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OUR 15TH SEASON INCLUDES:
THE PIPER (Nashville Premiere)
Music and lyrics by Marcus Hummon
Book by Michael Aman and Marcus Hummon
Friday-Saturday, December 3-4 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, December 5 at 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday-Saturday, December 8-11 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, December 12 at 4:30 p.m.
Belmont Black Box Theater
(1575 Compton Ave just off Belmont Blvd).
Tickets: $20 ($17 students/seniors)
THE PIPER is set during the second great wave of Irish immigration in Boston's Scollay Square, once referred to as “ the crossroads of hell.” It is the story of a mother, Jordan, an ex-prostitute who is trying to forge a new life running a small boarding house, and her daughter, Wilder, afflicted with polio but blessed with an extraordinary gift for music. In the mean streets of Scollay Square, someone is strangling prostitutes, and so when a mysterious boarder takes a room at Jordan's boarding house, rumors begin to fly.
THE PIPER stars Kim Bretton, Hannah Silverman, Rachel Agee, Mike Baum, Tyson Laemmel,
Jeffrey Miller, Brad Oxnam, Evan Williams, Cody Dermon, Kay Ayers, Reisha Feuerbacher,
Brooke Bryant, Annie Sellick and Collier Goodlett
Marcus Hummon’s hits include the Grammy Award-winning Rascal Flatts’ hit “Bless the Broken Road,” Dixie Chicks’ “Cowboy Take Me Away,” Sara Evans’ “Born to Fly” and Tim McGraw’s “One of These Days”.
Actors Bridge is pleased to have produced the World Premieres of Marcus Hummon's musicals: SPOON RIVER IN REVIVAL (book by Edgar Lee Masters), AMERICAN DUET by Marcus Hummon and Bill Feehely, FRANCIS OF GUERNICA, WARRIOR and ATLANTA.
EURYDICE by Sarah Ruhl (Nashville Premiere)
in collaboration with Belmont University Department of Theatre and Dance
Friday, February 18 at 7:30 p.m
Saturday, February 19 at 2 p.m.*
Sunday, February 20 at 2 p.m.
Thursday-Saturday, February 24-26 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday, February 26-27 at 2:00 p.m.
*There is no evening performance on Saturday, February 19th.
Belmont Troutt Theater
(2100 Belmont Blvd)
Tickets are $18 ($15 for seniors/students; $12 Belmont Faculty/Staff; free for Belmont students). Tickets for EURYDICE are available only through the Curb Event Center Box Office at 615-460-8500 or purchase online here.
Author of Actors Bridge's successful DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE, Sarah Ruhl creates a tale based on the Greek myth of Orpheus that is “exhilarating” as “we enter a surreal world, as lush and limpid as a dream” (The New Yorker). On the day Eurydice is to marry her true love Orpheus, a misstep sends her to the surreal depths of the Underworld, where she has a surprising reunion and ultimately must decide whether to follow Orpheus back to the land of the living. The New York Times described Eurydice as “a magical play with gripping emotional potency…
a love letter to the world…”
SAILOR'S SONG by John Patrick Shanley (Nashville Premiere)
Friday-Saturday, June 3-4 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 5 at 4:30 p.m.
Thursday-Saturday June 9-11 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 12 at 4:30 p.m.
Belmont Black Box Theater
Tickets: $18 ($15 students/seniors)
Winner of the 2005 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play, SAILOR'S SONG is an extravagant romantic seaside story decorated with dance. In the tradition of Gene Kelly and Eugene O'Neill, who should have worked together but never did, this stylistically daring love story gives us a cynical man and a true believer who battle over beautiful women and the power of love. "…represents life's more alluringly exotic possibilities." —New York Times.
ACT LIKE A GRRRL 2011
Thursday-Friday, June 30 and July 1 at 7:30 p.m.
Belmont Black Box Theater
Tickets: $15 ($10 students/seniors)
Now in its 7th year, Act Like a GRRRL is a groundbreaking autobiographical performance piece
written and enacted by local teenage grrrls. Join the 2011 cast of ALAG as they share wisdom and laughter from the cusp of adulthood.
BECKY’S NEW CAR by Stephen Dietz (Nashville Premiere)
Friday-Saturday, July 29-30 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 31 at 4:30 p.m.
Thursday-Sunday, August 4-6 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, August 7 at 4:30 p.m.
Belmont Black Box Theater
Tickets: $18 ($15 students/seniors)
Have you ever been tempted to flee your own life? Becky Foster is caught in middle age, middle management and in a middling marriage—with no prospects for change on the horizon. Then one night a socially inept and grief-struck millionaire stumbles into the car dealership where Becky works. Becky is offered nothing short of a new life… and the audience is offered a chance to ride shotgun in a way that most plays wouldn't dare. BECKY'S NEW CAR is a thoroughly original comedy with serious overtones, a devious and delightful romp down the road not taken. Variety describes it as “gently and consistently funny—right up to the point that it's touching, and then even a little bit after that. BECKY'S NEW CAR takes the audience on a smart, comic cruise through the
perils of middle-aged longing and regret."
