The University at Albany
Department of Theatre is pleased to present A Coupla White Chicks Sitting
Around Talking as its second offering of the 2007-08 season. The production will run for seven
performances in the Studio Theatre at the University at Albany
Performing Arts Center on the uptown
campus from November
16 -
John Ford Noonan's
long-running off-Broadway hit shows how worlds collide when uptight Maude meets
her sexed-up neighbor Hannah Mae. Throughout this zany romp, the mismatched
pair fight, scheme, cheat, laugh and love. When the play first premiered in
1980, The New York Times hailed
it as "an unusually smart sitcom," and it went on to run for two
years, helping launch the careers of Susan Sarandon and Dixie Carter.
The
production is directed by faculty member Jackie Roberts. Roberts has flourished for several years as
an actor working with the Crossroads Theatre Company, Arena Stage and South
Coast Repertory, where she received a Southern California Theatre Critics Award
for 1994. She also spent several years
on the Warner Bros.' sitcom The Steve
Harvey Show and NBC's The West Wing.
She has been a member of BLACKSMYTHS, the African American writers collective,
at the Mark Taper Forum and was a finalist for the Sundance Playwriting
Festival. Her play Lick of the Knife
was part of a joint workshop with the Theatre Department and The New York State
Writers Institute as well as being a finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Festival.
She received her graduate degree from the Yale University School of Drama and
is a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts.
The schedule for A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking
includes performances on Friday and Saturday, November
16 & 17 at
Tickets
are $12 for the general public and $8 for students, seniors and UAlbany faculty/staff
and may be purchased through the Performing Arts Center Box Office.
For further information, contact the Box Office at (518) 442-3997 or
visit the Performing Arts Center website at www.albany.edu/pac.
