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Barrington Stage Company
Conversations With…The Process is the Thing
Featuring Playwright Sharr White, Moderated by Director Christopher Innvar
Saturday, May 24 at 4pm
(PITTSFIELD, MA) Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in Downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Managing Director Tristan Wilson, launches the 2014 Conversations With Series on Saturday, May 24 at 4pm with The Other Place playwright Sharr White, moderated by BSC Associate Artist and director Christopher Innvar.
The Other Place playwright Sharr White discusses his process for developing a new play – from an initial idea to a fully realized production.
The Conversations With event is free admission with general seating, at the St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield.
Barrington Stage presents the Berkshire premiere of Sharr White’s The Other Place, starring Emmy Award-winner and Golden Globe nominee Marg Helgenberger from May 21 through June 14 on the St. Germain Stage. Directed by BSC Associate Artist Christopher Innvar, The Other Place also features Katya Campbell (Woman), Adam Donshik (Man), and Brent Langdon (Ian).
In The Other Place, Juliana Smithton (Helgenberger) is a successful neurologist whose life seems to be coming unhinged. Her husband has filed for divorce, her daughter has eloped with a much older man, and her own health is in jeopardy. But in this brilliantly crafted work, nothing is as it seems. Piece by piece, a mystery unfolds as fact blurs with fiction, past collides with present, and the elusive truth about Juliana boils to the surface.
Sharr White’s The Other Place received its world premiere Off-Broadway at MCC Theatre, and subsequently received its Broadway premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club with Joe Mantello directing and starring Laurie Metcalf. Sharr White’s other plays include Annapurna, Sunlight, Six Years, and Achilles in Sparta.
Director Christopher Innvar recently performed in Sharr White’s new play The Snow Geese at Manhattan Theatre Club opposite Mary Louise Parker. At BSC Innvar directed The Whipping Man, starring Clark Peters, and Mark St. Germain’s The Collyer Brothers at Home, in addition to plays in the 2013 and 2014 10X10 New Play Festival. Equally at home on stage, Innvar has starred in BSC’s Much Ado About Nothing, The Crucible, A Streetcar Named Desire, Private Lives, Ring Round the Moon, The Importance of Being Earnest, Cyrano, and The Game.
For more information, call the Barrington Stage Box Office at 413-236-8888 or visit www.barringtonstageco.org.
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