Performances are Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays @ 8pm and Sundays @ 2pm

All performances are at the BPP at 107 W. 9th

 

COWBOYILY by Steven Cole Hughes

(Runs August 30 – September 15)

 

When Will arrives in Denver, his plans are simple: write a play, return home to Chicago. Then his bus crashes, and the events that follow are anything but simple. His bus driver, Travis, ends up hospitalized-but not before he steals Will's writing journal. As Will tries in vain to convince Travis to return his precious journal, he realizes that this gritty bus driver could give him the raw material for the best play of his career. Sensing Will's desperation, Travis grudgingly agrees to talk with him more, in exchange for free meals and drinks, of course. In their conversations, however, mutual suspicion turns to defiance, and the outcome leaves us all questioning what being "civilized" really means.

 

“A consistently funny yet incisive examination of the tenuous distinction between racism and classism in America.  - John Moore, Denver Post

 

FATAL ATTRACTION: A Greek Tragedy

(Runs November 1 – November 17)

 

When a big-time corporate lawyer has a one-night stand with a no-nonsense business woman, all hell breaks loose.  A cut-up parody of the 1987 film, this play is a hilarious send-up that includes plenty of Kung-Fu action, a Greek chorus, big hair and maybe even a boiled bunny.  This play will “not be ignored!”

 

SYMPHONY FOR THREE by Mike Smith

(Runs February 14 – March 1)

 

A play about love, genius and madness.  Robert, a composer, is married to Clara, a novelist.  They befriend Johannes a graduate student who becomes a folk-singer and then rock star.  The tragic triangle is set against a 1960s backdrop of The Beatles, Vietnam and the hope that the world could be better.

 

THE LIQUID MOON by John Green

(Runs March 27 – April 12)

 

Is it a mid-life crisis? Is his marriage on the rocks? If you have an intimate, non-sexual relationship with another woman, are you really cheating on your wife? Ryan, a married, middle-aged writer, seeks the counsel of his conservative, life long friend, Paul, in order to make sense of his life. He has been seeing another woman, but they have agreed that their relationship is to be strictly platonic. Can it stay that way? What will happen when they see each other tonight? Nothing is predictable in this sophisticated look at sex, love and relationships. This production contains adult content and nudity.

 

“A lovely and moving drama that dares to take morality to task without relinquishing high standards of human behavior.”  Lucia Mauro, Critic - Chicago Sun Times

 

WORK by Terri Wagener

(Runs May 8 – May 24)

 

The Bloomington Playwrights Project proudly announces the winner of this season’s Reva Shiner National Full-Length Playwriting Contest: Work by Terri Wagener. Work by Terri Wagener is the story of a recently-widowed African American woman who receives an unexpected guest: an executive of her husband’s employer has just arrived with a widow’s compensation check. What should be a routine delivery of a tragic gift becomes a reality trip into the harsh social climate of the late 1960s, cleverly echoing our contemporary experience. The Reva Shiner Contest is one of the few full-length play contests in the nation that awards the winner not only with a cash prize, but also a full production of the winning play. Work is directed by Dr. James Mumford and stars Breshaun Joyner and Jeffrey Craft.

 

Purchase tickets online at bloomingtonarts.info or at the Sunrise Box Office at 114 E. Kirkwood Ave

Tickets are $15 General Admission or $12 Students/Seniors $5 Student Rush Tickets are available 5 minutes before showtime at the door