Sophistry
- Written by Jonathan Marc Sherman
- Directed by Nicholas Martin
Jonathan Marc Sherman is a contemporary American playwright. He submitted plays for several years to Young Playwrights Inc.'s National Playwrights Competition before they did a staged reading of his one-act, Serendipity and Serenity in 1987, followed by a full production of his next play, Women and Wallace (1988). His plays have since been widely produced.
NICHOLAS MARTIN served as artistic director of the Huntington Theatre Company from 2000 through 2008, where he directed The Corn Is Green, She Loves Me, Present Laughter, Persephone, The Cherry Orchard, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Sisters Rosensweig (IRNE Award, Best Director), Laughing Wild, The Rivals (IRNE Award, Best Director), Sonia Flew (IRNE Awards, Best Play and Best Director), The Rose Tattooo, Butley, Springtime for Henry, A Month in the Country, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Betty’s Summer Vacation (Elliot Norton Award, Best Director), Hedda Gabler, Fully Committed, and Dead End. Broadway credits include Present Laughter, Butley, Match, Hedda Gabler, and The Rehearsal. Off Broadway credits include Why Torture is Wrong, and The People Who Love Them (The Public Theater); Saturn Returns, The New Century, Observe the Sons of Ulster . . . (Drama Desk Award nomination), The Time of the Cuckoo, and Chaucer in Rome (Lincoln Center Theater); Fully Committed (Vineyard Theatre and Cherry Lane Theatre); Full Gallop (Manhattan Theatre Club and West Side Arts); You Never Can Tell (Roundabout Theatre Company); Betty’s Summer Vacation (OBIE Award, Drama Desk Award nomination) and Sophistry (Playwrights Horizons); and Bosoms and Neglect (Signature Theatre). Regional credits include The House of Blue Leaves (Mark Taper Forum); Dead End (Ahmanson Theatre); Macbeth (The Old Globe), and the West Coast and London productions of Full Gallop. Mr. Martin is the artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival where his directing credits include Knickerbocker, She Loves Me, The Corn Is Green, Where’s Charley?, Camino Real, Dead End, and The Royal Family among others.
When a male student accuses a tenured professor of sexual assault, a college campus is forced to confront the subjective nature of truth within sexual relationships.
The evening's best moments belong to three male friends... Ethan Hawke as a Warren Beatty in training, is the rich, handsome WASP whose unchecked sense of entitlement is bound to catch up with him one explosively boozy night. Willy (Steve Zahn) is the loudmouthed party animal in the John Belushi-Chris Farley vein, and Igor (Jonathan Marc Sherman) is the sensitive, self-deprecating Jewish loner.
Featuring
Linda Atkinson
Nadia Dajani
Calista Flockhart
Ethan Hawke
Austin Pendleton
Anthony Rapp
Jonathan Marc Sherman
Steve Zahn
AUSTIN PENDLETON has been seen on Broadway in The Diary of Anne Frank and Grand Hotel. He has appeared in the first New York productions of Oh Dad, Poor Dad..., Fiddler on the Roof, Hail Scrawdyke (Derwent Award), The Last Sweet Days of Isaac (Obie Award), The Sorrows of Frederick, Doubles, The Imposter, The Loop and Sophistry, and in the title roles of Off-Broadway productions of Hamlet, Richard III, Uncle Vanya, Keats and Jeremy Rudge. He is a playwright (Orson's Shadow, Booth and Uncle Bob), director (Spoils of War, The Runner Stumbles andElizabeth Taylor in The Little Foxes), teacher (HB Studio), and member of Chicago's Steppenwolf Ensemble. His film credits include What's Up Doc?, Trial and Error, The Associate, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, The Proprietor, Guarding Tess, The Fifteen Minute Hamlet, Catch-22 and Amistad. TV includes Fired Up, Frasier and Tracey Takes On. He began his career, and has acted and directed many times, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Bio as of January, 2009.
Jonathan Marc Sherman is a contemporary American playwright. He submitted plays for several years to Young Playwrights Inc.'s National Playwrights Competition before they did a staged reading of his one-act, Serendipity and Serenity in 1987, followed by a full production of his next play, Women and Wallace (1988). His plays have since been widely produced.
Creative Team
Allen Moyer
Scenic DesignerMichael Krass
Costume DesignerKenneth Posner
Lighting DesignerJeremy Grody
Sound DesignerChristopher Wigle
Production Stage ManagerBroadway credits include The Lyons, After Miss Julie, Grey Gardens (Tony/Drama Desk Nominations, Henry Hewes Award), Thurgood, The Little Dog Laughed, and Twelve Angry Men, among others. Off-Broadway credits include productions for the Public Theater, Second Stage, Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Theater, Signature Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, New Group/Second Stage, and the Drama Dept. Regional credits include productions for the Dallas Theatre Center, Huntington Theater, Guthrie Theater, The Goodman, Yale Rep, Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf, Steppenwolf, Baltimore’s Center Stage, LA’s Center Theater Group, and Pittsburgh Public Theater. His extensive opera credits include work for the Metropolitan Opera (Orfeo ed Euridice, directed by Mark Morris), New York City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Boston Lyric Opera, Scottish Opera, and the Wexford Festival (Ireland). He also worked with Mark Morris on Sylvia for San Francisco Ballet, and Romeo and Juliet, on Motifs of Shakespeare for MMDG. He received the 2006 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence. For more information, visit allenmoyerdesign.com.