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When a tragedy occurs, the choices we make about how we live, and how we love, can bring about endless surprises. Calvin's Mom (played by Tony Award-nominee Jan Maxwell) is coping with the death of her teenage son as best as she can. When a substitute teacher challenges everything she thinks she knows about her child, their volatile bond creates a complex unfolding of revelations. Anton Dudley's artful new play takes us to a place where sadness, solace, hope and laughter intermingle, forging unexpected connections against a chasm of loss and grief.
“Jan Maxwell is one of our most ingenious
actresses!”
--Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“Witty, unexpected, and magical. It's like
falling in love all over again.”
--Time Out NY on Anton Dudley's Getting Home
Featuring Kieran Campion, Shana Dowdeswell, Brandon Espinoza and Jan Maxwell
April 26-May 17, 2008
Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 7:30 pm Saturday & Sunday matinees at 3:00 pm
At The Soho Playhouse
15 Vandam Street (between 6th Avenue and Varick)
1 block north of Spring Street 
;
3 blocks south of Houston Street 
All tickets $30.00
For performances through May 3rd get a 35% discount, use code “RPCPV”
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Box Office: 212-691-1555
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Pay What You Can Night On Tuesdays April 29th, May 6th and May 13th, pay what you can at the box office an hour before the show while availability lasts.
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ABOUT US
THE PLAYWRIGHTS REALM is a new off-Broadway theater company, led by Co-Artistic Directors John Dias and Katherine Kovner, dedicated to developing and producing theater with artists—and for audiences—who share our belief that the playwright’s vision is central to great theater. We at The Realm believe in creating immediate, imaginative and theatrically vital productions that spring from the core of the text—its language, its ideas and its mysteries. We love contemporary playwrights. We love the canon of great dramatic literature from the past. We believe that, when explored and produced side by side, each provides a fresh perspective that enlivens our experience of both old and new plays. The Realm is dedicated to creating a community of like-minded artists to explore these ideas, develop new work and create productions of contemporary plays and classics at off-Broadway theaters in New York City.
John Dias, Co-Artistic Director For twelve years, John worked at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Joseph Papp Public Theater as Associate Artistic Director, Associate Producer, Literary Director, Dramaturg, and Director of The Shakespeare Lab: the Theater's classical actor training program. He was a Producer on the Broadway production of Lisa Kron's Well. He is currently a partner in the commercial producing group Affinity Company Theater, a Tony Award nominator, and the production dramaturg for the upcoming Broadway revival of August Wilson's Fences. He is also a panelist for NYSCA, the Drama League, and the Pew Charitable Trust. Before coming to New York, John was on the artistic staff at the Hartford Stage Company. He has consulted for a number of arts institutions and taught at NYU, Yale University, Columbia University, and the Public Theater's Shakespeare Lab. BA: George Washington University. MFA: University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Katherine Kovner, Co-Artistic Director Most recently directed a production of Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue at Luna Stage. Previous credits include Roxy Font in the Fringe Festival which earned four stars from Time Out and won the Fringe’s best ensemble award, Iphigenia and Other Daughters at Luna Stage, a workshop production of The Knight of the Burning Pestle at Classic Stage Company and Lizardskin in the Fringe Festival. She has directed work for New York Theater Workshop, New Georges, Ensemble Studio Theater, Brooklyn Playwrights Collective, The Manhattan Oracles, Another Urban Riff, and Powerhouse Theater Company. A graduate of Brown University, she's been an artistic associate with Classic Stage Company, the directing fellow at The Public Theater's Shakespeare Lab and is a member of the Lincoln Center's Director Lab and an affiliated artist with New Georges.