Luna Stage to Present Terrence McNally's A PERFECT GANESH, 1/29-2/22

Luna Stage begins 2015 with a revival of A Perfect Ganesh, Terrence McNally's beautiful story of love and redemption. A Perfect Ganesh opens to previews on Thursday January 29, 2015 and runs Thursdays through Sundays through February 22nd. Opening night is Saturday January 31, 2015. Select performances are followed by Talkbacks with the creative team. Tickets range from $25-$35. Group sales available. $10 Student Rush tickets available one half-hour before curtain. Individual tickets can be purchased at lunastage.org, or at the box office Tues.-Fri. 10am-3pm (973-395-5551).

A Perfect Ganesh ("absorbing, moving, funny and, most of all, life-assertive"-NY Post, 1993) finds two outwardly unremarkable middle-aged women on a quest for meaning via a rousing tour of India. Each woman having her own secret dreams of what the fabled land of intoxicating opposites will do for the suffering she hides within. Faced with the women's despair, who but the golden elephant god could intervene? Fluid in his power to assume any guise, at peace with all things, Ganesha is the spiritual center around which the play spins itself, drawing upon the tragic and the comic, the beautiful and the deplorable, until a breathtaking release arrives for both women at his hands.

Luna Stage's revival of A Perfect Ganesh is directed by James Glossman, and features a cast of four: Segun Akande, Mona Hennessy, James Rana, Linda Setzer.
Mona Hennessy and Linda Setzer have each performed at Luna Stage on multiple occasions, Hennessy most recently portraying Virginia Woolfe in Luna's production of Vita and Virginia in 2012. Setzer was most recently featured in Luna's 2012 revival of Michael Frayn's Copenhagen. James Rana and Segun Akande have both performed regionally and are making their Luna Stage debut.

Director James Glossman's collaboration with Luna Stage has included productions such as Death of a Salesman (w/Frankie Faison), Waiting for Godot (w/Vin Scelsa & Paul Murphy), premieres of Jim Lehrer's Kick the Can, Sheldon Harnick's Dragons, and Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum; as well as a series of benefit stagings of new and classic plays, most recently The Sunshine Boys w/Richard Benjamin & Tony Roberts; Nicky Glossman's The Professional w/Ed Asner & Jay O Sanders, and Pinter's Old Times, with Tony-winner Maryann Plunkett, Evie McGee, and Emmy- and Peabody-winner Stephen Colbert.

For over two decades, Luna Stage has produced thought-provoking theatre that gives voice to emerging American playwrights and re-examines contemporary and classic plays that speak to our times. As producer, educator and innovator, Luna Stage is committed to collaborating with artists of multiple disciplines and community partners to illuminate the diverse perspectives of society.

Luna Stage, a proud member of Valley Arts, is located at 555 Valley Road, West Orange, NJ 07052. The theatre is handicapped accessible and offers assistive listening devices.

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