June 20-30

Thursdays – Sundays

They’re creepy and they’re kooky! Join TCL for a fun-filled evening of seven short plays that will evoke the nostalgia of summer nights around the campfire…with some delightful surprises! A talking rock considers revenge on high school bullies, a hungry swamp monster has a taste for a pink-clad cosmetic saleswoman, and a chatty chupacabra longs for a fresh start. All told, campfire stories and mysterious urban legends inspire fresh, funny theater.

“The Jackalope Play Festival continues TCL’s highly successful initiative to produce new works. In delightful and imaginative ways, these plays ask us to confront our assumptions as well as our fears, as they shine the light on things that go bump in the night, with hilarious and even poignant results, “ says Madge Montgomery, Artistic Director for TCL and director of five of the seven festival plays. Brian Miller, lighting and set designer, directs the remaining two.

Calling all unicorns, jackalopes, mermaids, basilisks, abominable snowmen and New Jersey Devils: Come to either of TCL’s two Sunday matinees on June 23 or June 30 dressed as your favorite “mythical creature” and you may win a prize!

Special Discount Nights: Thursday, June 20 and Thursday, June 27 – ALL tickets just $10!

See you there!

“Glengarry Glen Ross”

by David Mamet

Click here for the review in the May 3 Boulder Daily Camera

Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for drama, “Glengarry Glen Ross” is David Mamet’s scorching play about a group of desperate salesmen who resort to manipulation, bribery and even theft to keep their jobs and follow the American Dream.  Hailed as a showcase for a tight ensemble of actors, Mamet’s play presents a world of men and masculinity in all its unsound, impotent, and rageful wonder.

From director Ian Gerber, “Ever since seeing my first Mamet play in Chicago in 1978, which happened to be “Sexual Perversity in Chicago,” I have been fascinated with his language and characters. Now getting to direct these eight strong, talented actors in this edgy piece is quite exciting. This look at human greed, desperation, and a particular breed of salesmen is just as powerful now as when it won the Pulitzer almost 30 years ago.”

Revived on Broadway in 2005 and 2012, this influential piece of American drama also became a celebrated film in 1992 starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin and Alan Arkin.

“Crackling tension. . .ferocious comedy and drama.” – The New York Times

“No play better conveys the spirit of our money-obsessed times than this enthralling, black comedy by David Mamet.” – The Evening Standard

Advisory:  For mature audiences only. Adult themes and language.

April 26 – May 18

Fri/Sat at 7:30 p.m.

Monday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 5, 2:00 p.m

OPENING NIGHT “Always Be Closing” SPECIAL

Friday, April 26 – All tickets $8

It’s a Monday Night Discount!

Monday, April 29 – All tickets $10

Cast of Glengarry Glen Ross

BLAKE – Patrick Collins

LEVENE – Wade Livingston

WILLIAMSON – Jon Gregory

MOSS – Michael Occhiuzzo

AARONOW – Mark Collins

ROMA – Joel Silverman

LINGK – Blake Curton

BAYLEN – Dean Espitallier

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Article on Almost, Maine

Love in the Time of Frostbite: Nine Tales of Romance Unfold Under the Northern Lights in Theater Company of Lafayette’s Season Opener “Almost, Maine” by John Cariani

On a cold, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine.

As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky, the inhabitants of Almost fall in and out of love at a rapid rate. Full of sweet surprises, every vignette in this mid-winter’s night dream takes place at 9 p.m. somewhere in the snowy hamlet of Almost.

There are nine vignettes and 19 different characters in “Almost, Maine” and the show is most often performed with only four actors. “My vision was to create a more diverse experience for the audience, yet still give actors the challenge of playing multiple roles and keeping a certain sense of continuity,” says director and TCL veteran Vonalda Utterback.  “There is a sweet spot between 4 and 19 actors and I feel we’ve found it in this talented cast of 10.”

“It’s always a risk to love,” she adds. “’Almost, Maine’ is about the delicious, terrifying, intoxicating risk of falling in love and the cost of taking, or not taking that risk.  Of course, in Almost, there’s also a generous sprinkling of magical realism to keep things even more interesting!”

Almost flirting. Almost dating. Almost in love. Almost, Maine.

March 1 – 23

Fri/Sat at 7:30

Thursday, March 7 at 7:30

Sunday, March 17 at 2:00

OPENING NIGHT ‘SHARE THE LOVE’ SPECIAL:

Friday, March 1 – All tickets $8

INDUSTRY NIGHT:

Thursday, March 7 – All tickets $10

CAST of Almost, Maine

Jason Boughn – East, Lendall

Dean Espitallier – Phil

Bill Graham – Man, Chad

Veronica Lingo – Marvalyn, Waitress

Kate Moore – Ginette, Sandrine

Katherine Myers – Hope, Rhonda

Garrett Salter – Pete, Steve

Erica Sodos – Marci

Erik Wilkins – Jimmy, Randy, Dave

Heather Woodruff – Gayle, Glory

The Northern Lights  – Rosco X-24 projector

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Theater Company of Lafayette (TCL) will celebrate the spookiest of months in high Victorian style by staging the world premier of “Sherlock Holmes:  John Watson’s Body” written by C.P. (Chris) Stancich, opening Halloween week, Oct. 26.

No stranger to murder mysteries, Stancich is the author of two previous Sherlock plays produced by TCL:  “Doom of Devilsmoor” (2008) and “Spinsters of Blackmeade” (2010), both published by Heuer Publishing.

“This is my fourth Sherlock Holmes collaboration with Chris,” says TCL Artistic Director Madge Montgomery.  “We met when I directed his comic 10-minute play, “Denouement(s)” in Tacoma, Washington in 1998.  It was about a really bad day for Sherlock, as he fails time and again to solve a mystery.”

“Stancich’s newest play, however, is true to the spirit of the original stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, with a classic-style detective story and lots of action and tongue-in-cheek humor. “John Watson’s Body” explores the friendship between Holmes and Watson in a fresh and insightful way, against a backdrop of delightfully deceptive characters who are filled to the brim with secrets.”

Opening Night Special:  All tickets $8 on Friday, Oct. 26

Theater Company of Lafayette

Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette

Performances: Oct. 26 – Nov. 17

Fri/Sat at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday at 2 p.m. – Nov. 4 and 11

$10-16

Special student pricing – all student tickets are $10 online

Online: www.tclstage.org

Theater phone:  720-209-2154