[NEohioPAL] PRESS RELEASE: Dobama Theatre heads into THE NEW CENTURY

[Dan Kilbane]

THE NEW CENTURY

presented by Dobama Theatrewritten by Paul Rudnick

directed by Scott Plate

 

December 10, 2010 – January 9,
2011

Preview
performance on December 9, 2010

performed at
Dobama’s new home on Lee Road in Cleveland Heights


Artistic Director Joel Hammer and
Managing Director Dianne Boduszek are proud to announce the third production of
Dobama’s 51st season in the theatre’s new permanent home in Cleveland Heights at
2340 Lee Road.  For this special
season, they have selected a hilarious alternative to holiday fare, a
contemporary comedy from one of America’s funniest writers.

 

"The one-liners fly like
rockets in THE NEW CENTURY, the rollicking bill of short plays by Paul
Rudnick.  Building on time-honored
traditions within gay and Jewish humor, Mr. Rudnick turns stereotypes into
bullet-deflecting armor and jokes into an inexhaustible supply of ammunition….
Frivolity for his characters is a solid existential choice in a threatening
universe,” so states The New York Times in their review of the Lincoln Center Theater
premiere.  THE NEW CENTURY is a funny and outrageous comedy, but it does
not stop there.  Mr. Rudnick is in
a provocative and hopeful mood, and the resulting work, set in New York City in
the present day, raises questions not easily answered.

 

THE NEW CENTURY features Jean Kaufman*, Caitlin Lewins, Molly
McGinnis*, Greg Violand*, and Steven J. West.  Scott Plate directs.  The production is sponsored by The LGBT
Community Center of Greater Cleveland. *Member of Actors‘ Equity Association

 

Paul Rudnick’s plays have been produced both on
and off Broadway and around the world. They include Valhalla; The Most Fabulous
Story Ever Told; Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm Beach; Pride and Joy; The Naked Eye; I Hate Hamlet; and Jeffrey, for which he won an
Obie, an Outer Critics Circle Award and the John Gassner Playwriting
Award.  His novels are Social
Disease
and I’ll Take It, both published by Knopf. 
His articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New York
Times.
He is rumored to be quite close to Premiere magazine’s film critic,
Libby Gelman-Waxner, whose collected columns have been published under the
title If You Ask Me.  His
screenplays include Addams Family Values, the screen adaptation of Jeffrey and In & Out.

 

Tickets are $25 regular, $23 senior for Fridays and
Saturdays, $20 regular, $18 senior for Thursdays and Sundays.  The Thursday, December 9th Preview
tickets are $10.  Student tickets
are $10.  Tickets are available by
calling the Dobama box office at (216) 932-3396, or by visiting www.dobama.org.

 

The December 31st performance has a special performance
time and pricng structure.  Paired
with that evening’s performance is a New Year’s Eve party/fundraiser.  Tickets are $65 per person and $115 per
couple (Dobama subscribers receive a $10 discount on tickets for this event),
and includes the party beginning at 8:30 p.m., food, beer, wine, non-alcoholic
beverages, a 9:30 p.m. performance of THE NEW CENTURY, and drag contest,
dessert and champagne.  Proceeds
from this event benefit Dobama’s operations.

 

This year, Dobama introduces a new RUSH
ticket.  RUSH
tickets, available to patrons 21 & younger, are $5.  A limited quantity will be sold nightly
no earlier than five minutes before curtain time and will be based on seat
availability.  

 

On Sunday, December 12, Dobama offers tickets on a
“pay-as-you-can“ basis.  In an
effort to remove economic barriers and to make Dobama’s productions accessible
to everyone, the first Sunday of every production is “pay-as-you-can,“ asking
patrons simply to pay what they can afford.  

 

Please note special holiday weekday performance dates.

 

Thursday, December 9 @ 7:30 p.m.              Preview
Performance, $10

Friday, December 10 @ 8:00 p.m.                 Opening
Night, followed by Opening Night reception

Saturday, December 11 @ 8:00 p.m.             Subscriber
Night

Sunday, December 12 @ 7:30 p.m.               “Pay-as-you-can”
Performance

 

Thursday, December 16 @ 7:30 p.m.

Friday, December 17 @ 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, December 18 @ 8:00 p.m.

Sunday, December 19 @ 2:30 p.m.   

 

Tuesday, December 21 @ 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, December 22 @ 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, December 23 @ 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, December 26 @ 2:30 p.m.

 

Thursday, December 30 @ 7:30 p.m.

Friday, December 31 @ 8:30 p.m.                 NYE
party/fundraiser; special ticket pricing

Saturday, January
1 @ 8:00 p.m.

Sunday,
January 2 @ 2:30 p.m.

 

Thursday, January
6 @ 7:30 p.m.

Friday, January
7 @ 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, January
8 @ 8:00 p.m.

Sunday,
January 9 @ 2:30 p.m.

 

Dobama
Theatre is generously supported by many individual donors, and the following
foundations and government agencies: 
The Cleveland Foundation, Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, The Cyrus Eaton
Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, The Milton and Tamar Maltz Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council, and Roe
Green Foundation. Dobama Theatre is generously funded by Cuyahoga County
residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.  The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this organization with
state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and
cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

 

Dobama Theatre’s mission is to premiere the best
contemporary plays by established and emerging playwrights. Through educational
and outreach programming, Dobama Theatre nurtures the development of theatre artists
and builds new audiences for the arts while provoking an examination of our
contemporary world.





      
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