May 3 - 22, 2022
Cherry Lane Theatre
West Village, NYC
Cherry Lane Theatre
West Village, NYC
For nearly a decade Gretchen Cryer (Obie, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award winner and Grammy nominee)
has imagined a group of solo performers coming together under one roof to tell their
funny, sad, sexy, shocking, and most importantly
TRUE STORIES.
These are stories told with heart, humor, and the searing honesty that can only happen
when your past catches up with you and all that is left is the truth.
when your past catches up with you and all that is left is the truth.
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Perfect Love
written and performed by Linda Manning May 6th at 8pm May 8th at 2pm May 14th at 8pm in person and live stream May 17th at 8pm May 22nd at 2pm Award-winning playwright Linda Manning tracks her evolution from a rootless girl, to a teenager surrounded by predatory and abusive men, to a reckless woman on the hunt for perfect love with every dangerous man she meets. |
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Crave
written and performed by Alex Petrullo May 3rd at 8pm May 7th at 4pm May 15th at 2pm in person and live stream May 18th and 20th at 8pm Have you ever destroyed yourself in pursuit of love? Because, same… A hopeless young romantic moves to New York to pursue her dreams and falls in love with the Bar Mitzvah DJ from Jersey. Will this finally be the happily ever after she’s always dreamed of? |
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A Good Girl Doesn't written and performed by Abby Stokes May 4th and May 7th at 8pm May 8th at 5pm May 15th at 5pm May 21st at 2pm Abby’s birth is the result of her parents swinging through the 1960s with wild key parties, martinis, and Manhattans. Their frolics leave Abby with one burning question: Who is her biological father? Too many possibilities for Mom to be certain. Dad deflects the subject with biting humor. Can a DNA paternity test provide the answer? |
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Escape from Daddyland
written and performed by Steve Wruble May 5th at 8pm May 7th at 2pm May 19th at 8pm in person and live stream May 21st at 8pm May 22nd at 5pm Brought up in the Deep South as an Orthodox Jew, son of a famous doctor — Elvis Presley’s proctologist — STEVE WRUBLE is expected to follow his father into the bowels of the rich and famous. Instead, Steve becomes a psychiatrist, divorces his wife and strict religion, and begins a hilarious and compelling journey into uncharted waters. Steve’s musical odyssey — Escape from Daddyland — takes us from his rowdy childhood in Memphis all the way to Germany, where he hopes to make his father proud by killing it on the comedy stages of Berlin. |
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Jon Cryer was unexpectedly called back to L.A. and therefore it is with regret that we must cancel all performances of The Actor’s Nightmare.
The Actor's Nightmare written and performed by Jon Cryer Jon Cryer’s life in film and television has often been a wild ride - careening from the sublime to the ridiculous. Now he’s going back to his roots with a love letter to the theater. |
GRETCHEN CRYER (Director) is most well-known for writing the book and lyrics and starring in I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road (with music by Nancy Ford), which won the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Musical, Best Actress, and a Grammy nomination for the album. Gretchen has written numerous other shows with Nancy Ford: Now Is the Time for All Good Men (Lortel Theatre), The Last Sweet Days of Isaac (Obie Award –Best Musical, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), Shelter (Golden Theatre), Hang On to the Good Times (Manhattan Theatre Club), Eleanor (Williamstown), The American Girls Revue (American Girl Place – Chicago, New York, Los Angeles), Circle of Friends (American Girl Place – Chicago and New York,) and Anne of Green Gables (Theaterworks USA). Cryer and Ford’s new musical, Still Getting My Act Together, premiered at the Laguna Playhouse in 2015. Gretchen has also won acclaim for her course, “Creating Your Own Solo Performance.” She has directed and developed dozens of solo performance pieces that have evolved into fully realized works, seen on stages throughout New York City. Gretchen is on the Dramatists Guild Council and is President Emeritus of the Dramatists Guild Fund. GretchenCryer.com
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE FOR ALL SHOWS
$34 for one show
$60 for two shows
$80 for three shows
$120 for all five
Cherry Lane Theatre Box Office: 212-989-2020
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