Tag Archives: Dana Denha
OTHER DESERT CITIES
REDBUD PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS
OTHER DESERT CITIES
THE BROADWAY SMASH HIT:
A TONY-NOMINATED COMEDY-DRAMA OF FAMILY SECRETS
BY AWARD-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT JON ROBIN BAITZ
Directed By Loretta Grimes
Thursday, Friday & Saturday, May 28, 29 & 30 (8:00 PM)
Kerrytown Concert House, 415 North Fourth Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI
General Tickets are $20 and student tickets are $15;
Limited front row café table seating for groups of 2 – 3 for $25 a seat;
Special group rate general seating price of $15 per ticket for groups of 10 or more
For reservations, call Kerrytown Concert House at 734-769-2999 or visit kerrytownconcerthouse.com.
Redbud Productions continues its 16th year with this award-winning comedy-drama, which played to sold out Off-Broadway houses in 2011 at Lincoln Center and was a critically acclaimed hit when it transferred to Broadway.
A Pulitzer Prize finalist, Other Desert Cities was named Best Play of the Year by the Outer Critics Circle, was lauded by The New York Times as “The Best New Play on Broadway,” and received five Tony award nominations, including Best Play.
“The most richly enjoyable new play for grown-ups…in many a season.” The New York Times. “An oasis of humor & poignance” USA Today “Like a good popcorn movie, ‘Desert’ holds you rapt and keeps you guessing to the end” New York Daily News
Brooke (Dana Denha), fresh out of rehab, returns home to Palm Springs to celebrate a family Christmas after a six-year absence.
Announcing she will publish a tell-all memoir of a tragic event in their history, she dares her family to prevent her, and discovers that her wealthy Reagan-supporting parents do not want this painful wound reopened under any circumstances.
Deb Wood and Tim Grimes are featured as the distraught parents, Liam Weeks is the brother caught in the middle of the heated family conflict and Lenore Ferber is the outspoken alcoholic aunt in recovery in this riveting comedy-drama of family secrets and a Holiday reunion gone awry.
“A Broadway gem.” – Newsday.
4000 MILES
REDBUD PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS
4000 MILES
BY AWARD-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT AMY HERZOG
THE PULITZER PRIZE-NOMINATED COMEDY/DRAMA
OF A YOUNG MAN AND HIS ELDERLY GRANDMOTHER
NAMED TIME MAGAZINE’S BEST PLAY OF THE YEAR
Directed By Loretta Grimes
Thursday, Friday & Saturday, October 23, 24 & 25 (8:00 PM)
Kerrytown Concert House, 415 North Fourth Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI
General Tickets are $20 and student tickets are $15;
Limited front row café table seating for groups of 2 – 3 for $25 a seat;
Special group rate general seating price of $15 per ticket for groups of 10 or more
For reservations, call Kerrytown Concert House at 734-769-2999 or visit kerrytownconcerthouse.com.
Redbud Productions kicks off its 16th year with the Ann Arbor premiere of this critically lauded comedy/drama. The Off-Broadway smash hit 4000 Miles, winner of the 2012 Obie Award for Best New Play and the New York Times Award for Outstanding Playwright, was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and named The Best Play of the Year by Time Magazine.
“5 Stars…One of the best, bravest plays of the season. See it, no matter how far you must travel” – Time Out, New York “Funny, moving, altogether wonderful…”- The New York Times.
After suffering a major loss during a bike trip from Seattle to New York, 21 year-old Leo (Liam Weeks) drops in unexpectedly at 3 am to the tiny West Village apartment of his feisty 91 year-old Jewish grandmother (Liz Greaves-Hoxsie).
What begins as an overnight visit turns into weeks as these unlikely roommates infuriate, bewilder, and carefully learn how to love and care for each other.
Redbud’s talented cast includes Maddie Maxey as Leo’s new romance and Dana Denha as his determined girlfriend who arrives to announce their break up.
“Plays as truthful and touching and fine as Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles come along once or maybe twice a season, if we’re lucky.” – The New York Times.
A Small Fire
REDBUD PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS
THE MIDWEST PREMIERE OF THE
AWARD-WINNING OFF-BROADWAY FAMILY DRAMA
A SMALL FIRE
BY ADAM BOCK
Directed By Loretta Grimes
Thursday, Friday & Saturday, May 30 – June 1 (8:00 PM)
Kerrytown Concert House, 415 North Fourth Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI
General Tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for students & seniors
Limited front row café table seating for groups of 2 – 3 for $25 a seat;
Special group rate general seating price of $15 per ticket for groups of 10 or more
For reservations, call Kerrytown Concert House at 734-769-2999 or visit kerrytownconcerthouse.com.
Redbud Productions (voted 2011’s Best Stage Production Company by annarbor.com readers) is proud to present award-winning playwright Adam Bock’s critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway play – A Small Fire, nominated for Best Play of 2011 as well as several other Drama Desk Awards.
Do not miss the Midwest premiere of this family drama by the author of The Receptionist. The New York Times raved that A Small Fire is “about the complex, ever-evolving nature of enduring relationships….funny and unexpectedly touching.”
Emily Bridges (Cassie Mann) loves her job as the owner of a high profile construction firm. She is confident, assured and runs a tight and successful organization. Her daughter (Dana Denha) is about to be wed and she is successfully married to an HR manager (Tim Grimes).
But, as she describes to her close employee (Brad Sharp), she does not approve of her daughter’s fiancé, is extremely uneasy at home, and is determined to stop her daughter’s wedding!
When something shocking and unexpected happens, Emily is called to re-examine what she cherishes most – and her family and friends must also closely examine their relationships to her. The result is, according to New York 1, “a play about … love (both parental and marital), health and friendship ….. beautifully conceived.”
A Small Fire is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.
Do not miss this wonderful play that Variety praised as an “unforgettable banquet.”