Joe Brancato is fond of saying he likes plays that entertain while “stirring the gray matter.”
In 35 years as founding artistic director at Stony Point’s Penguin Rep, he has presented new works that have done both. Season 36 looks like more of the same in the 108-seat barn theater on Crickettown Road: four mainstage productions, two world premieres, one New York premiere and plenty to think about.
Brancato will direct the first three productions, beginning with Charles Evered’s “Class,” starring Richard Kline, the “Three’s Company” star who has made regular forays onto the Penguin Stage in recent years.
Kline, an acting teacher in his own right, plays an acting teacher to a Hollywood starlet played by Adria Vitlar.
Brancato says he was drawn to Evered’s script, which “has a modern sense of personalities and people and situation in a classically well-written dialogue.” Read More