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Theatre Lab at 91制片厂 Announces 2017-18 Season

Lauren Palmieri, Lou Tyrrell, Matt Stabile


By polly burks | 7/10/2017

Theatre Lab, the professional resident company of 91制片厂, will present three new plays for its 2017-18 season, including a world premiere from Peter Sagal, playwright and host of NPR鈥檚 鈥淲ait, Wait Don鈥檛 Tell Me,鈥 along with a Playwright鈥檚 Forum and Masterclass series featuring the work of Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz. All of the events will take place in the Heckscher Stage theater space in Parliament Hall, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus. Tickets will go on sale in August at or 561-297-6124.

鈥淚n its first two seasons, Theatre Lab has established 91制片厂 as a force in the national professional theater movement,鈥 said Lou Tyrrell, Theatre Lab鈥檚 artistic director. 鈥淲ith our third season, Theatre Lab will continue to expand on our foundation as an artistic laboratory and a home for theater artists to explore and develop new American plays.鈥

With its laboratory approach to new play development, Theatre Lab allows the 91制片厂 faculty and students, along with the entire South Florida community, to be an actual part of the artistic process, actively engaged by world-class professional theater performances, workshops and conversations with leading playwrights and theater artists.听 Under the leadership and guidance of Michael Horswell, Ph.D., new dean of the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters at 91制片厂, the Theatre Lab will expand its impact through greater participation and cooperation among departments throughout the University.

鈥淥ne of my favorite aspects of having this amazing professional theater company on campus is the intellectual exploration that accompanies each reading or performance through collaborations between our academic experts and the playwrights, directors and actors of Theatre Lab,鈥 said Horswell. 鈥淟ectures illuminate the context of the plays, while the performances and conversations with world-renown artists inform how we can more deeply understand the universal themes that touch all of our lives. This season we will be connecting Theater Lab to history, English, languages, women, gender and sexuality studies, and Holocaust studies, just to name a few of the collaborating departments.鈥澨

First up in the fall, Theatre Lab鈥檚 Playwright鈥檚 Forum program will include the work of four master playwrights, starting with Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz (鈥淎nna In The Tropics鈥). Readings of three of Cruz鈥 plays will be combined with lectures, a master-class with Cruz, and conversations with the playwright following each of the play-readings during the weekend of Oct. 6 鈥 8.听 In addition to the mainstage season, other Theatre Lab programs include the annual New Play Festival, Jan. 3 鈥 7, 2018, and the 24 Hour Theatre Project, on Monday, March 5, 2018.

THE 2017-18 THEATRE LAB MAINSTAGE SEASON

鈥楳ost Wanted鈥 by Peter Sagal听听听听听听听听
World Premiere

Dec. 1 - 17

Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. ($35)

Preview Performance: Nov. 30, 7:30 p.m. ($25)

Special opening weekend matinee: Saturday, Dec. 2, 3 p.m. ($35)

From the magical mind of playwright and celebrated host of NPR鈥檚 鈥淲ait, Wait, Don鈥檛 Tell me鈥,鈥漃eter Sagal . 听Frank and Doris are retired, comfortable and desperate. One day, they snatch their darling baby granddaughter and make a run for Florida, land of eternal sunshine and eternal rest, where they meet a variety of characters living on the fuzzy border between life and la-la-land鈥攁ll of whom look just like the people they left behind. Cornered by an affable detective, they make one last run to U.S. President Truman's Little White House in Key West, at the very end of the road. There, their daughter, Isabel, an avenging angel in expensive clothes, corners and confronts them with every mistake they鈥檝e ever made. This comedy about parents, children, and the fate that awaits us all, won a MacArthur Fellowship from the O鈥橬eill Theater Center. Advisory: This Florida adventure may make your heart race and your mind bend, but it鈥檚 fun for the entire family.

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Florida Premiere

Feb. 9- 25, 2018

Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. ($35)

Preview Performance: Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, 7:30 p.m. ($25)

Special opening weekend matinee: Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018, 3 p.m. ($35)

True story? Total fiction? Or that special place where the two collide in your very own imagination? ~ Four women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution. At the height of the Reign of Terror, playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, activist Marianne Angelle and former queen Marie Antoinette hang out, plot murder and try to beat back extremist insanity in Paris. This fantasia by one of the country鈥檚 most exciting playwrights considers how we actually go about changing the world. Advisory:听鈥淭he Revolutionists鈥澨齣s appropriate for adults and older teenage audiences. These four women may wear corsets and wigs, but they have a distinctly modern (and hilarious) sensibility when it comes to very strong adult language and ousting political tyrants.

鈥楤e Here Now鈥檅y Deborah Zoe Laufer听听听听

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April 6 鈥 22, 2018

Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. ($35)

Preview Performance: Thursday, April 5, 2018, 7:30 p.m. ($25)

Special opening weekend matinee: Saturday, April 7, 2018, 3 p.m. ($35)

When life just seems too difficult to face, how far are we willing to go for love and happiness and to create meaning in our lives? ~ Two lost souls come together under most unusual circumstances in this deeply insightful and charmingly funny new play by the prolific Deborah Zoe Laufer (鈥淭he Three Sisters of Weehawken鈥). Surrounded by painfully cheerful co-workers, Bari is deeply cynical and woefully underemployed working at a small-town fulfillment center. After an unexpected and unexplainable turn of events, Bari finds herself on an enlightening new path. When she meets Mike, a man who makes art out of garbage, it is Bari鈥檚 turn to pull another out of the darkness. Advisory: 鈥淏e Here Now鈥 is appropriate for adults and older teenage audiences. This searching story about existential happiness contains adult language, sexual content and other mature themes that are handled with both humor and honesty.

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