To celebrate Valentine's Day, T2G is presenting LOVE IS IN THE AIR- 4 Staged Readings of Plays about LOVE! at the 1867 Sanctuary at Ewing over 4 Friday nights in February and March. Get your tickets and more information now at Brown Paper Tickets and bring your honey! Refreshments will be served.
Do you have trouble making a commitment? No worries! Tickets will be available at the door! Or buy the series and SAVE. $12 Single tickets- $40 Series tickets We hope to see you there! Ruth and the T2G troupe.
The Schedule: These first two plays were selected to complement each other:
Feb 3, 2017- ROMANTIC COMEDY: Written by renowned playwright, Bernard Slade (Tony Award nominated for Same Time, Next Year) Phoebe Craddock and Jason Carmichael, playwrights who meet and decide to collaborate just as he is getting married. Their relationship produces first a failure and then a string of successes, and their repartée remains sharp and witty as their unrequited interest in each other gathers energy over a nine-year period, until some resolution finally is in sight ROMANTIC COMEDY opened on Broadway in November 1979, and ran for 396 performances.
Feb 10, 2017- THE PLAYMAKERS: A new Play by Julie Zaffarano (winner of Best New Work WIP Play Fest 2016) Lisa and Sebastian were a successful romantic comedy playwriting team, and lovers, whose professional and personal relationship crashed and burned. After several years apart, they are thrown together by a producer to revive a play. As they try to recapture their signature spark, the characters in the play revolt and the line between reality and fantasy disappears. This new comedy will have you laughing in the aisles.
These next 2 plays were selected to complement each other as well:
Feb 17, 2017- OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS: By Joe DiPietro best known for the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis, as well as for writing the book and lyrics for the long-running off-Broadway show I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey. His parents retired and moved to Florida. That doesn't mean his family isn't still in Jersey. In fact, he sees both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until he has to tell them that he's been offered a dream job that would take him away from his beloved, but annoying, grandparents. He tells them. The news doesn't sit so well. Thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around
Mar. 3, 2017- LAWN ORNAMENTS: by Mark Wiesenberg of Utah. This is Mark's first full length play Mildred and Arthur are on a quest to marry off their son Peter. With a plan up their sleeves and the help of many lawn ornaments, Peter's parents are on the offensive. But Peter has different plans and some difficult decisions to make. And then there's Sarah, Peter's on-again, off-again girlfriend. It's a play abouT Loving relationships, the ups and downs of life, and creating landscapes of meaningful memories!
Theater To Go welcomes Steve Gaissert who will be directing the readings. He recently directed Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at The College of New Jersey. Steve has directed each year since 2013 for the One-Minute Play Festival which tours nationwide year-round, and in which the NJ performances have been staged at Passage Theater in Trenton, and the Luna Stage in West Orange. He also directed a workshop reading of Edmonia for the Passage Theater Play Lab . Featured actors in the readings will be Jan Applebaum, Vicki Fuller, John Eldis, Ruth Markoe, Sarah Stryker, Dara Lewis, Frank Bridgewater, Evelyn Connolly, Nick Muoio, Hannah Hammel, Frank Falis and Alexys Pulsinelli
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