While everything below 14th Street was closed that first day, the company itself did not suffer much beyond the delayed previews. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. * Located off of Union Square, the Vineyard Theatre felt some immediate effects of the Sept. Previews were delayed three days to Sept. Rogers starred as the title character in Second Stage's Cellini, Playwright's Horizons' Lobster Alice, Roundabout's Hurrah at Last! and Classic Stage Company's Look Back in Anger.Īlso in the cast are Leslie Lyles ( Down The Garden Path), Michi Barall and Darren Pettie. Stram won a 1996 Obie for Sustained Excellence, including his work with Richard Foreman ( My Head Was A Sledgehammer, Eddie Goes to Poetry City) and the Vineyard ( Christina Alberta's Father). Wright's one man show, I Am My Own Wife: Studies for a Play About the Life of Charlotte Van Mahlsdorf, was workshopped at La Jolla Playhouse in July, 2001.įeatured in the cast are Obie winner Henry Stram and frequent Off Broadway star Reg Rogers. The film "Quills," based on his play, was an indy hit in 2000, garnering a Best Picture award from the National Board of Review, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Screenplay and three Academy Award nominations. 8.ĭescribed as "four mordant bedtime tales for adults," Unwrap Your Candy includes the playlets "The Bone Violin," "Wildwood Park," "Baby Talk" and the title play, meditations on frightening family secrets, corrupting adults and corrupting children, dark dirty crimes, and the perils of attending live theatre.Īn Obie winner for Quills, Wright penned The Stonewater Rapture, Interrogating the Nude, Watabanaland and Buzzsaw Berkeley.
The world premiere short works by the Quills playwright opened to good reviews Oct.
Despite the morbid subjects of Doug Wright's four dark comedies, Unwrap Your Candy will extend at the Vineyard Theatre through Nov.
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