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Port Authority with Steve Beall, James Flanagan,
and Steve LaRocque

James Flanagan, Steve Beall,
and Steve LaRocque

The critics agree...
Port Authority
is outstanding!

Port Authority is well worth a trip to The Writer’s Center in Bethesda for its stellar writing and three strong, complex performances from Flanagan, Beall, and LaRocque. This story of love, loss, and the life unlived is theater at its most captivating. - Ben Demers, DC Theatre Scene

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http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/10/28/port-authority-2/

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The Area Premiere of a tale of the lost loves and missed opportunities of three generations of Dublin men.

...a haunting fugue on passive lives and loves that might have been... as in Mr. McPherson’s best work, this play is steeped in deeper symmetry, rooted in the ineffable within the everyday.

-Ben Brantley, New York Times

Directed by: Jack Sbarbori

Featuring: Steve Beall, James Flanagan,
and Steve LaRocque

October 23 – November 22, 2009

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More praise for Port Authority

It takes a particular kind of actor to handle a McPherson role. Three of "that kind of actor" make up the cast here. First up is James Flanagan, who seems to select serious scripts but who always finds the light touch to bring his characters to life (as was so clear when he was the pizza delivery boy who shakes up the world of a computer wiz in The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow at Studio or the teenage crush of Kimberly Akimbo at Rep Stage a few years ago). Here he's the youth side of the trio and he finds just the right touch of remaining hope to create the age-based contrast with the older characters. Steve Beall is the solid center of the group with a surface veneer of savior faire that belies the damage of drink, marital mismatch and a dead-end career but lets us see the pain nonetheless.
LaRocque is back for another crack at the trademark quotidian approach to monologue with his tiny gestures that almost (but not quite) escape notice but which do so much to establish mood and express the truths otherwise hidden in the words. - Brad Hathaway, Potomac Stages

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http://www.potomacstages.com/Quotidian.htm

..Quotidian's small but mighty production very well done. ...it's a credit to McPherson's humane, observant pen -- and to the three adept actors who illuminate his material in Quotidian Theatre's local premiere of his 2001 play -- that even when nothing much is happening, it feels like everything's at stake. ...the epiphanies here are like atoms, miraculous for their smallness and ubiquity. McPherson knows that insight is more likely to arrive in the frozen food aisle than on a mountaintop, and that wherever we are, we experience these shattering moments privately. ...McPherson's work has been all over D.C. stages recently. Scena's production of his "Dublin Carol" closed last month, while Studio staged "The Seafarer" last January and "Shining City" 14 months before that. Quotidian did its own "Dublin Carol" only a year ago. Given all that, it's surprising that "Port Authority" took so long to find its way here. That's its arrived in such lovingly curated, brilliantly performed fashion is the one happy ending amid a show that otherwise has no use for such dismissive reductionism. - Chris Klimek, DC Examiner

Read the complete review:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/entertainment/What_s-in-a-name_-Little-port_-plentiful-_Authority_-8441557-66548757.html

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Dublin Carol by Conor McPherson PORT AUTHORITY

by Conor McPherson
October 23 – November 22, 2009

The Area Premiere of a tale of the missed opportunities and lost loves of three generations of Dublin men. This play received its New York Premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company in 2008.…a haunting fugue on passive lives and loves that might have been. …as in Mr. McPherson’s best work, this play is steeped in a deeper symmetry, rooted in the ineffable within the everyday. –Ben Brantley, New York Times

Monday Evening 1942 by Steve LaRocque THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL

by Horton Foote
April 16 – May 16, 2010

The Area Premiere of the revised version of Horton Foote’s most famous play which appeared at New York’s Signature Theatre in 2005. Originally a 1953 teleplay featuring Lillian Gish as Carrie Watts, this work has been in production throughout the country ever since. Foote’s 1985 screen adaptation resulted in an Academy Award for Geraldine Page.

Captain Drew on Leave by Hubert Henry Davies A LOVELY SUNDAY FOR CREVE COEUR

by Tennessee Williams
JJuly 9 – August 8, 2010

Set in the West End of St. Louis in the mid-thirties on a lovely Sunday for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. This delightful play, featuring four of Williams’ most engaging female characters, skillfully explores, with comic irony and great tenderness, the meaning of loneliness, the need for human connection, as well as the inevitable compromises one must make to get through “the long run of life.”

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In Loving Memory

Horton Foote passed away on March 4th, 2009, in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was hard at work preparing his epic Orphans’ Home Cycle for production at Hartford Stage and Manhattan’s Signature Theatre next season.

In his 92 years on this earth, Horton enriched American drama with his unique insight into the souls of common men and women living and dying in the fictional town of Harrison, Texas. We are so pleased to have had Mr. Foote serve as an Honorary Member of our Board of Directors, and honored to have presented nine of his plays since 1998, including two de facto premieres, through his kind generosity.

The Quotidian Theatre dedicates its April 2010 production of The Trip to Bountiful to the memory of this sweet, gentle, talented man, whose words will live on as long as plays are performed in this country.

-Jack Sbarbori

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DUBLIN CAROL A 'BEST' PICK FOR 2008!

Our November/December production of Dublin Carol was selected one of the Ten Best Shows of the Year by Examiner.com. Here's the full story.

Also, Doug Krentzlin at Examiner.com chose Quotidian as one of the Ten Best small theater bargains in the area.

Performance Times Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m., with an added Saturday 2 p.m. matinee on the final weekend of each production.

Added Matinee
Added Saturday 2 p.m. matinee on the final weekend of each production.

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