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Scott Alan Evans Artistic & Executive Director Nora Chester & Greg McFadden Associate Artistic Directors VOLUME 23 No. 1 the actors theatre SUMMER 2015

COMPANY NEWS SUMMER HAPPENINGS

TACT closed out its 2014/15 season with a bang this spring with a socko-boffo Gala at TOUGH the glorious University Club on May 11th hon- oring our very own CYNTHIA HARRIS, one CHOICES of TACT’s founding members and a former long-time Artistic Director of the company (see page 6). That stunning event was fol- SNEAK A PEEK AT OUR lowed up by TACT’s winning the BEST REVIV- AL award from the Off-Broadway Alliance for our recent production of Abundance by Beth 2015/16 SEASON Henley. JENN THOMPSON, one of TACTs co-Artistic Hard Love & Widowers’ Houses Directors for the past four years, has announced that she is stepping down from ACT’s 2015/16 season will negotiate America. Hard Love premiered at the her AD post, but will remain a very active part of the TACT artistic family. She says: some very tough choices as we bring Municipal Theatre in in 2003 and has “I am beyond honored to have been given Tyou two plays that delve into the very been seen in Rome, Berlin, Toronto, Johan- the opportunity to serve and beyond proud notion of choice, free will, faith, assumption, nesburg, and Cape Town, and in this country to have played a small role in helping to and morality. Though told from diametri- in , Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Durham, establish TACT as one of New York’s most cally opposed viewpoints and from two far- and Phoenix. TACT’s production of Hard Love highly regarded theatre companies.” SCOTT flung eras, each of these masterful works will mark its Off-Broadway premiere. the remaining Founding ALAN EVANS, bring you face to face with life-changing Artistic Director, will continue on with the Hard Love will be directed by TACT Artistic & and life-defining moments of choice where support of long-time company members, Executive Director, Scott Alan Evans. Perfor- future lives hangs in the balance. If that’s not NORA CHESTER and GREG MCFADDEN mances begin September 29rd and will run dramatic, we don’t know what is. in the newly appointed roles of Associate through October 31, 2015. Artistic Directors. TACT heats things up in September with In the spring, TACT is teaming up with our TACT continues to grow in many ways: the the searing Hard Love, by the controversial dearest sister company, Gingold Theatrical Board of Directors welcomes new member and awarding winning Israeli playwright, and Treasurer TERI SCOTT, who comes to us Group, fearlessly lead by international Shaw Motti Lerner. Set in the Ultra-orthodox Mea from Barclay’s, and the company welcomes expert and long-time TACT company mem- She’arim district in , Hard Love, is its new Managing Director, JONATHAN WE- ber David Staller, to reimagine one of George the fiercely romantic and passionate sto- BER, who was formerly at Theater for the Bernard Shaw’s most prescient and timely ry of Hannah and Zvi, a divorced couple plays, Widowers’ Houses. whose lives are thrown back together when the teen-aged children from their second Young gentleman doctor Harry Trench and marriages start to become romantically in- his companion William Cokane are touring volved. The enormous divide between the the continent when Harry meets a lovely faithful and the non-believing is attempted young woman, Blanche Sartorious, daughter to be bridged by the power of an undying of a wealthy London landowner. Blanche and earthly love. Which will win out? How will Harry’s admiration is mutual and their hap- they navigate this greatest of all divides? py union seems assured, until the unsavory source of the Sartorius fortune comes to light. Motti Lerner is an internationally recognized playwright and screenwriter whose plays First performed in 1892 and published in 1893, have been produced throughout Europe, Widower’s Houses reveals, as only Shaw Australia, Africa, East and North Tracy Christensen, Jenn Thompson, Scott Alan Evans, Kelly McAndrew & Todd Lawson accept the OBA award CONTINUES ON PAGE 2 for BEST REVIVAL. CONTINUES ON PAGE 4

HARD LOVE : 2 WIDOWERS’ HOUSES: 3 COMPANY NEWS: 4-5 SALON SERIES: 6 SEPTEMBER/ TACT MAINSTAGE

can, the enormous pressures a capitalist and OCTOBER patriarchal society places on its young, and how those pressures can force one to make some very difficult choices. As with Hard Love, those choices often square off between one’s beliefs with one’s loves – creating a dramatic tension, and in the case of Widowers’ Houses, a heightened hilarity – that we think everyone can relate to. HARD LOVE TACT’s Spring production in collaboration with GTG, of Widowers’ Houses will be directed by by Motti Lerner David Staller. Performances begin March 1st and will run through April 2nd, 2016. With TACT’s new season, you’ll discover two Directed by SCOTT ALAN EVANS plays on the Mainstage that will have you thinking, gasping, empathizing, loving, and PREVIEWS PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE laughing. In fact, the toughest choice of all th th Sept 29 to Oct 10 , 2015 Tuesday 7:00PM NEW TIME may be deciding which play you like the best. OPENS Wednesday-Thursday 7:30PM And, don’t forget, Subscribing Members to Sunday, October 11th Friday, Saturday 8:00PM Saturday, Sunday* 2:00PM TACT also enjoy four more plays in our Salon PERFORMANCES THROUGH Series, this season looking at Four Centuries of October 31st, 2015 *TALK-BACKS with the cast following Comedy! See page 6 for more details and look every Sunday Matinee. Special matinee Wednesday, October 28th for our seasonal brochure coming your way at the end of the summer. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: MOTTI LERNER SPECIAL PROGRAM MOTTI LERNER is an internationally recognized award winning playwright and screenwriter. Born in Israel in 1949, Mr. Lerner studied theatre at the Hebrew Univer- sity and began his career in the theatre in 1977 when he TACT SOCIAL founding the Maduga Experimental Theater as part of The Jerusalem Theater. Initially a director and drama- eared towards early-career theatre pro- turge, he began writing plays and screenplays in earnest Gfessionals and young theatre enthusiasts, in 1984. TACT SOCIAL offers a web-only ticket dis- His plays include: Kastner (1985 Meskin Award for Best count to Mainstage productions, accessible Play Award); Pangs of the Messiah (2008 Helen Hayes Award nomination for the Best by following @TACTnyc on social media plat- Play); Paula; and Pollard, all produced by the Cameri Theatre of ; Exile in Jeru- forms. salem and Passing The Love of Women at Habima National Theatre; Autumn at the Beit Lessin Theatre; and Hard Love at the Municipal Theatre in Haifa. His play The Murder On a Thursday evening during the run of our of Isaac, about the assassination of Prime Minister , was produced at the Mainstage productions, you’ll be invited to par- Heilbron Theatre in Germany (1999) and had its American premiere in Centerstage The- ticipate in a post-show Talk-Back with mem- atre in (2006). He has written screenplays for: Loves in Betania; The Kastner bers of the Acting company. Then, we take the Trial (1994 Best TV Drama); Bus Number 300; Egoz; The Silence of the Sirens (2003 party to a local watering hole, where the next Best TV Feature ); Altalena; and Spring 1941 with Joseph Fiennes and Claire Hig- generation of the theatre industry can kick gins. His work for television also includes multiple episodes for the series The Institute back, network, and socialize with each other. and A Battle in Jerusalem. In 1994 he won the Prime Minister’s of Israel Award for his creative work. To book your place for this special program, His plays have been produced in the Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, South Africa call at the Lauren TACT office. 212/645- and Australia. In this country his plays have been see at the Public Theatre, New York; 8228 Centerstage Theatre, Baltimore, Williamstown Theatre Festival, MA; Jewish Ensemble Theatre, ; La Mama Theatre, New York, Theatre J, Washington DC; Theatre Or, Durham; Victory Gardens, Chicago; JTS, Atlanta; Jewish Theatre of Arizona; Jewish The- atre, Toronto; Golden Thread Theatre, San Francisco; Silk Road Theatre Project, Chica- go; Cleveland Playhouse, Cleveland; Untitled Theatre, New York; LATC, . Our 2015/16 season is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New Motti teaches playwriting at the College in Tel Aviv. His book According To, on York State Council on the Arts, a State Chekhov’s writing method, was published in 2011. agency.

2015/16 SEASON 2 newTACTics 2015 NEW PLAY newTACTics Talk-Back for THE ART OF BAD MEN. Pictured Kate Middleton, Michael Schantz, Russell Posner, Scott Alan Evans, Vincent FESTIVAL Delaney, Adam McNutley, Matt Decapua, Caitlin Morris & Lauren Miller

ewTACTics celebrated its 5th and The Art of Bad Men by Vincent Delaney, anniversary this season, and what the first-ever playwright to collaborate with nbetter way to fete this milestone for newTACTics. our new play development program than The festival featured performances from with the four remarkable works in our TACT Acting Company members Jeremy 2015 newTACTics New Play Festival? Each Beck, Jeffrey C. Hawkins, Brandon Jones, week in June, we rehearsed and presented Ted Koch, and Dana Smith-Croll, as well as a brand new play for an eager crowd of returning Guest Artists Matthew DeCapua, theatre-lovers to enjoy. Nearly 700 people Kate Middleton, Russell Posner, and Michael attended this summer’s sold-out readings Schantz. Several Guest Artists made their and participated in our post-performance TACT debut this summer: Helen Cespedes, talk-backs, and their feedback was as Michael Cyril Creighton, Lateefah Holder, insightful and valuable as ever. Omoze Idehenre, Jono Manielli, Mandi This summer’s writers ranged from the Masden, Adam McNulty, Jacob Ming-Trent, THE GRAVEDIGGER’S LULLABY by Jeff Talbott. emerging to the established: from Pulitzer Caitlin Morris, Lisa Velten-Smith, John Jeffrey C. Hawkins & Ted Koch Prize winner , who developed Clarence Stewart, Tyee Tilghman, Titus Laugh with us following our award-winning Tompkins, and Evan Zes. production of her 1990 play Abundance; to Thank you to all who joined us this York Walker, actor and first-time dramatist June for our biggest festival to date! By who penned Summer of ‘63. We were participating in newTACTics, you’ve made pleased to welcome the work of two an immeasurable impact on the future of returning playwrights: Company Member these scripts, which we hope will go on to Jeff Talbott’s The Gravedigger’s Lullaby, his be seen in theatres across the country very third play to be presented in the festival; soon. MARCH/APRIL

LAUGH by Beth Henley WIDOWERS’ Jacob Ming-Trent, Evan Zes, Michael Cyril Creighton & Helen Cespedes HOUSES by George Bernard Shaw

Directed by DAVID STALLER

A co-production with TACT MAINSTAGE TACT PREVIEWS OPENS PERFORMANCES Mar. 1st to Mar. 12th, 2016 Sunday, March 13th THROUGH nd SUMMER OF ‘63 by York Walker Special matinee April 2 , 2016 Lateefah Holder, Tyee Tilghman & Titus Tompkins Wednesday, March 30th

newTACTics 3 the voice of “Hank” in the original Western radio drama, Powder Burns on iTunes. And finally, this Winter, Jeffrey will return to the Resident Ensem- ble Players at the University of Delaware for a COMPANY NEWS production of Wait Until Dark. More dying!!?? BRANDON JONES appeared in a staged reading Continued of Dipika Guha’s new play Herculine and Lola di- rected by Jesse Jou at Judson Memorial Church. New City. We are also pleased to welcome to our newTACTics New Play Festival and he is partic- He will then star in the new play Parthenogenesis, ranks the following new members to the Acting ularly looking forward to directing Hard Love by which premieres at FringeNYC at C.O.W. in Au- Company: BRANDON JONES, KARL KENZLER, Motti Lerner for the Mainstage this fall. gust ( www.parthenogenesisplay.com). To close TED KOCH, TOOD LAWSON, and DANA SMITH- out the summer, Brandon will be playing the role TODD GEARHART finished up a very successful CROLL. You’ve seen them all in various salons of Moose in the new play Night Moths on the run of Peter and the Starcatcher with fellow TAC- and full productions over the past several seasons Wing which is part of this year’s Thespis Festival. Tors, Justine Salata and Jenn Thompson, at the and we’re delighted to have them among the fold. All shows will be at the Hudson Guild Theater. enormous and lovely Schuster Center in Ohio. He And to our Adjunct Company, please welcome For tickets, visit www.brownpapertickets.com/ is currently back at The Guthrie Theatre in Minne- KELLY BURNS and CATE DiGIROLAMO, Stage event/1701715 apolis rehearsing the Sarah Ruhl play Stage Kiss Manager and Production Manager respectively. which opens July 24th. He is looking forward to Until July 11th, SIMON JONES could have been Welcome all! being back in NY this fall to play Torvald in Nora, seen playing ‘Man in Chair’ in The Drowsy Chap- Last spring MARY BACON shot three episodes of Ingmar Bergman’s adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s erone musical, at the Cape Playhouse, Cape Cod, L&O, SVU as a guest star; one episode of Blacklist House, under the direction of Austin Pendleton at MA. As of August 1st, you can catch him in an- (guest star); and two commercials. In June, she the Cherry Lane. other musical, , directed by Michael filmed two episodes of the new USA series Don- Wilson, at Bay Street Theatre, in Sag Harbour, NY. In June, CYNTHIA DARLOW & RICHARD FER- ny! and appeared in the wonderful New Works He’ll be portraying ‘Major Bouvier’ and ‘Norman RONE performed at the HearNOW Festival, an Festival in Steamboat Springs, CO in a newplays Vincent Peale’, until the end of the summer (Bet- event which celebrates audio story-telling and by Boo Killibrew and Clare Barron. She is now off ty Buckley and will be playing the 2 performance that is held annually in Kansas City, to the Dorset Theatre Festival in Vermont to play lead women’s roles). MO. Cynthia and Richard were featured in a half- Rosemary Muldoon in Outside Mullingar, directed hour audio drama which was a highlight of the KARL KENZLER is currently at work co-curating by John Gould Rubin. festival. In two other events Cyn entertained a an inter-arts event for the Chautauqua Theater JEREMY BECK will be performing in Couriers roomful of tots with a couple of children’s sto- Company’s 2016 summer season. It will be a col- and Contrabands, a new Civil War Spy Thriller ries and Richard read a selection from one of the laboration between nearly a hundred different by Victor Lesniewski at TBG Theatre, 312 W. 36th murder mysteries he recorded. Cyn’s reading theatre, opera, dance, symphony and visual art- Street. http://www.couriersplay.com. of the children’s stories was so popular she was ists. His new independent online series Darwin is called on to give a special performance for the available for streaming through SnagFilms and After appearing in TACT’s final salon of the 2014- adults. Richard most recently recorded books in- New Buzz TV. You can watch the entire first sea- 2015 season, Come Blow Your Horn, in May, NORA clude “Gathering Prey” by John Sanford, a NYT son at: DarwinTheSeries.com CHESTER’s summer has been dedicated to learn- bestseller list; “Above the Waterfall” by Ron Rash ing the ropes of her new role as an Associate JACK KOENIG has recently hit a milestone of 97 - a Southern writer whose lyrical style is abso- Artistic Director for TACT, as well as performing weeks in the cast of Perfect Crime, the Off-Broad- lutely mesmerizing; Christine Feehan’s “Dark in staged readings of two new plays. She also way play that holds the record for longest-run- Crime;” and another murder mystery by Faye had a wonderful time working with other TACT ning non-musical in NYC history; now in its 29th Kellerman, “The Theory of Death.” All of these members, Lynn Wright, Brandon Jones and Tony year! He will take a short break from the show recordings will be available through Audible.com. Roach in a lively session of theatre games and ex- this summer to play Harry Brock in Born Yester- ercises with young boys participating in the Hori- day at Peterborough Players in DELPHI HARRINGTON will appear in the second zons Program at St. Davids School. in mid-August. After appearances last TV season episode of the new season of House Of Cards in a on , Gotham, Forever, and The SCOTT ALAN EVANS returned to his roots this scene with Ellen Burstyn. Blacklist, viewers of the small screen can catch June working with playwright Vincent Delaney on CYNTHA HARRIS writes: “It’s been a lovely sum- him this fall as an SEC director in the minise- his new play The Art of Bad Men, as part of our mer and I am looking forward to TACT’s new ries, Madoff, starring Richard Dreyfus in the title season which promises to be fascinating with a role. great variety of plays from different eras. Reading DARRIE LAWRENCE is working with new TACT scripts for possible projects for the year and, al- company member, Todd Lawson, on Outside though it seems early, thinking ahead with Scott Mullingar at St. Michael’s Playhouse in Burling- about our Winter Benefit. I want to thank all of ton, Vermont. She describes the experience as: my lovely new and old friends for making the Gala “a beautiful play, beautiful cast, director, etc, in a such a special event for me and for TACT. I had a beautiful spot -- green and cool and quiet.” The fine time and hope you all did as well. See every- play runs from July 15 to July 25. one in the Fall.” TODD LAWSON recently opened in Outside Mull- JEFFREY C. HAWKINS played “Gus” in the TACT ingar with TACT company member, Darrie Law- Salon of The Man Who Had All The Luck; he has rence at Saint Michael’s Playhouse (see above). been working on some super-secret video games Todd then heads to Actors Theatre of Louisville (but he can’t talk about it); and he is currently this fall to do Rebecca Gilman’s new play Luna playing “Mercutio” in Romeo and Juliet at Lake Gale, directed by Les Waters. Rehearsals begin Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. It’s his 6th summer early September and the show runs thought Oc- out there in a row! He will also be playing “Mor- tober 25th. Between those two gigs, he’ll be tak- timer” in The Fantasticks and has given himself ing a road trip with his dad through Ireland. the fun and challenging assignment of “dying in an entirely new mimed death scenario” each TERRY LAYMAN recently directed Agatha Chris- Tracy Middendorf & Kelly McAndrew in Abundance. performance. Meanwhile, Jeffrey can be heard as tie’s The Hollow at the Monomoy Theatre in Cha- Photo by Marielle Solan tham on Cape Cod. TACT regulars will remember

COMPANY NEWS 4 TACT’s production of by well-known actors, writers, directors, and mu- entire country with her boyfriend. the same play two sicians, will be featuring new work by . Founding Artistic Director of Gingold Theatrical seasons ago that Ter- In addition to producing the 5th annual new- Group, DAVID STALLER, produces and directs ry also directed. He TACTics New Play Festival, LAUREN MILLER was the monthly Project Shaw (now in its 10th year) then plays Bottom in proud to direct York Walker’s Summer of ‘63, for at Symphony Space. GTG celebrates human A Midsummer Nights the festival, featuring performances from new rights using the work of George Bernard Shaw Dream at Monomoy company member Brandon Jones and six guest as its guide. GTG also presents the annual SHAW in August. He will actors making their TACT debut. Later in June, NEW YORK festival (details to follow, check our direct Ah, Wilderness she also directed In Extremis Theater Company’s website), which includes a full production of a at Marshall Univer- world premiere production of Happy by Liz Thal- Shaw play along with symposiums, concerts, and sity in September, er at The Brick, which also featured another new a reading of one of GTG’s specially commissioned and in October he’ll TACT Company Member, Todd Lawson. Following new plays. Staller is a frequent speaker in all be directing The Im- that, Lauren was named Artistic Director of In Ex- things SHAW and human rights and will, again, be portance of Being tremis Theater Company. Now she is gearing up teaching SHAW (Ethics and Humanities) this year Earnest for the Titan for TACT’s 2015/16 season! at SUNY Stony Brook Theatre Company in Queens. GEOFFREY MOLLOY can be seen as the Assis- JEFF TALBOTT was thrilled, once again, to be tant Event Planner in an upcoming episode of the one of the newTACTics playwrights, this year with is VICTORIA MACK new HBO show Rock and Roll directed by Allen his play The Gravedigger’s Lullaby. He tell us: “It starring in the Shake- Coulter. was a terrific week, and the response from the speare Theatre of TACT audience was invaluable in my work on the Nora Chester in the TACT Salon NJ’s production of JAMES MURTAUGH is shooting a film in July with of Come Blow Your Horn play.” In October, a new musical he wrote with Molnar’s The Guards- Frank Langella and Billy Crudup called Oregon composer Will Van Dyke called Imagine Harry will man from July 8th to Youth. It centers around assisted suicide in Or- be featured in the annual conference for the Na- July 26th. The theatre is just a short hour from egon. tional Alliance of Musical Theatre. Chosen from NYC. “It’s a weird, funny, dark, strange, amazing JOHN PLUMPIS was part of a jolly staging of The of field of over 200, their musical will be one of 8 play,” so Victoria tells us… Producers at the John W. Engeman Theatre in new musicals featured in workshops at the con- KELLY McANDREW can be seen in the most re- Northport, Long Island. The show ran from May ference. Jeff and Will are also heading into the cent season (Season Three) of Orange is the 28 - July 12. He’ll spend the remainder of the sum- recording studio next week with some amazing New Black, Episode 9 (“Where My Dreidel At?”). mer traveling to and with family. singers (Jonathan Groff, Billy Porter and Kate She is currently performing in Men on Boats and After finishing up a great run as Sky Masterson Baldwin to name a few) to record an album of Clubbed Thumb summer works to sold out hous- in Guys & Dolls at the Goodspeed Opera House, their songs. The album, called A View Of The Riv- es. Men on Boats was a NY Times Critic’s Pick. TONY ROACH just shot a small part on the Show- er, will be released in September, and on Monday, September 21st, 54 Below will host a show featur- RON McCLARY continues on as the announcer for time series The Affair, which will air this fall. ing their songs (tickets at 54below.com). And in the with Seth Meyers on NBC. He also LIV ROOTH closed Nice Girl at LAByrinth last November, Jeff will return to Tony Award-winning tells us he applauds the recent ground breaking month, then workshopped a new show, Desire, for theatre Cleveland Playhouse to reprise his role as SCOTUS decisions. three weeks at NY Stage and Film. Desire, which the narrator of their hit production of A Christmas In May, MACKENZIE MEEHAN started filming Sea- is composed of six new short plays by six play- Story. son One of the new HBO TV series Rock and Roll. wrights (Beth Henley, John Guare, David Grimm, JENN THOMPSON is enjoying July up in the Berk- With her spare time, she’s been enjoying her work Rebecca Gilman, Marcus Gardley, and Elizabeth shires (with her family) directing the Barrington as a wedding coordinator and has many fun trips Egloff), is based on/adapted from Tennessee Wil- Stage production of Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers, planned for this summer. liams’ short stories, and will be coming to 59E59 in September. Michael Wilson is directing. which plays July 16th through August 1st. After TRACY MIDDENDORF has been in Baton Rouge, an August at the beach in coastal Connecticut, Louisiana filming the MTV series . The JUSTINE SALATA was in Portland, ME for nine Jenn will head to St. Louis Rep to direct Patrick show premiered two weeks ago (it airs Tues- weeks doing the world premiere production of the Hamilton’s Victorian thriller Angel Street (AKA day nights at 10e/9p) and reached 6 million view- new play Papermaker by Monica Wood. She then Gaslight). Happy summer to all! ers - which is excellent for MTV. Her non-profit, went to Dayton, Ohio to reprise the role of Molly MARGOT WHITE is making her musical debut Shutter to Think (shuttertothink.org), which is a in the production of Peter And The Starcatcher as Baby’s Mom (Marjorie) in the National Tour project designed to use photography to support that she was in at Pioneer Theatre Company in of Dirty Dancing and will be on the road through education programs for girls around the world Salt Lake City directed by Jenn Thompson. She June 2016. Please check out the tour schedule though the sale of personal photographs taken is now on vacation in Iceland, driving around the and let her know if they’re in your area! She would love to see you. In June, LYNN WRIGHT spent a week at the Or- chard Project in Saratoga, New York, with Eric NEWACTING Falkentein, Stephan McKinley Henderson & Ty Jones, among others, working on a new play, The COMPANY MEMBERS Reverend Doctor. She participated in the work- shop, held by Long Wharf Theater, earlier this year. Brandon Jones, Ted Koch, Karl Kenzler, Todd Lawson In July, Lynn is volunteering for the Horizons pro- & Dana Smith-Croll gram at Saint David’s with the assistance of fellow TACT members, Brandon Jones, Tony Roach and Nora Chester. She has organized a theater games workshop for 16 rising 4th grade boys. She has also led a “field trip” to the final tech rehearsal of the Classical Theater of Harlem’s “The Tempest,” in Marcus Garvey Park. While there, the children had an exciting visit with Director Carl Cofield and actor Ron Cephas Jones. Please check it out! The Tempest is FREE, and running through July 26th.

COMPANY NEWS 5 2015-2016 SEASON 17th Century 18th Century SALONSERIES THE SHE STOOPS IMAGINARY TO CONQUER FOUR CENTURIES INVALID by Oliver Goldsmith by Moliere December 12 - 15 OF COMEDY. November 14 - 17 he cornerstone of TACT’s pro- option. So, please check out the For a dedicated A mismatched love comes gramming and the exclusive new night and our new schedule. hypochondriac what could to rights when a smart Tdomain of our Subscribing And join us as we delve into the be better than a doctor for woman lowers the stakes. Members, the Salon Series brings twistedly funny minds of Moliere, a son-in-law? you four plays in fully rehearsed, Goldsmith, Pinero and Kesselring in script-in-hand presentations in the TACT’s 2015/16 Salon Series of Four distinctive TACT style. Centuries of Comedy! And look for more details in our up-coming sea- This season the series runs amok - sonal brochure. 19th Century 20th Century literally! - as we scan through four centuries of riotous comedy full of THE ARSENIC overarching egos, blundering buf- NEW PERFORMANCE foons, gullible good guys, and mur- SCHEDULE MAGISTRATE & OLD LACE derous old maids. Proving, once SATURDAY: 3:00PM & 7:30PM by Arthur Wing Pinero by Joseph Kesselring again, that human nature never re- SUNDAY: 3:00PM January 23 - 26 April 23 - 26 ally changes all that much - no mat- MONDAY: 7:30PM ter what the century - and humor TUESDAY: 7:30PM NEW DAY is something that transcends the If the Magistrate is arrested Homemade elderberry boundaries of time and place. TALK-BACKS with the cast following every for druken disorderly wine never tasted so Saturday and Sunday Matinee. funny. This year we will also be bringing conduct, who is to hear his SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS: Call TACT case? you something completely new: a at 212-645-8228 to make your Salon TUESDAY EVENING performance reservations. 2015 SPRING GALA HONORING CYNTHIA HARRIS

here was only one place to be LARRY, , on Monday May 11th, and that CHARLES BUSCH, F. MURRAY Twas at TACT’s Spring Gala! ABRAHAM, JOHN PANKOW, and This year, we were thrilled to honor A.R. GURNEY all joined in sharing a familiar and much-beloved face, their favorite Cynthia moments in our Founding Member, actress, and a touching video tribute. - lovingly artistic leader: the one and only assembled by DAVID COHEN. CYNTHIA HARRIS. The 22nd Spring Cabaret legend ANN HAMPTON- Gala returned to the CALLAWAY treated us to a beautiful classic and majestic set of favorite tunes, plus an original University Club of song she wrote especially for Cynthia. New York, and friends, The great DAVID SILVERMAN once family, supporters, and again led the crowd as auctioneer celebrities came out for the evening, and we are pleased in record numbers to to say that it was the most successful toast Cynthia and her fundraising event in the company’s countless contributions history. We are enormously grateful to our company. Theatre to all of our wonderful (and, may we giants like HAL PRINCE, say, fashionably dressed) attendees-- VANESSA REDGRAVE, you truly made it a spectacular EDWARD FOX, WARIS evening befitting our spectacular

Pictured above: Cynthia Harris at the podium, Charles Busch toasting the honoree, HUSSEIN, SHELDON honoree! Ann Hampton-Callaway performing. Photos by Hunter Canning

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