(Chelsea Update would like to thank Katie Doral for the information in this story.)
The Purple Rose Theatre Company will ring in the new year with the powerful play, Redwood Curtain, by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, PRTC touchstone and benefactor, Lanford Wilson.
Redwood Curtain introduces audiences to Geri, a young prodigy searching for her birth father. While visiting her aunt in northern California, Geri meets a homeless veteran, Lyman, who has chosen to hide behind the curtain of the Redwood Forest. Discovering startling similarities between Lyman and her natural father, she decides he is the key to her true heritage. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Talley’s Folly, Book of Days, and Rain Dance comes a magical and humorous story of family and self-discovery. Redwood Curtain contains mild adult language.
Redwood Curtain will have a nine-week engagement at The Purple Rose Theatre Company from Thursday, Jan. 16 – Saturday, March 15, 2014. Eight low-priced previews will be performed Friday, Jan. 16 – Thursday, Jan. 23, with press opening on Friday, Jan. 24, 2014. Regular performances for the duration of the run are Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. with Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 3 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.
PRTC Resident Artist, Stephanie Buck, is making her PRTC directorial debut with Redwood Curtain. The cast includes Rainbow Dickerson (Los Angeles, CA), Alex Leydenfrost (Ann Arbor, MI) and Michelle Mountain (Grass Lake, MI).
Design for this production includes set by Vincent Mountain, properties by Danna Segrest, costumes by Christianne Myers, lighting by Noele Stollmack, sound by Tom Whalen and stage managed by Angie Kane Ferrante.
Underwriting support for the season comes from The Ford Motor Company Fund, The Hamp Family, and the Matilda R. Wilson Fund. Media sponsors include Michigan Radio, ChelseaMich.com and Applied Storytelling.
All performances will be held at The Purple Rose Theatre Company, 137 Park St.
Founded in 1991 by actor and Chelsea native, Jeff Daniels, The Purple Rose Theatre Company (PRTC) is the home of world-class, original American theatre. The PRTC is a professional theatre company with roots in the Midwest that takes a handcrafted, artisanal approach to producing new and classic American plays that are nothing less than one-of-a-kind experiences. The PRTC is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit professional theatre operating under a Small Professional Theatre agreement with the Actors’ Equity Association.
Tickets are now available and reservations can be made by calling The Purple Rose Theatre Company Box Office at 433-7673 or online by clicking here.
