Now playing through July 3!
Written by Sarah Ruhl / Directed by Stefan Kruck
This wildly funny play is a whimsical and poignant
look at the class, comedy and the true nature of love.
THE CLEAN HOUSE was a runner-up for the American
drama category of the Pulitzer Prize.
“The play elicits laughter through tears and is bound
to be a hit with theatre lovers, especially with those
who have a taste for the outrageous.”-BroadwayWorld
Now playing through June 20th
Written by Max Frisch / Translated by Alistair Beaton
Directed by Ron Sossi
Everyman Biedermann faces the invasion of his
sacred home by a pair of arsonists in Frisch’s witty
and dazzling parable about accomodating the very
thing that will destroy you.“CRITIC’S CHOICE!... hilarious and horrifific.”
-Los Angeles Times
July 10–August 29, 2010Directed by Barry Philips
Four couples, three bedrooms, two celebrations, one blazing argument and an illicit kiss (or two). ALAN AYCKBOURN’s ingenious comedy shines a brilliant spotlight onto the trials and tribulations of suburban marriage.“A terrifi cally entertaining spectacle of lives falling apart.” –Daily Telegraph
“Bad backs, sardines on toast and some startling
profundities about human relationships: Ayckbourn’s current abundant return is a thing to celebrate.” –Evening Standard
Oct 25 through Dec 21st
Christopher Hampton’s play both offers a vivid picture of wartime Hollywood where literary legends became
studio hacks, and sharply counterpoints European experience with America’s “tragic innocence. Directed by Michael Peretzian
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Opens March 2011
For a moment, a bright, empty town square. And then a fi gure darts across, and another and another – businesspeople, roller-bladers, a cowboy, several
street-sweepers, a halfdressed bride, a fi lm crew, a line of old men, a tourist, a beauty in a mirrored dress, Abraham and Isaac, a family of refugees, a fool – more and more people. Surprising, funny, fast and physical, this is theatre to set the imagination on fire.
Opens in January 2011
Book by Elmer Rice / Composer Joshua Schmidt /
Libretto by Jason Loewith / Directed by Jessica Kubzansky
An uncompromising adaptation of the Elmer
Rice 1923 drama, about an all-American
loser turned killer named Mr. Zero. Composer
Joshua Schmidt and his libretto partner
Jason Loewith have managed to revitalize
this much explored theme of the business
world’s dehumanization of an Everyman into
a visually and musically compelling chamber
musical.
“Consider a visit to “Adding Machine,”
the impossibly bleak, improbably brilliant
little musical.” - NY Times
February 2011
Odyssey Theatre will serve up another classical
project characteristic of this unique ensemble.
Past productions include Richard III, The Miser,
The Taming of the Shrew and most recently The
Three Sisters.
Literary Manager Sally Essex-Lopresti and
her staff cover over 200 scripts per year. From
these we’ll extract the most exciting in our
never-ending quest to present the best in original
work... in the tradition of THE CHICAGO
CONSPIRACY TRIAL, TRACERS, IDIOGLOSSIA,
KVETCH, REAPERS, TIMES
LIKE THESE, AMONG THE THUGS and
scores of others.
Our rich choices vary from ancient Greece
(OEDIPUS REX) to contemporary European
(Lorca BLOOD WEDDING.
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