PHOENIX THEATRE
Main Stage &
Phoenix II
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Phoenix Main Stage
Fridays and Saturdays May 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24 @ 8pm
Sundays May, 11, 18, 25 @ 2pm
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Jean Racine’s Les Plaideurs [The Litigants]– from which
So? Sue Me! was adapted — was written in 1668. It stands as Racine’s lone comedy between two of his most famous tragedies: Andromaque (1667) and Britannicus (1669). At first sight, The Litigants exhibits all the features of an Italian commedia dell’arte: It takes place on a piazza, between two old curmudgeons (a judge and his faithful litigant); it has servants, which could easily pass for Harlequin and Brighella; it has children who fall in love with each other; and finally, it has all the slapstick and the lazzi one could expect from the genre.
Based on Racine’s Les Plaideurs
Adapted, translated and directed
by David Valayre
with
Alan Badger
Abhishek Das
John Frediani
Dascha Inciarte
Tara Navarro
Jeanette Sarmiento
David Valayre
and
Amy Coty (Stage Manager)
Jonathan Loo (Sound)
Mona Vimal (Costumes)
Katrina van Winkle (Lighting)
Coming Fall 2025
Coming to
Phoenix Theatre II
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Phoenix Theatre Main Stage
Run Closed
Wildly Successful
Multi-Ethnic Theatre Presents the World Premiere Workshop Production of
The Umbrella Play
by Linda Ayres-Frederick***
Directed by Julie Dimas Lockfeld
A Light-hearted Comedy about Love, Infidelity, and Dying from the perspective of one particularly Cherished Umbrella!
with LB Ayres**, Raphael Buenaventura, AJ Davenport, John Hurst, Adrienne Krug*, Lisa-Marie Newton**, Shailesh Sivanantham, Michael Sommers**, Juliet Tanner*, Adrienne Villalon
Support Team: Ian Walker, Anastasia Talan, Beth Cockrell, Raphael Buenaventura, Kati Nagy, Paul Seliga, Colin Hussey, Lewis Campbell.
* Member AEA **Member SAG/AFTRA ***Member Dramatists Guild of America
An Equity Approved Project
Linda Ayres-Frederick in Clara
Solo Staged Reading Presentation based on her grandmother’s life from the Ukraine to South America and on to the United States in the early 20th century with a recipe for cherry strudel and survival secrets along the way.
