SEASON 5

SERENADING LOUIE

By Lanford Wilson

Directed by John Tillinger

With Lindsay Crouse, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Peter Weller, Dianne Wiest

Scenic Design by Loren Sherman
Costume Design by Clifford Capone
Lighting Design by Richard Nelson
Sound Design by Gary Harris
Hair by Antonio Soddu
Production Stage Manager Kate Hancock
Stage Manager Anne Marie Kuehling
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 and the National Endowment for the Arts

First presented by the Washington Theatre Club, Washington, DC in 1970. A revised script was presented in 1976 by the Circle Repertory Company.

"The new production reveals Serenading Louie as a far more penetrating study of marital malaise than it seemed in its 1976 version. A lot of the improvement can be credited to the strong production by the Second Stage." — Allan Wallach, Newsday

"This is a good, sometimes funny play, a thoughtful, thought-provoking play. It has a life of its own after the curtain." — Clive Barnes, New York Post

"Peter Weller gives his very best performance to date; best of all is Dianne Wiest, giving every moment depth but never overweighting one - it's like a great opera performance with absolutely no diva archness." — Michael Feingold, The Village Voice

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ALL NIGHT LONG

By John O'Keefe

Directed by André Gregory

With Gerry Bamman, Catherine Coray, Mary McDonnell, Alyssa Milano, Michael Riney

Scenic Design by Adrianne Lobel 
Costume Design by Susan Hilferty
Lighting Design by James F. Ingalls
Sound Design by Gary Harris
Hair by Antonio Soddu
Score by Bruce Coughlin
Production Stage Manager Charles Otte
Stage Manager Susan Jul
Casting by Meg Simon and Fran Kumin
Associate Producer Andrew Farber

This production was made possible in part with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

First presented by the Magic Theatre, San Francisco in 1980.

All Night Long was part of the 1982-83 First Stage reading series at the Second Stage.

Transportation funds for John O'Keefe's participation in this production were provided by Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for the non-profit theatre. This production was made possible by a special grant from the Axe-Houghton Foundation.

"A talented cast, especially the children. Adrianne Lobel's two-story setting of Jack and Jill-land is a good one. Playwright O'Keefe has something for everyone." — William A. Raidy, The Star-Ledger

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LANDSCAPE OF A BODY

By John Guare

Directed by Gary Sinise

With Alison Bartlett, Eddie Castrodad, Reg E Cathey, Mary Copple, Maddie Corman, Dann Florek, Christine Lahti, Frank Maraden, Christian Slater, Ted Sod

Scenic Design by Loren Sherman
Costume Design by Jess Goldstein
Lighting Design by Kevin Rigdon
Sound Design by Gary Harris
Hair by Antonio Soddu
Words and Music John Guare
Incidental Music Jeremy Kahn
Production Stage Manager Barrie Moss
Stage Manager Stacey Fleischer
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 and the National Endowment for the Arts.

First presented by the Academy Festival Theatre, Lake Forest, IL. Later presented in 1977 by the New York Shakespeare Festival, Joseph Papp, Producer.

"A superlative piece of poetry. It again affirms Guare's place in the forefront of American playwrights, shot through as it is with his unusual vision and unerring sense of the unexpected. Gary Sinise emerges with this production as one of America's most gifted young directors." — Sy Syna, New York Tribune

"Gary Sinise would seem to be the play's ideal director. An outstanding performance by Christine Lahti." — Allan Wallach, Newsday

"A cross between a metaphysical mystery and an absurdist musical, the play is far more thoughtful than its surface indicates, as Mr. Guare draws the audience into the maelstrom of his fervid imagination. Christian Slater, Eddie Castrodad, Alison Bartlett and Maddie Corman are almost frighteningly believable as a travelling pack of mod-ish children." — Mel Gussow, The New York Times

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LINDA HER AND THE FAIRY GARDEN

By Harry Kondoleon

Directed by Carole Rothman

With Brooke Adams, Brenda Currin, John Glover, Carol Kane, Patrick Kilpatrick, Anne Lange, Rick J. Porter, Mark Soper, Tannis Vallely, Robert Weil

Scenic Design by Andrew Jackness
Costume Design by Mimi Maxmen
Lighting Design by Frances Aronson
Sound Design by Gary Harris
Hair by Antonio Soddu
Production Stage Manager Robin Rumpf
Stage Manager Stacey Fleischer
Casting by Meg Simon and Fran Kumin

Produced in association with Tony Kiser

This production was made possible in part with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Originally produced in 1982 at the Double Image Theatre in New York.

"Harry Kondoleon's glittery language and absurdist world-view are arresting as always. Fairy Garden is Noel Coward with a dash of Oscar Wilde." — Frank Rich, The New York Times

"Harry Kondoleon is a writer of considerable comic sophistication whose style blends Noel Coward into the Theater of the Absurd. As such, his dialogue can be wickedly entertaining. His verbal acrobatics are well worth attending to." — Don Nelsen, Daily News

"Carol Kane is hysterically funny." — Sy Syna, New York Tribune

"A strangely entertaining 90-minute experience. Under Carole Rothman's direction, in Andrew Jackness's settings, Mr. Kondoleon's writing blossoms like one of those Japanese paper flowers you drop into a glass of water." — Julius Novick, The Village Voice