ANNAPURNA
1 MAN, 1 WOMAN
Commissioned by South Coast Repertory. Featured at SCR's 2011 Pacific Playwrights Festival.
Out of friends, out of luck, and out of time, Ulysses is resigned to spending the last remaining weeks of his life in solitude with his ungrateful dog and relentless do-gooder neighbor. Until Emma walks in…much as she walked out twenty years ago.
WORLD PREMIERE
at The Magic Theatre in San Francisco
Directed by Loretta Greco.
With Rod Gnapp and Denise Cormier
currently playing through
December 4, 2011.
Watch the Magic Theatre Trailer
Read a conversation with Sharr White
and Playwright-in-Residence Christina Anderson
A few words from dramaturg Lue Douthit
"The walls are transparent but the past is opaque in Sharr White's "Annapurna," a comic and gripping duet for ex-spouses receiving its world premiere at the Magic Theatre."
— The San Francisco Chronicle
"...at the heart of each character, is a lyricism that simply can't be suffocated. Sharr White has created two fine and ferociously damaged people caught in the emotional whirlpool of not being able to live with or without each other."
— Huffington Post
San Francisco Chronicle
Huffington Post
SF Weekly
SF Arts Monthly
Stark Insider Bolg
INQUIRIES
The Peregrine Whittlesey Agency
279 Central Park West • New York, NY, 10024
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THE OTHER PLACE
2 WOMEN, 2 MEN
Outer Critics Circle nominee for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play. Winner of the 2011 Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation’s Theatre Vision Fund Award, and the 2010 Playwrights First Award.
Just as Juliana Smithton’s research leads to a potential breakthrough, her life takes a disorienting turn. During a lecture to colleagues at an exclusive beach resort, she glimpses an enigmatic young woman in a yellow bikini amidst the crowd of business suits. One step at a time, a mystery unravels as contradictory evidence, blurred truth and fragmented memories collide in a cottage on the windswept shores of Cape Cod.
WORLD PREMIERE
Off-Broadway at MCC Theatre
Directed by Joe Mantello
With Dennis Boutsikaris, Aya Cash,
Laurie Metcalf and John Schiappa
Opened March 28, 2011
Extended Through May 1, 2011
EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Currently in Repertory
at the Nationaltheater Mannheim
Directed by Burkhard C. Kosminski
With Ragna Pitoll, Thomas Meinhardt,
Sabina Furst and Sven Priest.
INQUIRIES
For English-language stock and amateur stage performance rights in the United States, its territories, possessions and Canada, contact:
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New York, NY 10016
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Nonprofessional Licensing: nonpro@dramatists.com
Professional Licensing: pro@dramatists.com
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“Sudden flares of uncontrolled feeling appear like lightning flashes from a sky that was clear just moments before … Gradually our faith in this seemingly most reliable of narrators is undermined by deftly disclosed pieces of information.”
—The New York Times
“… a haunting drama … so cleverly constructed that the nature and depth of the problem isn’t revealed until the last shattering scene.”
—Variety
“[A] wonderful surprise … in which we the audience collectively discovered we’d been had. And that we’d liked it.”
—The Village Voice
“Four stars … [an] engrossing new drama.” —Bloomberg News
“… you can’t avert your eyes from [this] slowly unfolding drama.” —The New York Post
“White’s first major New York production … shows him as a crack craftsman who knows
how to hook an audience.”
—The New York Daily News“White juggles the various pieces of his play with a skillful hand, folding them together with an uncanny ability to know exactly how much to give away and when.”
—The New York Press
“[Juliana] is an unreliable narrator of the greatest sort, and … THE OTHER PLACE
proceeds to rip hole after hole in her story and add mystery after mystery to her past.”
—Entertainment Weekly
New York Times
New York Times
Variety
Newsday
Bloomberg
Village Voice
New York Magazine
NY Mag's Approval Matrix
New York Press
New York Daily News
Back Stage
New York Post
Huffington Post
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Theatre Mania
Entertainment Weekly
Capital New York
Broadway World (Photos)
Theatre Mania (Photos)
Leonard Lopate Show
New York Times
Variety
Newsday
Bloomberg
Village Voice
New York Magazine
NY Mag's Approval Matrix
New York Press
New York Daily News
Back Stage
New York Post
Huffington Post
Huffington Post
TalkinBroadway
Theatre Mania
Entertainment Weekly
Capital New York
Broadway World (Photos)
Theatre Mania (Photos)
Leonard Lopate Show
SUNLIGHT
2 MEN, 2 WOMEN
Winner of the 2009 Sky Cooper New Play Prize at Marin Theatre Company.
Matthew Gibbon, liberal lion and university president, may have finally gone too far in his battle against the conservative Dean of the law school — his son-in-law and former protégé. His daughter is caught between them and the entire university community is up in arms. The personal and political collide in this stunning new play about loyalty, power and torture memos.
PREMIERE
Marin Theatre Company
January 26, 2010
Jasson Minidakis directing
INQUIRIES
For English-language stock and amateur stage performance rights in the United States, its territories, possessions and Canada, contact:
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“… articulate and probing … a ringing defense of principles.”
—The Seattle Times
“… a roller coaster of surprises, disclosures and brilliantly written one-liners.”
—Metroactive
“Playwright White has much to say that audiences need to hear.”
—PacificSun.com
“… engrossing … will keep you thinking throughout.”
—TalkinBroadway.com
METRO ACTIVE - SAN FRANCISCO
KQED: FORUM WITH MICHAEL KRASNY
KPFA: AGAINST THE GRAIN WITH C.S. SOONG
SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
LA TIMES
VARIETY
THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP
BROADWAY WORLD
SIX YEARS
4 MEN, 3 WOMEN
It is 1949 when Phil Granger finally reappears in the small Missouri town he left six years earlier for the unspeakable horrors of World War II. His wife, Meredith, is there to meet him, put him back together…and keep him home. In five scenes spanning twenty-four years of Postwar life, Sharr White takes us on an intimate journey to an unspoken side of the Greatest Generation, chronicling Meredith and Phil Granger's struggles to survive together through the boom of the 1950s, the hope and unbearable losses of the 1960s, and the resounding search for redemption following the Vietnam war.
PREMIERE
The 30th Anniversary Humana Festival of New American Plays
at Actors Theatre of Louisville
March 2006
Hal Brooks, director
INQUIRIES
For English-language stock and amateur stage performance rights
in the United States, its territories, possessions and Canada, contact:
Dramatists Play Service
440 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
Tel. 212-683-8960 Fax 212-213-1539
www.dramatists.com
Nonprofessional Licensing: nonpro@dramatists.com
Professional Licensing: pro@dramatists.com
For all other inquiries, contact:
The Peregrine Whittlesey Agency
279 Central Park West • New York, NY, 10024
212.787.1802 • PWWAGY@AOL.Com
It is 1949 when Phil Granger finally reappears in the small Missouri town he left six years earlier for the unspeakable horrors of World War II. His wife, Meredith, is there to meet him, put him back together…and keep him home. In five scenes spanning twenty-four years of Postwar life, Sharr White takes us on an intimate journey to an unspoken side of the Greatest Generation, chronicling Meredith and Phil Granger's struggles to survive together through the boom of the 1950s, the hope and unbearable losses of the 1960s, and the resounding search for redemption following the Vietnam war.
PREMIERE
The 30th Anniversary Humana Festival of New American Plays
at Actors Theatre of Louisville
March 2006
Hal Brooks, director
INQUIRIES
For English-language stock and amateur stage performance rights
in the United States, its territories, possessions and Canada, contact:
Dramatists Play Service
440 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
Tel. 212-683-8960 Fax 212-213-1539
www.dramatists.com
Nonprofessional Licensing: nonpro@dramatists.com
Professional Licensing: pro@dramatists.com
For all other inquiries, contact:
The Peregrine Whittlesey Agency
279 Central Park West • New York, NY, 10024
212.787.1802 • PWWAGY@AOL.Com
"This is serious theater, an episodic play that deftly illustrates how the history of the Greatest Generation has sobering current relevance."
—Miami Herald
"This is theater at its thought-provoking, affecting best."
—Newsweek.
"A wrenching look back at twenty-four years of post World War II America…extremely well-written, serious slice-of-life drama."
—CurtainUp.
"The resonance for White's audiences has been evident…several characters are at the darkening intersection of this drama that some have remarked has the bearing of an Arthur Miller play."
—CNN.com.
"A beautiful character study and an intriguing look at life and relationships evolving through time…Grade: A."
—Cincinnati CityBeat.
"…Sharr White's riveting SIX YEARS devastatingly demonstrated the lingering damage of war in those who fight."
—Miami Herald.
"…easily one of the most compelling dramas to come out of the Humana Festival of New American Plays in recent years."
—Lexington Herald Leader.
—Miami Herald
"This is theater at its thought-provoking, affecting best."
—Newsweek.
"A wrenching look back at twenty-four years of post World War II America…extremely well-written, serious slice-of-life drama."
—CurtainUp.
"The resonance for White's audiences has been evident…several characters are at the darkening intersection of this drama that some have remarked has the bearing of an Arthur Miller play."
—CNN.com.
"A beautiful character study and an intriguing look at life and relationships evolving through time…Grade: A."
—Cincinnati CityBeat.
"…Sharr White's riveting SIX YEARS devastatingly demonstrated the lingering damage of war in those who fight."
—Miami Herald.
"…easily one of the most compelling dramas to come out of the Humana Festival of New American Plays in recent years."
—Lexington Herald Leader.
ACHILLES IN SPARTA
A PLAY FOR YOUNG ACTORS
WITH FLEXIBLE CASTING
A tragedy has befallen a great city. A country girds for war. Helen, the national figurehead of beauty and hope, has been abducted from Sparta, and its young men and women—those most likely to do the fighting, and mourning—ready themselves for war.
Developed expressly for young actors, Achilles in Sparta uses short, highly theatrical scenes and monologues to tell the story of a nation marching towards inevitable conflict and the fall of a hero. With variable casting possibilities intended to meet the needs of a group of any size, from small class productions to conservatory programs with large casting demands, Achilles in Sparta provides an engrossing entryway into the classics through an emotionally accessible and linguistically rich theatrical experience that explores the joys and challenges of stagecraft and acting.
INQUIRIES
For English-language stock and amateur stage performance rights
in the United States, its territories, possessions and Canada, contact:
Dramatists Play Service
440 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
Tel. 212-683-8960 Fax 212-213-1539
www.dramatists.com
Nonprofessional Licensing: nonpro@dramatists.com
Professional Licensing: pro@dramatists.com
For all other inquiries, contact:
The Peregrine Whittlesey Agency
279 Central Park West • New York, NY, 10024
212.787.1802 • PWWAGY@AOL.Com
WITH FLEXIBLE CASTING
A tragedy has befallen a great city. A country girds for war. Helen, the national figurehead of beauty and hope, has been abducted from Sparta, and its young men and women—those most likely to do the fighting, and mourning—ready themselves for war.
Developed expressly for young actors, Achilles in Sparta uses short, highly theatrical scenes and monologues to tell the story of a nation marching towards inevitable conflict and the fall of a hero. With variable casting possibilities intended to meet the needs of a group of any size, from small class productions to conservatory programs with large casting demands, Achilles in Sparta provides an engrossing entryway into the classics through an emotionally accessible and linguistically rich theatrical experience that explores the joys and challenges of stagecraft and acting.
INQUIRIES
For English-language stock and amateur stage performance rights
in the United States, its territories, possessions and Canada, contact:
Dramatists Play Service
440 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
Tel. 212-683-8960 Fax 212-213-1539
www.dramatists.com
Nonprofessional Licensing: nonpro@dramatists.com
Professional Licensing: pro@dramatists.com
For all other inquiries, contact:
The Peregrine Whittlesey Agency
279 Central Park West • New York, NY, 10024
212.787.1802 • PWWAGY@AOL.Com
