[Capdist-announce] Albany Civic Theater's 2011-12 Season

[Charles Treadwell]

Albany Civic Theater is proud to announce its  2011-2012 Season!

Director’s Showcase
Thursday, June 23, 2011, 8pm  
“I’m Herbert” from You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water is Runningby Robert 
Anderson
Directed by Ed Countermine

Playwright’s Showcase
Sunday, July 17, 2011 at 3pm
The Happiest Place on Earthby Gregory Dodds
Directed by Carol King

Mrs. Warren’s Professionby George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Juliet King

Auditions – 5/9 & 5/10/11
Preview 9/1/11
Show dates 9/2-9/4/11, 9/9-9/11/11, 9/16-9/18/11

Young Vivie Warren, emancipated, intelligent and self-sufficient, is astounded 
to learn her mother rose from poverty to riches through prostitution - and also 
that she is now part owner and operator of a chain of brothels.  Mrs. Warren 
ably justifies her past - attacking a hypocritical society that rewards vice and 
oppresses virtue.  Mrs. Warren states that poverty and the society that fosters 
poverty are the real villains and that life in a brothel is preferable to life 
in a 19th-century factory.  Written in 1893, this is Shaw's controversial attack 
on society's hypocrisy.

Faith Healerby Brian Friel
Directed by Carol King

Auditions – 9/6 and 9/7/2011
Preview 11/3/11
Show dates 11/4-11/6/11, 11/11-11/13/11, 11/18-11/20/11

Travelling faith healer Frank has gone all over Wales and Scotland with his 
wife, Grace, and his manager, Teddy.  In their respective monologues, Frank, 
Grace and Teddy tell their differing versions of the healer's performances and 
of a terrible event that slowly comes into focus.  In this darkly lyrical tale, 
the author has created a metaphorical portrait of the artist as both creator and 
destroyer through the shifting memories of the three characters.

Rumorsby Neil Simon
Directed by Katie Weinberg

Auditions – 11/7 & 11/8/11
Preview 2/9/12
Show dates 2/10-2/12/12, 2/17-2/19/12, 2/24-2/26/12

At a large, tastefully appointed Sneden's Landing townhouse, the Deputy Mayor of 
New York has just shot himself. Though only a flesh wound, four couples are 
about to experience a severe attack of farce. Gathering for their tenth wedding 
anniversary, the host lies bleeding in the other room and his wife is nowhere in 
sight. His lawyer Ken and wife Chris must get "the story" straight before the 
other guests arrive. As the confusions and miscommunications mount, the evening 
spins off into classic farcical hilarity.  


The Farnsworth Inventionby Aaron Sorkin
Directed by Aaron Holbritter

Auditions 2/13 & 2/14/12
Preview 5/3/12
Show dates 5/4-5/6/12, 5/11-5/13/12, 5/18-5/20/12

It’s 1929. Two ambitious visionaries race against each other to invent a device 
called “television.” Separated by two thousand miles, each knows that if he 
stops working, even for a moment, the other will gain the edge. Who will unlock 
the key to the greatest innovation of the 20th century: the ruthless media 
mogul, or the self-taught Idaho farm boy?  The answer comes to compelling life 
in The Farnsworth Inventionfrom Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing, 
playwright of A Few Good Menand Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominated writer 
for The Social Network.


      
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