BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES
Begins Limited Engagement Off-Broadway Run Feb. 19
"Fabulous... For those of us who experience the Village as one crazily overpriced boutique after another, what a world this conjures." -- The New York Times
"Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman's hilarious dramatization of (Bannon’s) Beebo Brinker series persuasively argues that there's gold in that dime-store pulp." -- New York Magazine
"Crisp, steamy and brilliantly realized comic timing." --TheaterMania
This fall’s critically acclaimed production of BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES will play a 10-week limited engagement Off-Broadway run beginning February 19th at 37 Arts. A stage adaptation of Ann Bannon’s groundbreaking, award-winning pulp novels of the 1950s and 1960s, BEEBO is written by Kate Moira Ryan (25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, 2007 GLAAD Media Award Winner for Best Play) and Linda S. Chapman (Gertrude and Alice: A Likeness to Loving) and directed by Leigh Silverman (Well). Ann Bannon’s steamy paperback novels are currently in their third printing by Cleis Press. Opening night is slated for March 5th.
Fueled by booze and furtive sex, BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES follows the lives and loves of four friends in pre-Stonewall Greenwich Village. Beth and Laura, secret lovers in college, still pine for each other. Before they can reunite, they find themselves entangled in a web spun by Beebo Brinker, a butch denizen of the underground bar scene, and Jack, a flamboyant fop with caustic wit.
Produced by Harriet Newman Leve (STOMP, 39 Steps), Elyse Singer (Mae West’s Sex, Trouble in Paradise) and Jamie deRoy (Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Coram Boy), the new production stars Jenn Colella (High Fidelity, Urban Cowboy), David Greenspan (2007 Obie for Some Men and Faust), Carolyn Baeumler (Trouble In Paradise), Bill Dawes (Gross Indecency / Burning Blue), Autumn Dornfeld (The Graduate), and Marin Ireland (Obie Award for Cyclone). The design team includes Theresa Squire (costumes), Rachel Hauck (set), Nicole Pearce (lights), Jill DuBoff (sound) and Roy Gabay (General Manager). The original production was produced by Hourglass Group at The Fourth Street Theatre.
Kate Moira Ryan’s critically acclaimed collaboration with Judy Gold, 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother won a 2007 GLAAD Media Award Winner for Best Play. This past spring, Voice/Hyperion published a book based on the play and it was recently nominated for the prestigious Quill award in the category of humor. Linda S. Chapman co-created and played Alice B. Toklas in the Obie Award-winning and GLADD Media Award Nominee Gertrude and Alice: A Likeness to Loving. Leigh Silverman, critically acclaimed director of Lisa Kron’s award-winning Well on Broadway in 2006 and David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face at the Public Theater, will also be directing Brooke Berman's Hunting and Gathering at Primary Stages and and From Up Here at MTC later this season.
BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES runs February 19 - April 27 with performances Tues. at 7pm; Wed, Thus. & Fri. at 8pm; Sat. at 5pm & 9pm; and Sun. at 3pm & 7pm. 37 Arts is located at 450 West 37th Street (between 9th & 10th Aves. -- accessible from A,C,E trains to 34th St). Tickets are $46.25 - $56.25. To buy tickets call 212-307-4100 or visit TicketMaster.com.