MAINSTAGE
January 19 - March 3, 2024
Job
A new play by Max Wolf Friedlich
Directed by Michael Herwitz
Starring Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon
Produced by Hannah Getts & Alex Levy
Tickets: $42-$132 (incl. $5 fee)
Runtime: 80 minutes
Recommended age: 17+
“80 minutes of pretty much pure tension. A slick, cleverly crafted drop-tower ride.”
Jane, an employee at the big tech company (you know the one), has been placed on leave after becoming the subject of a viral video. She arrives in the office of a crisis therapist—Loyd— determined to be reinstated to the job that gives her life meaning. A psychological thriller, Job zooms in on two careerists of different generations, genders and political paradigms to examine what it means to be a citizen of the internet and our obligation to help the people who need it most.
About the Artists
Peter Friedman has been in the original New York productions of works by Wendy Wasserstein, Simon Gray, C.P. Taylor, Charles Fuller, Annie Baker, Amy Herzog, Max Posner, Greg Pierce, Jennifer Haley, Deborah Zoe Laufer, The Debate Society, Rachel Bonds, Lauren Yee, Will Eno, Michael Mitnick, Kim Rosenstock, Will Connolly, Gunnar Madsen, Joy Gregory, John Lang, Susan Stroman, David Thompson, John Kander, Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens, and Stephen Flaherty. He’s performed in NYC revivals of plays by Paddy Chayefsky, Reginald Rose, Donald Margulies, Chekhov, and Shakespeare. Film: The Savages, Safe, Single White Female. TV: “Brooklyn Bridge,” “High Maintenance,” “The Muppet Show,” “The Affair,” “The Path,” “Succession.”
Sydney Lemmon's Off-Broadway debut. Broadway: Beau Willimon’s The Parisian Woman. Film: TÁR, Firestarter, Velvet Buzzsaw. Television: “Helstrom,” “Succession,” “Fear the Walking Dead” (Saturn Award Nomination). She can next be seen alongside Halle Berry in the forthcoming feature film The Mothership. Sydney is a graduate of Boston University, LAMDA and the Yale School of Drama.
“In Max Wolf Friedlich’s tight, clever play, Sydney Lemmon searingly captures the frenetic essence of a person overwhelmed by a seemingly indifferent internet. Peter Friedman imbues his counterarguments with genuine passion. Nimbly directed by Michael Herwitz, it’s refreshing to see characters who are not afraid of their intellect or feel the need to condescend by slowing down their high-speed streams of life-or-death consciousness.”
“TAUT, VERBALLY LACERATING AND EXHILARATING. An edge-of-your-seat watch made even better by the performances of Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon. Every inflection and glance is charged with intrigue in Michael Herwitz’s staging.”
UPSTAIRS
January 25 - February 10, 2023
US PREMIERE
Written by Ruby Thomas
Produced & Directed by Jack Serio
Featuring David Cromer, Tasha Lawrence, Lily McInerny, Uly Schlesinger, and Calvin Leon Smith
Running Time: 80 minutes
Tickets: $37.54 - $79.54 (including fees)
General admission
The Animal Kingdom
Sam is struggling. Sam’s family don’t understand. But then they barely understand themselves. Now, trapped in a stuffy inpatient clinic undergoing family therapy, they must find new ways to communicate with each other.
The U.S. premiere of Ruby Thomas' The Animal Kingdom, directed by Jack Serio, is an observation of family dynamics told with wit and compassion that peels back the emotional layers of group therapy.
“★★★★ A thrilling portrait of a family in collapse.”
About the Artists
Ruby Thomas (Playwright) is an actor and writer. Her previous work for theater includes Either, The Animal Kingdom, and Linck & Mülhahn (a finalist for the George Devine Award 2022 and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2023) at Hampstead Theatre. In 2020 she wrote and performed a piece for the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper. She was on attachment at Hampstead Theatre with the Channel 4 Playwrights’ Scheme 2020 and received a Jerwood Commission from the Royal Court in 2021. She was also part of the invitation Writers’ Group at the Royal Court (2018/19) and Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab (2016/17). She is developing plays for Hampstead, the Royal Court, and Annapurna and a musical for Birmingham Rep. For television, she is developing original projects with Mam Tor, Origin, and Fearless Minds and writing an episode of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder produced by Moonage for the BBC.
Jack Serio (Director) most recently directed the critically acclaimed production of Uncle Vanya staged in a Flatiron loft. Before that, he directed the U.S. premiere of Rita Kalnejais’ This Beautiful Future at The Cherry Lane Theater. A New York Times Critic’s Pick, the production transferred off-Broadway after a twice-extended, sold-out run at Theaterlab. His production of On Set With Theda Bara written by Joey Merlo and starring David Greenspan returns this winter, co-produced by Transport Group and Lucille Lortel Theatre at The Brick in Williamsburg. His work has been seen at Playwrights Horizons, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, 59e59, Cherry Lane, Theaterlab, The Brick, Theater for the New City, and The Pearl Theater Company. He is the Development Associate for Aasif Mandvi’s Fat Mama Productions, a member of the 2019 Lincoln Center Directors Lab and the 2019-2021 SDC Foundation Observership Class. BFA: NYU. www.jackfserio.com
MAINSTAGE
April 8 - May 4, 2024
Page 73 presents
Stargazers
Written by Majkin Holmquist
Directed by Collette Robert
Tickets on sale February 8, 2024
With a haunted family farm as its central character, Holmquist’s eerie and funny play excavates the buried histories land contains, and illuminates the tensions of a polarized society constantly reshaping itself atop it.
About the Artists
Majkin Holmquist is a playwright originally from the Smoky Valley region in central Kansas where she was co-founder of The Next Stage Theatre Company. She is the 2023 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow. Her play Tent Revival received a digital production through Paula Vogel’s Bard at the Gate series in partnership with the McCarter Theatre Center in 2023. Other plays include two headed calf, Every Anne Frank, Quickmatch, Dog Pack Play, and Skinflint. Credits include The Quonsets (co-written with Alex Lubischer, Yale Cabaret), Broken Melodies (WVIT Women in Theatre Festival), and Styx Songs (contributing writer, Yale Cabaret). Her work has been developed at New York Stage and Film, Woodshed Collective, Bay Street Theatre, Page 73, Ucross, and Roundabout Theatre Company. She is currently a member of Midnight Oil Collective, Page 73’s Interstate 73 Writers Group, and is a Lecturer in Playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. She holds a BA in Secondary English Education from Bethany College and an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.
Colette Robert is a director and playwright from Los Angeles, based in New York. She directed the world premieres of STEW by Zora Howard at Page 73 (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) and Behind the Sheet by Charly Evon Simpson at Ensemble Studio Theatre, where she is a member. She recently directed the first New York revival of Crumbs from the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage with Keen Company. Regional credits include City Theatre Company, Penumbra Theatre, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Colette is an alumnus of The Drama League's Beatrice Terry Residency, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and The Public Theater’s Van Lier Directing Fellowship. Her play The Harriet Holland Social Club Presents the 84th Annual Star-burst Cotillion in the Grand Ballroom of the Renaissance Hotel, which she also directed, premiered last spring, produced by The Movement Theatre Company and New Georges. She is an adjunct lecturer at NYU and the 2023 SDCF Denham Fellow.
Photos by Daniel J Vasquez.
Director Colette Robert
Playwright Majkin Holmquist
About Page 73
Page 73 is a Tony and Obie Award-winning theater company that exclusively produces playwrights’ Off-Broadway debuts. Page 73 developed and, with Playwrights Horizons, produced the world premiere of Michael R. Jackson’s A Strange Loop, whose awards included the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 2022 Tony Award for Best Musical. Page 73’s two dozen celebrated world and New York premieres include Zora Howard’s STEW (Finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama); Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, (Finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama); Mia Chung’s Catch as Catch Can, Clare Barron’s You Got Older, Leah Nanako Winkler’s Kentucky, Heidi Schreck’s Creature, George Brant’s Grounded, and John J. Caswell, Jr.’s Man Cave.
Page 73 additionally offers career guidance, financial assistance, and development opportunities through annual playwright development programs including a fellowship, writers group, workshops, writing retreats, and residencies.
In 2020, the organization was honored with an institutional Obie Award “for providing extraordinary support for early career playwrights.”
Read more at www.page73.org