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Providence Players Celebrates 15th Anniversary Season with opening of Kaufman and Hart Comedy Classic
“You Can’t Take It With You” – The comedy classic from The Providence Players. A brilliant, warm-hearted and critically–acclaimed comedy that is one of America’s best. Join Grandpa and his good-natured, though eccentric, family as they meet the stuffy and more conservative Kirbys – nothing but hilarity ensues. This revival of PPF’s very first production is a Pulitzer Prize winner and tremendous fun for all ages!
Opens this weekend at The James Lee Community Center Theater 2855 Annandale Road, Falls Church.
$18 adults, $15 Students/Seniors. 703-425-6782.
Tickets online at www.providenceplayers.org and at the door. The Nov 3rd performance will be sign language interpreted.
Performance Dates And Times
Thursday, Friday and Saturday 7:30 p.m.
October 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, November 1, 2 & 3
Sunday Matinees 2:00 p.m. October 21 & 28
15th Anniversary Season – Our Best Yet! Season Tickets Available
The Providence Players of Fairfax (PPF) proudly celebrates its fifteenth anniversary season in 2012–2013 with an exciting lineup of award winning productions beginning October 18th with the Pulitzer Prize winning Kaufman and Hart comedy classic, “You Can’t Take It With You”. From humble beginnings as a group of parents who first banded together to mount the same Kaufman and Hart classic in1998 to raise money for a local elementary school PTA, the Providence Players has emerged as one of the region’s leading non-profit community theater companies, producing 4 main stage productions a year with more than 100 all volunteer member artists serving over 3,600 theater patrons each year. To celebrate its fifteenth anniversary season, PPF felt it only fitting to open it’s season with a reprise of its very first production (with some of the original actors and many new faces!) and follow it up with exciting new offerings.
PPF’s fifteenth anniversary season will be counted among company’s best ever. Following the classic award winning comedy, “You Can’t Take It With You” as the Fall production, the Players will present a special holiday production of “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever”. This production, a family holiday classic, is being produced in cooperation with the Young Hearts Foundation a group of amazing teens who raise funds to battle blood cancers and other diseases. A portion of all proceeds from this production will be donated to Young Hearts Foundation in pursuit of their important mission.
PPF’s early spring production will be the 2000 Pulitzer Prize winning drama, “Dinner With Friends” a funny yet bittersweet look at the marriages of two couples who have been friends for years and the impact on both couples when one of those marriages goes sour. The New York Times called this multi-award winning work “A play for our time”. “Dinner with Friends” is not for young audiences. It contains mature themes and language.
The final production of the season will be one of the oldest new comedy’s to ever hit the stage, the David Ives adapted Mark Twain comedy, “Is He Did?”. Authored by Twain in 1898, this play was recently discovered by Twain scholar, Shelley Fisher Fishkin and adapted by one ofAmerica’s funniest contemporary playwrights, David Ives. It has only recently hit the professional theater circuit to both critical acclaim and raucous laughter.
An award-winning company, PPF is proud to be a member of the Washington Area Theater Community Honors (WATCH) organization that adjudicates productions and presents annual awards recognizing artistic and technical excellence in Community Theater. Since becoming a member in 2004, PPF has been recognized with nearly fifty (50) WATCH nominations and awards for quality theatrical performance and production. Most recently, for the 2011 WATCH Season, the Providence Players were honored with eleven WATCH nominations for performance and production work, including two nominations for Best Play for PPF’s productions of The Shadow Box and Auntie Mame. In 2011, PPF’s The Shadow Box won the British Players’ Ruby Griffith award for Outstanding Achievement in Non-Musical (“Best Play”). And in 2008-2009, PPF’s production of All My Sons won the Ruby Griffith Award for All Around Production Excellence, their top award.
PPF also became a member and grant recipient of the Arts Council of Fairfax County, and has been honored by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors (sponsored by now Board Chairman, Linda Smyth and then Board Chairman, now Congressman, Gerry Connolly) for artistic excellence and community involvement.
PPF is also committed to the diverse community it serves. Several years ago, PPF launched the Theater Community Inclusion Project, a community outreach initiative that strives to increase participation among new audiences, particularly youth and underserved populations by providing free tickets to those who cannot afford the price of admission, a special free teacher and student preview performance for each production, theater workshops for youth, and scholarships to college-bound students who have demonstrated a strong commitment to theater arts.
PPF is the resident company and community partner at The James Lee Community Center in Fairfax County, just outside the City of Falls Church. The 2012-2013 season marks the company’s 9th year at the intimate and comfortable 224 seat James Lee Community Center Theater. The Players are honored to have had a hand in working with Fairfax County in the design of the theater and company members are active and involved in many non-PPF theatrical activities at the theater and in the community center.
PPF is a group of committed, volunteer member artists. The organization prides itself as a welcoming, inclusive “big tent” organization – big enough to include first timers to theatrical endeavors and those with significant theater experience.
The Season in Summary:
You Can’t Take It With You
By George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart
Directed by Chip Gertzog
Produced by Janet Bartelmay
A brilliant, warm-hearted and critically–acclaimed comedy that is one ofAmerica’s best. Join Grandpa and his good-natured, though eccentric, family as they meet the stuffy and more conservative Kirbys – nothing but hilarity ensues. This revival of PPF’s very first production is a Pulitzer Prize winner and tremendous fun for all ages!
Performance Dates And Times
Thursday, Friday and Saturday 7:30 p.m.
October 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, November 1, 2 & 3
Sunday Matinees 2:00 p.m. October 21 & 28
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
By Barbara Johnson
Directed by Beth Whitehead
Produced by Prince McLaughlin and David Whitehead
The Herdmans are the worst kids in the history of the world; they lie, steal and cheat. Now they have taken over the churches’ annual Christmas pageant! The entire town has gathered in anticipation, waiting to see the Herdmans ruin Christmas – or will they? This funny, heartwarming, holiday tale has become a classic: and good for the entire family!
Co-Produced by Providence Players and The Young Hearts
This special production of a holiday treat will benefit the work of The Young Hearts, a group of amazing teens who raise funds to battle blood cancers and other diseases. A portion of all proceeds from this production will be donated to Young Hearts Foundation in pursuit of their important mission.
Performance Dates And Times
Thursday, Friday and Saturday 7:30 p.m.
December 7, 8, 13, 14, 15
Saturday & Sunday Matinees 2:00 p.m.
December 8, 9, 15, 16
Dinner with Friends
By Donald Margulies
Directed by Tina Thronson
Produced byChip Gertzog
Full of humor, warmth, and wisdom, this 2000 Pulitzer Prize winning drama is a funny yet bittersweet look at the marriages of two couples who have been friends for years and the impact on both couples when one of those marriages goes sour. Margulies’ elegant, breezy and witty dialog nourishes the audience as do his poignant insights which are deeply affecting. The New York Times called this multi-award winning work “A play for our time”. Dinner with Friends is not for young audiences. It contains mature themes and language.
Performance Dates And Times
Thursday, Friday and Saturday 7:30 p.m.
April 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20
Sunday Matinees 2:00 p.m. April 7 & 14
Is He Dead?
Adapted By David Ives
Based on the play by Mark Twain
Directed by Beth Hughes-Brown
Produced by Smitty Connolly
A hilarious comedy that focuses on the real-life painter, Jean-Francois Millet. Though brilliant, he is in dept to a ruthless moneylender, and can’t sell a painting to save his life (literally). His cohort of bohemian friends convince him to stage his own death to help boost sales. Authored by Twain in 1898, this play was recently discovered by Shelley Fisher Fishkin and updated by David Ives.
Performance Dates And Times
Friday and Saturday 7:30 p.m.
May 31, June 1, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15
Sunday Matinees 2:00 p.m. June 2 & 9
Ticket Information:
Reserved seat season and single show tickets may be ordered online at www.providenceplayers.org by emailing providenceplayerstickets@cox.net , by phone at 703-425-6782 or at the door. A Three play (the Holiday show is not part of the season ticket package) Season Ticket Package Costs Adults $45 and Students/Seniors 62+ $32. Single Show tickets cost Adults: $18 and Students/Seniors 62+: $15.
Open seating, general admission tickets for the holiday show will cost $15 for all theatergoers.