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Love Song
By John Kolvenbach
Directed by Doree Austin
Show dates March 12-14, 19-21; Times 7:30 pm Fri/Sat; 2:00 pm Sun.
The play focuses on Beane, an introverted, morbid and slightly lost character and his better-adjusted sister Joan. Whilst for Beane, social interaction is baffling, his sister's trials are in her stressful, professional life where she is "surrounded by dipsticks" and she takes four-minute lunch breaks. Having just fired another intern, this time for tears after a misfiling incident, her contempt for the incompetent is hilarious: "Is it too hard to staple?" After Beane’s apartment is burgled, Joan is baffled to find her brother blissfully happy and tries to unravel the story behind Beane's mysterious new love Molly.
I Ought to be in Pictures
By Neil Simon
Directed by Michael Jinbo
Show dates June 4-6, 11-13; Times 7:30 pm Fri/Sat; 2:00 pm Sun.
The three-character comedy-drama focuses on Herb, a struggling, writer's-blocked screenwriter who abandoned his family sixteen years earlier. Now daughter Libby has arrived on the West Hollywood doorstep of the father she barely remembers convinced he can jump start the film acting career she desires. Dispensing guilt and demanding love, she not only forces Herb to deal with the responsibilities of parenthood, but to come to terms with his on-again/off-again relationship with adoring girlfriend Steffy as well.
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