Gus and Al (New Theater Wing)
- Written by Albert Innaurato
- Directed by David Warren
Albert Innaurato (born June 2, 1947) is an American playwright, theatre director, and writer. Innaurato was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1947. After graduating from Temple University and California Institute of the Arts, Innaurato attended the Yale School of Drama. He was awarded the Guggenheim Grant, the Rockefeller Grant and two National Endowment for the Arts grants. Innaurato collaborated with Christopher Durang on The Idiots Karamazov, I Don't Normally Like Poetry but Have You Read Trees, and Gyp, the Real-Life Story of Mitzi Gaynor while both were students at Yale University's School of Drama. They performed in all three plays but especially in the last two named. Dressed as priests they played women in summer stock, they opened the Manhattan Theatre Club, almost costing the founder Lynn Meadow her new board. At Yale they frequently appeared in plays with their Drama School classmates Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver and their friend, the late Wendy Wasserstein. In 1976, he drew critical attention for the Playwrights Horizons staging of his play Gemini. A year later, after some cast changes, the play was produced at PAF Playhouse on Long Island. That production subsequently was presented off-Broadway at the Circle Repertory Company, opening March 8, 1977, where it was acclaimed by the major New York critics. The Circle Rep production transferred to Broadway, where it ran for 1819 performances and earned him an Obie Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding New American Play. Innaurato is currently Artistic Director of Creative Development Projects at Center City Opera Theater in Philadelphia.
DAVID WARREN directed Holiday at Circle In The Square (Outer Critics Circle nomination Best Revival); Summer and Smoke and Misalliance at the Roundabout; and Hobson's Choice at Atlantic Theatre Co. (Lucille Lortel Award nomination Best Revival). Premieres include Richard Greenberg'sThe Dazzle, Hurrah at Last (Both for Roundabout), Night and Her Stars (MTC), and his adaptation of Pal Joey; Nicky Silver's Eros Trilogy, Raised in Captivity, Pterodactyls (Obie Award), and Fit to be Tied; Tom Donaghy's Minutes From The Blue Route and From Above; Leslie Ayvazian's High Dive; William Finn's Romance in Hard Times; Eric Overmeyer's Mi Vida Loca and John Corwin'sGone Home (MTC); Albert Innaurato's Gus and Al; and Harmony by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman. Other credits: West Coast productions of Raised in Captivity and Jon Robin Baitz's The End of the Day. Regional: Twelfth Night (Long Wharf), The Philadelphia Story (Hartford Stage), Eric Bogosian's Griller and productions for La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, New York Stage and Film, and others. He has received an L.A. Weekly, three Dramalogue awards and an L.A. Drama Critic's Circle nomination. He is a founding member of Drama Dept. Upcoming projects include Steven Dietz's Fiction at the McCarter. (As of November 2008)
Featuring
Mark Blum
David Brisbin
Helen J. Shen
Christina Moore
Daniel Nathan Spector
Sam Tsoutsouvas
Jennifer Van Dyck
Lois Smith
Playwrights Horizons: After the Revolution; Little Footsteps; Gus and Al (Obie Award), Table Settings; Say Goodnight, Gracie. Broadway: The Assembled Parties, The Best Man, Twelve Angry Men, A Thousand Clowns, Lost in Youngers. Other Off-Broadway: The Model Apartment; The Good Mother; Lonely, I’m Not; We Live Here; Picked; Singing Forest; The Long Christmas Ride Home; The Waverly Gallery; Mizlanski Zilinski; It’s Only a Play; Key Exchange. Film: How We Fell in Love, Blumenthal, Shattered Glass, Desperately Seeking Susan, Crocodile Dundee, The Presidio, Blind Date, Worth Winning, Lovesick. TV: “Mozart in the Jungle” and many more.
Helen J. Shen
Playwrights: Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime, Amy Herzog’s After the Revolution, Kate Fodor’s 100 Saints You Should Know. Other favorites: Broadway, Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending, and The Grapes of Wrath and Sam Shepard’s Buried Child (both from Steppenwolf); Off-Broadway, Horton Foote’s The Trip to the Bountiful and The Old Friends, Tony Kushner’s The Illusion, Sam Shepard’s Heartless, Annie Baker’s John (Signature) and Lily Thorne’s Peace for Mary Frances (New Group). Recent films: Marjorie Prime, Lady Bird.
(Updated 8/20/18)