Azuka Theatre Announces Their 2010-2011 Season

Azuka Theatre announces an exciting 11th Season following an adventurous 10th Anniversary Season. Opening the season with a Philadelphia Premiere and closing the season with a World Premiere, the theatre is also pleased to announce that it will sell subscriptions for the first time ever. Azuka Theatre will open its season with the Philadelphia Premiere of Jennifer Haley's Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom and will close with the World Premiere of local playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger's the terrible girls. The theatre company will also continue to host its series of Azuka Lounges and its Spotlight Series readings throughout the season

The theatre is offering three subscription packages this season. Opening Night and Friday and Saturday subscriptions cost $45. Subscriptions for Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday performances cost $35. Preview subscription packages cost $25. Subscriptions include a ticket to the two main stage shows.

"I'm really excited we will be introducing season subscriptions for the first time. Azuka, which means ‘strong foundation', has a very strong audience base, and we're hoping to expand that by offering these discount ticket packages," said Producing Artistic Director Kevin Glaccum. "We're also thrilled to be producing our ninth world premiere, the terrible girls, a significant number for a company our size and age. Also, it will also be the fourth show we've produced that began its journey to the stage as part of our Spotlight Series, something we're particularly proud of."

About the 2010-2011 Season
Philadelphia Premiere
Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
By Jennifer Haley
Directed by Kevin Glaccum
Performance Space: The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater 2111 Sansom Street

Azuka is pleased to bring this highly truthful and smart drama to Philadelphia audiences. Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom premiered at the 2008 Humana Festival. Haley's reality blurring script takes audiences into the rooms of teenagers addicted to an online horror game. In a quiet suburban subdivision, with identical houses, two parents discover their offspring's addiction to a new online game. The setting of the game is a subdivision with identical houses. The goal is to smash through an army of zombies to escape the neighborhood for good. In this new work, the line between virtual and reality blurs and the parents and players discover that fear has a mind of its own. "Playing like a nifty episode of The Twilight Zone," described Gordon Cox from Variety. Said the Denver Post, "...rings the truest - by far. Anyone who's watched a parent try to coax a teen from the computer to the dinner table will be locking all the tools in the shed after seeing this bloody one." Runs: October 14- October 31, 2010. Opening Night: October 20

World Premiere
the terrible girls
By Jacqueline Goldfinger
Directed by Allison Heishman
Performance Space: The Latvian Society 531 N. 7th Street

Azuka is pleased to introduce audiences to a full-length premiere of this work that appeared as a one-act during the theatre's 2009 Spotlight Series. In this wicked dark comedy of friendship, obsession and Southern sensibilities, accidents seem to happen in a little diner off the interstate where three friends work together and keep a sinister secret. Then, when one of them hides her own terrible secret from the others, everything beings to unravel. The playwright, Jacqueline Goldfinger is a dramaturg and award-winning playwright/screenwriter. She currently works as the Literary Manager at Philadelphia Theatre Company and she teaches playwriting at University of the Arts. Runs March 17 - April 3, 2011. Opening Night: March 23

Azuka Lounge: A Happy Hour Event

Several times a season, the Azuka Lounge is presented as a social fundraiser to help support future Azuka productions and events. This season's line-ups will include a Neighborhood 3 Meet & Greet, Azuka's annual Holiday Bash, and the wildly popular I Love You, I Hate You. Each Azuka Lounge is held at Woody's Bar and the cover is only $10.

Spotlight Series: New Play Readings

Every season, Azuka is pleased to introduce The Spotlight Series, a presentation of scripts being considered for future development and production with the theatre.

Company History
Azuka Theatre was founded in 1999 by group of artists participating in the Arden Theatre Company's nationally recognized Professional Apprentice Program. Azuka Theatre quickly built a reputation for accessible, thought-provoking and socially minded theatre. Over the past nine seasons, Azuka Theatre has produced eighteen plays, including seven world premiers, received a Lambda Award from The Philadelphia Gay News and been nominated for multiple Barrymore Awards, winning last year for Best Actress in a Musical: Kim Carson in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Azuka Theatre has been hailed as "a company to watch" and a "major player on the Philadelphia alterNative Theatre scene," by the Philadelphia Weekly.

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