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Penguin Proudly Presents
Our 2009 Season!
May 15 – June 14
OUR LADY OF SOUTH DIVISION STREET
a new comedy by
TOM DUDZICK
Clara Nowak always thought she was special, ever since the Blessed Virgin Mary materialized in her father’s barber shop in Buffalo! Now in this comedy from the author of Over the Tavern and Greetings!, Clara and her children’s faith is shaken to the very core as an old family legend and a deathbed confession are revealed with heartfelt and hilarious results. World premiere.
June 26 – July 19
THE WONDER BREAD YEARS
a new comedy
written & directed by
PAT HAZELL
Spam, the kid’s table, Rock’em Sock’em Robots, milk money, Dilly Bars, road trips in the back seat of the family station wagon—these are just a few of the slices of Americana served up in this humorous one-man show by former Seinfeld writer Pat Hazell. Anyone who remembers Silly Putty and Sugar Pops will love this entertaining salute to Baby Boomer culture.
August 7 – August 30
WOMEN WHO STEAL
a new comedy by
CARTER W. LEWIS
It’s Thelma and Louise on steroids as a pair of restless middle-aged women take a riotous joy ride, complete with squealing tires, tequila-chugging and Meat Loaf blaring from the car radio, and drive head-first into love, life and the perils of marriage. Liz Zazzi (Ten Percent of Molly Snyder and Tour de Farce) returns as one of the trio of actors in this outrageous comedy. Adult language and situations.
October 2 – October 25
an award-winning new play by
CHARLES SMITH
directed by
JOE BRANCATO
What’s it like to be the first? Decades before the Emancipation Proclamation, John Newton Templeton, an ex-slave, is the first African-American to attend Ohio University. The college’s president, Robert Wilson, an avowed abolitionist, has big plans for him. But the president’s wife is more skeptical: As a woman, she is not permitted to study at the college. And Templeton, unexpectedly, has ideas of his own about the future. Winner of a Jeff Award for Best New Work, FREE MAN OF COLOR is a provocative meditation on race and responsibility, based on historical events, about who we are and where we came from. New York premiere. |
