Workhouse presents Eastern Standard
By: Mark Webb 04/01/2014
The Workhouse Theatre Company’s (WTC) upcoming stage production is Eastern Standard by Richard Greenberg. This production features Lamar Jefferson, Danielle Krivinchuk, Kristen Mathisen, Gabriel Murphy, Paul Rutledge and Lauren Wills, and is directed by Richard Jackson, WTC’s Co-Artistic Director. Richard is no stranger to Workhouse Theatre Company. He was last seen in The Eight: Reindeer Monologs, and he directed But not for Love, Torch Song Trilogy and the Ivey Award winning ‘night, Mother.
In Eastern Standard are four upper class New Yorkers, too clever and too privileged for their own good; a suicidal architect, a disaffected TV writer, an ostracized stockbroker and a romantically challenged painter. When they cross paths with a schizophrenic homeless woman and an opportunistic waitress/actress, their personal and professional entanglements spiral hilariously out of control in ways they could never have imagined.
The show runs Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from March 28 (opening night) to April 13 at The Warren, 4400 Osseo Road (Penn and 44th). Show times are Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. There is a special pay-what-you-can performance on Monday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 at the door ($13 online) and $13 for students and senior citizens ($11 online).
In conversations following our co-production of But Not For Love, Workhouse Theatre Company and the Flower Shop Project decided to merge our efforts under the Workhouse brand. Despite our different areas of focus, we found our artistic philosophies very much in tune. Our new association has provided us with the opportunity and the capability to restart Workhouse Theatre Company’s educational programming, reboot the Greenhouse Project with readings since October 2013, and offer our first production in Eastern Standard. Info: workhousetheatre.org or 612-216-1583.