The Rimers of Eldritch
By Lanford Wilson / Directed by Mark Brokaw

With Edward Cannan, Georgia Creighton, Danielle Du Clos, Sharon Ernster, Georgine Hall, Deborah Hedwall, Suzy Hunt, Mary Jay, Kaiulani Lee, William Mesnik, Bill Mondy, Jennie Moreau, Stuart Rudin, Gary Dean Ruebsamen, Amy Ryan, Barry Sherman, Adam Storke

Set by Santo Loquasto / Lighting by Jennifer Tipton / Costumes by Ellen McCartney / Sound by Aural Fixation / Hair by Antonio Soddu / Production Stage Manager Carol Fishman / Press Representative Richard Kornberg / Casting by Simon and Kumin Casting

First presented by Ellen Stewart at LaMama ETC, New York City, on July 12, 1966, for a limited run of 12 performances; subsequently presented at The Cherry Lane Theater by Theater 1967, as part of their New Theater Season, each play running for three weeks.

Dedicated to Anthony Holland

This season was made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Department of Cultural Affairs.

"The Second Stage revival of Wilson's play is superb. The roles, so vividly drawn by the playwright, have been cast with uncanny precision."
— Peter Winne, The Record

"One of Lanford Wilson's great strengths is his gentle handling of imperfect souls. Wilson has a deeper understanding and sympathy for human failing than any playwright working today."
— Don Nelson, Daily News

"Wilson has spun this play with a spiderish delight and dexterity. Santo Loquasto has done wonders with his multi-tiered setting. Mark Brokaw's staging is both clear and misty, conveying Wilson's dramatic tissue with a sense of mystery."
— Clive Barnes, New York Post

In a Pig's Valise
A hard-boiled yarn with music

Book and lyrics by Eric Overmyer / Music by August Darnell / Directed and Choreographed by Graciela Daniele

With Reg E. Cathey, Jonathan Freeman, Charlie Lagond, Nathan Lane, Ada Maris, Michael McCormick, Thom Sesma, Dian Sorel, Lauren Tom

Set by Bob Shaw / Lighting by Peggy Eisenhauer / Costumes by Jeanne Button / Musical Direction Peter Schott / Sound by Gary and Timmy Harris / Hair by Antonio Soddu / Production Stage Manager Robert Mark Kalfin / Stage Manager Paula Gray / Press Representative Richard Kornberg / Casting by Simon and Kumin Casting

This production received special funding from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund

Originally presented as part of the Playwrights 86 series at Center Stage, Baltimore, MD.

"In a Pig's Valise at the enterprising Second Stage Theatre, may find a cult following, among lovers of puns and aficionados of forties movie thrillers."
— Oleg Kerensky, The Stage News

"Nathan Lane is a funny and shrewd actor with a talent for tongue-in-cheek clowning."
— Variety

"Eric Overmyer is firmly established as a brilliantly articulate and witty satirist of genre prose. The book and lyrics are schematically taut and deftly pun-filled."
— Simon Saltzman, Daily Record

"This is an exercise in genre, a parade in style. The music is vital. Graciela Daniele has directed and choreographed the show with the exquisite panache of a plume with chutzpah - every movement is synchronized with significance."
— Clive Barnes, New York Post

Approaching Zanzibar
By Tina Howe / Directed by Carole Rothman

With Jane Alexander, Maggie Burke, Angela Goethals, Damien Jackson, Clayton Barclay Jones, Bethel Leslie, Aleta Mitchell, Jamie Ross, Harris Yulin

Set by Heidi Landesman / Lighting by Dennis Parichy / Costumes by Susan Hilferty / Sound by Gary and Timmy Harris / Hair by Antonio Soddu / Production Stage Manager Pamela Edington / Stage Manager Ken Simmons / Press Representative Richard Kornberg / Casting by Simon and Kumin Casting

Made possible, in part, by generous grants from AT&T and the Axe-Houghton Foundation.

"Approaching Zanzibar is a wonderful play - an odd and mirthful adventure and a graceful, literate rumination on birth, death, growing up, and growing old. Howe packs so much fun and meaning into her new play that Approaching Zanzibar is practically a theatrical hall full of mirrors. Zany, profound, and self-reflective."
— Peter Wynne, The Record

"The writing is lovely, the sensibility is appealing, the characters are attractive and the theme is weighty. Approaching Zanzibar is unmistakably the work of a talented and life-affirming writer."
— Humm, Variety

"The ensemble acting is magnificent. Carole Rothman's direction makes this spiritual journey from A to Z a memorable and provocative experience. Approaching Zanzibar takes a magical journey through the difficult terrain of life and death."
— East Side Express

Shimmer
Written and performed by John O'Keefe

Lighting by James Cave / Stage Manager Edward Phillips / Press Representative Richard Kornberg

First performed January 5, 1988, as part of the American Inroads Series at Life on the Water in San Francisco, CA; subsequently performed at the Climate Theatre in San Francisco, Performance Space 122 in New York City, and in Los Angeles.

"John O'Keefe has a rich voice, a wonderful command of his body, and a ferocious energy."
— Howard Kissel, Daily News

"O'Keefe has the master story-teller's secret of making the past immediate and the scene live. He makes fantasy as real as reality, and reality as fanciful as a story comes across in a book.
— Clive Barnes, New York Post

"Shimmer is a vivid, startling and invigorating journey."
— Bill Ervolino, New York Post