Boomerang Theatre Company Announces Works for 2010 Season

The Boomerang Theatre Company (Tim Errickson, Artistic Director; Sue Abbott, Managing Director) will include new productions of plays by Anton Chekhov, Shakespeare, Christopher Fry, as well as a world premiere production and new play development in their 2010 season. The season begins with the FIRST FLIGHT new play festival, followed by an outdoor production of THE TEMPEST in June and July, and concludes with the company's annual three play rotating rep series in September. 

The company's 12th season will kick off March 25-28th with the FIRST FLIGHT new play festival, featuring readings of works in progress by new and established playwrights. FIRST FLIGHT serves as one of the premiere play development festivals in New York City, and previous festivals have included work by Kelly McAllister, Mike Folie, Lila Rose Kaplan, E.M. Lewis and Sharyn Rothstein. The readings will be held at ART/NY, 520 Eighth Avenue, New York. Full schedule and casting will be announced at a later date.

Next up, the company will present Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST outside in Central Park, directed by award winning actress/playwright Sara Thigpen. The production, running June 17th-July 18th, 2010, tells the story of a storm that brings the passengers of a royal vessel crashing onto the unforgiving rocks of a desolate island paradise. Dark forces and magic lead the castaways and the island's inhabitants in a struggle for revenge, love and freedom. THE TEMPEST will take place outdoors Friday evenings, Saturday and Sunday afternoons in Central Park, and is free to the public.

The 2010 season concludes with Boomerang's signature program, three productions in rotating repertory. This season's rep includes:
--a revival of Chekhov's UNCLE VANYA, directed by Philip Emeott. The arrival of an aging scholar and his beautiful young wife sets off passionate fireworks on a farm in turn of the century Russia.
--a revival of Christopher Fry's verse comedy VENUS OBSERVED, directed by Cailin Heffernan. The Duke of Altair, a lover of astronomy and women, brings three of his ex-mistresses to his home with the intention of marrying one of them, but falls in love with the young daughter of his amiably dishonest secretary. Can true love win the day?
--the world premiere of ENDLESS SUMMER NIGHTS by Tim Errickson, directed by Christopher Thomasson. Sam is finally over Tracy, just as she returns unexpectedly to their quiet beach town. In a chance meeting, they rekindle something they thought they both had lost, but time, memory and life's grind has changed them. Having faced their past with humor and mercy, Sam and Tracy must now face their futures.

Exact dates, location, and casting for all three rep productions will be announced at a later date.

The Boomerang Theatre Company is an award-winning Off-Off-Broadway theatre company based in New York City. Boomerang annually produces a season composed of three programs: free outdoor Shakespeare productions in parks throughout NYC; an indoor repertory series of new, classic and neglected plays; and FIRST FLIGHT, a new play development festival of workshops and readings.

In the past eleven years, the Boomerang Theatre Company has produced 42 full productions, including six world premieres, seven New York City premieres and reinvented producing in repertory for small theatres. In 2008, the company was the recipient of the Caffe Cino Fellowship from the New York Innovative Theatre Awards for consistent production of outstanding work. Boomerang has been awarded two New York Innovative Theatre Awards for Burning the Old Man by Kelly McAllister (out of six nominations), a 2002 OOBR Award for The Misanthrope by Moliere, and was selected as a September 2005 recipient of The STAR Initiative from WNYC radio. The company also presented the United States premiere of Irvine ("Trainspotting") Welsh's You'll Have Had Your Hole in the NYC International Fringe Festival. Two plays produced by Boomerang have been published in annual Plays and Playwrights anthologies. The 2010 season is supported by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Check out www.boomerangtheatre.org for more information.