NCTC Announces Their Upcoming 2009-2010 Pride Season

THE NEW CONSERVATORY THEATRE CENTER (Ed Decker, Founding Artistic Director) is delighted to announce the 2009/10 Pride Season. Now in its fifteenth year, NCTC's Pride Season programming promotes the Theatre's visionary mission to promote exploration and open dialogue among audiences and developing playwrights in order to celebrate diversity and foster community.

All performances take place at The New Conservatory Theatre Center, located at 25 Van Ness Avenue ne ar Market St., in San Francisco, 94102. Subscriptions are available for NCTC returning subscribers on April 1, 2009, and to the general public on June 1, 2009. Subscription prices range from $99 - $280 with various packages and discounts. Additional ticket and subscription information can be found at www.nctcsf.org or by calling the NCTC Box Office at (415) 861-8972.

ABOUT THE SEASON

he 2009/10 Season will jumpstart in August with a limited engagement of New York-based comedian Jim David's South Pathetic, and will culminate in July 2010 with the West Coast Premiere of Paul Rudnick's critically-acclaimed The New Century.

The Season's musicals include the off-Broadway hit Dames at Sea, and the West Coast Premiere of Boys will be Boys. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Good Boys and True makes its West Coast Premiere, and Jonathan Harvey's timeless love story Beautiful Thing returns for the ten-year anniversary of its NCTC U.S. stage premiere.

The Season continues with Douglas Carter Beane's The Little Dog Laughed (Tony nom. for Best Play, 2007), and local playwright Nathan Sanders' spellbinding drama, The Sugar Witch. The celebrated drama Doubt, A Parable (2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner), and internationally-acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally's Master Class (Tony Award for Best Play, 2007) complete the season.

"We look forward to a new season of coming together as a community here at NCTC," says Founding Artistic Director, Ed Decker. "Now more than ever we need to embrace the synergy that comes with the comfort, creativity, and critical thought inspired by the shared experience of theatre."

 

2008 - 09 Pride Season
Calendar & Narratives
*Performances and schedules are subject to change

South Pathetic
SF Premiere I Decker Theatre
A One-Man Comedy
Written by and Starring Jim David
Previews: August 5, 6, 7, 2009
Opens: August 8, 2009
Run: August 5 - 30, 2009 • Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm

Award-winning New York-based comedian/actor Jim David not only plays himself, but also the dozen or so eccentric town folk involved in mounting a seemingly doomed production of the Tennessee Williams classic, A Streetcar Named Desire.

Good Boys and True
West Coast Premiere I Walker Theatre
By Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Previews: August 14, 2009 (6 Previews)
Press Opening: August 21, 2009
Opens: August 22, 2009
Run: August 14 - September 20, 2009 • Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm

Set against a backdrop of 1980s privilege and power, Good Boys and True centers on a disturbing scandal at an all-boys prep school which forces a mother to confront the truth about her son and herself.

The Little Dog Laughed
SF Premiere I Decker Theatre
By Douglas Carter Beane
Previews: September 18, 2009 (6 previews)
Opens: September 26, 2009
Runs: September 18 - November 8, 2009 • Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm

Mitchell Green is a movie star who could hit big if it weren't for one teensy-weensy problem: his agent, Diane, can't seem to keep him in the closet. To help him navigate Hollywood's choppy waters, the devilish Diane must do all she can to keep Mitchell away from the cute rent boy who's caught his eye.

Beautiful Thing
Revival I Walker Theatre
By Jonathan Harvey
Previews: November 6, 2009 (6 Previews)
Press Opening: November 13, 2009
Opens: November 14, 2009
Runs: November 6, 2009 - January 3, 2010 • Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm

This ten-year anniversary production of the NCTC U.S. stage premiere tells the timeless story of two working class London teenage boys who fall in love.

Dames at Sea
Musical Comedy I Decker Theatre
Book and Lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller
Music by Jim Wise
Previews: December 4, 2009 (6 previews)
Open: December 12, 2009
Runs: December 4, 2009 - January 17, 2010 • Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm

This classic off-Broadway musical hit takes an irreverent look at the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s. With the tale of a sweet small town girl who arrives in New York with plans to make it big on Broadway, Dames at Sea promises to be the perfect winter season confection!

Doubt, A Parable
2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony-Winner I Walker Theatre
By John Patrick Shanley
Previews: January 22, 2010 (6 Previews)
Press Opening: January 29, 2010
Opening: January 30, 2010
Runs: January 22 - February 28, 2010 • Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm

Sister Aloysius, principal of a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects the young Father Flynn of improper relations with one of the male students.

The Sugar Witch
SF Premiere I Decker Theatre
By Nathan Sanders
Previews: February 26, 2010 (6 Previews)
Opens: March 6, 2010
Runs: February 26 - April 4, 2010 • Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm

A Florida family confronts madness, truth, and the destructive legacy of racism as the spirits of the dead walk the dark swamp, haunting the hearts of all who reside there. Dark family secrets are revealed, and unusual passions are ignited.

Master Class
Tony Award for Best Play, 1996 I Walker Theatre
By Terrence McNally
Previews: March 26, 2010 (6 Previews)
Press Opening: April 2, 2010
Opens: April 3, 2010
Runs: March 26 - May 2, 2010 • Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm

Opera diva Maria Callas, a glamorous, commanding, larger-than-life, caustic, and surprisingly drop-dead funny pedagogue, is teaching a voice master class. Alternately dismayed and impressed by the students who parade before her, she retreats into her recollections about the glories of her own life and career.

Boys Will Be Boys
West Coast Premiere I Walker Theatre
A Musical Review for the Fairy in All of Us!
Lyrics and Dialogue by Joe Miloscia Music by Kenneth Kacmar
Previews: May 21, 2010 (6 Previews)
Press Opening: May 28, 2010
Opens: May 29, 2010
Runs: May 21- June 26, 2010 • Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm

When Ishmael Gonzalez runs out of money before the final procedure of his sex reassignment surgery, five of his friends skip to the rescue with a one-night-only benefit.

The New Century
West Coast Premiere I Decker Theatre
By Paul Rudnick
Previews: May 28, 2010 (6 Previews
Opens: June 5, 2010
Runs: May 28 - July 11, 2010 • Wed - Sat 8pm/ Sun 2pm

From the playwright who brought us The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Valhalla, and I Hate Hamlet comes a rollicking evening of inter-related stories turning gay stereotypes into bullet-deflecting armor and jokes into an inexhaustible supply of ammunition.

The New Conservatory Theatre Center
25 Van Ness Ave. Lower Lobby
San Francisco, CA 94102

 

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