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EXTENDED THROUGH APRIL 24

The Flick

Mar 1 – Apr 24, 2016
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Set in the popcorn-strewn, empty aisles of a crumbling Massachusetts movie theater, this 2014 Pulitzer Prize® winner exposes the surprising tenderness and comedy in the everyday.

Spilled soda on the floor. Leftover food wrappers stashed in the seats. Three minimum wage employees perform the humdrum labor necessary to keep one of the last 35 millimeter projectors running. Through seemingly small conversations about movie actors, broom techniques and weekend plans, the characters divulge heartbreak, hopes and a compelling story all their own.

With her finely-tuned comic eye, Annie Baker (Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens) brings a rich humanity to three people who desperately strive to connect, help each other move on and accept their place in the world.

“Funny, heartbreaking, sly, and unblinking. The Flick may be the best argument anyone has yet made for the continued necessity, and profound uniqueness, of theater.” —New York Magazine

Written by Annie Baker
Directed by Joe Calarco

Performance Information

  • Running Time

    Approximately three hours and fifteen minutes, with one fifteen-minute intermission.

  • Content Warning

    The Flick contains profanity and adult sexual situations.

Specialty Nights

Post-Show Discussion Nights

March 16 & 29 and April 6, 2016

Pride Nights

March 18 & April 8, 2016

Open Captioned Performances

April 9, 2016 at 2PM and April 12, 2016 at 7:30PM

Sponsors

Cast Members

Evan Casey

Evan Casey

Sam

SIGNATURE: An Act of God, Midwestern Gothic, The Flick (Helen Hayes Award Outstanding Lead Actor nomination), Sunday in the Park with George, Company, Really Really, The Hollow, The Boy Detective Fails, Urinetown, Ten Unknowns, Allegro. OFF-BROADWAY: New Victory Theatre: Elephant and Piggie. NEW YORK: NYMF: River's End, York Theatre: NEO 8 Concert. DC AREA: Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Olney Theatre Center, Round House Theatre, Studio Theatre 2ndstage, Rep Stage, 1st Stage, Imagination Stage, Adventure Theatre-MTC, Annapolis Shakespeare Company. REGIONAL: North Carolina Theatre, Everyman Theatre, New London Barn Playhouse. FILM: Of Dice and Men (IndieCapitol Award Best Actor nomination), 10-42, The Phages, Union. TV/WEB: House of Cards, Missing Person’s Unit, Stage Fright, Thurston. OTHER: Capitol Steps, GraphicAudio.

Laura C. Harris

Rose

SIGNATURE: Tender Napalm. DC AREA: Round House Theatre: NSFW, Seminar, Amadeus, Young Robin Hood, 26 Miles; Studio Theatre: Bachelorette, Time Stands Still, Red Speedo; Forum Theatre: World Builders, Passion Play, Amazons and Their Men; Olney Theatre Center: Awake and Sing!; Folger Theatre: The Winter’s Tale, The School for Scandal; Theatre J: Our Class; Catalyst Theater Company: 1984; Potomac Theatre Project: An Experiment with an Air Pump, Cigarettes and Chocolate. Education: Middlebury College, BA in Theatre and Film & Media Culture.

Thaddeus McCants

Avery

SIGNATURE: The Flick. OFF-BROADWAY: Pearl (AUDELCO Nominee Best Musical), Central Avenue Breakdown (NYMF Winner Best Musical). DC AREA: THEARC: TRUTH the Musical; Disney Cruise Lines. REGIONAL: Select: Next to Normal, Dreamgirls, Memphis, Angels in America, Five Beats a Day, Word to Mom Dukes. TV: Boardwalk Empire; MTV: Girl Code, FAKERS, Young & Reckless. EDUCATION: BFA in Acting from Ithaca College. 

William Vaughan

Dreaming Man/Skylar

SIGNATURE: Tender Napalm (u/s). DC AREA: Round House Theatre: Ironbound; Folger Theatre: Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet (u/s); The Hub Theatre: Abominable; We Happy Few: The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet. REGIONAL: Lincoln Center Edu: A Tale Told by an Idiot; Theatre Carolina: The Three Musketeers; Waterside Theatre: The Lost Colony. UPCOMING: Folger Theatre: District Merchants.

Creative Team

Joe Calarco

Directed by

Director: SIGNATURE: Heisenberg, The Scottsboro Boys, John, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Flick, The Gulf, Cake Off, Gypsy, Shakespeare’s R&J, God of Carnage, Walter Cronkite is Dead. (writer/director), Assassins, Urinetown, Side Show, Nijinsky’s Last Dance, Nest, Elegies, The Boy Detective Fails, writer of 13 Signature in the Schools plays. OFF-BROADWAY: A Christmas Carol, In Transit, R&J, Sarah Plain and Tall, The Burnt Part Boys, Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky, Boy, in the absence of spring (writer/director), The Memory Show, Bury the Dead. NEW YORK: Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Primary Stages. REGIONAL: The Old Globe, ACT, Barrington Stage Company, Philadelphia Theater Company. DC AREA: The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Round House Theatre. AWARDS: 4 Helen Hayes, 2 Barrymore Awards, the Lucille Lortel Award, 2 time Drama Desk nominee. UPCOMING: Barrington Stage Company: Into The Woods.

Press Reviews

Subtle, lovely

DCTheatreScene

Downright ballsy

DCist

Pulitzer Prize-winning play being accorded a lovely, incisively realized regional premiere

The Washington Post

Epic in scope… totally captivating

DCMetroTheaterArts

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