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Set Designer: Michel Ostaszewski |
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THE PLAYER KING MUSICAL Book and Lyrics by Anne Phelan • Music by Bill Tinsley • Directed by Terry Berliner Featuring Carrie Ann Champlin and Dennis Clark |
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 Chad, a classically trained actor, can't get a job and winds up teaching creative drama in the midwest where his difficult boss is Marilyn. "The show features two talented singers, Dennis Clark and Carrie Ann Champlin, and provides a high-energy opening to the shows." -nytheatre.com |
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Based on the character "The Player King" from Hamlet. |
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BALONEY |
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Lead, follow, or start digging your grave. Two gravediggers take a lunch break and |
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"...with props serving as jokes and some meta-theatrical moments, such as breaking the fourth wall and some self-conscious lines. I enjoyed it...a sort of ironic, self-aware wit...I appreciated the work of the actors, Byron Blevins and Timothy Cole." -nytheatre.com Based on the character "The Gravedigger" from Hamlet. |
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THE MATCH |
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Based on the character "Laertes" from Hamlet. "I enjoyed figuring out the connection to Shakespeare and the surprise ending. The actors Derek Peith and Nick Fondulis make it easier to enjoy the surprise with their quick transitions." -nytheatre.com |
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THE LAMP'S LIT Written by Cheryl Davis • Directed by Kate Marks Featuring TJ Morton, Roya Shanks, and Andrew Zimmerman |
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The night before her son's return to Elsinore, Queen Gertrude is haunted. "In this play, I particularly enjoyed writer Cheryl Davis's dialogue. The way Roya Shanks's Gertrude negotiates speaking and interacting with both TJ Morton's Ghost and Andrew Zimmerman's creepy and unaware Claudius make for some very interesting staging." -nytheatre.com "Roya Shanks gives one of the show's best performances as Gertrude, pacing about the royal chamber, awaiting her son's return...Cheryl Davis's dialogue is at its best when Gertrude has to respond to both the Ghost and her impatient husband, Claudius, who wants her to come back to bed...an intellectually stimulating limb." - offoffonline.com Based on the character "Gertrude" from Hamlet. |
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MAYBE HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU... Written by Bethany Larsen • Directed by Tom Nondorf Featuring Lauren Mary Gleason, Cynthia Rice, and Katie Northlich |
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Playwright Bethany Larsen, is currently nominated for a 2005-2006 Innovative Theatre (IT) Award for Best Short Play. The IT Awards recognize and honor off-off Broadway's best. |
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Based on the character "Ophelia" from Hamlet. "The three fantastic actresses in this piece, Cynthia Rice, Lauren Mary Gleason, and Katie Northlich, seem to be having so much fun with Bethany Larsen's story, nailing the way women talk to each other obsessively about men. I particularly loved Larsen's characterization of Ophelia as a frazzled drama queen. As portrayed by Gleason, she is desperate, annoying, dumb, sweet, and troubled. I either wanted to hug her or push her into the pond myself." -nytheatre.com
"In Larsen's chick-lit toned piece, Ophelia laments the demise of her relationship with Hamlet to Ibsen's Nora and Oscar Wilde's Salome. Both women are headstrong and self-confident, and they console Ophelia as though they were the supporting cast on Sex and the City . Tongue placed firmly in cheek, Larsen writes self-conscious characters who know they are characters and who can talk about life after the final curtain call. Nora is collecting alimony from Torvald, and Salome is a hit at her belly-dancing class. These women are engaged in a purely fictional process of feminist-lite literary revision, remaking the story into 'her-story.' Thanks to Larsen's deft use of modern pop-psych dialogue, it's a fun process to watch." -offoffonline.com
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DECISIVE Book and Lyrics by Susannah Pearse • Music by Nick Moore • Directed by Selda Sahin Featuring John Buxton, Jennifer Stackpole, Reza Jacobs, and Jared Dembowski |
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-nytheatre.com "Three members of the Post-Hamlet Support Group welcome Alex, a surfer dude with treacherous motives, in Decisive, a crowd-pleasing musical that plays the Prince of Denmark's tragic flaw for comic effect...Moore, and Pearse make good theater because they mine the textual and thematic treasure chest of the Bard's best-loved play. They successfully communicate interesting stories in a short amount of time by giving us characters whose sense of self is either fueled by or in comical opposition to those selves we find in Shakespeare's text." -offoffonline.com Based on the character "Hamlet" from Hamlet. |
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To read more about the cast and crew, click here. The Hamlet Plays were produced at The Michael Weller Theatre, April 29 - May 14, 2006, |
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Just before she takes a fateful plunge, Ophelia calls two friends to help talk her down. These women have had their own share of dramatic woes, and manage to convince her that she is a star in her own right, and friendship endures long after the fairy tale love stories end.
"Decisive ends the set on a very high note. This musical--about a support group for people who cannot be satisfied after playing Hamlet--is really funny and really campy, seeming to draw choreography from both The Rocky Horror Show and the video of Michael Jackson's "Thriller." Standing out in the cast is Reza Jacobs as one of the Hamlets and the keyboardist. I also loved Jennifer Stackpole's Rachel, who's so bright-eyed and energetic, and John Buxton's Keanu Reeves-like Alex. Jared Dembowski's Ricard, with his Clay Aiken hair, made me laugh out loud." 
