimilar in style and ences were able to see was a comedy that tone - and from two very different eras and didn’t pull its punches – both literally and about two very different times - both works figuratively – and they reveled in the play’s examine fascinating and complex relation- bald-faced roughhouse ribaldry. The play ships: one captured in a moment and one centers on June Buckridge, an actress who examined through the lens of time. TACT has gained considerable fame playing the is delighted to announce its 2014/15 Sea- character of “Sister George,” beloved ru- son: Abundance by Beth Henley and The ral district nurse, on the BBC Radio folksy Killing of Sister George by Frank Marcus. soap opera, “Applehurst.” Warm-hearted, caring, and kind, Sister George tends to The Killing of Sister George by Frank Mar- cus caused quite a stir when it premiered Cynthia Harris, TACT Founding Member CONTINUES ON PAGE 2

THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE : 2 ABUNDANCE: 3 COMPANY NEWS: 4-5 SALON SERIES: 6 her flock, dispensing home remedies and newTACTics SPECIAL PROGRAMS common sense advice, while keeping every- one on the straight and narrow. In private, The June Buckridge is none of those things: Killing of neither warm-hearted, caring, or kind. Or TACT INSIDER ver wondered what it takes to move a play straight. And her cigar chomping, gin drink- ing antics have caused her producers con- Efrom the page to the stage? In the TACT siderable public relations backlash and her Sister George Insider program, you’re invited to join us for live-in “roommate/companion,” the much rehearsals and watch the creative process

younger “Childie,” suffers considerably as newTACTics Talk-Back, June 2014 for TACT’s Mainstage productions in action. well, dealing with June’s bouts of despair and by Frank Marcus Attend the first read-through and design pre- abuse. So, what’s to be done? Well, that’s sentation at the TACT Studio and a technical ewTACTics’ 4th Annual New Play Fes- human and artificial consciousness, the play. And in it, Mr. Marcus examines the tival returned in June, with four pre- private life and public service, equality and rehearsal at the theater just before previews nature of sexual identity, power, and politics Directed by DREW BARR mieres of contemporary works-in-de- freedom, or childhood and adulthood, these begin, where you’ll see all the pieces come in a changing world order with a shockingly n Previews PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE velopment. Each week, a new play under- skillful writers exposed the gray areas that together. Available with a tax-deductible con- contemporary point of view. Sept 23 to Oct 6, 2014 Tuesday - Thursday 7:30 PM went a concentrated rehearsal process to can exist between the concrete boundaries tribution of $100, TACT Insider provides a rare Though The Killing of Sister George was Opens October 7 Friday, Saturday 8:00 PM closely examine the text before it received that keep us together and pull us apart. opportunity for the true theatre lover to take a Frank Marcus’s most successful work - and Saturday, Sunday 2:00 PM two public presentations at the TACT Stu- With unprecedented audience numbers behind-the-scenes look at TACT productions it was quite a success, having been named Performances through TALK-BACKS with the cast fol- dio. and engaging post-show Talk-Backs with before they premiere to audiences. “Best Play of the 1965-66 Season” by the November 1, 2014 lowing every Sunday Matinee. This summer’s plays included: Uncanny the artists and the audiences, this season’s Theatre Critics Variety Poll and voted “Best FIRST FRIDAY, September 26 by Thomas Gibbons; playwrights received a great deal of valuable Play” by the London Theatre Critics and the Valley A Public by TACT Company member feedback as they continued to hone their London Evening Standard. Mr. Marcus was Education every way, become fast friends, through des- caping their fate and manifesting their own Jeff Talbott; by Kenneth work. FIRST FRIDAY quite a man of the theatre; actor, director and Alabama Story peration, loneliness, and an unusual but un- destiny together. Either way, it’s clear that Jones; and playwright, Marcus worked in all aspects of The Wonderful Mr. & Mrs. We thank the Harold and Mimi Steinberg ake your premium seat at the first Friday deniable kinship. They are lucky to find each their lives are intertwined and one’s fortune by Matte O’Brien. Though these the theatre and was instrumental in London’s O’Leary Foundation for their generous support, performance of our Mainstage production, other, because their husbands are not quite will affect the others. The question that re- four compelling works varied in subject and T experimental Fringe theatre movement of and all who attended and made the 2014 then come celebrate with the cast, creative what these two eager brides expected to find mains through all their shared struggles is: style, several unifying themes emerged. the 60s. Later in his career, he established newTACTics NEW PLAY FESTIVAL such an team, and TACT Company members over waiting for them. Macon’s husband, Will, are the bonds of friendship enough to sustain Whether investigating the line between himself as an influential theatre critic for The though kind and industrious, doesn’t exact- them? invigorating success. cocktails and conversation! Our First Friday Sunday Telegraph, where he contributed re- ly inspire her passion. And Bess’s intended program invites audience members to get up TACT’s Spring production of Abundance views for over ten years. close and personal with the company at a fes- husband, Michael, a poetic man who wooed will be directed by Co-Artistic Director Jenn TACT’s Fall production of The Killing of her with letters about the beauty of the west- Thompson. Performances run from February tive reception, where you’ll have the unique Sister George will be directed by Company ern sky, has died just before her arrival. His 17th through March 28th, 2015. experience of mingling with actors out-of-char- Member Drew Barr. Performances begin rude, lazy, and possibly predatory brother, acter. Join us for a fun and festive evening to We are excited to have found plays that September 23rd and will run through No- Jack, shows up to claim her for himself. raise a glass to TACT’s Off-Broadway shows! complement one another so provocatively, vember 1, 2014. TACT’s Fall First Friday takes place on Sep- While Macon and Will make a profitable, if and we are looking forward to exploring these bundance dispassionate, home of the fertile land on n the Spring, our look at the lives and re- two very different times and two very different a tember 26th. which they’ve settled, Bess and Jack fail at lationships of women continues with Beth worlds that examine the close and complex every turn, fighting off starvation and mad- by Beth Henley Henley’s Abundance. Unseen in New York relationships between these amazing women I ness in a bitter landscape. The women have City since its commercial Off-Broadway pre- with such power and panache. Directed by JENN THOMPSON to decide whether to the wilderness and miere in 1990, this play, which spans across bear their difficult home lives, or to keep Previews Opens March 3 TACT SOCIAL 25 years of the late 19th century, displays pushing onward towards the setting sun, es- Feb 17 to March 2, 2015 eared towards early-career theatre pro- all of Henley’s keen proclivity for creating Performances through substantial roles for women, but places this FIRST FRIDAY, February 20 March 29 Gfessionals and young theatre enthusiasts, particular saga far from her usual milieu of TACT Social offers a -only ticket discount ABOUT THE AUTHOR: FRANK MARCUS ABOUT THE AUTHOR: BETH HENLEY the Southern family. While most identify the to Mainstage productions, accessible by fol- American West with its tall tales of cowboys rank Marcus (1928- 1996) was a British playwright known for Minuet for Stuffed lizabeth “Beth” Hecker Henley (1952) is lowing @TACTnyc on social media platforms. and frontiersmen, Henley crafts a modern FBirds, The Formation Dancers, and most famously, his 1965 The Killing of an American writer best known for her On a Thursday evening during the run of the myth that focuses squarely on female home- E Sister George. The lattermost play enjoyed wild success, including an eighteen quintessentially southern plays that feature strong, Mainstage productions, you’ll be invited to par- steaders, who risked it all to live on the fring- month West End run where it won the Theatre Critics Variety Poll as “Best Play of complex female roles. Henley is best known for ticipate in a post-show Talk-Back with mem- es of what would become the heartland of the 1965-66 Season” and voted “Best Play” by the London Theatre Critics and Crimes of the Heart, her 1978 play that earned a bers of the Acting company. Then, we take the the United States. the London Evening Standard. Its 1966 Broadway production, which featured the party to a local watering hole, where the next Pulitzer Prize, “Best American Play” from the New Macon, a determined, thrill-seeking ad- original London cast, earned its star, Beryl Reid, a Tony Award for Best Actress in a generation of the theatre industry can kick York Drama Critic’s Circle, and a Tony nomination. venturer, meets Bess, a shy and romantic play, and a 1968 adaptation, directed by Richard Aldritch, and featuring Ms. back, network, and socialize with each other. The Mississippi native has been an active member woman who seems to drift through life, while Reid and a young Suzanna York, has become a cult classic. Mr. Marcus also wrote waiting on the trails for their prospective hus- for London’s burgeoning fringe theatre community, though never formally associating of the Dallas, , and New York theatre bands after a long westward journey. These with the left-wing politics that fueled those artists. He also acted, directed, and wrote communities. Henley currently teaches in the To book your place in any of these special two mail-order brides, though opposite in for the radio, but his most considerable venture, outside of playwriting, was as a theatre department of Loyola Marymount University programs, call Lauren at the TACT office. theatre critic: Marcus wrote for The Sunday Telegraph for over ten years. and continues to have her work produced all over 212/645-8228 the country.

THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE 2 ABUNDANCE 3 Therapy (and was Mark Alhadeff’s dialect coach by actors, directors, artists and musicians. JONATHAN SMITH will Musical Direct Douglas in that production). Jeffrey also shot a pilot for LAUREN MILLER had an exciting beginning to Cohen’s The Gig at NYMF this summer, and CBS that apparently wasn’t picked up, but 2014 directing two new plays: Happy by Liz will be in London in August to supervise the his film Walking With The Enemy did play in Thaler, first as a 10 minute short which came new UK tour of Jersey Boys. He’s also proud to theaters nationwide. This summer he will return in 2nd place at the Brick Theatre’s Winter Tens announce that his son Ian will start his BFA in COMPANY to the beaches of the wrenchingly beautiful One Acts festival in January, and then as a Musical Theatre at Ithaca College this fall. NEWS Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival to play OIiver full length developmental reading in April; as DAVID STALLER, founding artistic director of in As You Like It. And this coming winter, he well as Reservations by Jeffrey Fischer-Smith, Gingold Theatrical Group; produces and directs will return to Resident Ensemble Players to Continued a finalist for the Long Island City One Act the monthly Project Shaw (now in 9th year) do a production of Shaw’s The Millionairess festival in January. In June, she produced the at Symphony Space. GTG’s annual SHAW directed by the smashing Theresa Rebeck. Oh, 4th annual newTACTics New Play Festival, for NEW YORK 2014 festival will include a full and he’s a proud new uncle! which she directed Uncanny Valley by Thomas production of Shaw’s Major Barbara at NYC’s providing a home for valued volunteers and Weakness at the Mint Theatre, opening in late SIMON JONES has just concluded a successful Margot White, Jeremy Beck, MacKenzie Meehan in the Gibbons with Nora Chester and Anthony Roach. Pearl Theatre Company, which David will direct. th supporters who wish to bring helpful resources August and running through October 12 . three-month run in with Angela TACT Salon of Toys in the Attic. Happily, Uncanny Valley is going on to its first This festival will run through November and of time, talent, and treasure to the organization. And the evening immediately after closing the Lansbury at the Gielgud Theatre, Shaftesbury full production in the Contemporary American December and, aside from the full production, For more information about the council, or to show, they will fly to Paris for Richard’s 50th Avenue in London’s West End. He goes on copious amounts of table wine, and prepping to Theatre Festival this summer. This summer, will include symposiums, concerts, readings see who’s currently on it, see the TACT website. Class reunion from his Junior year abroad. Life to play the Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus at Lauren will direct her first FringeNYC play: How of new plays, and debates. David, a frequent is mighty fine! Have a wonderful summer one play with the Winchester Symphony in California MARY BACON had a terrific time this past spring the Chichester Festival Theatre for the month Do You Say Mother in Esperanto? by Roger speaker on all things Shaw and human rights, and all. in the Fall. Practice practice practice! sharing a dressing room with Cynthia Harris in of July, with as Salieri. He also Weisman. will be teaching a new course with Andrew M. enjoyed a fabulous trip to the wonderful premiere of the new comedy, The Over the last year MICHAEL FRIEDLANDER starred in a live BBC Radio broadcast of The DARRIE LAWRENCE Flescher in 2014 at Stony Brook University, London in late January, then she understudied This summer, the big news for JAMES MURTAUGH Tribute Artist, written by and starring Charles was out on the road as an Assistant Stage Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on March is a planned July cruise to the Baltics, making focusing on Shaw, Humanities and Ethics. Visit rd, the amazing Kathleen Chalfant in Tales from Busch, at Primary Stages. In May, she filmed Manager with the Hello Dolly tour, starring Sally 29th, and on June 3 sang “Mad Dogs and stops in Copenhagen, Germany, Denmark, www.GingoldGroup.org. Englishmen” in a charity cabaret in honor of Red Vienna by David Grimm. It was a wonderful an episode of then headed Struthers. Michael is currently in rehearsal as Estonia, St. Petersburg and Stockholm. JEFF TALBOTT’s play A Public Education was Dame Angela at the Café de Paris in London, experience, and so challenging to learn a part out to the New Works Festival in Steamboat the PSM for The Classical Theatre of Harlem’s featured in the newTACTics festival, and was an a venue which often saw Noel Coward himself by listening and watching rather than saying In January JOHN PLUMPIS directed a stellar Springs to workshop Alex Beech’s new play Romeo ‘n Juliet, an adaptation by Justin enormously satisfying and exciting experience. perform before World War II. and doing. Darrie is looking forward to going to cast in the TACT Salon of Toys in the Attic, Infinity Pond. This July she’ll be appearing in Erneka. Performances are free of charge, He is hard at work writing a musical with Will th th has been made a Dame of the British Empire by PA with TACT in July for the first time in a long and in May he appeared as the Detective in another new play she helped workshop: Molly starting July 5 and running through July 27 Van Dyke, and will be at Pioneer Theatre in Her Majesty the Queen almost five years to the time. The Hollow. And he just completed a gratifying Smith Metzler’s The May Queen, directed by at Marcus Garvey Park in the Richard Rogers September doing The 25th Annual Putnam day that we, at the Sweet Sixteen TACT Benefit, first semester teaching Speech and Text at Vivienne Benesch, at the Chautauqua Theater. Amphitheatre. TERRY LAYMAN is acting in Arthur Miller’s County Spelling Bee. honored her by making her a Dame of the Montclair State University. Over the summer, will be performing in a new will be designing lights for adaptation of Ibsen’s Enemy of the People at JAMIE BENNETT MARY LOUISE GEIGER TACTish Empire. Where we at TACT go, others, he will playing Sidney Bruhl in Deathtrap at Co-Artistic Director JENN THOMPSON is happily piece called Oh, The Places You’ll Go, a new musical The Golem of Havana in July the Monomoy Theatre on Cape Cod where in even the Queen, follow. August he will be directing The Man Who Came the Mason Street Warehouse in Saugatuck, heading back up to Vermont this July to direct produced by the Lama Theater Company at and a new play Dancing Lessons in August at Michigan. the Dorset Theatre Festival’s production of All in st to Dinner. Dixon Place on July 1 . He’s excited to work Barrington Stage. the Timing - featuring TACT Company members with such an energetic and passionate group, will be co-producing, acting This winter, ANTHONY ROACH played Algernon DELPHI HARRINGTON played a redneck VICTORIA MACK Kelly McAndrew, Mark Alhadeff and costumer and experience different national perspectives in The Importance of Being Earnest directed Oklahoma menace-of-a-mother in Year of the and directing (with TACT friend and cast extraordinaire David Toser. Next up, a trip out on the creative process. by Keith Baxter at the Shakespeare Theatre Rooster this winter at EST. It received rave member of Beyond Therapy Michael Schantz) west to helm her very first Durang, the delicious an evening of 10-minute plays by Amy Herzog, in DC. It co-starred Sian Phillips and Patricia NORA CHESTER is directing Deathtrap at the reviews, won the Outer Circle Critics Award Connolly, and was a sellout. This summer he’ll Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, at Monomoy Theatre in Chatham, MA which runs for Best Playwright, and was nominated for Keith Reddin, David West Read and Matthew the Denver Center Theatre. Jenn finishes out Lee-Erlbach at the NYU Summer festival, Studio be returning to the Dorset Theatre Festival to July 14-19 and then will return there to play a Drama Desk Award. Turning full circle, she perform in The Mousetrap, directed by Paul 2014 in Salt Lake City directing Peter and the Mrs. Stanley in The Man Who Came to Dinner, and her partner, Woody Regan performed their Tisch. She’ll be playing Penny in George Kelly’s Starcatcher at the Pioneer Theatre Company at the Mint Theater with Mullins. Tony’s slated to be in his second world directed by fellow TACTician Terry Layman elegantly refined new show, Cowardly Swann - A Fatal Weakness before returning to NYC to start rehearsals for fellow TACT member Cynthia Darlow, directed premiere of a new David Ives “translaptation” August 19-23. If your summer plans include a a wonderful compilation of the songs of Noel (part translation, part adaptation) called The TACT’s production of Beth Henley’s Abundance trip to Cape Cod, come see us at this historic Coward and Flanders and Swann – for two by Jesse Marchese. She continues to teach at in January. New York Film Academy and coach privately, Metromaniacs directed by Michael Kahn at summer theatre! nights in the spring at the Metropolitan Room. Shakespeare DC at the beginning of 2015. MARGOT WHITE was seen at Theatre Row They return there in the fall, and are delighted contact TACT if you’d like more details! SCOTT ALAN EVANS was busy this winter and earlier this summer in a new play by Canadian to be doing the show again on Wednesday, LIV ROOTH loved working with the newTACTics spring directing Beyond Therapy by Christopher MACKENZIE MEEHAN started the new year playwright, Dan Libman, called Intermission, June 18th at 7pm at Don’t Tell Mama, before New Play Festival on Jeff Talbott’s incisive new Durang. The show boasted a truly exceptional drinking lots of bubbly celebrating her rehearsed, by the way, at the lovely TACT they break for the summer! work, A Public Education in June. Next up: design team, to whom Scott is exceedingly engagement and the opening of The Wolf of Studio. She can also be seen on an episode of in which she plays Jonah Hill’s wife. the leading role in Nora, Ingmar Bergman’s and ever-grateful: Tom Cariello (sets), Mary CYNTHIA HARRIS spent two lovely weeks in Wall Street CBS’s Unforgettable to be aired in August, but She also had a ball and a biscuit performing adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Nora Louise Geiger (lighting), Kim Krumm Sorenson Italy this June: Milan, Venice (for the opera), before that, she’ll be traveling with TACT to the in two TACT salons, and runs at Westport Country Playhouse July 15th- (costumes), Jill BC Du Boff (sound) and Johnny and Pesaro in Montelauro, before ending this Toys in the Attic Central Pennsylvania to conduct the workshops The Hollow. This summer she’s thrilled to be August 2nd. (Very Bergman, so Ibsen purists Crennan (props). He also wishes to express wonderful holiday just outside Florence in the be advised.) with the students of the TRiO Upward Bound his thanks to his incredible cast, who danced beautiful Tuscan landscape. Upon her return, shooting two great projects; a film in Austin program at Bloomsburg University. their way in the hearts of millions (if you saw she chaired the inaugural meeting of TACT’s directed by screenwriter Angelo Pizzo (Rudy, SCOTT SCHAFER will be playing Principal Creon Hoosiers) and a Martin Scorsese pilot (HBO). in Vestments of the Gods this August in the the show, you’d understand). For you theatre newly formed Advisory Council (see above). To Our 2014/15 season is made possible, in part, by She’s also putting the finishing touches on her Fringe Festival. It is a riff on the Antigone story history buffs: Scott is featured in the new book say it was a lively and invigorating meeting of public funds from the New York State Council on Mark Alhadeff & Liv Rooth in Beyond Therapy. September nuptials in Brooklyn’s beautiful that takes place in a contemporary elementary “Moose Murdered” by Arthur Bicknell all about enthusiastic supporters eager to help TACT to the Arts, a State agency and from the Photo by Marielle Solan Prospect Park. school on Halloween. The production blurb the creation and subsequent demise of the continue to grow and flourish would be a gross Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the legendary Broadway bomb Moose Murders, in understatement! TRACY MIDDENDORF can be seen in the reads: “The Halloween Celebration at Thebes TACT composer AMIR KHOSROWPOUR is now City Council. which Scott made his Broadway acting debut. premiere of TNT’s new show The Last Ship Street Elementary goes awry when two students Last winter, JEFFREY C. HAWKINS costarred on Dr. Amir Khosrowpour. Having just graduated on June 22nd. And check out her charitable wear costumes in violation of the rules. A RICHARD FERRONE and CYNTHIA DARLOW are TV’s Elementary; played Christopher Wren in with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree, he can organization, Shutter To Think (shuttertothink. struggle between students and faculty over their happy to be going on vacation in Rhode Island The Mousetrap at Resident Ensemble Players; now prescribe musical meds to cure your org) which raises money for girls’ education fates erupts into a full out battle for control with and Maine this summer. Upon their return, and did some super-secret video game projects. auditory ailments. He’s traveling back to Italy through the sale of stunning photographs taken tragic consequences.” Sounds Greek to us! Cynthia will begin rehearsals for The Fatal In the spring he played Bob in TACT’s Beyond this summer to teach and perform and drink

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