Season 58

LLT's Season 58 PLAYHOUSE will operate "as normal".  That is, we will offer Playhouse events on a regular basis, with full audience reserved seating in the McIntosh Auditorium


  • Ajijic Readers Theatre (ART) at LLT plays were presented during the summer.
  • The Mark Boyer 10 Minute Play Festival was presented in August.
  • National Theatre Live screenings continue during the regular season.
  • Workshops and Special Events to be offered on occasion, to be announced as they are conceived and prepared. 

NTL: JACK ABSOLUTE FLIES AGAIN by Richard Bean and Oliver Chris

based on Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals


April 15 & 16, 2023   4:00 pm

A rollicking new comedy by Richard Bean (One Man, Two Guvnors) and Oliver Chris (Twelfth Night).

 

After an aerial dog fight, Pilot Officer Jack Absolute flies home to win the heart of his old flame, Lydia Languish. Back on British soil, Jack’s advances soon turn to anarchy when the young heiress demands to be loved on her own, very particular, terms.

 

Emily Burns directs this spectacularly entertaining new version of Sheridan’s The Rivals. Featuring a cast including Caroline Quentin, Laurie Davidson, Natalie Simpson and Kelvin Fletcher.


For fans of:

1. Classic British Comedies – slapstick, laugh out loud, comedies that don’t take themselves too seriously.

2. Wartime Nostalgia – ‘keep calm and watch Jack Absolute Flies Again’

3. Theatre on West End and Broadway

4. NT Live – our core audience: older, more affluent, culturally engaged, interested in event cinema

End of Playhouse Season 58

ART: MATCH, by Stephen Belber, directed by Lynn Gutstadt


June 17, 18, 19, 2022

Friday, 7:30 pm

Saturday & Sunday, 4:00 pm


Cast:

Tobi Shawn Sherwood

Mike – Mark Nichols

Lisa – Linda Goman

Narrator – Donna Burroughs

Intense, emotional, suspenseful – at once funny and sad.  Tobi is an aging dancer, choreographer and teacher who enjoys knitting. His quiet life is interrupted when Mike and Lisa enter his home under the pretense of interviewing him for Lisa's thesis.


“Uproariously funny, deeply moving, enthralling theater. Stephen Belber’s MATCH has great beauty and tenderness, and abounds in wit.” (NY Daily News)


Please note: This play contains sexually explicit language.


MATCH is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., NY.

ART: FOUR DOGS AND A BONE, by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Rosann Balbontin


July 15, 16, 17, 2022

Friday, Saturday & Sunday

ALL SHOWS NOW AT 4:00 pm


Cast: Donna Burroughs, Collette Clavadetscher, Kristine Handgen and John Ward

A witty satire of the movie business. Though it is biting and cruelly critical, it is also very funny – and that’s probably why it ran for 230 performances when it premiered in New York in 1993.


“If you’re going to write a satire about the movie business at this very late date, it had better be very, very funny. In the case of FOUR DOGS AND A BONE … that criterion is most abundantly met.” (NY Times) 


FOUR DOGS AND A BONE is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., NY.

Special Event: MARK BOYER 10 Minute Play Festival


Festival Director: Collette Clavadetscher


August 4, 5, 6, 7, 2022

Thursday & Friday, 7:30 pm

Saturday & Sunday, 4:00 pm

The concept of a 10 minute play festival was introduced to the LLT Board by Mark Boyer in March of 2019 and unanimously approved. In early 2020 an email appeal was made to playwrights and 36 plays were submitted by 18 individuals. From these, a review committee ranked the plays using a scoring system and the eight best were selected for the Festival, originally scheduled for August 2020. COVID intervened and the festival was held August 4-7, 2022. Directors applied and were selected and auditions were held on June 2 and 3 and the plays were cast!


Here's the play lineup!

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Title Playwright Director Role Actor
The Pitch Ken Yakiwchuk Frank Lynch Carmine Chris L'Ecluse
Bennett Steve Parker
Alice Jennifer VanDusen
Estoy Enfermo Ed Tasca Maloy Murdock David Mark Donaldson
Mildred Dorothy Slater
Doctor Gary Hassis
Borderline Randy Warren Maloy Murdock Roy Steve Parker
George Jeremiah Swanson
Valerie Collette Clavadetscher
I Wish Louise Ritchie Frank Lynch Genie Inti Feelmaker
Leigh Kristine Handgen
Female Genie Lila Wells
Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead Susan Miller Lila Wells Azalea Barbara Pruitt
Daisy Georgette Richmond
To Err is Human John Ward Graham Miller Amanda Kathleen Morris
Grim Reaper Mark Donaldson
New on the Streets Patricia Guy Kathleen Morris Bruce Nico Cumplido
Misty Maxanne Swanson
Ramon Inti Feelmaker

NTL: THE BOOK OF DUST by Philip Pullman, directed by Nicholas Hytner


October 15 - 16, 2022

Set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Philip Pullman’s fantastical world in which waters are rising and storms are brewing. 


Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua, and in that child lies the fate of the future. And as the waters rise around them, powerful adversaries conspire for mastery of Dust: salvation to some, the source of infinite corruption to others. 


Eighteen years after his ground breaking production of His Dark Materials at the National Theatre, director Nicholas Hytner returns to Pullman’s parallel universe.


Broadcast live on stage from London’s Bridge Theatre.

NTL: PRIMA FACIE by Suzie Miller, directed by Justin Martin


November 19 - 20, 2022

Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) makes her West End debut in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award-winning play, Prima Facie.


Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has climbed her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross-examining and winning. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.


Prima Facie takes us to the heart of where emotion and experience collide with the rules of the game.


Justin Martin directs this solo tour de force, captured live from the intimate Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End.

ANOTHER SPECIAL CONCERT from Steve Balfour's Concerts at the Lake

ENRIQUE DE ALLENDE

ROMANZA: A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF ANDREA BOCELLI AND MICHAEL BUBLÉ


December 4, 2022 - 2:30 and 5:30

Enrique de Allende is one of the most extraordinary singers to grace stages from Budapest to Vallarta. He has played to sold out audiences at Lunario, one of Mexico City’s more prestigious stages, and continued with Vibrato Grill in Los Angeles to international settings in Budapest, Munich, Slovakia and venues across Europe. 

World-famous music producer, David Foster, who has trained and produced artists such as Josh Groban and Celine Dion, says this: “The interpretations of Enrique de Allende bristle your skin. It is an experience that penetrates your ears and connects you with universal contemporary music, with a romantic, classical style, but with a youthful touch. It’s the new Julio Iglesias, with a sweet and powerful voice.”
 
Enrique has a repertoire of classics and popular songs in English, Spanish and Italian. As a versatile artist, he interprets a wide range of music from current Pop, to classic Operatic, to Big Band, to Traditional Mexican Romantic and Mariachi favorites. His song stylings are romantic blends of Andrea Bocelli and Michael Bublé. 

Born in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Enrique has been singing and performing from an early age. His extraordinary vocals and heartfelt performances continue to garner fans across the globe. He went on to study with the renowned Seth Riggs and Erik Vitro and is proud of his work with musician/director David Foster.
 
Local music enthusiasts won’t want to miss his fabulous performance, as he plans for a fall performance at Carnegie Hall and his return trip to Europe. 

SPECIAL CHRISTMAS SHOW!

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, A LIVE RADIO PLAY

by Joe Landry, directed by Rosann Balbontin


December 16, 17, 18, 2022

Celebrate the season with It’s a Wonderful Life, a holiday favorite as you’ve never seen - or heard! - it before. The timeless tale of George Bailey is given a clever twist when staged as a live, 1940's radio broadcast.


Greg Custer, Florette Schnelle, Graham Miller, Barbara Pruitt, Jeff Kingsbury and David Dennis give voice to all of Bedford Falls’ memorable residents, accompanied by sound effects created live onstage and more sound effects created by J. E. Jack.


The whole family will enjoy reliving this timeless tale of a likeable fellow down on his luck and ready to end it all - until an Angel Second Class shows him life’s true value.

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NTL: STRAIGHT LINE CRAZY by David Hare, directed by Nicholas Hytner


March 11, 12, 2023   4:00 pm

Ralph Fiennes leads the cast in David Hare’s (Skylight) blazing account of the most powerful man in New York, a master manipulator whose legacy changed the city forever.


For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses exploited those in office through a mix of charm and intimidation. Motivated at first by a determination to improve the lives of New York City’s workers, he created parks, bridges and 627 miles of expressway to connect the people to the great outdoors.


Faced with resistance by protest groups campaigning for a very different idea of what the city should become, will the weakness of democracy be exposed in the face of his charismatic conviction?


Broadcast live from the Bridge Theatre in London, Nicholas Hytner directs this exhilarating new play.

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