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History
Since 2009, PCTC has produced seventeen Main Stage productions, seven new works series, forty-five staged readings (including John Guare’s original work, More Stars There Are In Heaven), four Tennessee Williams festivals, a World Premiere of a Tennessee Williams play, and several NYC premieres. PCTC has won and been nominated for twenty-two theatre awards.
Production History
2009
Closer, by Patrick Marber (main stage)
Directed by Eric Tucker
The Gene Frankel Theatre, NYC
2010
Six x Tenn (six one-acts), by Tennessee Williams (main stage) Directed by Eric Tucker, Patricia Duran, and Ron Lebow
The Red Room, NYC
Creatures Features (five original one-acts) The Red Room, NYC
The Libertine, by Stephen Jeffreys (main stage)
Directed by Eric Tucker
The Kirk/Theatre Row, NYC
OOBR (Off-Off-Broadway Review) Nominee, Best Production, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Design, Best Costumes
2011
Page 2 Stage New Works Festival (five original one-acts)
The Tank, NYC
2012
Love Song, by John Kolvenbach (main stage)
(New York City Premiere)
Directed by Kenny Wade Marshall
Access Theatre, NYC
Page 2 Stage II (five original one-acts)
Access Theatre, NYC
2013-14
The Libertine, by Stephen Jeffreys (main stage) (Boston Premiere)
Directed by Eric Tucker
The Calderwood Pavilion, Boston, MA
Co-production with Bridge Repertory Theater of Boston
Winner, IRNE Award (Independent Reviewers of New England),
Best Production Winner, IRNE Award, Best Director
Nominee, IRNE Award, Best Actor
Nominee, IRNE Award, Best Actress
Winner, BCA (Boston Critics Association), Best Production
Nominee, BCA, Best Director
Nominee, BCA, Best Actor
Nominee, BCA, Best Costumes
Nominee, Elliot Norton Award, Best Production
Nominee, Elliot Norton Award, Best Actor
Nominee, Broadway World-Boston, Best Actor
Page 2 Stage III (five original one-acts) The Red Room, NYC
Charlotte the Destroyer, by Megan O’Leary (main stage) (NYC Premiere)
Directed by Janet Bobcean
The Kraine Theatre, NYC
2014-15
The Forgetting Curve, by Vanda (main stage) (World Premiere)
Directed Kimberly Loren Eaton
The Calderwood Pavilion, Boston, MA,
Co-production with Bridge Repertory Theater of Boston
Nominated, IRNE Award, Best Production Design
Page 2 Stage IV: Love and Politics (six original one-acts)
Access Theatre, NYC
Hunter/Gathers, by Pete Sinn Nachtrieb (main stage) (NYC Premiere)
Directed by Eric Tucker
The Duo Multicultural Arts Center, NYC
Hunter/Gatherers (Main Stage)
By Peter Sinn-Nachtrieb
(New York City premiere)
Directed by Eric Tucker
The Duo Multicultural Arts Center, New York City
2015-16
More Stars Than There Are In Heaven
By John Guare
(World premiere)
Directed by Cosmin Chivu
The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival
Provincetown, MA
Tennessee Williams 1982 (Main Stage)
(World Premiere of A Recluse and His Guest)
(NYC Premiere of The Remarkable Rooming House of Madame Le Monde)
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Cosmin Chivu
Feb – Mar, 2016 | Walkerspace, NYC
2016-17
One Flea Spare (Main Stage)
(NYC 20th anniversary)
By Naomi Wallace
Directed by Caitlin McLeod
The Sheen Center, NYC
Mrs. Packard
By Emily Mann
Directed by Emily Ranii
Co-production with Bridge Repertory Theatre of Boston
Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
2017-18
The Two-Character Play
by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Austin Pendleton
The Duo Multicultural Arts Center, NYC
Five Plays by Five Women:
Unit 19, by Tegan McLeod
Composition of a Woman, by Maren Lavelle
Kafka in Paradise, by Inez Hedges
Four Old Broads, by Leslie Kimbell
Veritas, by Betty Shamieh
The Two-Character Play
by Tennessee Williams (main stage)
Directed by Austin Pendleton
Loyola University, New Orleans, LA, co-production with Southern Rep
2018-19
The Reality Plays: 4 Views of Millennium (main stage)
Original works by four millennial writers
The Soto-Velez Center, NYC
Composition of a Woman
by Maren Lavelle (staged reading)
Fata Morgana
by David Alan Thornton (staged reading)
Shadow Child
by Myra Slotnik (staged reading)
The Followers
by William Johnson (staged reading)
Winner, The First Annual Dr. R.J. Rodriguez Emerging Playwrights’ Contest
2019-20
The Followers (Staged Reading)
By William Johnson
Directed by Kenny Wade Marshall
Access Theatre, NYC
The Blue Whale (Virtual reading)
By Laura Zlatos
Directed by Sherri Eden Barber
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