March 10, 2011
Superior Donuts, A Comedy By Pulitzer Prize And Tony Winner Tracy Letts, On Stage At The Arden Theatre Now Through April 3
Young Franco disrupts Arthur's life, heralding an upheaval of both men's lives.
(Photo by Mark Garvin courtesy Arden)
The Arden Theatre Company continues its 2010/2011 season with Superior Donuts, written by Tracy Letts, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright of August: Osage County.
The play takes place in a rundown donut shop in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood owned by an aging hippie, who is forced to confront his isolation when a young aspiring writer seeks a job with him. The play combines snappy dialogue, uproarious humor and a simultaneous examination of deeper human issues of isolation and life’s disappointments.
As Letts puts it, “There is the family we are born into, that we have no choice about, and the family that we surround ourselves with and I suppose in a larger sense the family of man that we are always a part of.”
Explore how these characters, and by extension you, define “family” with this latest piece of great storytelling by a Philadelphia theater community stronghold.
Tickets are available online.
Superior Donuts
When: Now through April 3
Where: Arden Theatre, 40 N. 2nd Street
Cost: Tickets range from $29-$48
More info: www.ardentheatre.org
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March 10, 2011, 12:30 pm
Mikey says:
I saw this show on a preview evening, SO GOOD!
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