NCTC Announces Their 2010 Pride Season

THE NEW CONSERVATORY THEATRE CENTER (Ed Decker, Founding Artistic Director) is delighted to announce the 2010-2011 Pride Season. Now in its sixteenth year, NCTC's Pride Season programming promotes the theatre's visionary mission to promote exploration and open dialogue among audiences and developing playwrights in order to celebrate diversity and foster community.
All performances take place at The New Conservatory Theatre Center, at 25 Van Ness Avenue near Market St., in San Francisco, 94102. Subscriptions are available for returning NCTC subscribers on April 7, 2010 and to the general public on June 2, 2010. Subscription prices range from $99 - $290 with various packages and discounts. Additional ticket and subscription information can be found at www.nctcsf.org or by calling the NCTC Box Office at (415) 861- 8972.

ABOUT THE SEASON

The 2010 - 2011 Pride Season starts in August with Leanne Borghesi in Divalicious, a limited engagement cabaret with the talented virtuoso G. Scott Lacy at the piano. Next up is the west coast premiere of Don't Ask by Bill Quigley, where an affair between a reckless US Army Private and his superior grows perilous in this sexually-charged drama set during the Iraq war. The season continues with the coming of age story and SF premiere of Anita Bryant Died for Your Sins by Brian Christopher Williams, and Pulitzer Prize nominee, A Perfect Ganesh by Terrence McNally. For a dose of naughty and nice, Tom Orr's much anticipated revival of Dirty Little Showtunes is the perfect winter season event. The San Francisco premiere of Treefall by Henry Murray kicks off 2011, followed by Paul Rudnick's comedy Regrets Only. Continuing the season is The Busy World is Hushed, a drama by Keith Bunin, and Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moises Kaufman. The Stops, a musical comedy by Eric Lane Barnes, completes the season.

"Pride 16 at The New Conservatory Theatre is a jam-packed creative meditation on how we navigate in a world that presents relentless challenge," says Artistic Director, Ed Decker. "Whether we are looking back, ahead, or simply around us, the people calling to us from the stage next season are longing to be heard. It's my hope that Pride 16 will inspire the imagination, provoke action, ignite laughter, and provide sanctuary as we gather together in the theatre."

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2010 - 11 Pride Season Calendar & Narratives
*Performances and schedules are subject to change

Cabaret Special Event Decker Theatre
Divalicious
With Leanne Borghesi and G. Scott Lacy
Previews: August 4, 5, 6, 2010
Opens: August 7, 2010
Runs: August 4 - 22, 2010 • Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm
You loved her last season as the saucy Mona Kent in Dames at Sea. Now this incomparable talent takes on the music of legendary Divas such as Midler, Garland, Merman, Lansbury, Streisand, Lupone, and many more. Leanne is joined by musical director and virtuoso accompanist G. Scott Lacy in a delicious cabaret that will tease your taste buds and leave you craving more.

Drama West Coast Premiere Walker Theatre
Don't Ask
By Bill Quigley
Previews: August 13, 2010 (6 Previews)
Press Opening: August 20, 2010
Opens: August 21, 2010
Runs: August 13 - September 19, 2010 • Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm
A dangerous affair between a reckless U.S. Army Private and his superior grows truly perilous in this dark, sexually-charged, brutal drama set during the Iraq war.

Coming of Age Story SF Premiere Decker Theatre
Anita Bryant Died for Your Sins
By Brian Christopher Williams
Previews: September 17, 2010 (6 previews)
Opens: September 25, 2010
Runs: September 18 - October 24, 2010 • Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm
Global recession, double digit unemployment, and the fight for equal rights for gay Americans... sound familiar? It's 1977, and 15 year-old Horace Poore is trying to make sense of the tumultuous events surrounding him -- and the tumultuous events within him.

1993 Pulitzer Prize Nominee Walker Theatre
A Perfect Ganesh
By Terrence McNally
Previews: November 5, 2010, (6 previews)
Press Opening: November 12, 2010
Opens: November 13, 2010
Runs: November 5, 2010 - December 19, 2010 • Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm
Ganesha is the spiritual center around which the play spins itself. The pilgrimage tradition is turned on its head when two outwardly unremarkable, middle-aged lady friends throw themselves into a rousing tour of India, each with her own secret dreams of what the fabled land of intoxicating opposites will do for the suffering she hides within.

Musical Parody Revival Decker Theatre
Tom Orr in Dirty Little Showtunes
Previews: December 3, 2010 (6 Previews)
Opens: December 11, 2010
Runs: December 3, 2010 - January 16, 2011 • Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm
A brand new edition of the popular bawdy Broadway parody revue featuring showtunes galore with Tom Orr's ingenious lyrical spin. This show is sure to be a very naughty and nice winter season event!

Drama SF Premiere Walker Theatre
Treefall
By Henry Murray
Previews: January 21, 2011 (6 Previews)
Press Opening: January 28, 2011
Opens: January 29, 2011
Runs: January 21 - February 7, 2011• Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm
In this drama set in a post-apocalyptic future, three teenagers form a makeshift family in a Pacific Northwest cabin after an environmental disaster. TREEFALL examines how our culture sees and instills gender, identity, and family.

Comedy Decker Theatre
Regrets Only
By Paul Rudnick
Previews: February 25, 2011 (6 Previews)
Opens: March 5, 2011
Runs: February 25 - April 3, 2011 • Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm
This comedy of Manhattan manners explores the latest topics in marriage, friendships, and squandered riches. The setting: a Park Avenue penthouse. The Players: a powerhouse attorney, his deliriously social wife, and their closest friend, one of the world's most staggeringly successful gay fashion designers.

Drama SF Premiere WalkerTheatre
The Busy World is Hushed
By Keith Bunin
Previews: March 25, 2011 (6 Previews)
Press Opening: April 1, 2011
Opens: April 2, 2011
Runs: March 25 - May 1, 2011 • Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm
Hannah, a minister and bible scholar finds her faith at odds with that of Thomas, her wayward homosexual son. But when an inquisitive young writer hired to assist Hannah with her latest publication learns painful secrets from Hannah's past, she spies a risky, unconventional opportunity for reconciliation.

Musical Walker Theatre
The Stops:
A Fundamentally Fabulous Musical Comedy
By Eric Lane Barnes
Previews: May 20, 2011 (6 Previews)
Press Opening: May 28, 2011
Opens: May 29, 2011
Runs: May 20 - June 26, 2011 • Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm
Three lady organists from three different churches decide to take their act on the road. They find out that their favorite organist/Christian songwriter is gay and has been ousted from the Quad Cities Faith Tabernacle. What will Ginny, Rose and Euglena do?

Drama Decker Theatre
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
By Moises Kaufman
Previews: May 27, 2011 (6 Previews)
Opens: June 4, 2011
Runs: May 27 - July 10, 2011 • Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm
In April 1895 Oscar Wilde brought a libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his youthful lover, who had publicly maligned him as a sodomite. Expertly interweaving courtroom testimony with excerpts from Wilde's writings and the words of his contemporaries, Gross Indecency shows a man having to defend himself -- and his art -- against intolerance.
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