Sam Shepard's BURIED CHILD Continues At Black Box PAC

The Black Box Performing Arts Center continues to emerge as the Tri-State area's premiere destination for both cutting-edge professional theater and collaborative performing arts education - in the heart of Teaneck, NJ- just a quick ride over the George Washington Bridge.

Sam Shepard's Buried Child, winter of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize, continues BBPAC's second full 2017-18 season of professional theater, which includes four more 'mainstage' productions, two ongoing immersive late-night rock musicals, two ongoing pop musicals for kids, and the development of at least three original works for the stage.

This new production of Buried Child - presented in special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., NY - is directed by BBPAC Artistic Director Matt Okin, produced by Black Box Studios, and features a stellar cast of BBPAC mainstays and newcomers: Zach Abraham, Jason Felix, Michael Gardiner, Bishon Prushankin, Joseph Ramondino, Lisa Tiger and Laurence Wallace with Assistant Director/Production Designer Nachi Lederer.

Buried Child plays through November 19, Thursday through Sundays at 8:00pm, at Black Box Studios' new home, Teaneck's Black Box Performing Arts Center (200 Walraven Drive. (just off Palisade Ave., GPS: 290 Walraven Drive), Teaneck, NJ 07666.
In this winner of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Sam Shepard takes a hysterically comedic and macabre look at one American Midwestern family with a very dark secret. When Vince brings his girlfriend, Shelly, home to meet his family, she is at first charmed by the "normal" looking farm house which she compares to a "Norman Rockwell cover or something"--that's before she actually meets his crazy family-- his ranting, alcoholic grandparents (Dodge and Halie) and their two sons: Tilden, a hulking semi-idiot, and Bradley, who has lost one leg to a chain saw. Strangely, no one seems to remember Vince at first, and they treat him as an intruder. Eventually, however, they seem to accept him as a part of their uniquely dysfunctional American family...

Buried Child plays the following remaining schedule:

Friday 11/10, 8pm
Saturday, 11/11, 8pm
Sunday 11/12, 8pm
Thursday, 11/16, 8pm
Friday 11/17, 8pm
Saturday 11/18, 8pm
Sunday 11/19, 8pm

Tickets are $25 ($20 for students/seniors) and are now available at www.blackboxpac.com. Group rates for 10 or more are available by calling (201) 357-2221. Tickets can also be purchased at the venue; please call (201) 357-2221 for box office hours.

Black Box Performing Arts Center is located at 200 Walraven Drive, just off Palisade Ave., Teaneck, NJ 07666 (GPS: 290 Walraven Drive). Immediately following this season's opener Hand To God by Robert Askins, the New York City area's most eclectic theatre offerings continue at BBPAC with Mr. Shepard's masterpiece, to be followed with a workshop of a new musical in early December, a series of cutting edge student productions in mid-December, a January production of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt, and more: www.blackboxpac.com.

In 2016017, BBPAC's first full season included new productions of Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews, Willy Russell's Blood Brothers A Musical, Evil Dead The Musical, Edward Albee's The Goat Or, Who Is Sylvia? , Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9, Michael Gurin's Twist Of Faith, Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man, and Ayad Ahktar's Disgraced. Due to some mature content and imagery, viewer discretion is advised for Buried Child.

Photo credit: Glenn Lesnik/Glenn L Photography

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