SALVAGE to Open This Week at Performance Network

Opening this week, Performance Network will present the Michigan Equity Premiere of Joseph Zettelmaier's SALVAGE, a story of survival, love and loss, directed by Joey Albright. Co­produced by Detroit sports and entertainment executive, Tom Wilson, preview is Thursday, April 23 with Opening Night on Friday, April 24. The play runs Thursday­ Sunday through May 24.

Tickets range in price from $25 to $41. For more information on the productions and events at the Network or to donate, go to www.pntheatre.org? or call the box office at 734-­663-­0681.

Salvage tells the story of a shy owner of a collectables store in Detroit who finds his staid existence turned topsy­turvy when a mysterious women enters his life with valuable items that just should not exist anymore. This is the Michigan Equity Premiere of the 2014 Jeff Award Recommended show. Starring Katherine Banks and Patrick O'Connor Cronin, this show reunites the winning team of author Zettlemaier and director Albright.

Joseph Zettelmaier is a Michigan­based playwright and four­time nominee for the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association Award for best new play, first in 2006 for All Childish Things, then in 2007 for Language Lessons, in 2010 for It Came From Mars and in 2012 for Dead Man's Shoes. Other plays include Ebenezer, And The Creek Don't Rise, The All Childish Things Trilogy, Dr. Seward's Dracula, Snow Angels, Blackwater Ballad, Night Blooming, Point of Origin, and The Stillness Between Breaths. Point of Origin won Best Locally Created Script 2002 from the Ann Arbor News, and The Stillness Between Breaths won Best New Play 2005 from the Oakland Press. The Stillness Between Breaths and It Came From Mars were selected to appear in the National New Play Network's Festival of New Plays. He also co­authored Flyover, USA: Voices From Men of the Midwest at the Williamston Theatre (Winner of the 2009 Thespie Award for Best New Script). He also adapted Christmas Carol'd for Performance Network. It Came From Mars was a recipient of 2009's Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, and won Best New Script 2010 from the Lansing State Journal. His play Dead' Man's Shoes won the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award in 2011. The Scullery Maid won the Wilde Award for Best New Script in 2014. He is an Artistic Associate at First Folio Theatre, an Artistic Ambassador to the National New Play Network for Performance Network and an adjunct lecturer at Eastern Michigan University, where he teaches Dramatic Composition.

Performances of Salvage run Thursday­ Sunday, April 23­May 24 (Preview is Thursday, April 23; Opening Night is Friday, April 24). Tickets range in price from $25­$41. For information on productions and events at the Network or to donate, go to www.pntheatre.org or call the box office at 734-­663-­0681. Performance Network Theatre is located at 120 E. Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI, 48104.

Pictured: Patrick O'Connor Cronin and Katherine Banks. Photo by Sara Dean.