Buffalo Theatre Ensemble Announces 2022-2023 Season

Buffalo Theatre Ensemble (BTE), the professional Equity company in residence at the McAninch Arts Center (MAC), is pleased to announce its 2022-2023 three-play season. The season will open with Bruce Norris' Tony, Olivier and Pulitzer Prize-winning "Clybourne Park," directed by Kurt Naebig (Sept. 8 - Oct. 9). It will be followed by Alan Ayckbourn's feisty holiday comedy, "Season's Greetings," directed by Connie Canaday Howard (Nov. 17 - Dec. 18). With a nod to the Cleve Carney Museum of Art/MAC summer 2023 exhibition "Warhol," BTE will complete the season with Vince Melocchi's fictional play "Andy Warhol's Tomato" directed by Steve Scott (Feb. 2 - March 5). Please note: all plays in BTE's 2022-2023 Season contain adult themes and language.

Says Canaday Howard, "Everyone at BTE is so looking forward to this season. Each piece is sure to be entertaining, compelling and thought provoking. Each play will encourage us to stretch our artistic wings, while delivering that signature BTE experience audiences have come to expect and love."

BTE's 2022-2023 three-play season includes the following:

"Clybourne Park"

By Bruce Norris

Directed by Kurt Naebig

Sept. 8 - Oct. 9; Preview Thursday, Sept. 8; Press Opening Friday, Sept. 9

Performances Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 3 p.m.

Inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," "Clybourne Park" is a provocative two act comedy/drama set in the same house 50 years apart in the suburbs of Chicago. Act
I is set in 1959 when Russ and Bev are moving to the suburbs - selling their home to the
neighborhood's first black family. Act II is decades later when a young white couple buys the same property with plans to demolish and build a larger home. Now a predominately black community battles to protect the historic qualities of the community in the face of gentrification. The New York Times calls "Clybourne Park," "vital, sharp-witted and ferociously smart."

"Season's Greetings"

By Alan Ayckbourn

Directed by Connie Canaday Howard

Nov. 17 - Dec. 18; Preview Thursday, Nov. 17; Press Opening Friday, Nov. 18

Performances Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 3 p.m.

Friends and family gather at Neville and Belinda's home to celebrate the holidays.
Hilarious mayhem is quickly unleashed due to a tryst under the Christmas Tree, an unforgettable puppet show and maybe even a murder. "Season's Greetings" offers a seriously entertaining look at the anxiety and high jinks of an average family during the holidays. The Guardian notes, "...the action escalates into laugh-aloud ridiculousness...4-Stars."

"Andy Warhol's Tomato"

By Vince Melocchi

Directed by Steve Scott

Feb. 2 - March 5; Preview Thursday, Feb. 2; Press Opening Friday, Feb. 3

Performances Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 3 p.m.

It's 1946 in Pittsburgh. 18-year-old Andy Warhol finds himself in the basement of a
working-class bar. Over the course of a summer, he gives and gets inspiration, guidance and friendship from a surprising source in this fictional take on an apocryphal story of an American legend. "We go to the theater for unique experiences and on rare occasions we're
rewarded with something transcendent. Something like Andy Warhol's Tomato" (Larchmont
Buzz).

Tickets

BTE's 2022 - 2023 season performances will take place in the Playhouse Theatre of the
McAninch Arts Center located at 425 Fawell Blvd. on the campus of College of DuPage. Tickets are currently on sale by subscription. A Season Flex-Pass is also available online redeemable for each production during BTE's 2022 - 2023 Season. Subscriber benefits include free ticket exchanges, invitation to subscriber nights and subscription to the SuBTExt Newsletter.

Single play tickets are $42 ($40 senior) and go on sale Aug. 6. Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more. For group sales information email kazmierskik@cod.edu or call 630.942.3026. For more information about BTE's season, visit AtTheMAC.org or call the Box Office 630.942.4000.

Please note: all plays in BTE's 2022-2023 Season contain adult themes and language.

COVID-19 Protocols

BTE policies will be kept up-to-date with any issued by the State of Illinois, COD and Actors Equity. Please check AtTheMAC.org closer to the date of your performance for COVID Protocols.

About Buffalo Theatre Ensemble

The mission of Buffalo Theatre Ensemble is to provide a forum in which artists, scholars, writers, students and community members explore new ideas and provocative issues through the production of quality theater for the enjoyment of its audiences. Since 1986 BTE has staged more than 120 productions.

The Ensemble members are Aly Renee Amidei, Robert Jordan Bailey*, Amelia Barrett* (Associate Artistic Director), Bryan Burke* (Business Manager), Robyn Coffin, Rebecca Cox, Lisa Dawn, Nick DuFloth, Jon Gantt, Loretta Hauser, Connie Canaday Howard*
(Managing Artistic Director), Christopher Kriz^, Michael W. Moon, Kurt Naebig*, Laura Leonardo Ownby, Galen G. Ramsey*, William "Sandy" Smillie, Kelli Walker and Norm Woodel. For more information about BTE, visit btechicago.com

*Denotes member of Actors' Equity; +Denotes member of Buffalo Theatre Ensemble; ^Denotes member of United Scenic Artists

Buffalo Theatre Ensemble is partially supported and funded by generous grants from The DuPage Foundation, Benevity, Choose DuPage, the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Program, The Norm Woodel Inspiration Fund, The Illinois Arts Council, and a gift from Dr. Thomas R. Scott and the late Shirley Klein Scott of Glen Ellyn through the College of DuPage Foundation and the generous support of the College of DuPage Trustees and the McAninch Arts Center Staff.