Where can a playwright find an outlet? Where can an audience see new works? The Gallery Players provides both of these in this Festival. Over the years of producing the Festival, we have developed works by countless playwrights, many of whom continue to work with The Gallery Players each year to incubate their new ideas. More than 300 plays have appeared in the Black Box New Play Festival since its inception and this year will bring even more writing and acting talent to the stage. Who knows what you’ll discover in the Box?
Performance Schedule:
Thursday, June 2 at 8:00 PM – Opening night
Friday, June 3 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, June 4 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, June 5 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, June 9 at 8:00 PM
Friday, June 10 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, June 11 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, June 12 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, June 16 at 8:00 PM
Friday, June 17 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, June 18 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, June 19 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, June 23 at 8:00 PM
Friday, June 24 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, June 25 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, June 26 at 3:00 PM – final performance
Nothing works on the stage like a well-crafted tale, and Oliver! is just such a show. Based on the Dickens novel, you will be engaged by its pathos and drama, while delighting in its outstanding musical numbers. Food, Glorious Food, I’d Do Anything, Where is Love?, Consider Yourself, As Long As He Needs Me, Who Will Buy and Reviewing the Situation are musical theatre classics. Dickens’ characters are brought to life-perhaps larger than life-in this show.
Winner of 3 Tony Awards in 1963.
Performance Schedule:
Saturday, April 30 at 8:00 PM – Opening night
Sunday, May 1 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, May 5 at 8:00 PM
Friday, May 6 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, May 7 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, May 8 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, May 12 at 8:00 PM
Friday, May 13 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, May 14 at 2:00 PM – matinee
Saturday, May 14 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, May 15 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, May 19 at 8:00 PM
Friday, May 20 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, May 21 at 2:00 PM – matinee
Saturday, May 21 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, May 22 at 3:00 PM – final performance
Producer – Lanie Zipoy/The Gallery Players
Director – TBA
Set in 1977 in the Hill District of Pittsburgh that is served by a makeshift taxi company, August Wilson’s Jitney is a beautiful addition to the author’s decade-by-decade cycle of plays about the black American experience in the twentieth century. The men who drive gypsy cabs, or “jitneys,” strive to find honor and accomplishment in a harsh world. When the station owner’s estranged son returns from prison, their reunion unleashes two decades of brutal, raw emotion.
“Explosive… Crackles with theatrical energy.” N.Y. Daily News
“Throughly engrossing, Jitney holds us in charmed captivity.” New York Times
“Comic, soulful and immensely moving.” Time Out
Performance Schedule:
Saturday, March 19 at 8:00 PM – Opening night
Sunday, March 20 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, March 24 at 8:00 PM
Friday, March 25 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, March 26 at 2:00 PM – matinee
Saturday, March 26 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, March 27 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, March 31 at 8:00 PM
Friday, April 1 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, April 2 at 2:00 PM – matinee
Saturday, April 2 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, April 3 at 3:00 PM – final performance
Music and Lyrics by Lisa Morrison & Greg Lambert; Book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar
Producer – TBA
Director – Hans Friedrichs
A rare combination of unprecedented originality and blinding talent, The Drowsy Chaperone boldly addresses a great unspoken desire in all of our hearts: to be entertained. It all begins when a die-hard musical-theater fan plays his favorite cast album on his turntable, and the musical literally bursts to life in his living room, telling the rambunctious tale of a brazen Broadway starlet trying to find, and keep, her true love. The Drowsy Chaperone is a wildly entertaining tribute to jazz age musicals.
Winner of the 2006 Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Original Score.
Performance Schedule:
Saturday, January 29 at 8:00 PM – Opening night
Sunday, January 30 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, February 3 at 8:00 PM
Friday, February 4 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, February 5 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, February 6 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, February 10 at 8:00 PM
Friday, February 11 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, February 12 at 2:00 PM – matinee
Saturday, February 12 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, February 13 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, February 17 at 8:00 PM
Friday, February 18 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, February 19 at 2:00 PM – matinee
Saturday, February 19 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, February 20 at 3:00 PM – final performance
This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936. We meet them at the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with drunken revelry and dancing. Their spare existence is interrupted by brief, colorful bursts of music from the radio, their only link to the romance and hope of the world at large. The action of the play is told through the memory of the illegitimate son of one of the sisters as he remembers the five women who raised him, his mother and four maiden aunts. Widely regarded as Brian Friel’s masterpiece, this haunting play is Friel’s tribute to the spirit and valor of the past. Winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Broadway Play and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play.
“The most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie.” TimeOut
“…this play does exactly what theater was born to do, carrying both its characters and audience aloft on those waves of distant music and ecstatic release that, in defiance of all language and logic, let us dance and dream just before night must fall.” New York Times
Performance Schedule:
Saturday, December 4 at 8:00 PM – Opening night
Sunday, December 5 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, December 9 at 8:00 PM
Friday, December 10 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, December 11 at 2:00 PM – matinee
Saturday, December 11 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, December 12 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, December 16 at 8:00 PM
Friday, December 17 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, December 18 at 2:00 PM – matinee
Saturday, December 18 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, December 19 at 3:00 PM – final performance
Book by Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney; Music by Dan Studney; Lyric by Kevin Murphy
Producer – Heather Siobhan Curran/The Gallery Players
Director – Dev Bondarin
Musical Director – Brandon Sturiale
Choreographer – Joe Barros
Set Designer – Lilia Trenkova
Lighting Designer – Dan Jobbins
Costume Designer – Soule Golden
Sound Designer – Kim Fuhr
Props Designer – Jennifer Stimple
Production Stage Manager – Jodi Witherell
Associate Producer – Robert Earle Jones
Assistant Director – Rachel Dart
Assistant Choreographer – Jackie Covas
Assistant Stage Manager – TBA
Originally directed by Andy Fickman and produced by Stephanie Steele for Dead Old Man Productions
Inspired by the original 1936 film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex and violence. The addictive and clever musical numbers range from big Broadway-style showstoppers to swing tunes like “Down at the Ol’ Five and Dime” and the Vegas-style “Listen to Jesus, Jimmy,” featuring J.C. himself leading a chorus of showgirl angels. Reefer Madness is a highly stylized and satirical political commentary.
“Reefer Madness broadly expands on the skeleton plot of the original film and turns it into a deliciously campy, wickedly funny romp… This show combines the main character from Godspell with the kinkiness of The Rocky Horror Show and the traditional musical theatre aesthetic of A Chorus Line…” Johnnie Walker, Strand (Toronto)
“Reefer Madness…is deliberately outlandish and silly. And that’s what makes it so good…[the show includes] a dozen or so over-the-top and hilarious production numbers.” Robert Dominguez, New York Daily News
“The funniest thing to come down the pike — or the pipe — in a while.” Eric Marchese, Backstage
Performance Schedule:
Saturday, October 23 at 8:00 PM – Opening night
Sunday, October 24 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, October 28 at 8:00 PM
Friday, October 29 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, October 30 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, October 31 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, November 4 at 8:00 PM
Friday, November 5 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, November 6 at 2:00 PM – matinee
Saturday, November 6 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, November 7 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, November 11 at 8:00 PM
Friday, November 12 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, November 13 at 2:00 PM – matinee
Saturday, November 13 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, November 14 at 3:00 PM – final performance
Producer – Neal J. Freeman/The Gallery Players
Director – Zac Hoogendyk
Production Stage Manager – Katherine Schroeder
Set Designer – Starlet Jacobs
Costume Designer – Erica Evans
Lighting Designer – Austin R. Smith
Props Master – Dustin Cross
Sound Designer – Ann Warren
Associate Producer – Alanna Degner
Assistant Stage Manager – Evangeline Rera
The Cast
Dr. Prentice – David Sedgwick*
Mrs. Prentice – Nicole Fitzpatrick*
Geraldine Barclay – Emily Taplin Boyd
Nicholas Beckett – Kane Prestenback*
Dr. Rance – Tom Cleary*
Sergeant Match – Nat Cassidy*
Director Zac Hoogendyk and actors David Sedgwick and Emily Taplin Boyd discuss What the Butler Saw.
The Prentices are not an ordinary couple. Dr. Prentice is a psychiatrist with his own hospital who believes that the best way to interview a girl for a job is to seduce her. Geraldine Barclay does her best to comply, but nothing is going to work smoothly in this nut house that includes Mrs. Prentice, a nymphomaniac who is seduced by a bellhop in a hotel, or maybe it’s vice versa. Mrs. Prentice brings home her reluctant bellhop just as the state inspector decides to pay a visit to the hospital. What ensues is a wild melee of disappearances, disguises and discoveries as husband and wife try to hide their prizes from the inspector and from one another. The ending is one of those delights that Oscar Wilde might have dreamed up in a sequel to The Importance of Being Earnest.
What the Butler Saw premiered in London’s West End in 1969, two years after rising star playwright Orton was bludgeoned to death with a hammer by his male lover at the age of 34. The play has never had a Broadway production.
“The goal of this production is nothing short of leaving the audience spasming with laughter,” said director Zac Hoogendyk. “The cast has taken up this goal as their own, and it has been very exciting to watch them sink their teeth into one of the funniest plays I have ever read.”
“Hilarious, outrageous… It dazzles!… Wonderfully verbal, toying with words as if they were firecrackers.” N.Y. Times.
“Brilliant, witty, the funniest show so far this season.” NBC TV.
Performance Schedule:
Saturday, September 11 at 8:00 PM – Opening night
Sunday, September 12 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, September 16 at 8:00 PM
Friday, September 17 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, September 18 at 2:00 PM – matinee
Saturday, September 18 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, September 19 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, September 23 at 8:00 PM
Friday, September 24 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, September 25 at 2:00 PM – matinee
Saturday, September 25 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, September 26 at 3:00 PM – final performance
Music by Cy Coleman
Lyrics by David Zippel
Book by Larry Gelbart
Illustration by Michael C. Malbrough.
With multiple sets, a large cast, frequent costume changes, and the need for over-the-top performances that don’t go too far over the top, City of Angels is an ambitious choice for an Off-Off-Broadway theatre company. However, the folks at The Gallery Players are more than up to the challenge. The five-piece band is excellent, and the cast handles the humor, singing, and costume changes with aplomb. City of Angels [is] a delightful musical.
-Wendy Caster, Show Showdown
City of Angels is a light-hearted, entertaining send-up of all the clichés of the gumshoe genre filled with lively songs, great costumes and a capable cast. [Director Trey] Compton and the cast capture 1950s LA – the stylish femme fatales, desperate writers, even more desperate actors, sleazy movie executives and bottom-feeding criminals – in strong fashion. The success of City of Angels reinforces The Gallery Players’ reputation as a theater that reinvigorates well-worn hits.
-The Brooklyn Paper
Producer – Becca Goland-Van Ryn/The Gallery Players
Director – Trey Compton
Music Director – Jeffrey Campos
Choreographer – Brian Swasey
Set Designer – Eli Kaplan-Wildmann
Lighting Designer – John P. Woodey
Costume Designer – Samantha Guinan
Sound Designer – Julianne Merrill
Props Designer – Dustin Cross
Production Stage Manager – Kyle Atkins*
Assistant Stage Managers – Liz Bachman & Katy Moore
Assistant Director – Mikey LoBalsamo
Pictured (l to r): John Weigand, Kathleen Watson, and Danny Rothman in The Gallery Players’ production of City of Angels. Photo by Bella Muccari.
The Cast
Stine – Jared Troilo*
Stone – Danny Rothman*
Gabby/Bobbi – Abby Stevens*
Donna/Oolie – Blair Alexis Brown
Buddy Fidler/Irwin S. Irving – Greg Horton*
Carla/Alaura Kingsley – Kathleen Watson
Avril Raines/Mallory Kingsley – Lara Hayhurst
Pancho Vargas/Lt. Munoz – Tony Castellanos
Jimmy Powers/Peter Kingsley – James Ryan Sloan
Werner Krieger/Luther Kingsley/Gaines – John Weigand*
Angel City 4 – Amanda Danskin*, Caitlin Mesiano, Brian Mulay, J. Tyler Whitmer*
M1 – Mikey LoBalsamo
M2 – Matt Malloy
*Denotes member of AEA
Director Trey Compton and Music Director Jeffrey Campos discuss City of Angels.
City of Angels is two shows in one. It is the interweaving of two plots, one dealing with the writing of a screenplay in the legendary Hollywood of the ’40′s; the other, the enactment of that screenplay. This double feature quality leads to many other unique production values, the most notable being the fact that City of Angels is perhaps the only “color coded” show any theatre audience is likely to see. The movie scenes appear in shades of black and white, and the real life scenes are in technicolor. The show boasts two musical scores. One provides the cast with numbers to help reveal certain emotions or to celebrate particular moments in the way that only music can. The “other” score was written to emulate pure movie soundtrack music, 1940′s vintage. It is entirely appropriate, then, that the final curtain comes down on two happy endings.
Winner of 6 Tony Awards in 1989.
Pictured (l to r): Brian Mulay, Matt Malloy, Danny Rothman, Tony Castellanos and Mikey LoBalsamo in The Gallery Players’ production of City of Angels. Photo by Bella Muccari.
Performance Schedule
Saturday, May 1 at 8:00 PM – Opening night
Sunday, May 2 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, May 6 at 8:00 PM
Friday, May 7 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, May 8 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, May 9 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, May 13 at 8:00 PM
Friday, May 14 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, May 15 at 2:00 PM – matinee
Saturday, May 15 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, May 16 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, May 20 at 8:00 PM
Friday, May 21 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, May 22 at 2:00 PM – matinee
Saturday, May 22 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, May 23 at 3:00 PM – final performance
Pictured (l to r): Kathleen Watson and Danny Rothman in The Gallery Players’ production of City of Angels. Photo by Bella Muccari.
“An excellent evening of theater. [Jeremy Bobb as Hamlet] is a true Shakespearean hero. It is refreshing to see people delivering these powerful lines the way they were intended to be delivered. It is rare to see classical theater done really well, so this is not a play to be missed. Absolutely go see Hamlet at The Gallery Players.” -Serena Pomerantz, TheaterOnline.com
“A clean and solid production. Jeremy Bobb [as Hamlet] gives a fresh, energetic and masterful performance. He is an excellent Shakespearean actor and he takes obvious delight in the role which translated directly to enjoyment on the audience’s part. Truly masterful stuff. If you’re smart, you will go out of the way to see his performance.” -Nancy Kelly, Theatre Is Easy
Producer – Dominic Cuskern/Gallery Players
Director – Taibi Magar
Production Stage Manager – Patricia L. Grabb*
Associate Producers – Oleg Ivanov & Hannah Mason
Dramaturg – Oleg Ivanov
Assistant Director – Rachel Wohlander
Lighting Designer – Stephen Sakowski
Set Designer – Tom George
Sound Designer – Toby Algya
Costume Designer – Allison Crutchfield
Fight Director – David Anzuelo
Choreographer – Josie Bray
Assistant Stage Manager – Mark Kassim
Pictured: Jeremy Bobb (reclined) and Stephen Pilkington in The Gallery Players production of Hamlet. Photo by Thomas George.
The Cast
Hamlet – Jeremy Bobb*
Horatio – Stephen Pilkington*
Polonius/Gravedigger – Oliver Conant*
Ophelia – Kimberly Gray*
Claudius – Brendan Averett*
Gertrude – Sidney Fortner*
Ghost – E.C. Kelly*
1st Player/Francisco – Aryeh Lappin
Rozencrantz/Player/Osric – Justin Gillman
Guildenstern – Vin Kridakorn
Barnardo/Fortinbras/Player King – Tim Eliot
Laertes – Dan Lawrence
Player Queen – Nedra Gallegos*
Player/Marcellus – Andy Hassell
Reynaldo/Lucianus/Player – Graciany Miranda
Continuing a Summer Shakespeare series that began with last season’s production of King Lear, called “insanely good” by The Brooklyn Paper, The Gallery Players presents Shakespeare’s seminal work, Hamlet starring Broadway’s Jeremy Bobb (Is He Dead?; Translations).
A ghost story; a tale of fratricide; a saga of moral, political and sexual corruption. Hamlet is an epic tale about a man catapulted into revenging his father’s murder. But Hamlet’s journey is complicated by his doubts concerning the afterlife, “the undiscovered country.” An eternity is at stake!
NOTE: This show is an addendum to the regular season and is not part of our subscription packages.
Pictured: Sidney Fortner in The Gallery Players production of Hamlet. Photo by Thomas George.
Performance Schedule
Thursday, July 22nd at 7:30 PM – Opening Night
Friday, July 23rd at 7:30 PM
Saturday, July 24th at 2 PM -matinee
Saturday, July 24th at 7:30 PM
Sunday, July 25th at 3 PM – matinee
Monday, July 26th at 7:30 PM (pay what you can)
Wednesday, July 28th at 7:30 PM
Thursday, July 29th at 7:30 PM
Friday, July 30th at 7:30 PM
Saturday, July 31st at 2 PM – matinee
Saturday, July 31st at 7:30 PM
Sunday, August 1st at 3 PM – final performance
“As performed by The Gallery Players, The Crucible is one of the finest examples of [local] theater in recent memory. The ample cast gives strong performances all around. Add in atmospheric lighting and the audience’s rapt attention, and you have a show well worth the ticket.”
-The Brooklyn Paper
“A triumphant success! It comes as no surprise that director Heather Siobhan Curran sought trained and experienced actors with considerable stamina for [The Crucible's] coveted roles. And she received them in scores. Every presence on the Park Slope stage deserved rounds of applause as the play did not contain a single weak link. The revered monologues of Miller were delivered with passion, poise and professionalism. [The Crucible is] an impeccably-written story, and the combination of Miller’s learned lines with admirable acting ability is a sure-fire formula.” -Olga Privman, Review Fix
“The Gallery Players brings to life one of the most exciting and well-written works in American theatre. A solid production that is worth the trip and price of admission. [Gil Brady's] John Proctor is explosive and heartfelt. With The Crucible, The Gallery Players continues to uphold its reputation for producing quality theatre.” -Le-Anne Garland, Theatre Is Easy
Producer – Graham Mills/The Gallery Players
Director – Heather Siobhan Curran
Associate Producer – Hannah Mason
Set Designer – Lilia Trenkova
Costume Designer – Megan Q. Dudley
Lighting Designer – David Roy
Sound Designer – Neal J. Freeman
Props Master – Virginia Monte
Dramaturg – Amanda White
Production Stage Manager – Michael Aaron Jones*
Assistant Stage Manager – Kristine Schlachter
Pictured (l to r): Genevieve Gearhart, Lindsay Mack, and Elisa Pupko in The Crucible. Photo by Bella Muccari.
The Cast
Judge Danforth – John Blaylock*
John Proctor – Gil Brady*
Reverend Hale – Daniel Damiano
Tituba – Lisa Darden*
Mercy Lewis – Genevieve Gearhart
Mary Warren – Emily Hagburg
Willard – Justin Herfel*
Reverend Parris – Frederic Heringes*
Thomas Putnam – John Isgro*
Giles Corey – Tom Lawson, Jr.*
Abigail Williams – Lindsay Mack
Francis Nurse – Russell Mahrt
Elizabeth Proctor – Rhyn McLemore*
Betty – Sofia Munn
Ann Putnam/Sarah Goode – Alison Ostergaard
Judge Hathorne – Bob Pritchard
Susanna – Elisa Pupko
Ezekiel Cheever – Joe Regan
Rebecca Nurse – Gina Stahlnecker*
*indicates members of Actors’ Equity Association
Pictured (l to r): Lindsay Mack and Gil Brady in The Crucible. Photo by Bella Muccari.
This exciting drama is both a gripping historical play and a timely parable. Based on historical people and real events, Miller’s classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in 17th century Salem, Massachusetts, is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. The story focuses on John Proctor, a farmer, and Abigail Williams, the young servant-girl who maliciously accuses Proctor’s wife Elizabeth of witchcraft. Proctor brings Abigail to court to admit the lie—and it is here that a monstrous course of bigotry and deceit is terrifyingly depicted. Proctor, instead of saving his wife, finds himself also accused of witchcraft and ultimately condemned with a host of others. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror that Miller uses to reflect the anti-Communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy’s “witch-hunts” in the United States.
Pictured (l to r): Lindsay Mack, Daniel Damiano and the cast of The Crucible. Photo by Bella Muccari.
Performance Schedule
Saturday, March 20 at 8:00 PM – Opening night
Sunday, March 21 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, March 25 at 8:00 PM
Friday, March 26 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, March 27 at 2:00 PM – matinee
Saturday, March 27 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, March 28 at 3:00 PM – matinee
Thursday, April 1 at 8:00 PM
Friday, April 2 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, April 3 at 2:00 PM – matinee
Saturday, April 3 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, April 4 at 3:00 PM – final performance
Auditions for this tongue-in-cheek musical inspired by the 1936 film continue September 7th. Click here for details.
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