New Repertory Theatre Brings Back THREE VIEWINGS, 5/19-6/3

New Repertory Theatre announces the encore staging of THREE VIEWINGS by Jeffrey Hatcher at Lane-Comley Studio 210, Boston University Theatre Complex, May 18 through June 3, 2012.

Nominated for 2012 I.R.N.E. Awards (Independent Reviewers of New England) both for Best Play and Best Actress (Adrianne Krstansky), The Boston Globe Wrote of THREE VIEWINGS: “Under the direction of Jim Petosa, the performances by these exemplary actors cut deep,” of New Rep’s 2011 production in the Black Box Theater at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown.

“Expanding THREE VIEWINGS to the Lane-Comley Studio 210 Theatre is an exciting opportunity for New Rep,” says Managing Director, Harriet Sheets. “Audience enthusiasm and critical response led us to consider ways of extending.”

“This is the first of many collaborative opportunities between New Rep and BCAP,” Petosa says. “As Artistic Director for both organizations, and director for THREE VIEWINGS, this is a perfect way to explore the synergy between the two institutions. Creating partnerships that insure enhanced viability of our artistic work is common to both our missions and goals. It explores how our home at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown can also serve as an incubator extending the lives and expand the reaches of successful productions.”

Directed by Jim Petosa, the THREE VIEWINGS reprised cast features Joel Colodner (Emil), Adrianne Krstansky (Virginia), and Christine Power (Mac).

For tickets and information, call the box office at 617 923 8487 or visit www.newrep.org

In THREE VIEWINGS, award-winning playwright Jeffrey Hatcher explores love, money, and loss in a trio of mordantly witty narratives. An infatuated man goes to extraordinary lengths in order to win a woman’s heart; a jewelry thief with a hidden secret reclaims a family heirloom; and a widow confronts the repercussions of her late husband’s wheeling and dealing. Hatcher weaves these three poignant tales into an evening of remarkable storytelling sure to entice and captivate you.
About New Repertory Theatre: New Repertory Theatre produces plays that speak powerfully to the essential ideas of our time. Through the passion and electricity of live theater performed to the highest standards of excellence, New Rep expands and challenges the human spirit of both artists and audience. New Rep presents world premieres, contemporary and classic works in several intimate settings. We are committed to education and outreach, including special dedication to the creation of innovative in-school programming and providing access to underserved audiences. New Rep is an active advocate for the arts and a major voice in the national dialogue defining the role of theater in our culture.

About BCAP: The Boston Center for American Performance serves as the professional production extension of the School of Theatre. Expanding the definition of the College as an "artistic home," BCAP is designed to foster significant interaction between members of the professional performing arts world and the College. Creating productions in one of their many venues in their home city, BCAP employs professional artists to collaborate directly with student artists in a way that encourages intergenerational learning not only through the forging of strong teacher/student relationships, but through the creation of artistic collaborations between artists of differing levels of experience.

Joel Colodner (Emil) was last seen as the King in Indulgences at New Rep. Recent credits include: Aryeh Lev and Jacob Kahn in My Name is Asher Lev (Lyric Stage Company); Signor Naccarelli in Light in the Piazza, Louis Hillisum in The Wrestling Patient (SpeakEasy Stage Company); King Henry in Henry IV parts I and II, the Cardinal in The Duchess of Malfi, King of France in King John, Marcus in Titus Andronicus, Polixenes in Winter’s Tale (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); replaced David Morse as Uncle Peck in How I Learned to Drive off-Broadway; Starbuck in The Rainmaker (Guthrie Theatre); Ritchie in Streamers, Mick in Comedians and Horatio in Hamlet (Arena Stage); Konstantin in The Seagull (Pittsburgh Public Theatre); original cast of the musical Is There Life After High School? (Hartford Stage); the revival of Arthur Miller’s An American Clock (Mark Taper Forum). He has guest starred in numerous series including: LA Law, Moonlighting, St. Elsewhere and Remington Steele. He played Bart Walker, a psycho-cardio-interno-gynecologist on the daytime serial Texas.

Adrianne Krstansky (Virginia) New Repertory Theatre Credits: Proprietress – afterlife: a ghost story, Lisa – 2.5 Minute Ride, Agnetha – Frozen. Other New England credits include: Paradise Lost, Britannicus, and Ubu Rock at the American Repertory Theater, Emilia in Othello at Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, November at Lyric Stage Company, Gary by Melinda Lopez at Boston Playwrights Theater, Bug at Boston Theater Works, Snakebit and Body Awareness at SpeakEasy Stage Company, Closer at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at The Vineyard Playhouse, Superior Donuts at New Century Theater. Regional credits include performances at the Steppenwolf Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Actors Theater of Louisville, Telluride Repertory Theater, and Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company and The Public Theater. Film credits include the role of Carol in The Company Men directed by John Wells. She is Assistant Professor of Theater Arts at Brandeis University.

Christine Power (Mac) is delighted to be making her New Rep debut. Boston credits include: Neighbors (Elliot Norton Award nomination for outstanding actress) and The Superheroine Monologues (co-produced with Phoenix Theatre Artists) with Company One; At Home at the Zoo, Private Fears in Public Places, Spin, and the Elliot Norton Award winning productions of Stuff Happens and The Kentucky Cycle (co-produced with Way Theatre Artists) with Zeitgeist Stage Company; Codes of Conduct (Fort Point Theater Channel); Candyland (New Exhibition Room); The American Dream (Theatre on Fire); Dancing at Lughnasa (Way Theatre Artists); More Than What (Centastage). Commercial work (voice-over / industrial) can be found at: www.NEActor.com/profile/ChristinePower.

Jeffrey Hatcher (playwright) has had plays produced on Broadway, off-Broadway, throughout the United States, and abroad. They include Three Viewings, A Picasso, Scotland Road and Compleat Female Stage Beauty, as well as adaptations of The Turn of the Screw, The Government Inspector, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Tuesdays with Morrie (with Mitch Albom). Film/ TV: Stage Beauty, Casanova, The Duchess, and episodes of Columbo. He is a member of The Playwrights Center, Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild, and New Dramatists.

Jim Petosa (director) is an award-winning theater artist, educator, and leader, has been Director of the School of Theatre, College of Fine Arts, at Boston University since 2002 as well as Artistic Director of Maryland’s Olney Theatre Center for the Arts and its National Players educational touring company since 1994. He also serves as one of three Artistic Directors for the Potomac Theatre Project in Manhattan (originally in Washington, D.C.), dedicated to producing political works. During his tenure at Olney, he expanded the company from a summer theatre to year-round; grew the company into a theater-center campus, including a new theatre lab and amphitheatre; and earned numerous local, regional, and national awards both for the institution and his directing. While at BU, he established the Boston Center for American Performance, the professional production extension of the Boston University School of Theatre in 2009. Throughout the Northeast, Petosa has directed countless plays for numerous institutions. For New Repertory Theatre, he directed Three Viewings (2011), The Last Five Years (2011), and Opus (2010). Petosa has served on the faculty of the Catholic University of America, the University of Maryland College Park, and the Heifetz International Music Institute at St. John’s College. He has been a visiting professor at Middlebury College, an artist-in-residence at George Washington University, and a guest artist at Georgetown University, Wolf Trap, and the Smithsonian Institution. In Boston, his work was nominated for two Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) awards for A Question of Mercy at Boston Center for American Performance (2010). In Maryland, his work earned over 25 Helen Hayes Award nominations as well as the award for outstanding direction of a musical for Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well...; his production of Look! We Have Come Through! was nominated for the Charles MacArthur Award for outstanding new play. He earned the Montgomery County Executive’s Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Award for Outstanding Artist/Scholar (in Maryland) as well as Maryland Theatre Association’s Award for Theatre Education. A member of Actors’ Equity Association, Petosa has served on the executive board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Catalyst Theatre, and the advisory board Playwrights Forum. Petosa studied drama, theatre history, and criticism both as an undergrad and graduate student at Catholic University of America.

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