NJ Rep Announces 2010-2011 Season

Conspiracy theories in lower Manhattan, a steamy meeting on the lam, the Golden Age of Hollywood, and the dark underbelly of the ivory tower are all part of the adventurous new season of plays announced today by New Jersey Repertory Company. From Yankee Tavern, Steven Dietz's deftly disorienting 9/11 thriller, to Puma, a new play peopled with bygone stars of the silver screen, there is intrigue, irony, deep ethical dilemma and high hilarity to be found on stage in 2010-11. In addition to its five main stage productions, NJ Rep will continue its Monday night Script-in-Hand new play series of readings throughout the new season. Main stage ticket prices range from $35-$60, with special discounts available for groups, schools, students, and military personnel. Subscriptions are available for only $15 a month for unlimited attendance at all main stage productions and staged readings plus a variety of other member benefits for one full year, which can begin at any time. New Jersey Repertory Company is located at 179 Broadway in Long Branch. For reservations, subscription enrollment, and information, call 732-229-3166 or visit njrep.org.

YANKEE TAVERN
By Steven Dietz
Directed by Suzanne Barabas
April 15 - May 23, 2010A dilapidated New York watering hole that survived the World Trade Center attacks is serving up a slew of unsettling secrets in its final days before a scheduled demolition. A young grad student, his fiancé, his father's unbalanced best friend, and a mysterious stranger play hot-potato with the truth surrounding 9/11, the CIA, and a hundred conspiracy theories in this invigorating new thriller from one of America's leading contemporary playwrights. A National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere.

SUNLIGHT
By Sharr White
Directed by Suzanne Barabas
July 8 - August 15, 2010
Matthew Gibbon, the ultraliberal president of an East Coast college, may have finally gone too far in his battle against the conservative dean of the law school-his son-in-law and former protégé. The personal and the political collide in a white-hot combustion of warring principles and tortured loyalties in this stunning new drama about power, the law and how to manipulate it. A National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere.

CHARACTER ASSASSINS
By Charlie Schulman
Directed by Dana Benningfield
September 23 - October 31, 2010
In this world premiere comedy skewering life in (and on the periphery of) the theater, a playwright at the end of his creative rope squares off against a jaded and sharp-tongued critic in a deadly and hilarious game of cat-and-mouse.

THE TANGLED SKIRT
By Steve Braunstein
Directed by Evan Bergman
December 2, 2010 - January 23, 2011
A heady, tongue-in-cheek undercurrent of irony and sexuality à la Alfred Hitchcock pervades this world premiere play about a woman on the run and a man who knows too much who meet while waiting for the last bus out of town. Will their desperate need to keep their secrets from each other prove a strong enough match for passion and fate?

PUMA
By Julie Gilbert and Frank Evans
Directed by Suzanne Barabas
February 24 - April 3, 2011
Their idea to write about obsessive relationships hit the mother lode when playwrights Gilbert and Evans delved into the diaries of anti-war novelist Erich Maria Remarque to plumb his 30-year fixation on Marlene Dietrich, whom he called the Puma. The resulting world premiere play brings Dietrich and Remarque back to life, along with Paulette Goddard and Jimmy Stewart, whose own affair with Dietrich yields surprise and drama of its own.
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NJ REP

New Jersey Repertory Company is a professional, non-profit theater whose mission is to develop and produce new plays and to make a lasting contribution to the American stage. In twelve seasons NJ Rep has produced 75 plays, most of them world premieres, and has presented over 300 readings. The company maintains an open submission policy that attracts nearly 1,000 scripts each year. Through its annual Theatre Brut Festival, NJ Rep has introduced over 70 new short plays created from a mandate to experiment with the unexpected. It is a member of the National New Play Network, a consortium of 26 regional theaters around the country committed to nurturing new works and playwrights. New Jersey Repertory Company is supported by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Shubert Foundation, the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, the Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation, the Edgerton Foundation, the Baumol Family Foundation, OceanFirst Foundation, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

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