| Long Wharf Theatre News Release Steven Scarpa, Public Relations Manager 203-772-8255 / steven.scarpa@longwharf.org Date: August 27, 2008 SINGLE TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR LONG WHARF'S 2008-09 SEASON NEW HAVEN - Single tickets for Long Wharf Theatre's 2008-09 season go on sale Tuesday, Sept. 2 at 10 a.m. Tickets range from $62 to $22. Tickets are available online; or by calling the box office at 203-787-4282. Our upcoming season promises to be one of remarkable range and depth. Come join us as we bring back some old friends to our stage, as well as a few new ones. Leading off our season, commanding stage and screen star Brian Dennehy will bring his gruffly poetic performing style to the classic Hughie by Eugene O'Neill. Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel's new musical, A Civil War Christmas, is a joyful exploration of the essential questions of the American experience - those of race, gender, freedom, inclusiveness and forgiveness. Master playwright Athol Fugard returns to our stages with the world premiere of Coming Home. Bad Dates, by Theresa Rebeck, follows the hilarious dating adventures of a woman looking for a good fit among a motley array of suitors. Our own Eric Ting, Long Wharf Theatre's associate artistic director, and Craig Siebels are adapting Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea into a theatrical event you will not want to miss. What else can be said about the beauty of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, starring Judith Ivey? This poignant tale of a family of dreamers coming to grips with its past is inarguably an American classic. LONG WHARF THEATRE'S 2008-09 SEASON The Goodman Theatre production of Erie Smith, a small-time gambler, wanders home to a seedy New York hotel fresh from a grief-stricken bout of drinking. Hughie, night clerk and once-captive audience for Erie's tall tales, has died. Will Erie find in Hughie's replacement the affirmation and friendship he craves? One loner seeks solace in another in Eugene O'Neill's snapshot of two souls on a city's margins. Brian Dennehy, leading American stage and screen actor (Death of A Salesman, Long Day's Journey Into Night on Broadway), will open Long Wharf Theatre's 2008-09 season on Stage II in a play about coming to grips with the past. "When true greatness comes out way in the theatre, we have to pause and try to find the words to express it properly." - The Toronto Star on Dennehy in Hughie at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. A Civil War Christmas It's 1864, and Washington, DC, settles down to the coldest Christmas Eve in years - in the White House, where President and Mrs. Lincoln plot their gift-giving; on the banks of the Potomac, where a young rebel collides with a Union blacksmith; and in the alleys downtown, where an escaped slave must separate from her daughter just before finding freedom. This new musical by Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel, filled with Christmas music and traditional American songs, intertwines many lives and shows us that the gladness of one's heart is the best gift of all. "Ms. Vogel has a gift for sustaining humor and pathos at the same time, without trivializing either emotion."—The New York Times Coming Home Veronica Jonkers left her beloved grandfather's farm to pursue her dream of a singing career in Cape Town. Carrying a painful secret and heart filled with disappointment, she returns after his death and strives to plant the seeds of a new life for her young son. In this stunning world premiere, master playwright Athol Fugard, hailed by Time Magazine as ‘the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world,' finds hope in human relationships and the power of the imagination. "A play can get into the dreams of a human being, can get into their soul and stir things up" - Athol Fugard. Bad Dates If the popularity of "Sex in the City" and Bridget Jones' Diary taught us anything, it's that there is nothing else more fun than hearing about someone else's bad dates! Haley Walker is a Texan in New York City with a top-tier restaurant to run, a teenage daughter to raise, and a dating scene to navigate. From the privacy of her bedroom, she dishes about her hilarious dating adventures. With charm and quirky grace, Haley takes us through a motley array of suitors, looking for the man who will fit her like a great pair of shoes. The Old Man and The Sea In this illuminating adaptation of Hemingway's classic novella, a young boy recounts the take of an old Cuban fisherman's 85-day struggle to land the greatest catch of his life. Armed with little more than a few coils of fishing line, the old man comes to respect and love his adversary even as he confronts his own mortality in this sublime tale of man against the elements, of courage and faith, and of the enduring human spirit. The Glass Menagerie Laura, a gentle, timid girl living in a world of delicate cut glass animals, has her quiet life shattered when her mother Amanda encourages a meeting with a gentleman caller. Stage and screen actress Judith Ivey stars in this seminal American play about one family's desperate need to hold onto their illusions. "There are no sure things in theatre, but when Gordon Edelstein decides to stage a classic American play attention must be paid." - Connecticut Post # # # LONG WHARF THEATRE, founded in 1965, is recognized as a leader in American theater, producing fresh and imaginative revivals of classics and modern plays, rediscoveries of neglected works and a variety of world and American premieres. More than 30 Long Wharf productions have transferred virtually intact to Broadway or off-Broadway, including the 2005 production of BFE by Julia Cho, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Wit by Margaret Edson, The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer, and The Gin Game by D.L. Coburn. Long Wharf has received New York Drama Critics Awards, Obie Awards, the Margo Jefferson Award for Production of New Works, a Special Citation from the Outer Critics Circle, and the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. ~ End of Release ~ Steven Scarpa Close window Long Wharf News Home
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