These scaled-down productions traditionally support Profile’s mission of presenting as complete a picture as we can of our featured playwright’s body of work. This season, they help us to bring you the full slate of fourteen playwrights in our 14 year retrospective lineup.
In Profile’s staged reading format, the actors hold scripts, but the play has been fully staged with minimal props and costumes.
Tickets are $16 for adults and seniors, $12 for students. Click here for single and subscription package tickets.
Showtimes are: Wednesdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm, and Sundays at 2:00pm.
Sunday matinee performances followed by Mat Chat.
BecauseHeCan by Arthur Kopit
Playwright Sponsor: Priscilla Bernard & Dan Wieden
Nov. 2-Nov. 6, 2011
Directed by Jane Unger
Featuring Jami Chatalas, Paul Glazier, Todd Hermanson, Dennis Kelly and Shelly Lipkin
A new play by Arthur Kopit, BecauseHeCan is a high-speed techno-thriller of a story pitting one reckless computer hacker against a successful New York couple who inhabit the world of publishing and fine art.
“Sizzling. A horrifying cautionary tale [that] plays with questions of reality.” – N.Y. Times
The Prisoner of Second Avenue by Neil Simon
Playwright Sponsor: Robert & Barre Stoll
Nov. 16-Nov. 20, 2011
Directed by Thom Bray
Featuring Don Alder, Thom Bray, Jane Fellows, Karla Mason, Jean Miller and Jane Unger
What happens when a smart, healthy, hard-working man of 47 is unexpectedly laid-off from the only job he’s ever known as an adult? Sound familiar? Welcome to the world of Mel and Edna Edison. As contemporary and familiar a story as this may sound, it was written in 1971 and is yet another example of the timelessness of Neil Simon’s work. While maintaining his signature brilliant wit, Simon captures the emotional roller coaster we tumble through when our livelihood is taken away.
Lake Hollywood by John Guare
Playwright Sponsor: Sharon & Bill Bourque
Feb. 8-Feb. 12, 2012
Directed by Kathleen Worley
Featuring Leah Artenian, Bruce Blanchard, Dave Bodin, Doren Elias, Jane Fellows, Christy Drogosch, Paige Jones, Andy Lee-Hillstrom, Tai Sammons, Jonah Weston
A love story from John Guare as only he can tell it. This play tracks a couple’s life from their courtship one summer in New Hampshire, 1940, to their domestic life in New York City, 1990. The kleig lights and glamour of Hollywood have no place in the world of Lake Hollywood other than in the dreams to which some of its characters desperately cling. Dreams can be replaced with reality – all you need is love.
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Old Times by Harold Pinter
Playwright Sponsor: Beverly Unger
Apr. 25-Apr. 29, 2012
Directed by Kathleen Worley
Featuring Christine Morris, Quigley Provost-Landrum and David Sikking
“The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.” Harold Pinter
Considered to be the first of Pinter’s ‘memory plays’, Old Times turns the simplest story of a visit from an old friend into a mysterious tale of intrigue and deceit. The visitor, Anna, is an old friend of Kate’s and they have not seen each other in twenty years. Kate and her husband seem to enjoy a quiet domesticity in a converted and remotely-situated farmhouse not far from the sea. The precarious balance of their marriage takes center stage when Anna enters, throwing that balance up for grabs. Buy Now!