Beebo Brinker Chronicles to Play 37 Arts

Beebo Brinker Chronicles, which had a successful Off-Broadway run in the fall of 2007, will play a 10-week engagement Off-Broadway run beginning February 19 at 37 Arts, with an opening set for March 5. Adapted from Ann Bannon’s groundbreaking, award-winning pulp novels of the 1950s and 1960s, the play is written by Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman, and directed by Leigh Silverman.

The new production will feature Carolyn Baeumler, Bill Dawes, Autumn Dornfeld, David Greenspan, and Marin Ireland, all of whom appeared in the previous production. A sixth cast member will be announced shortly. The design team will include Theresa Squire (costumes), Rachel Hauck (set), Nicole Pearce (lights), and Jill BC DuBoff (sound).

Beebo follows the lives and loves of four friends in pre-Stonewall Greenwich Village. Beth and Laura, secret lovers in college, still pine for each other. Before they can reunite, they find themselves entangled in a web spun by Beebo Brinker, a butch denizen of the underground bar scene, and Jack, a flamboyant fop with caustic wit.

Ryan co-authored Judy Gold’s solo show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, which won a 2007 GLAAD Media Award Winner for Best Play. Chapman co-created and played Alice B. Toklas in the Obie Award-winning and GLADD Media Award Nominee Gertrude and Alice: A Likeness to Loving. Silverman is currently represented Off-Broadway with Yellow Face, and directed Lisa Kron’s award-winning Well on Broadway in 2006. She will also be directing Brooke Berman’s Hunting and Gathering at Primary Stages later this month.