THE CHILDREN Premieres at Theatre @ Boston Court Tonight, 5/12

The Theatre @ Boston Court presents "The Children," a world premiere play written by Michael Elyanow and directed by Boston Court's Co-Artistic Director Jessica Kubzansky. Opening night is tonight, May 12, 2012 on the Main Stage at Boston Court Performing Arts Center, 70 North Mentor Avenue.
 
What if a character from "Medea" wrested the children away from their mother's murderous intent, accidentally transporting them to present-day Maine in the middle of a hurricane? Wild theatricality, myth, and puppetry combine to tell this eerily moving story of survival and healing.

"The Children" features Daniel Blinkoff, Adriana Sevahn Nichols, Sonny Valicenti, Paige Lindsey White and Jacqueline Wright.

Production staff for "The Children" includes Kubzansky, director, Francois-Pierre Couture, set designer, Jaymi Smith, lighting designer, John Zalewski and Veronika Vorel, co-sound designers, Susan Gratch, puppet designer, Tina Haatainen-Jones, costume designer, Heather Ho, props designer, Julia Flores, casting director and Casey McGann, production stage manager.
 
Elyanow is the author of more than two dozen plays and screenplays.  His work has been produced all across the US, from Washington, DC to Fullerton, CA. Michael has taught playwriting, screenwriting and TV writing at Northwestern University, Emerson College & Hampshire College, and has directed playwriting workshops at The Guthrie Theater, About Face Youth Theatre and Hartford Stage Company.  His play, "The Idiot Box," had its world premiere with Open Fist Theatre Company in 2007.
 
Kubzansky has directed "Camino Real", "Mother Courage", plus world premieres of Jordan Harrison's "Futura", Laura Schellhardt's "Courting Vampires", Nick Salamone and Maury McIntyre's "Gulls", Mickey Birnbaum's "Bleed Rail", Carlos Murillo's "Unfinished American Highwayscape #9&32", Van Itallie's "Light", Cody Henderson's "Cold/Tender" for Boston Court. Also an award-winning director working nationally: South Coast Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, The Geffen, La Mirada, Illinois Shakes, The Aurora, The Colony, East/West, 24th Street, Playwrights' Arena, The Publick, etc. Recently elsewhere: "39 Steps" (La Mirada), Jennifer Haley's "Breadcrumbs", "Hamlet", "Winter's Tale" (Theater 150), Julie Hebert's "Tree" (EST-LA [Inside] the Ford), "Mauritius" (Pasadena Playhouse). She has received the LADCC Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatre and the Queen of the Angels from the LA Weekly.
 
"The Children" previews for six performances beginning May 3, opening May 12 and runs Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. through June 10 with an added performance on Wednesday, June 6.  Preview tickets are priced at $17 and regular performances at $34. Senior, student and group discounts are also available. Visit BostonCourt.org for special events related to "The Children." Tickets can be purchased online at BostonCourt.org or by calling (626) 683-6883. Boston Court Performing Arts Center is located one block north of Colorado at the corner of Mentor Ave. and Boston Ct.
 
"The Children" is supported in part by the City of Pasadena, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Founding Director Z. Clark Branson, and the generous contributions of The Theatre @ Boston Court supporters and contributors.

The Theatre @ Boston Court is the award-winning resident theatre company at Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena, CA. Michael Seel, Executive Director, Jessica Kubzansky and Michael Michetti, Co-Artistic Directors, Hillary Metcalf, Managing Director.