Apartment 3A by Jeff Daniels |
Annie Wilson, director of fund-raising for PBS Channel 68, is faced with a series of personal and professional predicaments. Reeling from a broken heart, Annie chooses a new apartment in a different neighborhood and befriends a mysterious next-door neighbor who may hold the secret to a brighter future. This romantic comedy contains adult language, humor and polar bear love.
The PRTC presented the World Premiere of Apartment 3A directed by PRTC artistic director Guy Sanville in the fall of 1996. Since then, the play has had two off-Broadway runs - at the ArcLight Theater in 2006 and the Beckett Theatre in 2008 - and continues to appear in theatres across the country. In a review of the ArcLight Theater production for The New York Times, Jason Zinoman wrote that the play is "written with wit, conviction, and a real affection for its characters."
"Apartment 3A is more timely now than when we first produced it twelve years ago," says Sanville. "The play was prophetic in terms of where we were then and where we are now as a people and a culture. It's a funny, sexy, heartbreaking love story that explores the loss of hope and the rebirth of faith by one of America's best playwrights. It's a thrill to get another shot at it."
Under the direction of Sanville, the cast of Apartment 3A includes associate artist Matthew David (Growing Pretty), apprentice Stacey Livingston, associate artist Michael Brian Ogden (Growing Pretty), associate artist Rhiannon Ragland (Growing Pretty, When The Lights Come On) and Will David Young (Escanaba In Love, Across The Way).
Design for this production includes set by Bartley H. Bauer, props by Danna Segrest, costumes by Vikte Jankus Moss, lighting by Daniel C. Walker and sound by Tom Whalen. Stephanie Buck stage manages with Michelle DiDomenico and Jessica Garrett as assistant stage managers.
This PRTC production is generously underwritten by THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (of Rita & Peter Heydon) based in Ann Arbor.
Three out of four starsJohn Monaghan
Detroit Free Press
"For a long stretch, late in the first act, Jeff Daniels' Apartment 3A is as good as theatre could be. It's wildly funny. Then it's fueled by rage. And then come sudden character detours. The rest of this play ranges from merely pretty good to very good. But for that dazzling stretch, it's perfect."
Mike Hughes
Lansing State Journal
"...the cast of 3A is consistently good, certainly of the caliber one would expect at The Purple Rose."
D. A. Blackburn
Between The Lines
"...there's plenty to enjoy in the new production, not least from the exceptional young cast ... [director] Guy Sanville clearly has a soft spot for this show and his skilled and sensitive fingerprints are all over this fine revival."
Terry Pow
Jackson Citizen Patriot