Performance Archives - Gary Corbin Writing

The Odd Couple at Love St. Playhouse

Neil Simon’s classic comedy, “The Odd Couple,” opens as a group of the guys assembles for cards in the apartment of divorced Oscar Madison. And if the mess is any indication, it’s no wonder that his wife left him. Late to arrive is Felix Ungar, who has just been separated from his wife. Fastidious, depressed and…

MacBeth: A Dark Retelling

This “dark retelling” of the Bard’s classic is an uncomfortable look into the Macbeth story with a stark examination of domestic abuse and the culture that supports it. In a world not too unfamiliar with our own, Lady Macbeth strives to make the best of her unfortunate position, a woman locked in a society that…

Threshold, by Redmond Reams

Exploring the world outside the safety of our families is one of the most exciting and scary activities we do. Threshold explores how it is for Mark, a five year-old boy previously abused as a baby in his birth home who found safety in a loving adoptive family at age 1. Mark is terrified of…

Lady .38

Veronica Dupree (Alyssa Roehrenbeck) is a down on her luck female detective in the 1940s. Will she sink or swim with the help of her long-time beau Eddie (Philip De Lorenzo), and friends, Dutch (John Branch), and the lovely Angela Wickfield (Lindsay Dibben)? With only a day to figure it out, Veronica must prove her…

The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa

An immigrant family struggles with assimilation and cultural identity in a California border town. “Gary Corbin’s cameo as a police officer makes the humor in this 45-year-old play seem fresh.” – Allison Hallet, Portland Mercury Role: La Jura (The Policeman) Author: Luis Diaz Director: Olga Sanchez Production Company: Miracle Theater Venue: Miracle Theater Performance Dates:…

Wit

In this Pulitzer-prize willing play, Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., expert on the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. During the course of her illness, Vivian comes to reassess her life and work with a profundity and humor that are transformative. Role: Dr. Kelekian/Mr. Bearing Author: Margaret Edson…

The Seven Year Itch

While his wife and son escape the brutal New York summer heat, Richard just might have to scratch that Seven Year Itch when a beautiful young girl moves into the apartment upstairs. But what is wife Helen up to in Maine? Role: Tom McKenzie Author: George Axelrod Director: Tim Luke Production Company: North End Players…

The Odd Couple at North End Players

Can two divorced men – Oscar Madison, a disorganized, casual, honorable slob, and his best friend Felix Ungar, an uptight, neurotically neat control freak – live together, and survive the experience? A Neil Simon classic that inspired the hit TV series. Role: Oscar Madison Author: Neil Simon Director: Cassie Thompson Production Company: North End Players…

Dirty Work at the Crossroads

Gary played evil villain Munro Murgatroyd in Bill Johnson’s “Gay ’90’s” classic Melodrama that inspired a generation of Saturday morning cartoons. Directed by Melinda Leuthold, the play opened May 6 at Loves Street Playhouse in Woodland, WA. “Dirty Work at the Crossroads” tells in laughable style the tear jerking story of Nellie Lovelace, an innocent…

A Talent for Murder

The relatives of an internationally successful mystery novelist wouldn’t mind killing her to get their hands on her art collection. The banter between the novelist, her savvy Indian butler who uses words like “chutzpa” and her live-in doctor provides comic relief from the mayhem being planned by the family. A mystery with twists and turns…

Lost in Yonkers

In the summer of 1942, two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York when their father, Eddie, needs to take a job as a traveling salesman to pay off the medical bills incurred by his late wife’s illness. As Eddie tries to…

Black Coffee, by Agatha Christie

“The famous Hercule Poirot (played ably by Tony Provenzola) is summoned by England’s most prominent physicist, Sir Claud Amory. Amory fears that someone in his household is attempting to steal his latest discovery, a secret formula critical to England’s defense. But there are other secrets, too… “I think it was Corbin, as the Italian Dr….

Arsenic and Old Lace

Mortimer Brewster, a renowned theater critic, discovers that his kindly old aunts have a bad habit of poisoning lonely, old men with elderberry wine to ease their suffering. With the unexpected arrival of Mortimer’s devious and slightly homicidal other brother, Jonathan, things take a turn for the worse. Can Mortimer outwit Jonathan, maintain his engagement,…

Other stage performances

24-Hour Plays Four writers, four directors, and 30 actors create, rehearse, and perform four one-act plays in 24 hours. Role: Husband Author/Director: Patty Arbelt Production Company: CoHo Productions Venue: CoHo Theater Performance Dates: August 1-2, 2009 Good Citizen On a cold Friday night in March, Minoru Yasui tests the constitutionality of a curfew imposed on…

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