Evento

100 Years by Richard Dresser (A World Premiere)

100 YEARS, A WORLD PREMIERE
by Richard Dresser
directed by Elizabeth Carlson-Guerin

WHEN:
Thursday, May 30, 2019 @ 8pm
Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 8pm
Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 8pm
Sunday, June 2, 2018 @ 4pm
Thursday, June 6, 2019 @ 8pm
Friday, June 7, 2019 @ 8pm
Saturday, June 8, 2019 @ 8pm
Sunday, June 9, 2019 @ 4pm

WHERE:
500 Federal St. Troy, NY 12180

Set in the not-too-distant future, this new dark comedy confronts todays direst global crises with incisive humor and sly wisdom. Stevie and Joan prepare for what will be a transformative experience. But what will it mean for their life as they know it? And whats going on with the strange couple living next door?

About Richard Dresser:
RICHARD DRESSERS plays have been produced in New York, regional theater, and Europe. Highlights include ROUNDING THIRD (off-Broadway), BELOW THE BELT (off-Broadway), GUN-SHY (Off-Broadway). ROUNDING THIRD was recently made into a film starring John C. McGinley and Garret Dillahunt for release in 2018, and BELOW THE BELT was made into the film Human Error directed by Robert M. Young which appeared at Sundance Film Festival. Recent plays include TROUBLE COMETH (San Francisco Playhouse) and CLOSURE (New Jersey Repertory Theatre). Other projects include the book for the musical JOHNNY BASEBALL (lyrics by Willie Reale, music by Robert Reale), which premiered at A.R.T. in Cambridge, and moved on to the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He is a former member of New Dramatists and twice attended the ONeill National Playwrights Conference. He currently teaches at Columbia and is President of the Writers Guild Initiative, which does writing workshops all over the country with veterans, caregivers, exonerated death row prisoners, and DREAMERS among other groups.

**This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by The Arts Center of the Capital Region.