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Retro Articles of Interest:
DEAR RUTH, a WWII-Era Comedy,
Resurfaces in NYC Revival
Focus on a Playwright
Jack Hilton Cunningham
Women and War
People You Should Know:
Alisha Spielmann
People You Should Know:
Heather E. Cunningham
NYITA Full of IT Blog
Guest
Blogger Heather Cunningham
Blog 1: Working Period
Blog 2: Doing the Research
Blog 3: Gifts from the Prop Gods
Past Retro Productions:
News:
Our long time theatrical home, The Spoon Theater, has been permanently closed. As a result we will be moving around a bit this year. The biggest challenge will be the blow to our budgets... theater rent is nearly doubling what it was for us at The Spoon. So if you can help us by donating something towards our growing budgets, we'd be very appreciative! Check the donating page for how to make a contribution.
Accolades:
Kristen Vaughan WINNER Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role, 2011 for Retro Productions' BENEFACTORS at the New York Innovative Theater Awards!
Retro Productions
nominated for 5 2011 New
York Innovative Theater Awards!
Retro Productions
nominated for 6 2010 New
York Innovative Theater Awards!
Retro Productions
nominated for 6 2008 New
York Innovative Theater Awards!
Heather E. Cunningham's performance in Retro Productions Still Life by Emily Mann was chosen as Marc Miller's "Performances to Remember, 2007" for Back Stage East!
"I’m off to one of my favorite theater companies: Retro Productions, which unearths plays from the distant past and mounts them in the cozy confines of the Spoon Theatre." - Peter Filichia, theatremania.com
"Retro Productions is a force of nature, with such strength it blew me away... Truth, honesty, and great chops, it's everything that is great about American theatre." - Heather McAllister, nytheatre.com
"Ever since they opened their doors six years ago, Retro Productions, one of the Off-Off Broadway’s best kept secrets, has been wowing those in the know with one stellar production after another. And judging from their current revival, mounted at the very intimate 40-seat Spoon Theatre, Retro just keeps getting better and better." - Edward Rubin, nytheatre-wire.com
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!:
Our November 2011 production
Directed by Peter Zinn
HAS BEEN INVITED TO MOVE TO AN OFF-BROADWAY RUN!!!
But we have to raise a lot of money, can you help?
"[The Runner Stumbles] is a smacking good play. Or rather, three smacking good plays: a courtroom drama, a whodunit, and a treatise on the acceptance and rejection of faith and why God has put us here... Credit Peter Zinn's lucid, subtle direction, and some splendid performances... A play this good has no business being forgotten, and this Retro Productions effort does more than honorably by it." - Marc Miller, Back Stage East - CRITIC'S PICK!
"Whenever I hear that Retro Productions is doing a show, I immediately make a reservation. I love this ambitious company that brings back forgotten plays. This month’s treat was The Runner Stumbles, Milan Stitt’s 1976 quasi-hit about a nun and a priest, and how the raging tide they held inside could hold no more. But did he then kill her? I’ll admit I figured out whodunnit in short order, but everything else about Peter Zinn’s production was surprising, refreshing and winning." - Peter Filichia, Filichia on Friday
"Peter Zinn’s direction is sharp and fluid and the rest of the cast all have great moments." - Mateo Moreno, Big Vision Empty Wallet
"The production is definitely worth seeing. The acting is superb and the twist is surprising." - Carissa Cordes, New York Theatre Review
Part courtroom drama, part whodunit, THE RUNNER STUMBLES is based on a true story of a Nun’s mysterious murder in a remote parish in northern Michigan in the Nineteen teens and the charge that her superior, Father Rivard, is her murderer. The alternating action between interrogations, testimony and scenes from the past reveal that Father Rivard, who had been banished to the small, up-country parish, fell in love with Sister Rita; and when circumstances forced her to move into the rectory with him, his anguish became unbearable. Their relationship, inevitably, spelled tragedy, but not until the explosive and surprising climax of the play is the full extent of their sacrifice made clear.
Featuring: Jim Boerlin*, Becky Byers, Nat Cassidy*, Heather E. Cunningham,
Casandera M.J. Lollar, Joe Mathers, Christopher Patrick Mullen*,
Alisha Spielmann and Ric Sechrest*.
Set Design by Jack and Rebecca Cunningham
Principal Costume Design by Kathryn Rohe
Lighting Design by Jacqueline Reid
Sound Design and Stage Management by Jeanne Travis*
Property Design by Heather E. Cunningham
Special Effects by Joe Mathers
Press Representation by Lanie Zipoy
*denotes members of Actors' Equity Association.
Click here to learn more about the cast and staff!
Click here to read our Fall Newsletter!
Performances evenings at 8PM, Sundays 2PM and 7PM.
See calender below.
Tickets: $18, Seniors $15, Student Rush $5 based on availability,
we
accept TDF vouchers.
These performances take place at The Richmond Shepard Theater
309 East 26th Street (at 2nd Ave.)
New York, NY 10010
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Thanks to our concessions sponsors: Brooklyn Brewery and FIZZY
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