Retro Productions celebrates its eleventh season with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Glee/Big Love) drama, Good Boys and True which had its World Premiere at The Steppenwolf Theatre in 2007. The production is directed by DeLisa White who won a New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Director for Vincent Marano’s Lights Narrow. Good Boys and True, is Retro Productions 18th full length play. Their last production, The Butter and Egg Man played to sold-out houses and received rave reviews. Heather E. Cunningham (NYIT Award Winner for Outstanding Actress/An Appeal To The Woman Of The House) is the Producing Artistic Director, Sara Slagle serves as an Associate Producer.
It’s 1988 and Brandon is embarking on his Senior year at St. Joseph’s Preparatory School for Boys. He’s smart, charming and the captain of the football team – a typical St. Joe’s leader. But when a video tape featuring graphic sex acts is found in one of the school’s VCRs his future is threatened. Is Brandon the boy on the tape? Who is the girl? And why was the tape made? The slow revealing of the answers to these questions force Brandon’s mother Elizabeth to confront unsettling truths about her son, herself, and the foundation of their lives as the school and community are rocked by scandal.
Featuring: C.K. Allen(Lawn People/Cherry Lane), Stephan Amenta (A Great Wilderness/Williamstown), Heather E. Cunningham (NYIT Award for Best Actress/An Appeal To The Woman of the House), Rebecca Gray Davis (The Butter and Egg Man/Retro), Ryan Pater (A Man’s A Man/Classic Stage Company), and Moira Stone (Money Lab/HERE Arts Center).
The creative team includes set design by Jack and Rebecca Cunningham (multiple NYIT nominations for set design), costume design by Kathryn Squitieri, lighting design by Asa Lipton, sound design by DeLisa White, and properties design by Sara Slagle.
All performances take place at the Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street (Between Lafayette & Bowery), New York, NY 10012. Subways: 6 to Bleecker Street, B/D/F/M to Broadway/Lafayette. Tickets are $18.00 (adults), $15.00 (students/seniors), and are available at www.retroproductions.org.
Show Dates:
Saturday, November 28 at 8:00 pm (Opening Night)
Sunday, November 29 at 2:00 pm
Monday, November 30 at 8:00 pm
Wednesday, December 2 at 8:00 pm
Thursday, December 3 at 8:00 pm
Friday, December 4 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, December 5 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, December 6 at 2:00 pm
Wednesday, December 9 at 8:00 pm
Thursday, December 10 at 8:00 pm
Friday, December 11 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, December 12 at 8:00 pm
Running time: 1:45
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Playwright) is an award-winning playwright, comic book and television/film writer. His plays, include Good Boys and True, Dark Matters, Say You Love Satan, and Based on a Totally True Story, which have been produced Off-Broadway (Manhattan Theatre Club, 2econd Stage, Rattle Stick Playwrights Theater) and regionally (Steppenwolf, South Coast Rep). He wrote the book for the musical American Psycho with music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik. American Psycho premiered on the West End in 2013 and is currently planned for a Broadway run in 2016. As a comic book writer he has written The Fantastic Four, Nightcrawler and Spider-Man, for Marvel Comics. Television credits include the HBO series Big Love, and Looking, and Glee on Fox. Movie credits include Carrie and The Town That Dreaded Sundown. In 2002 he received the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. He also received several GLAAD Media Award nominations for Golden Age and for Say You Love Satan.
DeLisa White (Director) is an award winning director and sound designer. In 2014 she received a New York Innovative Theatre Award (NYIT) for Outstanding Director for Vincent Marano’s Lights Narrow which was also nominated for Best Production of a Play and Best Full Length Play. For Retro Productions, she has directed An Appeal to the Woman of the House which was nominated for Best Production of a Play, Best Full Length Play and won an NYIT Award for Heather Cunningham as Outstanding Actress. Other directing credits include Greg Oliver Bodine’s production of Poe Times Two which was performed at Cape May Stage and the Workshop Theatre Company. The production was also nominated for several NYIT Awards. Additional directing credits include Ed Malin’s Generic Magic Realism starring Nat Cassidy (nomination Best Solo Performance), and Mr. Cassidy in the NYIT Award Winning, Things at the Doorstep which was inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s work. In total, the productions she has directed have earned a total thirteen NYIT nominations and three wins. DeLisa has designed sound for Retro Productions, Workshop Theatre, and The New York International Fringe Festival. She has also provided foley effects for Pandora Machine Films, WWOW Cranston and Spade Radio.
About Retro Productions – Retro Productions (Heather E. Cunningham, Artistic Director) was founded in 2005 with the mission to present works of retro theatre. Retro is defined as “involving, relating to, or reminiscent of things past (American Heritage Dictionary).” Retro Productions strives to tell good theatrical stories which have an historical perspective – with an emphasis on the 20th century – in order to broaden our own understanding of the world we live in. Over the past 11 years, Retro has produced 18 plays including last year’s critically acclaimed production of The Butter and Egg Man and The Runner Stumbles which was moved to an off-Broadway run by The Bleecker Company in 2011.
Retro Productions has received 22 New York Innovative Theatre Awards nominations since 2008 – including 2 wins for Outstanding Actress in a Lead, for Kristen Vaughan (Benefactors by Michael Frayn in 2011) and Heather E. Cunningham (An Appeal to the Woman of the House by Christie Perfetti Williams in 2014). Nominations include Outstanding Production of a Revival for The Butter and Egg Man in 2015, Outstanding Production of a Play for An Appeal to the Woman of the House in 2014, Benefactors in 2011 and The Desk Set in 2010, Outstanding Original Full-length script for An Appeal to the Woman of the House in 2014, Outstanding Ensemble for Benefactors in 2011, as well as acting and design award nominations. www.retroproductions.org.