NCTC Presents THE PERFECT GANESH, 11/5-12/19

NCTC is proud to present A Perfect Ganesh, by Tony Award-winning playwright, Terrence McNally and directed by Arturo Catricala. The show previews November 5 - 12, (Press Night is Friday, November 12th), opens on Saturday, November 13th and runs through December 19, 2010: Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm. All performances will take place at The New Conservatory Theatre Center (Walker Theatre), located at 25 Van Ness Ave. near Market St. in San Francisco, 94102. Tickets range from $22 - $40, and are available at the NCTC Box 
 
Ganesha is the spiritual center around which the play spins. 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. CAST: Michaela Greeley, Sara Razavi, Cheryl Smith, and Seth Thygesen
 
Terrence McNally's Crucifixion received its world premiere at NCTC in 2005. In 2010, the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle presented the world premiere of his musical adaptation of Catch Me If You Can with a score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. He has won four Tony Awards for his plays Love! Valour! Compassion! (as well as the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play, and the Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards for Best Play),  Master Class, and his musical books for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime. Recent Broadway credits include the revivals of his plays The Ritz and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune. Other plays include: Corpus Christi, Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams, The Stendhal Syndrome, Lips Together, Teeth Apart (Drama Desk Award Best New Play), Some Men, and It's Only a Play. McNally has written a number of TV scripts, including Andre's Mother for which he won an Emmy Award.  He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, a Lucille Lortel Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  He has been a member of the Dramatists Guild since 1970, and is twice the recipient of the Hull-Warriner Award for Best Play.
 
WHEN: The show previews November 5 - 12, (Press Night is Friday, November 12th), opens on Saturday, November 13th and runs through December 19, 2010: Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm.
WHERE: New Conservatory Theatre Center (Walker Theatre) located at 25 Van Ness Ave. at Market St. in San Francisco, 94102.
TICKETS: Range  from $24 - $40, and are available at NCTC's Box Office (415) 861 8972, or online at www.nctcsf.org.