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We’re celebrating our 30th season in State College with a few audience favorites from earlier years.
Time Flies Like an Arrow Fruit Flies Like a Banana, our Summer mainstage production, includes four of David Ives’s best one-act plays from an evening during our 2011 season, and one of Alan Arkin’s finest from our 2001 season.
Ben Brantley of The New York Times dubbed the playwright David Ives “the maestro of the short form… Mr. Ives’s theories may owe much to … such dense thinkers as Einstein and Derrida, but…his obsessions with randomness and relativity…are translated into little gems that percolate with comic brio and zesty bits of stagecraft….”
Our audiences loved Alan Arkin’s “Virtual Reality”. The New York Times described this short play as “A deeply funny, finely graded psychological portrait that becomes a tribute to the conjuring powers of theater…. Imagine the testy, silly one-upmanship of Abbott and Costello crossed with the menacing ambiguity of Harold Pinter….”
Note that some language and material may not be appropriate for children.
About The Next Stage Theatre Company
Independent since it was founded in 1996, The Next Stage produces three plays a year, focusing on non-musical plays by major and upcoming playwrights – work you might see Off-Broadway. The Next Stage offers inventive, streamlined productions in a 50-seat wraparound space, as well as readers’ theater and adult acting classes.
