Announcing our 2012 Season!

We could not be more thrilled to announce our plans for our 2012 Season.  We have many exciting things in store so without further ado, here goes:

 

World Premiere

SWAN Day Pittsburgh 2012

March 15th and 16th

The New Hazlett Theater

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Named Official International SWAN Day Partner! 

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Our fourth annual SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day event will feature more than fifty local musicians, dancers, poets, theatre artists, visual artists, performance artists and fashion designers.  The entire event will consist of world premiere works inspired by interviews with women from all across Pennsylvania!

 

 

World Premiere

One Million Elephants

Written and performed by Robert Isenberg

Directed by Don DiGiulio

April 20th and 21st

The Grey Box Theater

 

Fact: Laos is the most heavily bombed country of all time.

 

But who bombed them? And why? To answer these questions, writer and actor Robert Isenberg journeyed to Southeast Asia, braving mountain roads, language barriers, and the constant threat of government surveillance.  One Million Elephants is the powerful story of secret wars and personal redemption, set against the breathtaking landscape of modern Laos. In the storytelling tradition of Spalding Gray and Mike Daisey, Isenberg relates his tale with good humor and brutal honesty – and unveils a shocking chapter in American history.

 

Pittsburgh Premiere

Orange Flower Water

by Craig Wright

Directed by Steven Wilson

June 29th to July 14th

PITT Studio Theater

Cathedral of Learning

 

Orange Flower Water has been dubbed by the Chicago Sun-Times as “a brutally honest drama about marriage and infidelity…it is at once fiercely adult, shrewdly observant, often painfully graphic and most definitely not for the meek.” The Pittsburgh premiere of this emotionally raw and complex work by Craig Wright (Mistakes Were Made, The Pavilion) will be directed by The Hypocrites company member and A Red Orchid Theater Artistic Associate Steven Wilson.

 

Pittsburgh Premiere

reasons to be pretty

by Neil LaBute

Directed by Marci Woodruff

August 3rd – 18th

PITT Studio Theater

Cathedral of Learning

 

A love story about the impossibility of love, reasons to be pretty is from the mind of Neil LaBute, one of the freshest and most illuminating contemporary American playwrights working today.  USA Today states, “No contemporary writer has more astutely captured the brutality in everyday conversation and behavior: That kind of insight requires sensitivity and soul-searching.” This hopelessly romantic drama about the hopelessness of romance will be directed by acclaimed Pittsburgh stage veteran and recent Pittsburgh New Works Festival Lifetime Achievement Award winner Marci Woodruff.

Play Readings

 

In addition to our four main productions, we will be presenting seated readings of three yet to be announced plays throughout the summer at the PITT Studio Theater in the basement of the Cathedral of Learning.  The dates are:

 

July 10th

August 7th

August 14th

 

Please check www.nonameplayers.org for updated details.

 

We thank you for your continued support of No Name Players and look forward to seeing you at the theatre!