Season Information
10/11 Season
Becky's New Car

"... takes the audience on a smart, comic cruise through the perils of middle-aged longing ..."
By Steven Dietz
Directed by David Ellenstein
September 4 - September 26, 2010
Previews: September 1 - 3, 2010
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Written by award-winning Steven Dietz, this frothy, poignant and fresh new comedy is a perfect side trip from the daily woes of modern life. Forty-something Becky Foster has a decent job at an auto dealership, a solid husband, and a freeloading psychmajor son living in her basement. Her life is pleasant enough, but through a twist of fate Becky gets to test drive an exciting new life.
Steven Dietz (Playwright)
Steven Dietz's thirty-plus plays have been seen at over one hundred regional theatres in the United States, as well as Off-Broadway. International productions have been seen in England, Japan, Germany, France, Australia, Sweden, Austria, Russia, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Greece, Argentina, Peru, Korea, Singapore and South Africa. Mr. Dietz received the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award for his plays FICTION (produced Off-Broadway by the Roundabout Theatre Company), and STILL LIFE WITH IRIS; the 2007 Edgar® Award for Best Mystery Play for SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE FINAL ADVENTURE; the PEN USA West Award in Drama for LONELY PLANET; and the 1995 Yomuiri Shimbun Award (the Japanese "Tony") for his adaptation of Shusaku Endo's novel SILENCE. His most recent plays – Yankee Tavern (National New Play Network featured play), BECKY'S NEW CAR (Steinberg Award finalist), and SHOOTING STAR – have been seen at over twenty-five regional theatres in the past two seasons. Other plays include LAST OF THE BOYS (Pulitzer nominee), INVENTING VAN GOGH, GOD’S COUNTRY, PRIVATE EYES, THE NINA VARIATIONS, TRUST, ROCKET MAN, HALCYON DAYS, and TEN NOVEMBER. Mr. Dietz's award-winning stage adaptations include HONUS AND ME (from Dan Gutman), FORCE OF NATURE (from Goethe), OVER THE MOON (from P.G. Wodehouse), THE REMEMBERER (from Joyce Simmons Cheeka), PARAGON SPRINGS (from Ibsen), DRACULA (from Bram Stoker), and, with Allison Gregory, GO DOG GO! (from P.D. Eastman). Mr. Dietz is currently at work on new plays commissioned by Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago (THE DAHNER PARTY) and the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis (A YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER). His adaptation of Dan Gutman's JACKIE AND ME will premiere this year at Chicago Children's Theatre and also be seen at Seattle Children's Theatre. A native of Denver, Colorado, Mr. Dietz and his family divide their time between Seattle and Austin, where he teaches playwriting at the University of Texas.
Carla Harting* Becky Foster
Nicolas Glaeser* Joe Foster
Kevin Koppman-Gue Chris Foster
Mark Pinter* Walter Flood
Stacey Hardke Kensington Flood
Mueen Jahan* Steve
Glynn Bedington Ginger
*Member of Actors' Equity Association
| Director David Ellenstein | Light Designer Matt Novotny |
| Scenic Designer Marty Burnett | Costume Designer Sonia Lerner |
| Scenic Artist John Finkbiner | Sound Designer Chris Luessmann |
| Props and Set Dressing Annie Bornhurst | |


