Abingdon Theatre Company will conclude its 2007-2008 season with Bruce J.
Robinson's drama Another Vermeer featuring Austin
Pendleton and directed by Kelly Morgan, March 29 - April 20, 2008 at
Abingdon's Dorothy Strelsin Theatre.
"Does art help one deal with the void at the center of life, or does it cause
it? That's the question at the core of this fact-based drama, as accomplished
Dutch painter Han Van Meegeren must prove he forged the Vermeer he sold to
Goering during WWII or face the death penalty for treason", states press notes.
Bruce J. Robinson writes mainly for theatre and television. A finalist for the
O'Neill National Playwrights Conference,
Another Vermeer was
instrumental in his winning the
Berrilla Kerr Playwrights Award. The Detroit
Repertory Theatre production of his play
Byrd's Boy was nominated as
"Best Play" by Detroit Free Press's 20th Annual Award for Theatre
Excellence. Among the TV shows on which he's worked are Gary Goldberg's
Brooklyn
Bridge
and Glenn Caron's
Showroom. Specials include
All the Right
Connections for PBS and Bell South. He's also written for the daytime
series
Search for Tomorrow and worked as a story consultant for
Stiletto Productions. Currently, his made-for TV film ARSON.com is
under option to AFT Productions.
Director Kelly Morgan is the Founder and former Producing Artistic Director of
the Mint Theater in NYC where he produced and/or directed over 50 plays, many
of them new works. He is former Artistic Associate at the Riverside Shakespeare
Company and is Co Founder of The American Deaf Play Creators Festival. He has
directed at Steppenwolf Theater (
Uncle Bob w/
Austin Pendleton);
Lost Tribe Theater (
A Creature Craving); Mint Theater and various
other NY and regional theaters. He has performed at the New York Shakespeare
Festival, Women's Theater Project, Westbeth Theatre,
Cleveland Playhouse, and
Syracuse Stage. He has received the National Endowed Chair of Excellence in the
Arts, Massachusetts Commonwealth Commendation for Service to The Arts, The
Kennedy Center Faculty Directing Fellowship and is New England Chair of The
Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.
Austin
Pendleton has most recently been seen on the New York
stage in two productions for
The Public Theatre in Central Park:
Mother
Courage and Her Children, with
Meryl Streep
and
Kevin
Kline, directed by
George C. Wolfe;
and
Romeo and Juliet, with
Lauren Ambrose,
directed by
Michael
Grief. As a director he's been represented by the revival of
Lillian Hellman's
Toys in the Attic, at the Pearl
Theatre. As a playwright his play
Orson's Shadow, which
played at the Barrow St. Theatre off-Broadway for most of 2005, has had several
productions since. Some of his recent film credits may be seen on
DVD, including
Dirty Work (for which he won an award), starring
Lance Reddick, and
Raising
Flagg, starring
Alan Arkin
and
Barbara Dana, whose play,
War in Paramus, he directed at the
Abingdon Theatre in 2005. Mr. Pendleton teaches directing at the New School, and acting at
HB Studio in New
York, where he has recently
directed Gorki's
Summerfolk and a new play by
Barbara Eda-Young,
Lillian
Yuralia.
In addition to Mr. Pendleton, the cast of
Another Vermeer also
features
Thom
Christopher,
Dan Cordle, Justin Grace and
Christian Pedersen.
Tickets are $20 and can be purchased by calling SmartTix at 212.868.4444 at
www.smarttix.com, or at the
box office prior to the show.
Performances of
Another Vermeer are Tuesday - Saturday at 7:30,
Saturday at 2:00 and Sunday at 3:00 in the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre at the
Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex, 312 W. 36th Street,
1st floor (between 8th and 9th Avenues).
