Joe Calarco
(Director). Playwrights Horizons: Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky. Primary Stages: Boy. Second Stage: …in the absence of spring… (writer/director). The Transport Group: The Audience (contributing book writer), Bury the Dead. Dream Light Theater Company: Fugitive Songs. Lucille Lortel: Sarah, Plain and Tall; The Summer of the Swans; Shakespeare’s R&J (adaptor/ director, Lucille Lortel Award, also West End and Tokyo). National tour: Ring of Fire. Many regional Theatre credits. Winner: Lucille Lortel Award and four Helen Hayes Awards. Upcoming: In Transit (Primary Stages), The Memory Show (Barrington Stage Company), Walter Cronkite is Dead (playwright/ director, Signature Theatre). Joe is deeply thankful to be back up on the burnt part with Mariana, Chris and Nathan. For Mom. (as of April 2010)
Reviews“A FEEL-GOOD STORY! A sweet, heart-warming, TOE-TAPPING EVENING.”
— Zachary Pincus-Roth, Newsday“MARY FABER’S VOICE COULD WARM UP WINTER. DAVID CALE’s performance lingers in the mind and has an unassuming presence that bursts with beauty all the same.”
— Mark Blankenship, Variety
“JOE CALARCO’s production is a testament to the powers of old-fashioned stage presence. ITS SONGS ARE ITS GLORY.”
— Joy Goodwin, New York Sun