After coming off the most successful season in the organization's history, New Brunswick's George Street Playhouse is pleased to announce their 2008-09 season. 'Last season was a blockbuster,' said Artistic Director David Saint, 'we began and ended it with smash hit comedies which became the top two best selling plays in our history. For 2008-09, we are pleased to welcome new and old friends to the Playhouse in what promises to be another exciting season.'
'It's a brand new day in New Jersey.' That's a lyric from the new musical The Toxic Avenger, which George Street Playhouse is pleased to announce will open the New Brunswick theatre's 2008-09 season.
Two celebrated figures in the theatre, actress Lisa Kron and playwright Deb Margolin, will be reunited for the first time in twenty years when Six Figures Theatre Company and Purple Man Theater present Ms. Kron in the world premiere of Ms. Margolin's newest work, TIME IS THE MERCY OF ETERNITY -- four short plays about the effects of love, violence, and obsession on the body and soul -- with previews set to begin April 21 prior to its official press opening April 22 at West End Theatre (263 West 86th Street) in Manhattan.
Jack Klugman and Paul Dooley will star in the George Street Playhouse production of The Sunshine Boys, running from Oct 16, 2007 - Nov 11, 2007, according to the New Brunswick, NJ theatre's website.
The George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ will complete their previously-announced 2006-2007 season with a production of William Finn and James Lapine's Falsettos, which will be presented from April 10th through May 6th, 2007
Theatre veterans Mary Beth Peil and Pamela Payton-Wright will headline the world premiere of The Things You Least Expect, a new play by Joan Vail Thorne that will run at NJ's George Street Playhouse in Oct.
George Street Playhouse announced today that two-time Tony Award winner John Cullum will join the cast of Jeffrey Sweet's The Value of Names, to be presented at the Playhouse as part of their 2006-07 season
