Media Contact: Dawn Kellogg Communications Manager (585) 420-2059 [email protected]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Screen Plays – Hollywood’s Golden Age on Stage presents

Holiday in the Fielding Nextstage

November 30, 2015, Rochester, N.Y. Geva Theatre Center is delighted to host Screen Plays – Hollywood’s Golden Age on Stage, and their production of Holiday by Philip Barry, directed by Jean Gordon Ryon, from December 17 – December 27 in the Fielding Stage at Geva Theatre Center.

Johnny Case, a hard-working corporate lawyer on Wall Street, has great financial prospects, but not a lot of social background. His life’s goal is to “retire early and work late” – to experience life. This plan is news to Julia, his heiress fiancée and an anathema to her banker father. Can Johnny keep to his goal and keep the girl?

Holiday is a comedy by Rochester-born playwright Philip Barry (1896 – 1949), author of The Philadelphia Story and many other plays. Holiday premiered on Broadway in 1928 and was twice adapted for the silver screen – the most famous starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in a 1938 version directed by the great George Cukor. This sparkling romantic comedy, set in the roaring twenties, is as relevant today as it was when it originally premiered: What’s the most effective way to use the years of life accorded to us? Is work always for the young and retirement always for the old? Is there more to life than getting and spending?

Holiday features Rochester actors Marcy J. Savastano, Sean Michael Smith, Sammi Cohen, Bill Alden, Tyler Lucero, Nancy Fancher, Kevin Sweeney, Gretchen Woodworth, Larry Ploscowe, Roger Sutphen, Tim Shea and Kathy Dauer.

For further information, photographs or to arrange interviews, please contact: Dawn Kellogg, Communications Manager, (585) 420 2059.

TICKET PRICES: $17 General Admission (Before December 5)

RESERVATIONS: 232-GEVA or via the website: www.gevatheatre.org

LOCATION: Geva Theatre Center, Fielding Nextstage, 75 Woodbury Blvd, Rochester, NY 14607

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: Thursday, December 17 - 7:00 p.m. Friday, December 18 - 7:00 p.m. Saturday, December 19 – 7:00 p.m. Sunday, December 20 - 2:00 p.m. Saturday, December 26 - 2:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Sunday, December 17 – 2:00 p.m.

GEVA THEATRE CENTER Founded in 1972, Geva Theatre Center is a not-for-profit, professional theatre company dedicated to creating and producing professional theatre productions, programs and services of a national standard. As Rochester’s leading professional theatre, Geva Theatre Center is the most attended regional theatre in New York State, and one of the 25 most attended in the country, attracting over 160,000 patrons annually, including more than 16,000 students.

The 526-seat Elaine P. Wilson Mainstage offers a wide variety of shows, from musicals to American and world classics. The 180- seat Ron & Donna Fielding Nextstage is home to Geva’s own series of cutting-edge drama, comedy and musical theatre; Geva Comedy Improv; Geva’s New Play Reading Series and the Hornet’s Nest - an innovative play-reading series facilitating community-wide discussion on controversial topics. The Nextstage also hosts visiting companies of both local and international renown.

Geva Theatre Center offers a wide variety of educational, outreach and literary programs, nurturing audiences and artists alike. Since 1995 the organization has been led by Artistic Director Mark Cuddy.

SCREEN PLAYS ~ HOLLYWOOD’S GOLDEN AGE ON STAGE What began as a love of classic Hollywood films is now a new, classical theater production company. Producer Karen Tuccio, brings more than a decade of local theater and film experience to this exciting venture. Her company will present plays from Hollywood's Golden Age that have a positive message, especially those showcasing women in the best, brightest, and most beautiful aspects of life.

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