SEASON 3

MY SISTER IN THIS HOUSE

By Wendy Kesselman

Directed by Inverna Lockpez and Carole Rothman

With Lisa Banes, Brenda Currin, Beverly May, Elizabeth McGovern

Scenic Design by Jim Clayburgh
Costume Design by Susan Hilferty
Lighting Design by Arden Fingerhut
Sound Design by Gary Harris
Production Stage Manager Frederic H. Orner
Hair by Antonio Soddu
Stage Manager Judith Ann Chew
Casting by Meg Simon and Fran Kumin

First produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville.

This production was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.

"Miss Banes and Miss McGovern are just right. Like Miss Kesselman's writing, they straddle a creepy, almost hallucinatory ground between Gothic melodrama and high farce. Though My Sister is full of grotesque events and shocking shifts of tone, its author negotiates most of her wild curves with ease." - Frank Rich, The New York Times

"A play of horrifying beauty, gorgeously designed." - Marilyn Stasio, New York Post

"My Sister in This House is a tight and powerful script in a delicate, mesmerizing mounting which boasts brilliant performances from all four actresses." - Tish Dace, Other Stages

"Wendy Kesselman's play never ceases to be fascinating. Elizabeth McGovern and Lisa Banes are brilliant." - Peter Wynne, The Record

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FLUX

By Susan Miller

Directed by Michael Kahn

With Kevin Bacon, Jean De Baer, Daryl Edwards, Robyn Goodman, Sam Robards, Clare Timoney, Michael Tucker

Scenic and Costume Design by Ernest Allen Smith
Lighting Design by William Armstrong
Sound Design by Gary Harris
Production Stage Manager Larry Speigel
Stage Manager D. King Roger
Casting by Meg Simon and Fran Kumin

Previously produced in workshop by the Phoenix Repertory Company, The New York Shakespeare Festival, and the American Repertory Company in London.

This production was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.

"Intelligent and carefully crafted." —Allan Wallach, Newsday

"Susan Miller's Flux is funny and tense and sad…(it) captures the essential interactions with lovers and other kinds of intimates more affectingly than any other new play of the season." — Tish Dace, Other Stages

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PASTORALE

By Deborah Eisenberg

Directed by Carole Rothman

With Elizabeth Austin, Christine Estabrook, Jeffery Fahey, Judith Ivey, Taylor Miller, Thoman Waites, David B. Hunt, Bjorn Johnson, Paul Loughlin

Scenic Design by Heidi Landesman
Costume Design by Nan Cibula
Lighting Design by Frances Aronson
Sound Design by Gary Harris
Production Stage Manager James McConnell-Clark Jr.
Stage Manager Rebecca Pease
Casting by Meg Simon and Fran Kumin

This production was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.

"Deborah Eisenberg's first play, Pastorale, is what a first play should be: the discovery of a sensibility that intrigues and delights us…one of the freshest and funniest voices in some seasons." - Jack Kroll, Newsweek

"Deborah Eisenberg's comedy at The Second Stage is a blast of fresh air. I don't know where Miss Eisenberg comes from, but she has the most original, not to mention funniest, new comic voice to be heard in a New York theater…You're going to want to say you knew her when." - Frank Rich, The New York Times

"Carole Rothman has directed with wonderfully cartoonish tableaus and cunningly syncopated timing." - John Simon, New York Magazine

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THE WOODS

Written and Directed by David Mamet

With Patti LuPone, Peter Weller

Scenic Design by Marjorie Bradley Kellogg
Costume Design by Clifford Capone
Lighting Design by Pat Collins
Fight Sequences by BH Barry
Production Stage Manager Daniel Morris
Stage Manager Kate Hancock
Casting by Meg Simon and Fran Kumin

This production was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.

"Patti LuPone - her nerve ends shining like raindrops - gives a perfectly wound-up performance of tension before the breaking point."- Clive Barnes, New York Post

"The Woods is a play of complex shadings whose subliminal impact is enhanced by the abstract contours of the language. None of our young playwrights has as precise an understanding of the musical properties of language as David Mamet. His dialog is hard, sculpted, its rhythms shaped to propel the drama along." - Howard Kissel, Women's Wear Daily

"Patti LuPone is vibrant, tender, demanding, furious, and resigned by turn. And Peter Weller commands our attention at all times." - Douglas Watt, Daily News