World Premiere 'For Better...' At New Theatre

New Theatre continues its 2007-2008 Main Season with the NNPN World Premiere Production of For Better... by Eric Coble 

In this plugged-in world of email, text-messaging and camera phones "Do a bride and groom really need to be in the same country to go on a honeymoon?" A romantic comedy for the digital age, For Better... is a hilarious new farce that pokes fun at our overdependence on the gadgets in our lives. Co-sponsored by Northern Trust and Meg & John Daly, For Better… is part of the National New Play Network's Continued Life of New Play Program, and will be co-premiered with Curious Theater in Denver and Southern Rep in New Orleans.   

Under the artistic direction of Ricky J. Martinez, New Theatre's 2007-2008 main season remains true to its mission to provide a forum for new works by American Playwrights at the innovative theatre.  The current season features four world premiere productions, having recently premiered Miami playwright David Caudle's Likeness.   New Theatre Artistic Director, Ricky J. Martinez will direct the cast which includes New Theatre veterans John Manzelli, Kim Ostrenko, Evelyn Perez & Christopher Vicchiollo and making their New Theatre debut are Kay Ostrenko and Kevin Reilly.  

Returning to New Theatre will be Production Stage Manager Betsy Paull-Rick, Lighting Designer Patrick Tennent, Sound Designer Clint Hooper, Costume Designer K. Blair Brown, Scenic Designer Jesse Dreikosen and the scenic construction crew, TLC Events Group.   

November 9, 2007 through December 9, 2007

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8 pm; Sundays at 1 pm

(Additional Sunday, 5:30 pm performance on November 18, 25 and December 2) 

Tickets

Preview, Friday, November 9 - $20 

All other performances:

Thursday at 8 pm & Sunday at 5:30 pm:  $ 35
Friday & Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 1 pm: $ 40
Student Rush (under 25 with ID):  $ 15 

For tickets and further information, please call (305) 443-5909 or visit www.new-theatre.org. 

About the Playwright

Eric Coble was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and bred on the Navajo and Ute reservations in New Mexico and Colorado. His plays include Bright Ideas, The Dead Guy, and Natural Selection and have been produced Off-Broadway, throughout the U.S., and on several continents, including productions at Manhattan Class Company, The Kennedy Center, Playwrights Horizons, Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival, ALLIANCE THEATRE, The Cleveland Play House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Laguna Playhouse, Stages Repertory, Great Lakes Theater Festival, and the Contemporary American Theatre Festival. Awards include the AT&T Onstage Award, National Theatre Conference Playwriting Award, an NEA Playwright in Residence Grant, a TCG Extended Collaboration Grant, and two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Grants. Eric is a member of the Cleveland Play House Playwrights Unit, as well as a writer for several nationally broadcast radio programs, and currently has three screenplays in the labyrinth of Hollywood.

"Eric Coble's hilariously funny, psychologically astute portraits hit home with rib-tickling acuity" - New York Times

"Coble's work is a tour de force with physical and verbal comedy to spare" - The New Yorker

"A Playwright to Watch: An unqualified original with rich and idiosyncratic works A spirit of playful invention pervades Coble's repertoire." - American Theatre Magazine

"Coble's comedies are, of all things, genuinely funny" - Newsday

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