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Off the Press Series

Presented for adults and older teens at the Elgood Theater, these informal staged readings include some of the latest plays from Broadway, Off-Broadway and the American Regional Theatre. These thought-provoking, gutsy plays are by some of theatre's newest playwrights - plays just "off the press." Each admission includes the staged reading, a talk-back with artists and light refreshments.

ADVISORY . . . Readings in the OFF THE PRESS SERIES are recommended for adults and older teens. These readings often include explicit language and graphic descriptions of a sexual or violent nature and could be offensive to some viewers.

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Dead Man's Cell Phone
 

Sunday, March 28, 6:00 pm • Written by Sarah Ruhl

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man with a lot of loose ends. A wildly imaginative new comedy by the author of The Clean House, this is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.

"Ms. Ruhl's work . . . blends the mundane and the metaphysical, the blunt and the obscure, the patently bizarre and the bizarrly moving." - The New York Times

"Ruhl's fascination with death never feels morbid. because satire is her oxygen."                           - The Washington Post

Comments from Walter Hill, FYT Associate Artistic Director in charge of programming and production the Off the Press Series:  "Last season, we read Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House and it was a great success so it was exciting to get the rights to Dead Man's Cell Phone - probably my favorite play title ever.  Like all of Ruhl's work, this play is a charming comedy tinged with the fantastic.  She says her artistic mission is 'to make the known world unfamiliar in order to reanimate it.'"

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March 2010

  • Sunday: 28th at 6:00 pm

 
The Farnsworth Invention

Sunday, April 25, 6:00 pm • Written by Alan Sorkin

It’s 1929. Two ambitious visionaries race against each other to invent a device called “television.” Who will unlock the key to the greatest innovation of the 20th century: the ruthless media mogul, or the self-taught Idaho farm boy?

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April 2010

  • Sunday: 25th at 6:00 pm

 
Previous staged readings

BACH AT LEIPZIG

Sunday, October 18, 6:00 pm • Written by Itamar Moses

Leipzig, Germany, 1722. The revered organist of the Thomaskirche suddenly dies, leaving his post vacant. The five candidates are willing to resort to any lengths to secure it, weaving a farcical web of bribery, blackmail and betrayal.

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October 2009

  • Sunday: 18th at 6:00 pm

MAURITIUS

Sunday, November 15, 6:00 pm • Written by Theresa Rebeck

After their mother's death, two estranged half-sisters discover a book of rare stamps that may include the crown jewel for collectors. Three seedy, high-stakes collectors enter the sisters' world, willing to do anything to claim the rare find as their own.

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November 2009

  • Sunday: 15th at 6:00 pm

RABBIT HOLE                                                                        RABBIT HOLE article

Sunday, January 17, 6:00 pm • Written by David Lindsay-Abaire

Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart.  As improbably funny as it is heartbreaking, this story of a family in crisis won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for five Tony Awards.  Variety said RABBIT HOLE is, “Not just a departure but a revelation–an intensely emotional examination of grief, laced with wit, insightfulness, compassion and searing honesty.”  Entertainment Weekly reviewed RABBIT HOLE as “Grade:  A!  A transcendent and deeply affecting new play, which shifts perfectly from hilarity to grief.”

 

Thoughts about RABBIT HOLE from Walter Hill, FYT Associate Artistic Director in charge of programming and producing the OFF THE PRESS SERIES:

Written with poignant humor and finely-observed detail, this acclaimed play explores questions and challenges readily known to anyone who has ever suffered loss, or has tried to move beyond it.  In the end, the play offers no easy answers, but gives us a glimpse into a family very much like our own, coping with loss with anger and hope, despair and humor, and ultimately, profound, aching humanity.

 

Cast of RABBIT HOLE

FYT Resident Artist, Andrea Anthony (Izzy)
FYT Student, Ian Guevara (Jason)
UM-Flint Professor and FYT Alumna, Janet Haley (Becca)
FYT Guest Artist, Kim Mahard (Nat)
FYT Guest Artist, Brian Van Camp (Howie)

 

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January 2010

  • Sunday: 17th at 6:00 pm

RADIO GOLF

Sunday, February 21, 6:00 pm • Written by August Wilson

A successful entrepreneur aspires to become Pittsburgh’s first black mayor. But when the past begins to catch up with him, secrets get revealed that could be his undoing in this bittersweet drama of assimilation and alienation.

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February 2010

  • Sunday: 21st at 6:00 pm

 


More Info

The Flint Institute of Music
1025 E. Kearsley Street
Flint, MI 48503

Monday - Thursday 8 am - 7 pm
Friday 8 am - 5 pm | Saturday 9 am - 1 pm

810-238-1350

Flint Youth Theatre
1220 E. Kearsley Street
Flint, MI 48503

Monday - Friday 8:30 am - 5 pm

810-237-1530