Lee, Criscuolo, Kelston lead casts of Boomerang Theatre's 2010 Rep Season

The Boomerang Theatre Company (Tim Errickson, Artistic Director; Sue Abbott, Managing Director) will include new productions of plays by Anton Chekhov, Christopher Fry, and a world premiere production in their 2010 Repertory season. Boomerang will be in residence at The Connelly Theatre with all three plays from September 9th through October 10th, 2010. Check out www.boomerangtheatre.org for more information.

The 2010 Rep season features three productions in rotating repertory, including:

VENUS OBSERVED, Christopher Fry's 1950 verse comedy. 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 cast features Ryan Lee as the Duke, Saluda Camp as Perpetua, and Jason Loughlin as Edgar. The ensemble includes Spencer Aste, John Greenleaf, Samantha Ives, Paul Nugent, Buzz Roddy, and Kristen Vaughan. Cailin Heffernan directs. VENUS OBSERVED begins performances September 9th and runs until Oct 3rd.

UNCLE VANYA by Anton Chekhov, translated by Carol Rocamora. The arrival of an aging scholar and his beautiful young wife sets off passionate fireworks on a farm in turn of the century . UNCLE VANYA features James Leach as Vanya, Richard Brundage as Dr. Astrov, Lauren Kelston as Yelena, and Eve Udesky as Sonya. Joseph Mathers, Dolores McDougal, Ann Parker, Ed Schultz and Bill Weeden round out the ensemble. Philip Emeott directs. UNCLE VANYA begins performances September 11th and runs until Oct 10th.

The world premiere of ENDLESS SUMMER NIGHTS by Tim Errickson. 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. ENDLESS SUMMER NIGHTS features Michael Criscuolo as Sam and Synge Maher as Tracy, along with Bret Hoskins, Nora Hummel and Joseph Mathers. Christopher Thomasson will direct. ENDLESS SUMMER NIGHTS begins performances September 17th and runs until October 9th.

The creative team for Boomerang's 2010 Rep includes Cheryl McCarron (costumes), Nikki Black (sets), Kia Rogers (lights), and Carrie Brewer (fight direction).
Performances of Boomerang's 2010 Repertory season will be at The Connelly Theatre, 220 E 4th Street in New York's East Village. Tickets are $15-$25 and are available at TheatreMania.com
For more information, visit www.boomerangtheatre.org

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 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.

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