- Written and Directed by Joe Calarco
- Starring Sherri L. Edelen & Nancy Robinette
In a world that seems to be spinning beyond their control, two women find themselves sharing a table, stuck in an airport by a storm. Representing two sides of the culture wars – one red state, the other blue state – Margaret and Patty reluctantly strike up a conversation that encourages them to open up, challenge their preconceived notions, and find common ground.
Joe Calarco, the Helen Hayes Award-winning director of Side Show and Assassins, and a Signature Artistic Associate, has written a charming and intimate new comedy that explores the choices we all make, the regrets with which we burden ourselves, and the losses we suffer as we age, mature, and stride through an incomprehensible world.
Starring Helen Hayes Award winners Nancy Robinette (Studio Theatre’s Souvenir and Shakespeare Theatre’s Twelfth Night) and Sherri L. Edelen (Signature’s Sweeney Todd & Les Miserables).
“Joe Calarco is a theater man of imagination and vision.”
– The New York Times
The Cast
Sherri L. Edelen (Patty) SIGNATURE: Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables (Helen Hayes Award), Urinetown, Elegies (Helen Hayes nomination), Side Show (Helen Hayes Award). DC AREA: Kennedy Center/Sondheim Celebration: Sunday in the Park with George, Merrily We Roll Along; Shakespeare Theatre: Design for Living; Olney: She Loves Me (Helen Hayes nomination); Rep Stage: Kimberly Akimbo; Round House Theatre: The World Goes ‘Round, The Diary of Anne Frank; Arena: Cabaret (Helen Hayes nomination); Theater of the First Amendment: Sing Down the Moon, Perseus Bayou; Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol. REGIONAL: NY Fringe Festival: Citizen Ruth; Arden Theatre: Our Town; Caroline, or Change (Barrymore nomination); Philadelphia Theatre Co.: The Light in the Piazza, Elegies (Barrymore nomination); Stages St. Louis: The Music Man, Annie Get Your Gun.
Nancy Robinette (Margaret) SIGNATURE: Eagle River, Donna Q, Available Light, Taking My Life In Your Hands. OFF BROADWAY: New York Theatre Workshop: Trestle at Pope Lick Creek; Roundabout: Give Me Your Answer Do!. DC AREA: Arena Stage: Well, Death of a Salesman; Studio Theatre: Frozen, Souvenir; Scena Theatre: Mother Courage; Round House Theatre: Escape From Happiness; Shakespeare Theatre: The Rivals, Sweet Bird of Youth, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, The Silent Woman, The Little Foxes, Lady Windemere's Fan, Twelfth Night; Woolly Mammoth Theatre: Wonder of the World, Aunt Dan and Lemon; Ford’s Theatre: State of the Union. REGIONAL: Williamstown: Philadelphia Here I Come!; Papermill: Diary of Anne Frank; McCarter: Twelfth Night; The Old Globe: Boeing Boeing, Savannah Disputation; Key West: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. FILM/TV: Serial Mom, The Day Lincoln Was Shot, Telegrams From the Dead, Homicide, Louie. AWARDS: Helen Hayes Award; Fox Fellow 1998; Shakespeare Theatre’s Will Award.
Creative Team
Joe Calarco (Playwright, Director) SIGNATURE: Assassins (Helen Hayes Award), Urinetown (Helen Hayes Award), Sideshow (Helen Hayes Award), Nijinsky’s Last Dance (Helen Hayes Award), Nest (world premiere), writer of the last five Signature in the School world premiere plays. OFF-BROADWAY: Playwrights Horizons: The Burnt Part Boys, Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky; Primary Stages: In Transit, Boy; Second Stage: in the absence of spring (writer/director); Lucille Lortel: Sarah, Plain and Tall;The Transport Group: Bury The Dead, The Audience (contributing book writer); Dream Light Theatre Company: Fugitive Songs. Shakespeare’s R&J (adaptor/director, Lucille Lortel Award, also West End and Tokyo). NATIONAL TOUR: Ring of Fire. REGIONAL: The Old Globe: Lincolnesque, (world premiere), The Glass Menagerie; Barrington Stage Company: The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (world premiere, book writer/director), The Burnt Part Boys (world premiere), The Memory Show;Philadelphia Theatre Co.: The Light in the Piazza, The Last Five Years (Barrymore Award Best Musical), Elegies, M. Butterfly;Disney Creative Entertainment: Twice Charmed. Drama League Directing Fellow, Executive Board SDC.
James Kronzer (Scenic Design) SIGNATURE: Over 20 productions including A Fox on the Fairway, Sweeney Todd and Show Boat. BROADWAY: Glory Days. OFF-BROADWAY: Opus, Under the Bridge. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Oman O Man; Shakespeare Theatre: The Beaux Stratagem (Helen Hayes Award); Washington Ballet: Cinderella; Round House Theatre: The Picture of Dorian Gray; Woolly Mammoth Theatre: Clybourne Park; Olney Theatre: The Glass Menagerie, Democracy; Folger Theatre: Hamlet. REGIONAL: Playmakers: Opus; Arden Theater: Sunday in the Park; Something Intangible (Barrymore Award); Caroline, or Change; Philadelphia Theater Co: Elegies; Denver Center: The Catch, When Tang Met Laika; Pioneer Theater: Brighton Beach Memoirs, As You Like It (Weston, VT); A Christmas Carol (Worcester MA & Knoxville TN). NATIONAL TOURS: Seussical the Musical, Show Boat, Thomas the Tank, Barbie Live!, Backyardigans; Scenic co-ordinator: Spamalot, The Wizard of Oz, Drowsy Chaperone, The Producers. TELEVISION: Whitney Cummings: Comedy Central. AWARDS: 8 Helen Hayes Awards, 2 Barrymore Awards (Philadelphia). AFFILIATIONS: United Scenic Artists. www.JamesKronzer.com.
Kathleen Geldard (Costume Design) SIGNATURE: A Fox on the Fairway (world premiere), Chess, Sycamore Trees (world premiere), Sweeney Todd, I Am My Own Wife, Show Boat, See What I Wanna See, Les Misérables, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Happy Time. DC AREA: Woolly Mammoth Theatre: Eclipsed;Round House Theatre: Permanent Collection, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Eurydice, Orson’s Shadow, Life x 3; Imagination Stage: The Neverending Story (2008 Helen Hayes nomination), Twice Upon a Time, The Hundred Dresses, Huck Finn’s Story, Charlotte’s Web, Liang and the Magic Paintbrush; Studio-Arena Theatre: Batboy; Olney: Da, Is He Dead?, Rabbit Hole, Of Mice and Men, Elephant Man, Having Our Say; Folger Theatre: Comedy of Errors, All’s Well that Ends Well; Studio Theatre Secondstage; Everyman Theatre; Vineyard Playhouse; Theater J; Rep Stage; Catalyst Theater; Theater Alliance. DANCE: Liz Lerman Dance Exchange: Nocturnes, The Farthest Earth From Thee, 613 Radical Acts of Prayer, Funny Uncles, Imprints on a Landscape: The Mining Project.
Chris Lee (Lighting Design) SIGNATURE: Chess, Sweeney Todd (2010), Kiss Of The Spider Woman, Merrily We Roll Along, The Word Begins, The Witches Of Eastwick, Saving Aimee, Into The Woods, Assassins, One Red Flower, Follies, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Grand Hotel, … in the absence of spring … , Side Show, Urinetown, Elegies: A Song Cycle. BROADWAY/WEST END: Fame Becomes Me, Linda Eder Live, Shakespeare’s R&J (Tokyo & London). OTHER: The Pajama Game (National Tour), The Backyardigans (National Tour), Barbie™ Live In Fairytopia™ (National Tour), Jesus Christ Superstar (European Tour). Twice Charmed, Remember The Magic, and Disney’s Believe for Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Entertainment, Peep Show for Planet Hollywood Las Vegas, the feature film Camp, and over 200 Off Broadway and Regional Theatre productions. His studio, Lightworks, conceives and designs lighting for clients such as Coca Cola, Ford Motor Company, Sony Ericsson, American Express, and Intel. AWARDS: 2009 Helen Hayes Award, Kiss Of The Spider Woman.
Matt Rowe (Sound Design) SIGNATURE: A Fox on the Fairway, Chess, Sycamore Trees, [title of show], Sweeney Todd, Show Boat, First You Dream: The Music of Kander & Ebb, Dirty Blonde, Giant, The Little Dog Laughed, Les Misérables, Anyone Can Whistle in Concert, The Visit, The Happy Time, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Glory Days, Merrily We Roll Along, The Witches of Eastwick. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Nobody’s Perfect.
Julie Meyer (Production Stage Manager) SIGNATURE: Chess, Tamar and the River (21/24 Workshop), [title of show], I Am My Own Wife, Show Boat, Dirty Blonde, The Boy Detective Fails (21/24 Workshop), Giant, Glory Days, Les Misérables. OFF-OFF-BROADWAY: Fist in a Pocket: Washing Machine. REGIONAL: Lyric Theatre: Stephen Schwartz’s new musical Snapshots: a Musical Scrapbook, Disney’s High School Musical, Oklahoma! Evita, Singin’ in the Rain, Once on This Island; ReVision Theatre: Hair!, Scrooge in Rouge; Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre: Jane Eyre; Little Me; Dirty Blonde; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. EDUCATION: Rutgers University, MFA, Stage Management.