BRUNSWICK ACTORS' THEATRE
2024 SEASON
FEBRUARY 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25, 2024
GREATER TUNA by Jason Williams, Joe Sears, Ed Howard
Directed by Barbara Dawn Dyche
The long-running off-Broadway hit features two actors creating the entire population of Tuna, Texas in a tour de farce of quick-change artistry, changing costumes and characterizations faster than a jack rabbit runs from a coyote. Two actors, 20 characters, and a barrel of laughs, y’all.
APRIL 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28, 2024
BOSTON MARRIAGE A Comedy by David Mamet
Directed by Lynda Dalton-Gallagher
Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming “women of fashion” who have long lived together on the fringes of upper-class society. Anna has just become the mistress of a wealthy man, from whom she has received an enormous emerald and an income to match. Claire, meanwhile, is infatuated with a respectable young lady and wants to enlist the jealous Anna’s help for an assignation. As the two women exchange barbs and take turns taunting Anna’s hapless Scottish parlor maid, Claire’s young inamorata suddenly appears, setting off a crisis that puts both the valuable emerald and the women’s futures at risk.
JUNE 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30, 2024
THE SUNSHINE BOYS by Neil Simon
AUGUST 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25, 2024
STAGE KISS A Comedy by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Jackie Archer
Art imitates Life. Life imitates Art. When two actors with a history are thrown together as romantic leads in a forgotten 1930s melodrama, they quickly lose touch with reality as the story onstage follows them offstage. Stage Kiss captures Sarah Ruhl’s singular voice; it is a charming tale about what happens when lovers share a stage kiss—or when actors share a real one.
OCTOBER 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27, 2024
PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE A Comedy by Steve Martin
Directed by Art Neill
This long-running Off Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. In his first comedy for the stage, the popular actor and screenwriter plays fast and loose with fact, fame, and fortune as these two geniuses muse on the century’s achievements and prospects, as well as other fanciful topics, with infectious dizziness. Bystanders, including Picasso’s agent, the bartender and his mistress, Picasso’s date, an elderly philosopher, Charles Dabernow Schmendiman, and an idiot inventor introduce additional flourishes of humor. The final surprise patron to join the merriment at the Lapin Agile is a charismatic dark-haired singer, time-warped in from a later era.
DECEMBER 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 2024
A CHRISTMAS TAIL A Comedy by Joe Simonelli
Directed by Lynda Dalton-Gallagher
The heart warming story of a mystical cat, a little girl, and some holiday magic that occurs in a small butcher shop one Christmas Eve. When struggling butcher Ralph Minetti has nothing left to believe in, a little girl comes into his shop on Park Ave. in New YorK City to visit the bow tie wearing store cat, Gus. But Gus is no ordinary feline, for as Ralph tells little Amanda, every Christmas Eve, Gus starts to talk. But will the magic be enough of an epiphany to change a bitter, disillusioned, middle aged grocer who hasn't seen his own estranged teen-aged daughter for five years and who owes money to both his suppliers and the mob?