Hooters
- Written by Ted Tally
- Directed by Gary Pearle
Ted Tally is an American playwright and screenwriter. A graduate of Yale, he has received awards including the Academy Award for Best Screenplay, the Writers Guild of America Award, the Chicago Film Critics Award, and the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. His most notable credit is the screenplay for The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Other scripts include White Palace, Before and After, The Juror and All the Pretty Horses. Terra Nova was given a staged reading at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in 1977 and went on to win an Obie Award. Coming Attractions won the Outer Critics Circle Award. Tally's plays include Hooters, Little Footsteps, and Silver Linings.
Gary Pearle is a director and writer. In addition to directing Tiny Footsteps, he directed Hooters and The Terrorists at Playwrights Horizons. Pearle's other Off-Broadway directing credits include Sparks in the Park, Tonight at 7:30, Tomfoolery, andTintypes, which earned him a Drama Desk Award nomination. Pearle directed the original Broadway production of Tintypes. Pearle has also worked in regional theatre and served as the director of the Williamstown Theatre Cabaret. His other regional credits include Bandstand at the American Stage Festival in New Hampshire and Shelter at Theatre Three in Dallas, Texas.
Began performances April 18, 1978.
A perceptive, hilariously funny (if often disarmingly frank) examination of mating rituals among the young.
Featuring:
Victor Bevine
Christine Lahti
Michael Kaufman
Erika Petersen
Scenic Design: Charles McCarry
Costume Design: Elizabeth Palmer
Lighting Design: Frances Aronson
Photo by Nathaniel Tileston
…sharply attuned to the speech nuances of young people.