Philadelphia. The 48 hours leading up to the presidential nomination. Two candidates and their advisors play an intense winner-take-all game of political cat and mouse. Promoting virtually identical policies, the two men’s personalities define their true differences: one is a wit and scholar with lofty principles; the other is young, ruthless—and the perfect TV-friendly candidate. The Best Man will have you hanging on every unpredictable twist, turn, play, and ploy, as secrets are revealed and allegiances are bought and sold. In this time when politics are fiercely debated, The Best Man should not be missed!

Chris will appear in the Reporter/Delegate gaggle this spring!

J.M. Synge Festival

In celebration of one of Ireland’s finest writers, Quintessence Theatre will present the complete works of J.M. Synge in performance and recitation.

The Playboy of the Western World

A young man walks into a rural tavern and declares that he has murdered his abusive father in self-defense. He is beloved by the locals and heralded as a hero until the truth of his past is revealed. A riotous comedy, JM Synge’s timely tale looks at the power of personality over facts, challenges the wisdom of popular opinion, and asks us what separates criminality from heroism.

The Synge Triptych

Three of Synge’s celebrated short plays will be performed in one evening. An older husband pretends that he is dead in order to test his younger wife’s fidelity in a black comedy, “In the Shadow of the Glen.” In “The Tinker’s Wedding,” a gypsy woman tries to find respectability by convincing a local priest to marry her to her sweetheart, only to find that marriage can be an expensive and soul-compromising business. And in his finest tragedy, “Riders to the Sea,” Synge depicts a family’s hopeless and fatal struggle to make a living off the impersonal but relentlessly cruel sea.

Following each performance there will be a special “Pint and a Poem” gathering in which Synge’s poetry will be recited and Irish stout will be served, and on festival weekends the company will present readings of Synge’s other plays": “The Well of Saints"“ and the unfinished “Deirdre of the Sorrows.”

Chris will appear as Shawn Keogh in Playboy and Bartley in Riders this fall!

May 13 - June 13, 2016
Fri, Sat, Mon at 8pm
Sun at 3pm

"The Ringwald Theatre is proud to continue its Season of Classics with the Detroit premiere of HEATHERS THE MUSICAL by Kevin Murphy & Laurence O'Keefe, and Andy Fickman. Based on the classic 1989 film, Westerberg High is ruled by a shoulder-padded, scrunchie-wearing junta: Heather, Heather and Heather, the hottest and cruelest girls in all of Ohio. But misfit Veronica Sawyer rejects their evil regime for a new boyfriend, the dark and sexy stranger J.D., who plans to put the Heathers in their place - six feet under.

HEATHERS THE MUSICAL is the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High: the Heathers. But before she can get comfortable atop the high school food chain, Veronica falls in love with the dangerously sexy new kid J.D. When Heather Chandler, the Almighty, kicks her out of the group, Veronica decides to bite the bullet and kiss Heather's aerobicized ass... but J.D. has another plan for that bullet.

The cast features Jordan Gagnon, Christopher Morriss, Vince Kelley, Annie Kordas, Kelly Eubank, Lily Czartorski, Arjun Nagpal, Jacob Boida, Josiah Baker, Christopher Dybash, Alisa Marie Chirco, Beth Lackey, Meredith Deighton, Richard Payton.  Brandy Joe Plambeck directs with musical direction by Bethany Calderona, and choreography by Jill Dion. Set design is by Jennifer Maiseloff."

Set in an actual New York City apartment, Versailles 2015 invites audiences to a house party both familiar and disconcerting. Against a backdrop of global crisis, characters commit to the significant and insignificant minutiae of their lives, society, and culture, in a play which questions the responsibilities and obligations of the true ruling class. 

The play is set in a secret location in downtown Manhattan, 20 minutes from Union Square. Audience members will be emailed the location 24 hours before the performance.

Performances are at 7:00 & 9:00 pm on:

Oct. 9

Oct. 16

Oct. 30

Nov. 6

Nov. 13

Nov. 20

Vanishing Point is the debut production for dynamic writing and directing team Samsun Knight and Sophie Weisskoff asking us to grapple with what it is to love, what it means to suffer, and why we hurt those we love the most. A husband is cheating on his dying wife. After she returns from the hospital, the affair comes out into the open, and she promises him an easy separation if she can meet his lover. 

The play is about how we get stuck, how we move on, and what happens to those left behind.

PERFORMANCE DATES & TICKET LINKS:

Friday, August 14th, 7:45-8:45pm:                                                                http://www.eventbrite.com/e/vanishing-point-fringenyc-tickets-17727314876
Monday, August 17th, 5:15-6:15pm:                                                                              www.eventbrite.com/e/vanishing-point-fringenyc-tickets-17727330924
Thursday, August 20th, 7:15-8:15pm:                                                      http://www.eventbrite.com/e/vanishing-point-fring enyc-tickets-17727355999
Sunday, August 23rd, 3:45-4:45pm:                                                                          http://www.eventbrite.com/e/vanishing-point-fringenyc-tickets-17727377062
Wednesday, August 26th, 9:30pm - 10:30pm:                                                        http://eventbrite.com/e/vanishing-point-fringenyc-tickets-17727397122

at Teatro SEA at 107 Suffolk Street!