Long Wharf Theatre Presents COLIN QUINN LONG STORY SHORT 8/9-21

Comedian Colin Quinn will bring his incisive one-man exploration of world history, Long Story Short from Broadway to Long Wharf Theatre.
The show will take place on the Mainstage from August 9-21. Performances will be Tuesday through Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.
The production, directed by Jerry Seinfeld, has played to sellout houses on Broadway and received critical acclaim. "This easygoing alumnus of "Saturday Night Live" brings his own distinctive every-guy's perspective to the galumphing march of civilization toward - well, toward whatever it is we are approaching, as Blanche DuBois so lyrically put it," wrote Charles Isherwood in the New York Times.

In Colin Quinn Long Story Short, Quinn focuses his articulate brand of comedy on the demise of empires, including our own. More than standup comedy, Long Story Short is a hilarious blend of incisive observation, sharp commentary, and Colin's channeling of the personalities of the past. From Socrates to Snooki, Quinn is at his satirical best, taking on the attitudes, appetites and bad habits that toppled the world's most powerful nations. Colin Quinn Long Story Short proves that throughout human history, the joke has always been on us.

Tickets are $50 and can be purchased by visiting www.longwharf.org or by calling 203-787-4282.

CREATIVE TEAM

Colin Quinn (Author/Performer), a native of Brooklyn, he began his comic career in New York as a regular on the comedy circuit. Colin made his television debut as co-host of MTV's popular game show "Remote Control." Quinn landed a spot on the legendary late-night show, "Saturday Night Live," where he entertained audiences for five seasons. After "SNL," Quinn tackled societal issues on "Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn." Colin's first one-man show, Sanctifying Grace, began Off-Broadway in 1994 and was later produced as Colin Quinn - An Irish Wake and played at the Helen Hayes Theatre. Colin was most recently seen at the Bleecker Street Theatre in the Off-Broadway run of Colin Quinn Long Story Short and in the summer comedy film Grown Ups.

Jerry Seinfeld (Director) is a comedian who resides in New York City with his wife and three children.

David Gallo (Scenic and Projection Design). Selected Broadway: Memphis; A Catered Affair; Xanadu; Radio Golf (Tony nom.); Company; The Drowsy Chaperone (2006 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards); Gem of the Ocean (Tony nom.); Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; Dance of the Vampires; Thoroughly Modern Millie (also London); King Hedley II; You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; A View From the Bridge; Jackie: An American Life (also London); and Hughie. Off-Broadway: Reasons to Be Pretty, Evil Dead, Shout!, The Wild Party, Jitney (also London), Wonder of the World, A New Brain, Bunny Bunny,Machinal and Blue Man Group. Drama Desk, American Theatre Wing, Lucille Lortel, Hewes Design, Outer Critics Circle, Ovation, FANY, NAACP, AUDELCO, Barrymore and Eddy Awards. Represented American set design at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial. Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Set Design. National archive at the Smithsonian Institute.

Howell Binkley (Lighting Design). B'way works include Lombardi, Million Dollar Quartet, Memphis, West Side Story (2009 Tony nomination), Gypsy starring Patti LuPone, In the Heights (2008 Tony nomination), Jersey Boys (Tony Award winner), Avenue Q, The Full Monty, Parade,Kiss of the Spider Woman (Tony nomination/Olivier winner), How to Succeed.... Also the Joffrey Ballet's Billboards and designs for more than 60 pieces for Parsons Dance, which he cofounded with David Parsons. Six musicals in rep for the Kennedy Center's Sondheim Celebration.

Christopher "Kit" Bond (Sound Design). His work consists of more than 30 regional theatre productions and 45 top New York and national touring productions, including Fame on 42nd Street, Some Like It Hot starring Tony Curtis, Guys and Dolls, Camelot with Richard Harris, South Pacific with Robert Goulet, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular with Susan Anton and Maurice Hines, Forever Plaid, Dixie's Tupperware Party and All Shook Up. He is in his eighth season as the audio designer with Theatre Under the Stars.

Scott Elmegreen (Original Composition). Composition/sound design: Colin Quinn Long Story Short (Bleecker Street), ‘S Wonderful (national tour), What I Took in My Hand (Ontological-Hysteric, Brick), Daguerreotype (Abingdon), Tone Clusters (Fringe Report Award, Best Play). Writing: COLLEGE: The Musical (NYMF 2008; pub. Dramatic Publishing), Vote for Me: A Musical Debate (NYMF 2010), Awesome Allie, First Kid Astronaut (Vital), Thucydides (pub. Samuel French).

DANIEL J. KELLS (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking (Roundabout Theatre/Studio 54). Tours: Wishful Drinking, Kiki & Herb: Alive From Broadway, Jigu! Thunder Drums of China, Irving Berlin's I Love a Piano, Puppetry of the Penis. As Boston based theatre producer: Twelfth Night for Commonwealth Shakespeare (Elliot Norton Award for Best Large Production); Sing Me to Sleep for Coyote Theatre (Norton Award for Best Small Production).

Hal Brooks (Creative Consultant) directed the Pulitzer finalist Thom Pain (based on nothing) by Will Eno as well as the Obie Award-winning No Child... by Nilaja Sun, which has played across the country and internationally. He is the associate artistic director of the Ojai Playwrights Conference and is a lecturer at Yale University.

Eva Price (Producer). Broadway credits: Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony, A Life in the Theatre, The Merchant of Venice, The Addams Family, Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Off-Broadway: Circumcise Me, Marga Gomez's Los Big Names (Drama Desk nomination), The J.A.P Show and Joy. Past and current touring: Ella, a bio-musical about the life and music of Ella Fitzgerald; Irving Berlin's I Love a Piano; The Great American Trailer Park Musical. Eva Price is executive producer and executive vice president of Maximum Entertainment, a producing, developing and general management company located in New York City. For five years Eva worked as an assignment editor and coordinating producer for special projects at ABC News, spending her last year producing and reporting on stories relating to Broadway for ABCNEWS.COM.

Richard Martini (Producer) has been involved as producer or general manager of more than 70 shows in the last 30 years that have toured throughout the world. Recent productions include Xanadu, All Shook Up, Some Like It Hot starring Tony Curtis, Fame the Musical, Guys and Dolls, Dirty Blonde, Fully Committed, The Vagina Monologues, A Chorus Line and Forever Plaid.

 

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