Stage Door News
Stage Door News
The season will kick off this fall with Morris Panych’s world-premiere comedy The Shoplifters starring Tony Award nominee Jayne Houdyshell (Romeo and Juliet, Follies) in the role of Alma. The production begins performances Sept. 5 and continues through Oct. 19.
Additional casting and creative team updates for the 2014-15 Arena Stage season will be announced at a later date.
About The Shoplifters:
Meet Alma, a career shoplifter who prefers the “five-finger discount” over some lousy senior citizen deal, whose elaborate life of petty crime is halted by an overzealous rookie security guard and his affable mentor who's seen it all. With an expertly drawn cast of oddball characters, The Shoplifters is full of surprises surrounding a high-stakes battle of wills over increasingly thought-provoking issues. John Carroll Lynch (Fargo, The Drew Carey Show) makes his Arena debut in this world-premiere comedy about society's haves and have-nots and how much they might actually have in common.
From the Author:
“Life is a supermarket. We wander it — sometimes shopping, sometimes pilfering — gathering what pleasure, necessities, hope and joys can fill up our baskets before we head, as eventually we must, to the check out. I look for situations and people that occupy the smallest of spaces; their tragedy and their comedy enlarged by the almost complete insignificance of their acts.”
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Photo: Morris Panych. ©2009 Brett Gundlock.
2014-07-09
Washington, DC: Arena Stage will begin fall season with world premiere of "The Shoplifters" by Morris Panych