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PRODIGAL SON
REDBUD PRODUCTIONS
PRESENTS
THE MIDWEST PREMIERE OF
PRODIGAL SON
THE ACCLAIMED NEW PLAY BY PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY
Directed By Loretta Grimes
Thursday, Friday & Saturday; June 1,2 & 3 (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
For reservations, call Kerrytown Concert House at 734-769-2999 or visit kerrytownconcerthouse.com.
Redbud Productions continues its 18th year with the 2016 critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway smash by the Tony-winning, Oscar-nominated author of Doubt. This autobiographical new play is based on Shanley’s tumultuous high school years in the late 1960’s.
“As the memoir of a major moral playwright, it’s a gem“ – New York Theatre Wire
Prodigal Son is a passionate, explosive portrait of Shanley (Liam Weeks), a high school kid uprooted from the Bronx, on the verge of salvation or destruction as he desperately tries to fit in at an elite New Hampshire private school.
This gifted young man is violent, alienated, and on fire with a ferocious loneliness.
The Dean of the school (Tim Grimes) must wrestle with the dilemma: Is the young man a genius or a complete disaster and harmful to the students? Deb Wood is the Dean’s kindhearted wife who believes in the young man’s talent, Nate Brassfield plays the boys inspiring teacher, and Chris Krenz is the roommate caught in the middle.
“We all spent at least a few angst-ridden months (or maybe longer), like Jim, in “a special, beautiful room in hell.” Thankfully, we have writers like Shanley to bring us back — for a brief, but intense, emotion-packed 95-minute trip” – Entertainment Weekly
“I want to see Prodigal Son again soon. It’s the best thing that Shanley has given us since Doubt. You can’t get much better than that.” – The Wall Street Journal
LUNA GALE
REDBUD PRODUCTIONS
PRESENTS
THE MICHIGAN PREMIERE
OF
LUNA GALE
BY REBECCA GILMAN
THE COMPELLING NEW DRAMA
OF A SOCIAL WORKER
AND TWO YOUNG PARENTS
NAMED THE 2015 BEST PLAY OF THE YEAR
BY THE AMERICAN THEATRE CRITICS’ ASSOCIATION
Directed By Tim Grimes
Thursday, Friday & Saturday, June 2, 3 & 4 (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
For reservations, call Kerrytown Concert House at 734-769-2999 or visit kerrytownconcerthouse.com.
Redbud Productions continues its 17th year with the Michigan premiere of this critically acclaimed new play, named the 2015 Best Play of the Year by the American Theatre Critics’ Association.
“Smart and absorbing.” — The New York Times. “One of this year’s most valuable additions to American drama.” — The Los Angeles Times.
Veteran social worker Caroline (Loretta Grimes) believes that she has a typical case on her hands when she meets two young addicts (Krystle Dellihue and Liam Weeks) accused of neglecting their baby.
But when she places their infant daughter in the care of the girl’s mother (Deb Wood), Caroline sparks a powerful conflict that exposes a shadowy past and forces her to make a risky decision with potentially disastrous consequences.
Powerful and arresting, Luna Gale is a heartbreaking and unforgettable tale of love and betrayal.
Redbud’s talented cast includes Matt Clark, Brian Hayes and Celine Lopez.
“An outstanding new social drama about parenting that stands as a rich contribution to the American theater canon” – The Hollywood Reporter.
ASSISTED LIVING
REDBUD PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS
THE MICHIGAN PREMIERE OF
ASSISTED LIVING
THE AWARD-WINNING COMEDY-DRAMA
OF AGING PARENTS AND UNHELPFUL SIBLINGS
BY DEIRDRE O’CONNOR
Directed By Loretta Grimes
Thursday, Friday & Saturday, October 1,2 & 3 (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
For reservations, call Kerrytown Concert House at 734-769-2999 or visit kerrytownconcerthouse.com.
Redbud Productions kicks off its 17th year with the Michigan premiere of this critically acclaimed comedy-drama. “Highly Recommended …this New York–based writer confirms her unique gift for capturing the quirks of human behavior and the stresses of contemporary life…. combining truth, humor and heart.” – The Chicago Tribune
Librarian Anne Kelly (Mary Franceschi) desperately needs help. There is no romance in her life. She still lives with her aging, ailing mother. Her deadbeat brother (Jon Wax) won’t return her calls or offer much assistance and her ancient family home is falling down around her.
When a younger man (Liam Weeks) with a sweet disposition, a thin resume and a shaky past applies for a job as her mother’s in-home caregiver, Anne finds her quiet life spinning rapidly out of control in ways she had not expected.
Krystle Dellihue is featured as a surprise household guest in this delightful new play written by an Emmy Award-winning writer. Assisted Living is a funny and surprising look at the struggle to discover where our families end, and where we begin. The talented cast also includes Becky Freligh and Neeraja Aravamudan.
“A very compelling new play…and a remarkable proficient mystery that never lets you guess where it is going.” – The Chicago Tribune
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.