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Kitchen Theatre Company
Kitchen Theatre Company (KTC) is a non-profit professional theater company in Ithaca, New York that focuses on making “bold, intimate, and engaging" theater. The Kitchen was founded in 1991 and is now in its 27th season. KTC is a member of the Theatre Communications Group and operates under a Small Professional Theater contract with the Actors’ Equity Association. History Kitchen Theatre Company was created in 1991. KTC resided at the Clinton House from 1995 to 2009. In 2010, Kitchen Theatre Company (KTC) moved to 417 W. Martin Luther King, Jr. Street, making history by becoming the first theater company in Ithaca to own its own location. They raised $1.2M to construct a LEED-certified green building that includes a 99-seat thrust stage space, dressing rooms, green room, scene shop, inner lobby, outer lobby/art gallery, hospitality bar, box office, and a glass entranceway called "the beacon". Artistic Director Emerita Rachel Lampert led the company from 1997 to 2017. Lampert r ...
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Non-profit
A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in contrast with an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners. A nonprofit is subject to the non-distribution constraint: any revenues that exceed expenses must be committed to the organization's purpose, not taken by private parties. An array of organizations are nonprofit, including some political organizations, schools, business associations, churches, social clubs, and consumer cooperatives. Nonprofit entities may seek approval from governments to be tax-exempt, and some may also qualify to receive tax-deductible contributions, but an entity may incorporate as a nonprofit entity without securing tax-exempt status. Key aspects of nonprofits are accountability, trustworthiness, honesty, and openness to eve ...
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Buyer & Cellar
''Buyer & Cellar'' is a one-man play by Jonathan Tolins. The play premiered at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in New York City on April 2, 2013. The production starred Michael Urie and was directed by Stephen Brackett. The same production then opened off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre on June 24, 2013, closing in 2014. Urie won a Clarence Derwent Award for his performance as well as a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance. Clancy O'Connor was Urie's understudy. Plot summary The play is a one-man comedy that follows Alex More, a struggling gay actor working in Los Angeles, who is down on his luck after being recently fired from Disneyland. He lands a job curating the Malibu basement of Barbra Streisand. (The real-life Streisand constructed a series of "Main Street" storefronts beneath her Malibu barn inspired by the Winterthur Museum in Delaware in order to house her collection of dolls and other trinkets). More at first does not meet his employer, but ...
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Gérald Sibleyras
Gérald Sibleyras is a French dramatist. PLAYS 2000 : Le Béret de la tortue, co-written with Jean Dell, théâtre du Splendid Saint-Martin 2002 : Un petit jeu sans conséquence, co-written avec Jean Dell, théâtre La Bruyère 2003 : Le Vent des peupliers, théâtre Montparnasse 2004 : L'Inscription, Petit Montparnasse 2005 : Une heure et demie de retard, co-written with Jean Dell, théâtre des Mathurins 2006 : Vive Bouchon !, co-written with Jean Dell, théâtre Michel 2006 : La Danse de l'albatros, théâtre Montparnasse 2008 : Le Banc, théâtre Montparnasse 2008 : Sophie Mounicot, c'est mon tour ! de Gérald Sibleyras, François Rollin et Sophie Mounicot, Petits Mathurins 2009 : Cendrillon, le spectacle musical, co-written with Étienne de Balasy, théâtre Mogador 2010 : Une comédie romantique, théâtre Montparnasse 2010 : Stand up, théâtre Tristan-Bernard 2015 : Perrichon voyage toujours, d'après Eugène Labiche, théâtre La Bruyère 2015 : Un avenir rad ...
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Adam Bock
Adam Bock (born November 4, 1961) is a Canadian playwright currently living in the United States. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In the fall of 1984, Bock studied at the National Theater Institute at The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. He is an artistic associate of the Shotgun Players, an award-winning San Francisco theater group. His play ''Medea Eats'' was produced in 2000 by Clubbed Thumb, which subsequently premiered his play ''The Typographer's Dream'' in 2002. ''Five Flights'' was produced in New York City by the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in 2004. ''The Thugs'' opened Off-Off-Broadway in a production by SoHo Rep in October 2006, directed by Anne Kauffman. He won a 2006-07 Obie award, Playwriting, for ''The Thugs''. During the 2007-2008 New York theatrical season, two plays by Bock were produced Off Broadway: ''The Receptionist'' at Manhattan Theatre Club in 2007 and ''The Drunken City'', originally commissioned by the Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca, New ...
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Lee Blessing
Lee Knowlton Blessing (born October 4, 1949) is an American playwright best known for his 1988 work, '' A Walk in the Woods''. A lifelong Midwesterner, Blessing continued to work in regional theaters in and around his hometown of Minneapolis through his 40s before relocating to New York City. Life and work Blessing was born in Minneapolis, and graduated from Minnetonka High School in 1967. He began his college education at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, but later transferred to Reed College in Oregon where he earned a B.A. in English in 1971. After Blessing earned his degree, his parents offered the young graduate the choice between a used car or a trip to Russia. Blessing chose Russia where he found inspiration to write his best-known work, the award-winning '' A Walk in the Woods''. According to interviews with Blessing, the play, which depicts the developing relationship between a Russian and an American arms limitation negotiator is based on fact. Apparently, durin ...
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Steven Dietz
Steven Dietz (born June 23, 1958) is an American playwright, theatre director, and teacher. Called "the most ubiquitous American playwright whose name you may never have heard", Dietz has long been one of America's most prolific and widely produced playwrights. In 2019, Dietz was again named one of the 20 most-produced playwrights in America. Though several of his plays have been seen Off-Broadway (including "Fiction", "Lonely Planet", "God's Country"), the vast majority of Dietz's plays are produced in American regional theaters. Seattle WA and Chicago IL are among the cities that have proved to be enduring homes for his work. Seattle's ACT Theatre has produced 12 plays by Dietz, including 7 world premieres. This includes a recent new variation on his own adaptation of "Dracula" (the most widely produced adaptation of that title in the U.S.) entitled "Dracula: Mina's Quest". Dietz's psychological thriller, "How a Boy Falls", premiered at Northlight Theatre, Chicago, in early ...
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Lonely Planet (play)
''Lonely Planet'' is a two character play written by Steven Dietz. The play tells the story of Jody and Carl, two gay men who live in an unnamed American city. The play was written during the midst of the AIDS epidemic, which is the central focus of the story, though ultimately the play sends the message that one should pay attention to the world around them and realize its problems rather than shun it. The play heavily references the Eugène Ionesco comedy ''The Chairs''. Plot Jody, a gay man, owns a small map store on the oldest street in an American city, and is seemingly worldly and knowledgeable. Carl, another gay man is a frequent visitor to the store, is a friend of Jody, and seems to lie a lot about his life and occupation. Despite this, the two seemingly know very little about each other. The play begins with Jody explaining how he found a chair placed in his store one day, without notice, by Carl. Pretty soon, the store is littered with chairs, and after some argument b ...
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Brian Parks
Brian Parks (born c. 1962) is an American playwright, journalist and editor. He is a former Arts & Culture editor of ''The Village Voice'' and former chairman of its Obie Awards. As a playwright, Parks has produced works that are noted for their dark comedy and fast pace. Best known for his play ''Americana Absurdum'' (which consists of two shorter plays, ''Vomit & Roses'' and ''Wolverine Dream''), his other works include ''Goner'', ''Suspicious Package'', ''Out of the Way'', ''The Invitation'' (titled ''Einladung zum Abendessen'' in the German-language version, translated by John and Peter von Duffel), ''Imperial Fizz'',Gardner, Lyn (August 13, 2010)"Imperial Fizz" ''The Guardian''. and ''The Professor''.McMillan, Joyce (22 August 2019)"Theatre review: The Professor, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh" ''The Scotsman''. ''Americana Absurdum'' was honored with the “Best Writing” award at the 1997 New York International Fringe Festival and a Scotsman Fringe First Award at the 2000 ...
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Mark St
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Dancing Lessions (play)
Mark St. Germain is an American playwright, author, and film and television writer. Career Plays St. Germain has written ''Camping With Henry And Tom'' ( Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards), ''Out of Gas On Lover's Leap'', ''Forgiving Typhoid Mary'' (''Time Magazine''s "Year's Ten Best"), ''Ears On A Beatle'', ''The God Committee'', ''The Collyer Brothers At Home'', ''The Gifts of The Magi'' (co-written with Randy Courts), ''The Book of the Dun Cow'' (co-written by Randy Courts), ''Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer'' (winner of an AT&T "New Plays For The Nineties Award"), ''Jack's Holiday'', the award-winning children's book ''Three Cups'', and ''Stand By Your Man: The Tammy Wynette Story''. As a dramatist, St. Germain shows a strong preference for historical fiction. Recent works include: ELEANOR, a one-person show about the most famous First Lady in the world, premiering at Barrington Stage and starring Harriet Harris. DAD, an autobiographical play, presented at Grea ...
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Rick Elice
Rick Elice (born Eric Elice; November 17, 1956) is a writer and former stage actor. Life Elice was born in New York City, where he attended public elementary, junior high, and high schools. He was the salutatorian graduate of Francis Lewis High School in Queens, New York (class of 1973). He earned a BA from Cornell University, an MFA from the Yale Drama School, and in 1980-81 was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard. He is a charter member of the American Repertory Theater. From 1982–1999, Elice was copywriter, producer, creative director and eventually executive vice president of Serino Coyne, Inc., an entertainment advertising agency in New York. From 1999–2009, he served as creative consultant to Walt Disney Studios. He was in a relationship with British actor Roger Rees for 33 years, during which Rees voluntarily converted to Elice's Jewish faith. A couple beginning in 1982, they married in 2011 when it became legal to do so, and remained together until Rees' death from bra ...
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Peter And The Starcatcher
''Peter and the Starcatcher'' is a play based on the 2004 novel ''Peter and the Starcatchers'' by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, adapted for the stage by Rick Elice. The play provides a backstory for the characters of Peter Pan, Mrs Darling, Tinker Bell and Hook, and serves as a prequel to J. M. Barrie's ''Peter and Wendy''. After a premiere in California at the La Jolla Playhouse, the play transferred to Off-Broadway in 2011 and opened on Broadway on April 15, 2012. The show ended its Broadway run on January 20, 2013, and reopened Off-Broadway once again at New World Stages in March 2013, ending in January 2014. Plot Act I At a bustling port in England, two ships set sail for the kingdom of Rundoon. ''The Wasp'' carries Lord Leonard Aster, his daughter Molly, and her nanny, Mrs. Bumbrake. They are escorted by a squadron of British navy seamen, led by Lieutenant Greggors''. The Neverland'', captained by the sinister Bill Slank, carries three orphan boys: Prentiss, Ted, and a n ...
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