Love Lasts on Myrtle Avenue, a new play by Jimmy Breslin, will star theatre veterans Rip Torn and
Lois Smith when it is presented as a staged reading at the Cape Cod Theatre Project in Falmouth, MA from July 13th through 15th.
On the theatre's website,
Love Lasts on Myrtle Avenue is described as "A 9/11 love story by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Based on true events." Gordon Edelstein will direct Tony-nominee Torn (
The Young Man from Atlanta, original production of
Sweet Bird of Youth) and two-time Tony-nominee Smith (
The Trip to Bountiful at Signature Theatre Company,
Buried Child) in the reading.
The Cape Cod Theatre Project will feature numerous other readings, as well.
Adam Rapp's previously-announced
Essential Self-Defense, which Rapp (
Nocturne, Blackbird) will also direct, will be presented from July 6th through 8th prior to its bow at Playwrights Horizon next season. "Yul Carroll makes his living by being a human punching bag for a
women's self-defense class. He falls in love with Sadie, after she
punches his tooth out. A mysterious comedy by one of the most exciting
playwrights in America."
Leslie Ayvazian's
Badcat will be presented from July 20th through 22nd. "When you are unhappy with the role
you are playing in your marriage, why not make a drastic change?," state notes for the show, which is billed as "A riotous
new comedy." It will be directed by actress
Blair Brown (Tony Award-winner for
Copenhagen), who previously staged the actress/playwright's
Lovely Day at the Samuel Beckett Theatre last year.
Ann Marie Healy's
Have You Seen Steve Steven? will run from July 27th through 29th. "A comedy of outer suburbia. Mary and Frank are having trouble
remembering who their children are." Andrew Polk, CCTF's artistic director, will helm the reading.
"The Cape Cod Theatre Project brings together
playwrights of new American plays with professional directors and actors
- often straight from Broadway - for staged readings." Founded by actors Andrew Polk and Jim Bracchitta
12 years ago, CCTP has become a noted springboard for in-development
plays. Among the plays developed at CCTP to go on to commercial New
York runs are John Cariani's Almost, Maine, Julia Cho's BFE, and Paula Vogel's The Minneola Twins.
For more information, visit www.capecodtheatreproject.org.
