SEASON 18

TOOTH OF CRIME (SECOND DANCE)

By Sam Shepard

Music by T Bone Burnett

Directed by Bill Hart

With Vincent D'Onofrio, Kirk Acevedo, Paul Butler, Michael Deep, Jesse Lenat, Jeffrey Anders Ware, Sturgis Warner, Rebecca Wisocky

Scenic Design by E. David Cosier
Costume Design by Teresa Snider-Stein
Lighting Design by Anne Militello
Sound Design by David Van Tieghem
Video by Kevin Cunningham
Musical Director Loren Toolajian
Production Stage Managers Ruth Kreshka and James FitzSimmons
Casting by Jerry Beaver and Associates

In association with Lucille Lortel and Signature Theatre Company.

"Director Bill Hart keeps things tense and prowling and angry in this strange play of uncertainty and anguish that is about both the musicians' doubts of music and the writer's terror before language. Vincent D'Onofrio gives depth and pain to Hoss: this fine actor is coming into his own. Kirk Acevedo's Crow is likewise a star-making turn. This is, I think, by far Sam Shepard's best play." - Donald Lyons, The Wall Street Journal

"Sam Shepard's Tooth of Crime is his most savage vision, a diabolical duel between the fading king and the fast-rising challenger." - Mel Gussow, The New York Times

"This new version has music and lyrics by a respected alternative folk musician, T Bone Burnett, and it adds to the power of a play that trades heavily on musical methods and verbal references. The present staging by Bill Hart seems exemplary. It packs a potent punch not readily forgotten." - Clive Barnes, New York Post

"Tooth of Crime (Second Dance) really is - honestly! - a fascinating, even brilliant work, and those who consider it Mr. Shepard's best aren't insane." - Ben Brantley, The New York Times

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THE RED ADDRESS

By David Ives

Directed by Pamela Berlin

With Kevin Anderson, Ned Eisenberg, Jonathan Hogan, Josh Hopkins, Cady McClain, Welker White

Scenic Design by Christine Jones
Costume Design by David C. Woolard
Lighting Design by Donald Holder
Sound Design by John Kilgore
Associate Producer Carol Fishman
Production Stage Manager Susan Whelan
Stage Manager Thea Bradshaw Gillies
Press Representative Richard Kornberg 
Casting by Johnson-Liff Associates

Dedicated to the memory of Richard Nelson, an extraordinary human being, uniquely talented Tony Award-winning lighting designer and our wonderful friend.

"The play is crisply staged by Pamela Berlin, there is an excellently versatile setting by Christine Jones, and the acting throughout is superb." - Clive Barnes, New York Post

"Gentle and profound. Kevin Anderson gives one of his deepest and most likeable performances. He also looks good in red pumps."- David Patrick Stearns, USA Today

"Playwright David Ives is the master wordsmith. Ives can indeed create crackling scenes." - Aileen Jacobson, New York Newsday

"David Ives has cunningly couched serious themes in a seemingly comic shell, which makes the developments that much more unsettling. It is remarkable how swiftly Ives gets us involved with his personages, outlandish though they may be." - John Simon, New York Magazine

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SYMPATHETIC MAGIC

By Lanford Wilson

Directed by Marshall W. Mason

With Tanya Berezin, David Bishins, Herb Foster, Ellen Lancaster, Jeff McCarthy, Dana Millican, Jordan Mott, David Pittu

Scenic Design by John Lee Beatty
Costume Design by Laura Crow
Lighting Design by Dennis Parichy
Sound Design by Chuck London
Original Music by Peter Kater
Fight Staging by BH Barry
Production Stage Manager Denise Yaney
Stage Manager Karen Potosnak
Associate Producer Carol Fishman
Press Representative Richard Kornberg
Casting by Johnson-Liff Associates

Written on commission for Second Stage Theatre

This production was part of The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust New Play Development Program for Second Stage Theatre.

Support for this production was provided by generous grants from Axe -Houghton Foundation and The Laura Pels Foundation. This production was sponsored in part by AT&T.

"Lanford Wilson's Sympathetic Magic is the most intelligent and engagingly intellectual theatre piece since Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. The cast is flawless and elegantly directed." - Scott and Barbara Siegel, Drama-Logue

"Lanford Wilson's best play yet. He encompasses it all, always landing, however daring the leap, on the balls of his elastic feet. He shies away from nothing, giving you even one of the most complicated and terrifying fights ever, chillingly staged by that master BH Barry." - John Simon, New York Magazine

"Probably not since Tom Stoppard's Hapgood have we had such a genial course in the foothills of advanced physics as we got this week at the world premiere of Lanford Wilson's Sympathetic Magic. I was distinctly entertained by it, and mightily intrigued." - Clive Barnes, New York Post

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SOMETHING BLUE

Written and Performed by Michaela Murphy

Directed by Tim Blake Nelson

Lighting Design by Jan Kroeze
Costume Design by Crystal Thompson
Production Stage Manager Rebecca C. Monroe
Associate Producer Carol Fishman
Press Representative Richard Kornberg

This production was sponsored in part by AT&T.

"Michaela Murphy's good humor, good writing, and good acting are ultimately irresistible. She brings it all to quite vivid life." - New York Law Journal

"In Something Blue, Michaela Murphy enthusiastically tells of her role in her sister's hilariously grisly wedding in Florida. It is a zesty story, and Murphy's humor is astonishingly broad as she jumps from stoic sarcasm to slapstick. This one-woman show has an accessible, casual quality, like the most entertaining story you've ever heard standing around the water cooler." - Lisa Coleman Bradlow,Time Out New York

"Intelligently paced and sharply staged." - Aileen Jacobson, New York Newsday

"Michaela Murphy is expertly funny from beginning to end. A priceless kinship-of-shame account." - Anita Gates, The New York Times