by Gina Gionfriddo 

Obie Award-Winning Playwright

October 22 - November 16, 2014

Directed by Adrianne Moore

Featuring performances by Stewart Fullerton, Nell Gwynn, Tracie Merrill-Wilson, Jeanette Puhich, and Robert Scott Smith

by John Logan

Tony Award-Winning Playwright

September 17 - October 26, 2014

Directed by Robin Wilks-Dunn

Featuring Camille Van Wagoner

by Allen Nevins and Nancy Borgenicht

June 25–August 31, 2014

Directed by Cynthia Fleming

by Amy Herzog

Pulitzer Prize Nominee (Finalist, 2013)

Obie Award (Winner, 2013)

Time Magazine's Play of the Year 2012

April 9–May 4, 2014

Directed by Adrianne Moore

by Elizabeth Diggs

Winner of the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award

World Premiere

Developed in the New Play Sounding Series

February 5–March 2, 2014

Directed by Keven Myhre

Based on the book by Dr. Seuss

Play originally produced by the National Theatre of Great Britain

Adapted and originally directed by Katie Mitchell

Regional Premiere

December 6–28, 2013

Directed by Penelope Caywood

By David Lindsay-Abaire 

Tony Award Nominess (Best Play, 2011)

New York Drama Critics Best Play Award

Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright (RABBIT HOLE, 2007)

Regional Premiere

October 30 - November 24, 2013

Directed by Robin Wilks-Dunn

By David Ives

Tony Nominee (Best Play, 2012)

Regional Premiere

September 25 - October 27, 2013

Directed by Tracy Callahan

Featuring Marza Warsinske and Patrick Kintz

By Matthew Ivan Bennett

Monday, October 24, 2011 @ 7 pm

A love letter to Kaufman and Hart
An oddball play with a twist toward 21st century problems

Director Mark Fossen
Cast Michael Gardner, Mark Gollaher, JJ Peeler, Teresa Sanderson, Richard Scott, Cassandra Stokes-Wylie

A NIGHT WITH THE FAMILY is a comedy surrounding a character-driven, dysfunctional family who has gathered together in Salt Lake City. Playwright Matthew Ivan Bennett describes his script as "a love letter to the Kaufman and Hart, an oddball play with a twist toward 21st century problems." In A NIGHT WITH THE FAMILY, we meet: Donald- a New Age hoarder, Diane- a micromanager and a cougar, Antoine- a French-Canadian modern dancer and soon-to-be stepdad, Bree- a Mormon convert whose husband has an internet porn addiction, and Donny- a newlywed with anxiety attacks. We meet a family..... full of advice.

We are thankful to the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation and the Dramatists Guild Fund for their generous support of SLAC's New Play Sounding Series program.

Playwright's Note

"When I was in my early 20s, my attitude about my family was that I was so obviously, completely, deeply, and intrinsically different from them. In my early 30s, my attitude is that I used to be a dumbass. Family is so much a part of who you are, it's impossible to see sometimes. A NIGHT WITH THE FAMILY is a play about a family in crisis (or a whole family involving themselves in a son's crisis), how we directly sabotage each other even as we're trying to help, and how relationships are always, always messy--and, mercifully, hilarious."

Playwright's Bio

Matthew Ivan Bennett is the Resident Playwright of Plan-B Theatre, where he's premiered several plays. BLOCK 8, his play about the Japanese-American internment at Topaz, was supported by the NEA. His radio adaptation of FRANKENSTEIN received the Best Feature Program award from the Utah Broadcasters Association. His works have appeared at Chicago's Circle Theatre, at Hunger Artists in LA, and in the Source Festival in Washington DC. He's published in Smith & Kraus' 161 One-Minute Monologues from Literature. He acted in the SLAC production of Harold Pinter's THE CARETAKER. Matt earned a Bachelors' of Theatre Arts at Southern Utah University.

We thank the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation and the Dramatists Guild Fund for their generous support of our New Play Sounding Series program.

a new play by Elaine Jarvik and Kate Jarvik Birch

FREE READING: Monday, April 25th at 7 pm

As they get their grandmother's house ready for her 90th birthday party, Rosie and her brother wonder if their estranged father will show up after a 20-year absence.  The wondering turns into a series of fantastical and bittersweet encounters that explore who their father was, why he left, and what the rules of marriage should be.

Director: Tracy Callahan

Company: Dan Beecher, Teri Cowan, Darrin Doman, Cheryl Gaysunas, Terence Goodman, Tracie Merrill

Reviews

Life without father: memories sweet and sad at Salt Lake Acting Company reading | Salt Lake City Theater Examiner | Jenniffer Wardell | April 18, 2011