The Price
February 23 – March 21
Written by Arthur Miller
Directed by Timothy Bond
A co-production with Syracuse Stage
“Riveting drama.”
The Syracuse Post Standard
“Miller at his best… the heart very nearly breaks.”
The Washington Post
“One of the most entertaining plays that Miller has ever written… superbly theatrical.”
The New York Times
The Story:
What price have you paid for your choices?
Sixteen years after the death of their father, two brothers (Victor, a veteran cop, and Walter, a successful surgeon) meet in the attic of their childhood home, soon to see the wrecking ball. Joining them is Gregory Solomon, a wise and wisecracking used-furniture salesman of nearly 90. As the brothers examine their parents’ possessions, they revisit the past in an attic full of memories, and years of pent-up rivalry burst forth. What price has each paid for the choices he made?
The Experience:
A powerful drama with powerhouse performances, from the author of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible
Performance Calendar
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| 28 | 1 | March | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||||
| 2:00 PM | 6:00 PM | 7:30 PM | 7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 4:00 PM | ||||||||
| 7:00 PM | 8:30 PM | ||||||||||||
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |||||||
| 2:00 PM | 7:30 PM | 7:30 PM | 7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 4:00 PM | ||||||||
| 7:00 PM | 8:30 PM | ||||||||||||
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | |||||||
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2:00 PM | 7:30 PM | 2:00 PM | ^ |
7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 4:00 PM | ||||||
| 7:00 PM | 7:30 PM | 8:30 PM | |||||||||||
| 21 | |||||||||||||
| 2:00 PM | |||||||||||||
| 7:30 PM | *Audio-Description Performance Sunday March 14 @ 2:00 PM | ||||||||||||
| ^Sign-Interpretation Performance March 18 @ 7:30 PM | |||||||||||||
Plan your visit
Running time: 2 hours, 40 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission.
Prologue: a thirty-minute background talk is offered free of charge one hour prior to every performance.
(An abbreviated Prologue is given 30 minutes prior to curtain on Opening Night.)
Student Matinee performances are available: click here for more information.
Special events and services during this production
- Max Night at Geva: February 23
Rodney from Max Market will be here prior to the show offering samplings of their famous red velvet cupcakes and a chance for you to peruse the menus of Max of Eastman Place, Max Chophouse and Max at The Gallery - Simply Crepes Night At Geva: February 24
Save room for dessert! Chef Pierre Heroux will be here demonstrating crepe creation and serving up some scrumptious desserts prior to the show and for pre-order at intermission. - Opening Night: Saturday, February 27, 8:00PM
- Early Curtain Tuesday: March 2, 6:00PM
- Audio-Described performance: Sunday, March 14, 2:00PM
- Sign-Interpreted performance: Thursday, March 18, 7:30PM
- Sunday Salon: March 21, 2:00PM
An informal question and answer session with members of the cast will follow the matinee performance.
Dining & Entertainment
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The Trip Hammer Grill |
Siam Fine Thai Cuisine |
Tasteful Connections Catering |
The Little Theatre |
Palladio Restaurant |
Edibles Restaurant |
Pomodoro Grill & Wine Bar |
Golden Port |
Bios for The Price
TONY DeBRUNO (Walter) makes his Geva Theatre Center debut in The Price. He has just completed his eighteenth season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival as a member of the acting company. His roles there have included Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Gloucester in King Lear, Doc Gibbs in Our Town, Charley in Death of a Salesman, Alfieri in A View from the Bridge, Herr Zangler in On the Razzle, and many more. In recent years, Mr. DeBruno has enjoyed working at many regional theatres including Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. He resides in Ashland, Oregon with his wife Lois, and he is the proud dad of Gillian and Nick.
RICHARD MCWILLIAMS (Victor) returns to Geva Theatre Center where he appeared in A Streetcar Named Desire. Broadway credits include Orpheus Descending and Off-Broadway credits include The Night Hank Williams Died and Macbeth. Regionally, Mr. McWilliams has appeared in Underneath the Lintel and Pure Confidence (Florida Studio Theater), The Retreat from Moscow (Performance Network Theatre), The Tempest (Great Lakes Theater Festival), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Iowa Summer Repertory Theatre), A Moon for the Misbegotten and All My Sons (Kansas City Repertory Theatre), Camille (Actors Theatre of Louisville) and Desire Under the Elms (The Guthrie Theater). He is pleased to be working in this co-production with Geva Theatre Center and Syracuse Stage.
CARMEN ROMAN (Esther Franz) makes her Geva Theatre Center debut in The Price. Ms Roman appeared in the national tour of Angels in America and Off Broadway credits include The Iphigenia Cycle (Theater for a New Audience from the Court Theatre, Chicago), The Mysteries (Classic Stage Company) and Paradise (Gary Allen Productions). Regional credits include Orpheus Descending, The Homage that Follows, Toys in the Attic (American Blues Theater, Chicago), Lost in Yonkers (Coconut Grove, Walnut Street Theater) Sonia Flew (Huntington Theatre), According to Goldman (Philadelphia Theater Company) Electra (Hartford Stage Company), Big Love (The Wilma), Side Man (Steppenwolf; Galway Festival, Ireland and the Melbourne Arts Festival, Australia) Wit, Black Snow, Brutality of Fact (Goodman Theatre), Master Class (Northlight Theater and Columbia Artists Tour) and Shadowlands (Alliance Theater). Film/Television credits include The Falcon (a co-production shot in Soviet Georgia), Marilyn (Short feature, Kevin Spacey Productions) “All My Children,” “Early Edition,” “Law & Order” (as Judge Einhorn - a recurring role), “Law & Order: SVU” and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” and Savages, with Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney. Ms. Roman is a Company Member of the American Blues Theater in Chicago. She is the recipient of the 2002 Fox Fellow, Sarah Siddons Award, Florence Herscher Award and Joseph Jefferson Awards for Master Class and Wit.
KENNETH TIGAR (Gregory Soloman) makes his Geva Theatre Center debut in The Price. He is a familiar face from film and television. His credits span the distance from “Barney Miller” and the Lethal Weapon movies to “NCIS” and "Fringe". He has acted extensively in regional theatres, performing Salieri in Amadeus, Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, Joe Keller in All My Sons, and a world premiere at the Cleveland Play House. Recently he re-created his role in the off-Broadway production of Robert Clyman’s Secret Order at Houston’s Alley Theatre. He has performed Old Wicked Songs in Vienna, Santa Barbara and Sarasota, won a Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Circle Award, and appeared across the country in his one-man show I Must Be Mr. Boswell about the biographer of Dr. Johnson. He directed the national tour of The Gin Game with Academy Award winner Kim Hunter and is also an accomplished opera director. His translations of Brecht and Wedekind have been performed from Boston to Los Angeles.
ARTHUR MILLER (Playwright) the son of a women's clothing company owner, was born in 1915 in New York City. His father lost his business in the Depression and the family was forced to move to a smaller home in Brooklyn. After graduating from high school, Miller worked jobs ranging from radio singer to truck driver to clerk in an automobile-parts warehouse. Miller began writing plays as a student at the University of Michigan, joining the Federal Theater Project in New York City after he received his degree. His first Broadway play, The Man Who Had All the Luck, opened in 1944 and his next play, All My Sons, received the Drama Critics' Circle Award. His 1949 Death of a Salesman won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1956 and 1957, Miller was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee and was convicted of contempt of Congress for his refusal to identify writers believed to hold Communist sympathies. The following year, the United States Court of Appeals overturned the conviction. In 1959 the National Institute of Arts and Letters awarded him the Gold Medal for Drama. Miller has been married three times: to Mary Grace Slattery in 1940, Marilyn Monroe in 1956, and photographer Inge Morath in 1962, with whom he lives in Connecticut. He and Inge have a daughter, Rebecca. Among his works are A View from the Bridge, The Misfits, After the Fall, Incident at Vichy, The Price, The American Clock, Broken Glass, Mr. Peters' Connections, and Timebends, his autobiography. Miller's writing has earned him a lifetime of honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, seven Tony Awards, two Drama Critics Circle Awards, an Obie, an Olivier, the John F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish prize. He was awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University. He died in 2005.
TIMOTHY BOND (Director) is the Producing Artistic Director of Syracuse Stage and the Syracuse University Department of Drama. He has 25 years experience in leading regional theatres throughout the country. Most recently, he served for eleven years as associate artistic director of the famed Oregon Shakespeare Festival where he directed twelve productions, including works by Shakespeare, August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Edward Albee, Lorraine Hansberry, Lynn Nottage, Octavio Soliz and Pearl Cleage. Prior to that, Mr. Bond spent thirteen years with the Seattle Group Theatre, serv¬ing as Artistic Director from 1991 – 1996. While there he directed more than twenty plays and over¬saw the largest capital campaign in the company’s history, culminating in the completion of a new the¬atre complex in the Seattle Center. Mr. Bond has also directed at such prestigious theatres as The Guthrie, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Play House, A Contemporary Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre, and Arena Stage. Bond received a Theatre Communications Group/National Endowment for the Arts Directing Fellowship Award and has twice won Backstage West’s Garland Award for Outstanding Direction for Les Blancs (1998) and Blues for an Alabama Sky (1997). He served on the board of direc¬tors of the Theatre Communications Group from 1993 to 1997. Mr. Bond holds a BFA from Howard University and an M.F.A. (magna cum laude) from the University of Washington.
SCOTT BRADLEY (Scenic Designer) makes his Geva Theatre Center debut with The Price. Broadway credits include Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Drama Desk nomination), Seven Guitars (Tony nomination and Drama Desk Award) and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. Off-Broadway credits include Incident at Vichy (The Beckett Theatre), Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci and Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Second Stage. Other credits include John Guare’s Rich and Famous (American Conservatory Theatre), Macbeth, Fences, The Piano Lesson, Top Dog Underdog, She Loves Me (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The Glass Menagerie, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Intimate Apparel (the Guthrie). He has designed for Mary Zimmerman’s adaptations of Silk, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, and Journey to the West (all Jefferson Award recipients for set design, and produced at The Goodman Theatre. Other credits include The Bluest Eye, Dutchman, Raisin in the Sun, Oedipus, Electra, Gee’s Bend (Hartford Stage Company), The Great White Hope, Gem of the Ocean, Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play (Arena Stage), Picnic, The Rainmaker (Center Stage). Film credits include Ang Lee’s Pushing Hands. Mr. Bradley was head of scenic design for Late Night with David Letterman at NBC. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1991-1995) and his Master’s Degree from Boston University (1995-1997).
LAURIE CHURBA KOHN (Costume Designer) makes her Geva Theatre Center debut with The Price. Broadway credits include The Price (Tony nominated for Best Revival, 1999). Off-Broadway credits include the current production of Mozeltov Cocktail, Golden Boy, Waiting for Lefty, The Seagull, They Wrote That?, Treasure Island, Private Lives Public Places and Our Fathers. Ms. Kohn’s designs have been seen at regional theatres around the country including Huntington Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, Arena Stage, Westport Country Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Barrington Stage Company, TheatreWorks, Studio Arena and Ensemble Studio Theater. She was the assistant costume designer on Saturday Night Live for eleven seasons, where she designed over twenty commercial parodies, several short films and celebrity photo shoots. She currently teaches at Dartmouth College where she is the faculty costume designer.
THOMAS C. HASE (Lighting Designer) makes his Geva Theatre Center debut with The Price. Work in the United States includes Los Angeles Opera, New York City Opera, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Seattle Opera, The Minnesota Opera; The Dallas Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Goodspeed Opera, Portland Opera, New Orleans Opera, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Center Stage Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Maine State Music Theatre. Recently he designed John Doyle’s Company on Broadway and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at Los Angeles Opera, both to international critical acclaim and released on DVD. As Ping Chong’s lighting designer, his work has been seen worldwide. International work includes The Barbican in London, The Abbey Theatre, Finish National Opera, Columbian National Opera, Dutch National Opera, Opera North (UK), The Canadian Opera Company, Luminato (the Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity), Opera de Marseille, Staatstheater Kassel, Theatre Erfurt, Bavarian State Opera, Vancouver Opera, The Singapore Arts Festival, Tokyo Metro Arts Center, and over one hundred designs for theatre, opera and ballet at the Stadttheater Giessen (Germany). He recently premiered Magick Macabre (in Dublin, by the producers of Riverdance), and the blockbuster European revival of The Wiz for Stage Holdings in Holland. Concurrent with his many freelance projects, Mr. Hase is the resident lighting designer and director for Cincinnati Opera.
JONATHAN R. HERTER (Sound Designer) is excited to collaborate with the Geva Theatre Center again. The last time he designed in Rochester was Copenhagen. He has been the resident sound designer and engineer for Syracuse Stage and SU’s Department of Drama since the 1997-1998 season. Born and educated in Central New York, Mr. Herter has designed approximately 56 productions for Syracuse Stage, most recently Little Women, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Diary of Anne Frank, Dangerous Liaisons, Lieutenant of Inishmore, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Crowns. He has designed shows for numerous other LORT theatres, and some local spaces including The Redhouse. Some of his favorite designs include Red Noses, The Day Room, The Real Thing, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Inherit the Wind, M. Butterfly, A Raisin in the Sun, Romeo and Juliet, A Lesson Before Dying, West Side Story, Frozen, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Driving Miss Daisy, and Big River.
KYLE BASS (Dramaturg) makes his Geva Theatre Center debut with The Price. His work at Syracuse Stage includes serving as production dramaturg for Little Women, The Diary of Anne Frank and Picasso at the Lapin Agile and script dramaturg for produc¬tions of Tales from the Salt City and Woman in the Blue Dress, collabo¬rating closely with playwrights Ping Chong and Sara Zatz, and Lauren Unbekant, respectively. Among other works, Mr. Bass is the author of Carver at Tuskegee, a one-man play about George Washington Carver that toured earlier this year as part of Syracuse Stage’s Backstory! program. He is on the faculty at Goddard College in Vermont, where he teaches Dramatic Writing in the M.F.A. Creative Writing pro¬gram. He also teaches playwrit¬ing in the SU Department of Drama. Mr. Bass holds an M.F.A. in playwriting from Goddard College.
CHRISTINE LOMAKA (Production Stage Manager) is very happy to be working on The Price, her first production with Geva Theatre Center. As a freelance stage manager, Ms. Lomaka has worked with numerous theatres including Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arkansas Repertory Theatre and American Repertory Theatre. Opera companies with which she has worked include LA Opera, Syracuse Opera and Houston Grand Opera. Ms. Lomaka spent 15 years in Los Angeles working as a lighting designer, a set dresser for television and film and a production manager for the comedy improv troupe, The Groundlings. She is a proud member of Actors Equity.
SYRACUSE STAGE
Syracuse Stage is Central New York's premier professional theatre. Founded as a not-for-profit theatre in 1974 by Arthur Storch, Stage has produced more than 220 plays in 35 seasons including numerous world and American premieres. Each season upwards of 90,000 patrons enjoy an exciting mix of comedies, dramas and musicals featuring the finest professional theatre artists. In addition, Stage maintains a vital educational outreach program that annually serves nearly 30,000 students from 24 counties.
In its storied history, Stage has hosted some of American theatre's leading performers including Tony Award-winner Elizabeth Franz, Emmy recipient Jean Stapleton, Sam Waterston, John Cullum, James Whitmore, and Ben Gazzara. As a thriving LORT regional theatre, Stage attracts leading designers, directors and performers from New York and leading regional theatres around the country. Their artistry and professionalism inform the quality of Syracuse Stage's productions. These visiting artists are supported by a full-time and seasonal staff of artisans, technicians and administrators who are responsible for all facets of the theatre from building sets, props and costumes to marketing, development and box office. At the height of the season, Syracuse Stage has a staff of more than 80 employees.
A solid core of subscribers and donors helps keep Syracuse Stage a vibrant artistic presence in Central New York. Year after year their support and patronage contribute to the success of the theatre. Additional support from government, foundations and corporations helps to ensure the continued role of Syracuse Stage as a valued cultural resource for the community. As we welcome new Producing Artistic Director Timothy Bond and new Managing Director Jeffrey Woodward, the staff of Syracuse Stage looks forward to continuing to produce the highest quality professional theatre for our community.
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