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2012 Summer Season JULY 12 - AUGUST 11 Buy three shows and save 10% (New Play Readings not included in discount offers)
Evenings at 7:30 pm (MDT)—July 13, 17, 21, 25, 30, August 3, 9 This delightful memory play recalls the last time the Hines family gathered at their retreat in the Poconos. The summer of 1953 brings romantic entanglements that coalesce one idyllic afternoon; Burt Hines, mid-50’s and convalescing from a second heart attack, eagerly anticipates the arrival of the ex-wife whom he still loves. Daughter Josie has just broken her engagement to a Harvard law student and pines for his buddy Ray. Clemma, the black housekeeper at the center of the action casts an astute eye on the complications while facing her own unresolved past. New directions from the dazzlingly successful playwright who changed the very face of comedy on Broadway. -The New York Times. ...extremely entertaining...a play of great warmth and charm. Simon plays his characters as if he were playing poker and winning and we sit back and enjoy. -New York Post. Rated G
Evenings at 7:30 pm (MDT)—July 12, 19, 24, 28, August 1, 6, 10 This classic comedy opens with a group of the guys assembled for poker in the apartment of divorced Oscar Madison. And if the mess is any indication, it’s no wonder that his wife left him. Late to arrive is Felix Ungar who has just been separated from his wife. Fastidious, depressed, and none too tense, Felix seems suicidal, but as the action unfolds Oscar becomes the one with murder on his mind after the clean-freak and the slob decide to room together. There is scarcely a moment that is not hilarious. -The New York Times. Wildly, irresistibly, incredibly and continuously funny. -New York Daily News Rated G
Evenings at 7:30 pm (MDT)—July 20, 26, 31, August 4, 8 Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play. A warm-hearted, humorous and affecting study of the unlikely relationship between an aging, crotchety white Southern lady, and a proud, soft-spoken black man. A long-run Off-Broadway success and an Academy Award-winning film. The play is sweet without being mawkish, ameliorative, without being sanctimonious. —NY Times. …a perfectly poised and shaped miniature on the odd-couple theme. —NY Post. Playwrights Horizons has a winner in this one…gives off a warm glow of humane affirmation. —Variety. DRIVING MISS DAISY is a total delight. —NY Daily News. Rated PG
Evenings at 7:30 pm (MDT)—July 14, 16, 18, 23, 27, August 2, 7, 11 Based on Neil Simon’s well-known film about an unlikely romance between Paula—a bitter, single mother who has been jilted one too many times—and Eliot, the opinionated actor who shows up on her doorstep with a lease to sublet her apartment. It features the same unique humor that has made Neil Simon the most popular playwright in Broadway history. Add a score by Marvin Hamlisch, composer of A Chorus Line, and David Zippel, lyricist of City of Angels and Disney’s Hercules and Mulan, and you have an instant contemporary classic! Rated PG
Join us for our second annual New Play series. Playwrights from all around the North American continent will submit their best works in hopes of working with our company to develop and polish their scripts. We have chosen two from among the best and you can be a part of the creation of what could very well be the next big hit on Broadway or elsewhere. Come meet the playwrights and give your feedback. You could help discover the next Neil Simon. Staged readings will be held for the selected plays on Sunday, July 22 at 6:30 pm and Sunday, August 5 at 6:30 pm. The readings will be followed by a 30-minute audience response and discussion session.
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