Our 2008/2009 season… In our fifth season we are thrilled to be producing Still the River Runs a new play by Florida's own Barton Bishop one of The Dramatist Magazine's 50 to watch, honored to produce the World Premiere of critically acclaimed playwright and journalist Mario Diament's new work A Report on the Banality of Love. Come with us while we go adventuring through the wilds of suburban New Jersey in David Lindsay-Abaire's wacky, touching and charming dark comedy Kimberly Akimbo, and then closing out the season with a bite by enjoying the campy fun and insane musical workings of South Park with Trey Parker's Cannibal! The Musical, Live On Stage. |
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| ....................................................................................................................................................................................... The 2008-2009 season will be the third full season in residence at Nova Southeastern University, Farquar College of Arts & Sciences. The season will be performed in both the beautiful Mailman Hollywood Theatre located on the 2nd floor of the Mailman Hollywood Center and the University Arts Center Black Box behind the Alvin Sherman Library. STILL THE RIVER RUNS by Barton Bishop SOUTHEASTERN PREMIERE October 17- November 2nd 2008 IN THE BLACK BOX THEATRE ABOUT THE PLAY... Paw Paw's dead. Brothers Jesse and Wyatt gather back at home in Central Florida and discover that burying him won't be as easy as they think. ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT... Barton Bishop's work has been commissioned by Florida Stage and the Keen Company, and produced in New York, Los Angeles, Montana, and Florida, where he was a three-time winner of the Florida Playwrights Process award. Other recent honors include the Witter Bynner Fellowship with the Abingdon Theatre Company and the Holloway Playwright-In-Residence Fellowship at the University of South Florida . He received his MFA from NYU's Department of Dramatic Writing, where he was the recipient of the Harry Kondeleon Graduate Playwriting Award. He was recently tapped by The Dramatist magazine as "One of 50 To Watch." A contributor to The Brooklyn Rail, he has also written for several childrens' animated television shows including Pokemon, Winx Club, Magical Do Re Mi, and Shaman King. A REPORT ON THE BANALITY OF LOVE by Mario Diament WORLD PREMIERE January 9 - 25, 2009 IN THE MAILMAN HOLLYWOOD THEATRE ABOUT THE PLAY... A Report on the Banality of Love is centered on the relationship between the German philosopher Martin Heidegger and his Jewish student, Hannah Arendt, who became his lover. In 1961, while covering the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem , Arendt coined the controversial term "the banality of evil." The play, although essentially a work of fiction, is based on historical accounts of the emotionally challenging and intense love affair between two of the most remarkable minds of the 20th Century. A Report on the Banality of Love is made possible by the generous support of Nancy and Mel Morgenstern and the Manny and Ruthy Cohen Foundation. ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT... Mario Diament was born in Buenos Aires , Argentina . A journalist and writer , he is the author of several award-winning plays that have been produced in the U.S. , Latin America , Europe and the Middle East . He is a three-time winner of the Argentores Award , presented annually by Argentina 's Society of Authors. He won the 2002 Carbonell Award for Smithereens and was a 2000 Carbonell nominee for The Book of Ruth. His play Houseguest received the Los Angeles Weekly Award. His last play, Blind Date , premiered in 2004 at the New Theater in Coral Gables , Florida , directed by Rafael de Acha. It won the Curtain Up Award and was nominated for the Carbonell award. Upon its opening in Argentina , it was awarded the country's most important theatrical prize , the Maria Guerrero Award. Since then , it has played in the US in Washington DC and Houston, and in Hungary , Colombia , Chile , Uruguay , Mexico , Peru and Panama . It scheduled to open this month in Stockholm and in October in Tucson , Arizona . Mr. Diament lives in Miami , where he teaches journalism at Florida International University and writes a weekly column for the Argentine daily La Nación. KIMBERLY AKIMBO by David Lindsay-Abaire May 15 - May 31, 2009 IN THE MAILMAN HOLLYWOOD THEATRE ABOUT THE PLAY... KIMBERLY AKIMBO is a hilarious and heartrending play about a teenager with a rare condition causing her body to age faster than it should. When she and her family flee Secaucus under dubious circumstances, Kimberly is forced to reevaluate her life while contending with a hypochondriac mother, a rarely sober father, a scam-artist aunt, her own mortality and, most terrifying of all, the possibility of first love. ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT... David Lindsay-Abaire's play RABBIT HOLE premiered on Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club's Biltmore Theater, directed by Daniel Sullivan, and starring Cynthia Nixon and Tyne Daly. It was nominated for three Drama League Awards and five Tonys, including Best Play. His previous play, KIMBERLY AKIMBO, was commissioned by South Coast Rep, premiered at that theater, received the LA Drama Critics Circle Award for playwriting, three Garland Awards, and the Kesselring Prize. The play had a sold-out New York run at MTC where it was hailed as "The Comedy of the Year" by The New York Times. David is currently adapting KIMBERLY AKIMBO into a screenplay for Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks SKG. David's play, WONDER OF THE WORLD, was produced at MTC and starred Sarah Jessica Parker. The play premiered at Washington DC 's Woolly Mammoth Theatre where it was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award as Outstanding New Play of the Year. His FUDDY MEERS premiered at MTC in the fall of 1999, and later transferred to The Minetta Lane Theatre for a commercial run. It has since received over three hundred productions around the country and abroad, including on London 's West End , been translated into several languages, and is currently being developed into a motion picture. David is also currently working on two Broadway-bound musicals: HIGH FIDELITY and SHREK. HIGH FIDELITY is based on the novel by Nick Hornby, and will feature a score by composer Tom Kitt and lyricist Amanda Green. The musical, directed by Walter Bobbie (CHICAGO), will premiere at Boston 's Colonial Theater in September 2006, and then open on Broadway in November. David is also writing the book and lyrics to SHREK: THE MUSICAL with composer Jeanine Tesori (CAROLINE OR CHANGE, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE) and director Jason Moore (AVENUE Q.) In addition to his work in theater, David is currently writing the screen adaptation of the novel Inkheart by Cornelia Funke for Newline Features. He also co-wrote the animated feature "Robots" for Twentieth Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios. David's other plays include A DEVIL INSIDE, DOTTING & DASHING and A SHOW OF HANDS, and the one acts CRAZY EIGHTS, BABY FOOD, THAT OTHER PERSON, HISTORY LESSON, and HOW WE TALK IN SOUTH BOSTON, among others. He has received awards from the Berrilla Kerr Foundation, the LeComte du Nuoy Fund, Mixed Blood Theater, Primary Stages, the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival, and the South Carolina Playwrights Festival. David is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Juilliard School 's Playwriting Program, as well as a proud member of New Dramatists, the Dramatists Guild, and the WGA. Trey Parker's CANNIBAL! The Musical, Live on Stage JULY '09 DATES TBA IN THE BLACK BOX THEATRE ABOUT THE PLAY... This high camp musical comedy is a stage adaptation of the 1995 independent film that launched the career of South Park creators Trey Parker (screenplay, music and lyrics) and Matt Stone (lead actor in the film). Cannibal! The Musical, Live on Stage is a fictionalized account of Alfred Packer, the only American ever to be convicted of cannibalism. Packer is the legendary "Colorado Cannibal" of the 1870's, a cult figure among students on many college campuses in that state. The musical tells the tale of Packer and his beloved horse Liane who leads a group of gold miners through the blizzards of the Colorado Rockies. Naturally, the group gets lost, tempers flare and the bitter cold begins to take its toll. The group is forced to resort to unthinkable horrors-including musical numbers like "When I was on Top of You," "Hang the Bastard," "Let's Build a Snowman," and "Shpadoinkle Day!" When Packer returns as the sole survivor of the team with the partially consumed corpses Packer is convicted of cannibalism. ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT... Trey Parker is an Oscar nominated lyricist for "Blame Canada ," from South Park : Bigger, Longer and Uncut. He is well known as the co-creator (with Matt Stone) of the award winning animated series South Park . Other major credits include Baseketball and Orgazmo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ticket prices for 2008/09 season are as follows: Adults - $25 Seniors (65 and over) - $15 Students (w/ valid ID) - $10 Cash in on the BEST PRICES TODAY! SINGLE ADULT TICKET 4 SHOW SUBSCRIPTION: ONLY $80.00! EACH SPECIAL SENIOR (65+) TICKET 4 SHOW SUBSCRIPTION FOR TWO: $100.00 ALL TICKETS ARE GENERAL ADMISSION. ALL PLAYS AND DATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE. SEND YOUR CHECK TODAY! THE PROMETHEAN THEATRE 4 NE 44th Street Miami, Florida 33137 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Audition information for our 2008/09 Season |
