New Century Players Presents Our 2019 - 2020 Season
A Spotlight on Women...
5 Great Plays celebrating Divas & Dames, Mothers and Daughters and 8 kooky sisters.
A Spotlight on Women...
5 Great Plays celebrating Divas & Dames, Mothers and Daughters and 8 kooky sisters.
Suite Surrender
by Michael McKeever
It's 1942, and two of Hollywood's biggest divas have descended upon the luxurious Palm Beach Royale Hotel -- assistants, luggage, and legendary feud with one another in tow. Everything seems to be in order for their wartime performance...that is, until they are somehow assigned to the same suite. Mistaken identities, overblown egos, double entendres, and a lap dog named Mr. Boodles round out this hilarious riot of a love note to the classic farces of the 30s and 40s.
Directed by Kraig Williams
Performances: September 13, 14, 20, 21, 27 and 28 at 7:30pm
September 15, 22 and 29 at 2:00pm
Venue: Rex Putnam Blackbox Theater
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The Octette Bridge Club
By P.J. Barry
On alternate Friday evenings, eight sisters meet to play bridge and gossip. The first act takes place in 1934; the second ten years later during a Halloween bridge party where each act out her costume's persona. The youngest has just gotten out of a sanitarium and knows that she must cut the bonds to her family and strike out on her own. A charming comedy about American life in a bygone era.
Directed by Karlyn Love
Performances: November 15, 16, 22, 23, 29 and 30 at 7:30pm
November 17, 24 and December 1 at 2:00pm
Venue: Rose Villa Performing Arts Center
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Don't Talk to the Actors
By Tom Dudzick
The best laid plans go awry when the cast and crew of a Broadway-bound play resort to manipulation, diva-like behavior, and chaotic abandon to get what they want. Fledgling playwright Jerry Przpezniak and his fiancee are a couple of Buffalo greenhorns suddenly swept up in the whirlwind of New York's theater scene when Jerry's play is optioned for the big money, ego-driven world of Broadway. It's a young playwright's dream, but the characters and dilemmas they encounter are the things theatrical nightmares are made of.
Directed by Kraig Williams
Performances: February 7, 8, 14, 15, 21 and 22 at 7:30 pm
February 9, 16 and 23 at 2:00 pm
Venue: Rose Villa Performing Arts Center
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The Broadway Bound, a staged reading
By Neil Simon
Eugene and his older brother Stanley try to break into the world of show business as professional comedy writers while coping with their parents’ break-up and eventual divorce. When their material is broadcast on the radio for the first time, the family is upset to hear a thinly-veiled portrait of themselves played for laughs.
Directed by Brandee Leibrand
Performances: April 17 and 18 at 7:30 pm
April 19 at 2:00 pm
Venue: Rose Villa Performing Arts Center
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Memory House
By Kathleen Tolan
One winter night a woman bakes a pie as a girl tries to finish her college essay. As the deadline looms, unexamined issues of the girl's adoption from Russia, the rupture of her parent’s divorce, and the fear of leaving home break through the surface as the mother cajoles, deflects, and maneuvers around her own feelings of sadness and loss. Unfolding in real time, Memory House is about a young and an older woman who are forced to grapple with the past as they face an uncertain future. A funny and moving story about the complexity of living in the world today.
Directed by Julie Akers
Performances: June 5, 6, 12, 13, 19 and 20 at 7:30 pm
June 7, 14 and 21 at 2:00 pm
Venue: Rex Putnam Blackbox Theater
by Michael McKeever
It's 1942, and two of Hollywood's biggest divas have descended upon the luxurious Palm Beach Royale Hotel -- assistants, luggage, and legendary feud with one another in tow. Everything seems to be in order for their wartime performance...that is, until they are somehow assigned to the same suite. Mistaken identities, overblown egos, double entendres, and a lap dog named Mr. Boodles round out this hilarious riot of a love note to the classic farces of the 30s and 40s.
Directed by Kraig Williams
Performances: September 13, 14, 20, 21, 27 and 28 at 7:30pm
September 15, 22 and 29 at 2:00pm
Venue: Rex Putnam Blackbox Theater
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The Octette Bridge Club
By P.J. Barry
On alternate Friday evenings, eight sisters meet to play bridge and gossip. The first act takes place in 1934; the second ten years later during a Halloween bridge party where each act out her costume's persona. The youngest has just gotten out of a sanitarium and knows that she must cut the bonds to her family and strike out on her own. A charming comedy about American life in a bygone era.
Directed by Karlyn Love
Performances: November 15, 16, 22, 23, 29 and 30 at 7:30pm
November 17, 24 and December 1 at 2:00pm
Venue: Rose Villa Performing Arts Center
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Don't Talk to the Actors
By Tom Dudzick
The best laid plans go awry when the cast and crew of a Broadway-bound play resort to manipulation, diva-like behavior, and chaotic abandon to get what they want. Fledgling playwright Jerry Przpezniak and his fiancee are a couple of Buffalo greenhorns suddenly swept up in the whirlwind of New York's theater scene when Jerry's play is optioned for the big money, ego-driven world of Broadway. It's a young playwright's dream, but the characters and dilemmas they encounter are the things theatrical nightmares are made of.
Directed by Kraig Williams
Performances: February 7, 8, 14, 15, 21 and 22 at 7:30 pm
February 9, 16 and 23 at 2:00 pm
Venue: Rose Villa Performing Arts Center
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The Broadway Bound, a staged reading
By Neil Simon
Eugene and his older brother Stanley try to break into the world of show business as professional comedy writers while coping with their parents’ break-up and eventual divorce. When their material is broadcast on the radio for the first time, the family is upset to hear a thinly-veiled portrait of themselves played for laughs.
Directed by Brandee Leibrand
Performances: April 17 and 18 at 7:30 pm
April 19 at 2:00 pm
Venue: Rose Villa Performing Arts Center
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Memory House
By Kathleen Tolan
One winter night a woman bakes a pie as a girl tries to finish her college essay. As the deadline looms, unexamined issues of the girl's adoption from Russia, the rupture of her parent’s divorce, and the fear of leaving home break through the surface as the mother cajoles, deflects, and maneuvers around her own feelings of sadness and loss. Unfolding in real time, Memory House is about a young and an older woman who are forced to grapple with the past as they face an uncertain future. A funny and moving story about the complexity of living in the world today.
Directed by Julie Akers
Performances: June 5, 6, 12, 13, 19 and 20 at 7:30 pm
June 7, 14 and 21 at 2:00 pm
Venue: Rex Putnam Blackbox Theater
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Inquiries please contact our box office at (503) 367-2620
