Pittsburgh Public Theater

"a rollicking good time" -- Pittsburgh City Paper  

Two sets of identical twins are separated in childhood. Years later, they all show up in the same place at the same time, creating mayhem and non-stop laughs. This rapid-fire, flat-out farce is Shakespeare at his funniest. The Bard meets The Big Apple in this spectacular production set in a modern-day metropolis where the streets are packed with action and the fun comes in double doses. Featuring an ensemble of Pittsburgh's favorite actors.

Ted's Take: "A comedy dream come true: an uproarious plot, lots of jokes and two sets of twins. Plus, we're setting the production in a fast-paced "city that never sleeps," circa today. We've already had to add several performances. I guess people like to laugh."

Single tickets for The Comedy of Errors: $34 - $53.

Age Appropriateness: Ages 12 and up

Run Time: Approximately 2 hours.

Production Underwriter:  PNC Foundation

This Month, "Double Up" at The Public!

TWINS GET IN FREE TUESDAY OCTOBER 9TH

AT PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER

OR 
DRESS ALIKE AND GET A BOGO TICKET OFFER ON ANY TUESDAY!
Twins, Look-alikes, pals, and pairs!
Buddies, brothers, sisters and sets!
Couples, partners, and doppelgangers!

No matter what sort of duo you belong to, grab a partner and get down to Pittsburgh Public Theater this October for TWINS TUESDAYS.

All month long, in honor of the latest production THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, Shakespeare's rollicking comedy about two sets of twins, every Tuesday, The Public is offering free tickets and discounts for twins, lookalikes, and pairs. Not a twin? Not a problem! Just grab a partner and dress alike to get your second ticket free. That's right, all it takes is a little "twin fashion" for a one of a kind buy-one-get-one-free, night of culture and laughs at Pittsburgh Public Theater.
 

For all the identical and fraternal twins out there, come down to The Public on October 9th for a night of entertainment on us. To kick-off TWINS TUESDAYS, on October 9th identical and fraternal twins get into THE COMEDY OF ERRORS free! It's limited to the first 22 sets of twins, so plan to arrive at the theater as soon as we start the twin giveaway. Tickets will be available for pick-up at our box office from 5:30 to 7:30. Don't forget your valid IDs if you're a fraternal pair!

Remember that EVERY Tuesday in October (the 9th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th) there'll be even more fun to go around when The Public will buy a ticket for your "twin," with your purchase of a seat. And YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO BE REAL TWINS! You just have to dress alike! Come down to the Box Office at 621 Penn Avenue between 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. with your twin to pick up your tickets. (Note: the October 30th performance begins at 7 p.m. while other performances begin at 8 p.m. Tickets will be available for the October 30th performance between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m.)

Call 412-316-1600 for more information. Offer not available online. Seating is subject to availability.

 

About the Cast and Design Team

KEN BOLDEN (Angelo) is pleased to be making his Public Theater debut. His most recent credits include American Humbug for the 3 Rivers Arts Festival; Julius Caesar for PICT; Rob Zellers' The Kitchen for the Black & White Festival; and barebones productions' wildly successful production of Bug. He has worked for City Theatre in Sacco & Vanzetti: A Vaudeville (Sacco) and Our Country's Good (Lt. Clark); and for Quantum Theatre in Anna Karenina (Vronsky) and The Arabian Night (Lomeier). As an Artistic Associate at Virginia Stage Company he appeared in The Foreigner (Charlie), Twelfth Night (Aguecheek), Terra Nova, (Wilson), and A Christmas Carol (Bob Cratchit).

ALEX COLEMAN (Egeon) for Pittsburgh Public he has played First Messenger in Oedipus the King and Reb Nachman and the Judge in The Dybbuk, and is delighted to be back for Comedy of Errors. He has performed with many local theaters including Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, City Theatre Company, Hartwood Acres, Pitt Rep, and the Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival, and has appeared with both the National Shakespeare Company and the New York Shakespeare Festival. Film and television credits include General Edward Braddock in the PBS series, "The War That Made America" and numerous films, including playing the unfortunate Sergeant Pembry in Silence of the Lambs. Believing that day jobs are important too, Dr. Coleman is an Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Pittsburgh. He can next be seen as Baron Von Swieten in The Public's production of Amadeus.

NAT DEWOLF (Dromio of Syracuse) Theatre credits include Take Me Out (Broadway, The Public Theater, The Repertory Theater of St Louis - Kevin Kline Award - and Hartford TheaterWorks), Betty's Summer Vacation (Playwrights Horizons, The Huntington Theater), Burn This - Irne Award - (The Huntington Theater), The Taming of the Shrew (Commonwealth Shakespeare), The Accident and Tartuffe (American Repertory Theatre). He co-wrote and co-starred with Laura Kirk in the film Lisa Picard Is Famous, which made its world premiere at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Other film and television credits include the Merchant/Ivory produced Heights, TRICK, and the upcoming We Pedal Upwards, "Law & Order: SVU," and "Ed." Mr. DeWolf is a graduate of The Boston Conservatory and the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.

JOSEPH DOMENCIC (First Merchant) returns to The Public after playing Bobby in last season's Cabaret. In Pittsburgh, he performed with Unseam'd Shakespeare Company in The Constant Prince (title role) and with Pittsburgh CLO in the following productions: Forever Plaid (Smudge), 1776 (Dr. Lymon Hall), Forbidden Broadway, Young Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Footprints on the Moon (John Glenn). Nationally, he toured with The Acting Company in The Comedy of Errors (First Merchant) and O Pioneers! (Bishop), and music directed the workshop of K. at Sundance Theatre Lab. Over the past two years, Joe has taught in the theatre department at Seton Hill University and continues to teach, direct and compose music for ACT ONE Theatre School. This fall he'll return as Smudge along with the rest of the original cast of Forever Plaid in CLO's holiday production, Plaid Tidings.

DARREN ELIKER (Antipholus of Syracuse) has appeared in Pittsburgh Public Theater's productions of Oedipus the King, The Tempest, and Broadway. Other local roles include Copenhagen (Heisenberg), Hamlet (Claudius), The Seagull (Aston), Cripple of Inishmaan (Babbybobby), The Rivals, (Jack Absolute), Translations (George), and leading roles in She Stoops to Conquer, Tonight at 8:30, and Picture of Dorian Gray (PICT); Macbeth, All My Sons, Grapes of Wrath, and Death of a Salesman (Starlight); The Underpants, and Picasso at the Lapin Agile (City Theatre); Lion in Winter (Unseam'd Shakespeare); and Take 2's Black Dahlia (VG-1998). He is a prolific voiceover artist with numerous awards for his work in radio advertising and a graduate of CMU.

EVAN R. ENDRES (Officer) Evan is a graduate of the Slippery Rock University Theatre program. He has worked with Unseam'd Shakespeare and recently played Chantecler in the Pandora's Box production of Chantecler. He is thrilled to be part of this Pittsburgh Public production and is honored to be working with such a veteran cast.

TOM FORD (Dromio of Ephesus) Tom is pleased to be returning to Pittsburgh Public Theater having appeared here in By Jeeves prior to Broadway. Portland Stage Company: Seven productions including Charlotte /I Am My Own Wife, Max / Lend Me a Tenor, Ivan / Art. The Idaho Shakespeare and Great Lakes Theater Festivals: Psedulous / A Funny Thing Happened ..., King of Navarre / Love's Labour's Lost, Casca / Julius Caesar. At Idaho: Nine productions including Ford / The Merry Wives of Windsor, Touchstone / As You Like It, Charlie Brown / You're a Good Man Charlie Brown. At Great Lakes: Nicola / Arms and the Man, Peter Quince / A Midsummer Night's Dream and Bob Cratchit / A Christmas Carol.

LISA ANN GOLDSMITH (Courtesan) Pittsburgh: Annie in The Real Thing, Sandra/Sue in The Exonerated and Shirley in Criminal Genius (The REP); Arte O'Neal in The Shaughraun (Pittsburgh Irish and Classical); Vespa de Amore in Chicks With Dicks (Bricolage). Off Broadway: Katie in Savior (Manhattan Ensemble Theatre); Eugenia in The London Cuckolds and Martine in A Doctor in Spite of Himself (Protean Theatre Company at Primary Stages); Alla Nazimova in Valentino: The Musical (42nd Street Theatre); Barate in The Mute Canary (HERE Theatre). Regional: Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (Human Race Theatre Company); Viola in Twelfth Night and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Tulsa Shakespeare). Lisa Ann is a third-year MFA in Acting candidate at Point Park Conservatory of the Performing Arts.

AMY LANDIS (Luciana) returns to Pittsburgh Public Theater having previously appeared in The Bird Sanctuary covering performances for Hayley Mills (opposite Elizabeth Franz), Hardball, and Hand, Foot, Arm, and Face, for the "Public Exposure" series. New York Off Broadway: Waiter, Waiter and Feed the Monkey, (opposite Lauren Graham) both for Watermark Theatre Co. at the Ohio Theatre; Playing With Fire at Lincoln Center Salon; The Classic for New York Playwright's Lab/West Bank Café. Regional Theatre includes: American Repertory Theatre World Premiere of Paula Vogel's Hot'N'Throbbing dir: Anne Bogart, The Cherry Orchard (u/s Claire Bloom) dir: Ron Daniels; numerous productions at the A.R.T. Institute including The Oresteia Project (Electra); Meadow Brook Theatre-The Glass Menagerie (Laura); Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre-Oleanna; Centenary Stage Co.-The Innocents, Scotland Road; Fulton Opera House-Pride & Prejudice(Jane); The Independent Eye-Under Milk Wood; Actors' Company of Pennsylvania-The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Julia); Gretna Playhouse-Rumors (Claire), Noises Off (Poppy); Seven Angels Theatre-Scotland Road. Recent International: Tennessee Williams' Auto Da Fe at the Teatro Corto Festival, Arezzo, Italy. Pittsburgh: PICT-Racing Demon; Quantum-A Midsummer Night's Dream and Anna Karenina; Carnegie-Mellon New Play Festival. Film/TV: "As the World Turns," "Saturday Night Live," and several independent films. Amy is a graduate of the A.R.T. Institute at Harvard University.

DOUG MERTZ (Antipholus of Ephesus) returns to The Public where he has appeared in Oedipus, Anna in the Tropics, Mary Stuart, Much Ado About Nothing and was the understudy for I Am My Own Wife. This past summer he played Tony Blair in Stuff Happens for Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre and appeared in a reading of Beth Henley's new play Exposed at City Theatre. Other recent credits include Iago in Othello:Noir for Unseam'd Shakespeare Company, The Exonerated for Playhouse REP and I.D. for Quantum. Doug is a teaching artist at the University of Pittsburgh where was seen last spring in a production of three Chekhov farces, The Bear, The Proposal, and The Wedding, and toured in Romeo and Juliet for Pitt's Shakespeare in the Schools (SITS) program. Next spring he'll be touring in Macbeth for SITS and appearing in The American Clock by Arthur Miller. Doug is currently busy planning a party for his parents' 50th Wedding Anniversary.

DOUG PONA (Second Merchant) is happy to return to Pittsburgh Public Theater to open the season. Doug was seen last year as the herdsman in Oedipus the King. Since then, Doug has played Horse in The Full Monty with Stage Right Theatre, the King of Fez in The Constant Prince with Unseam'd Shakespeare Company, and directed Arsenic and Old Lace with McKeesport Little Theatre, where it won best play. Doug is an Associate Professor at Point Park University where he teaches acting and make-up. A member of AEA and SAG, some of Doug's favorite roles and shows are Crow in Tooth of Crime, Sorin in The Seagull, Hodman in Miss Evers' Boys, Bobo in A Raisin in the Sun, Captain Hook in Peter Pan, Tajamoru in Rashomon. Film credits include Iron Maze with Bridgett Fonda, The Bride in Black, with Susan Lucci, and Alone in the Neon Jungle, with Susanne Pleshette, Joe Morton, and Danny Aiello.

HELENA RUOTI (Adriana) is thrilled to return to the Pittsburgh Public Theater. As an actor in the Pittsburgh region her career encompasses leading roles in over ten productions at The Public. Favorites include Jocasta in last year's acclaimed production, Oedipus the King, Hannah in Night of the Iguana, the title roles in Hedda Gabler and Edith Stein and Masha in The Three Sisters. She has made many notable performances at City Theatre, Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre,barebones productions, and the Pittsburgh Playhouse, as well as appearances with the International Poetry Forum and the Pittsburgh Symphony. Favorites among these include Maria Callas in Master Class at City; The Seagull and Heartbreak House at PICT and Eleanor in Unseam'd Shakespeare Company's The Lion in Winter. Helena performed two seasons with the Philadelphia Theater Company. Her film credits include Passed Away, Lorenzo's Oil, and the television movie Dead and Alive with Samuel L. Jackson. Helena is a recipient of a Post-Gazette Performer of the Year Award and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Creative Achievement Award for Established Artist. She was most recently honored with City Theater's Robert M. Frankel Award for outstanding commitment to new play creation and support of the arts. She currently hosts "Everyday Science," heard on National Public Radio.

TOM SCHALLER (The Duke, Doctor Pinch) an alumnus of Point Park University and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, has been acting in and around Pittsburgh for the past 13 years with such companies as The Pittsburgh Playhouse, City Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater (You Can't Take It With You), Civic Light Opera, Pittsburgh Musical Theatre, Saint Vincent's Theatre, Quantum Theatre, Mountain Playhouse (13 seasons, 38 shows), West Virginia Public Theatre, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, and The Theatre Factory, for which he is also the President of the Board of Directors. Tom just finished a nice long run of Forbidden Broadway: SVU for the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera Cabaret Theatre. He has also been in the director's chair for Norwin High School, Sewickley Academy, Apple Hill Playhouse, The Theatre Factory, and the Mountain Playhouse, where he directed last year's It Runs in the Family and this past summer's Leading Ladies. He was drama instructor for CAPA High School and Sewickley Academy, and is proud to currently be a part of the theatre faculty of the new Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School in Midland, PA. Tom resides in Pittsburgh with his wife Sharon and their three beautiful daughters.

INGRID SONNICHSEN (Emilia) has been an actress for over thirty-five years, working on Broadway (Best Friend), Off Broadway (Dylan, Measure for Measure), and in numerous regional theaters (the Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf, the Huntington, ART, and the Charles). She has appeared in national commercials, taught acting in Japan, directed in South Africa, and currently teaches acting at Carnegie-Mellon University. Ms. Sonnichsen was a member of the Shear Madness companies in Boston and at The Kennedy Center for ten years. Locally she's appeared in The Credeaux Canvas (City Theatre), Major Barbara, Hedda Gabler, The Dead (PICT), and The Crucible and Le Grand Meaulnes (Quantum). She can also be seen in commercials with Gus, "the second most famous groundhog in Pennsylvania," as a fortune-teller reading his paw.

MARCUS STEVENS (Balthasar/Messenger) was last seen at The Public as Victor in Cabaret. He has appeared in the Civic Light Opera's Forbidden Broadway and Forever Plaid, City Theatre's Honus and Me and JTOP's The Last Five Years. A graduate of Point Park, Marcus appeared in numerous productions there, including A New Brain and Floyd Collins. Marcus is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the 2005 Richard Rodgers Award winner for his musical Red. Upcoming projects include Plaid Tidings at the Cabaret Theater (November-January) and the world premiere of his original musical Eastburn Avenue at the Pittsburgh Playhouse this spring.

TED WATTS, JR. (Officer) is thrilled to be making his first appearance at The Public. He has performed with The Pittsburgh Playhouse, Pittsburgh CLO, and Pittsburgh Musical Theatre. He holds a B.A. in musical theatre from Point Park University. Mr. Watts also serves at the producing director for his own Empty Jug Productions.

TED PAPPAS (Producing Artistic Director; Director of The Comedy of Errors) celebrates his 8th season as artistic director of Pittsburgh Public Theater and his 15th year of close association with the company as a director. He has staged 25 productions for The Public encompassing an extraordinary range of styles and periods, including Euripides' Medea and Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Tempest, Schiller's Mary Stuart, Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, the American premiere of Ayckbourn's RolePlay, the world premiere of Zellers and Collier's The Chief, three Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, Kander & Ebb's Cabaret, and Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. He has enjoyed a distinguished career as a director and choreographer for some of North America's great companies including Joseph Papp Public Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Canadian Opera Company, Toronto's Royal Alexandra, Goodspeed Musicals, and New York City Opera under the leadership of Beverly Sills. He has worked on and off Broadway, at the Cannes Film Festival, in Las Vegas, and on television, where he served as choreographer for NBC's "Saturday Night Live." For the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, he staged the acclaimed concert, The Music of Fred Rogers, featuring Tommy Tune and John Lithgow. A graduate of Northwestern University and Manhattan's Hunter College, he is the past president of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, the national labor union.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Playwright) was born in April of 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, a prosperous town in the Midlands of England. Little is known about his childhood, but he most likely received some portion of a classical education at Stratford's grammar school, the King's New School. At the age of 18, he was married to Anne Hathaway, a woman eight years his senior who was pregnant with their first daughter Susannah, at that time. In 1585, a set of twins, Hamnet and Judith, were born. Nothing more is known of Shakespeare until he reappears, already living in London, in 1592, working as an actor and writer. His poetry (The Rape of Lucrece, Venus and Adonis and the 154 Sonnets) earned him early fame, but his lasting reputation rests on the 38 plays he wrote, modified, or collaborated on. His plays written during the 1590s were primarily comedies and history plays such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Henry V, and Richard III. The Comedy of Errors premiered in 1594. During the first decade of the 1600s, he turned to tragedy, and his four great tragedies - Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello - were written during these years. His final period was characterized by mixed-genre tragicomedies and romances such as The Winter's Tale, Pericles, and his final play, The Tempest. He retired from acting and writing in 1611, and returned to New Place, the fine Stratford manor house that his lifetime of hits had paid for. Shakespeare died of unknown causes on April 23, 1616. In 1623 a group of his friends published 36 of his plays - 18 of which had never before seen print - in a single volume, now known as The First Folio, which ensured Shakespeare's lasting fame as the most significant writer in the history of the English language.

RANDY KOVITZ (Fight Director) has staged fights for hundreds of stage, film, and television productions around the country. His work has been seen in theaters on and off Broadway, at the Kennedy Center, the Mark Taper Forum, Yale Rep, South Coast Rep and many others. Career highlights include the world premieres of Angels in America and Burn This, the Broadway production of The Kentucky Cycle, Sir Peter Hall's Midsummer Night's Dream and four seasons at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Fights staged on film include, The Ballad of the Sad Café, with Vanessa Redgrave and Keith Carradine, the animated feature Quest for Camelot, The Addams Family - as fencing double for Raul Julia - and most recently Racing Daylight with David Strathairn. Also, a performer, Randy has many stage, film and television roles to his credit.

JAMES NOONE (Scenic Designer) returns to Pittsburgh Public Theater where he last designed last season's The Gin Game. Mr. Noone's Broadway credits include Match, Urban Cowboy, A Class Act, Judgment at Nuremberg, Jekyll and Hyde (Drama Desk, American Theater Wing Design Award), The Rainmaker, Night Must Fall (Drama Desk Nomination), Getting and Spending, The Sunshine Boys, The Gin Game, and Inherit the Wind. Off-Broadway credits include Fully Committed, Full Gallop, Three Tall Women, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, The Boys in the Band, Cowgirls, Breaking Legs, The Green Heart.(Lincoln Center Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, The Roundabout Theatre, Atlantic Theatre, Second Stage) Regional credits include Huntington Theatre Company, Goodspeed Musicals, Long Wharf Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Washington Opera, Canadian Opera, Portland Opera, Geffen Playhouse, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and The Cleveland Play House. Tours included Jekyll and Hyde (1999), The Belle of Amherst, The Gin Game, Deathtrap, Three Tall Women, Stieglitz Loves O'Keefe, and also The History of Sex at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas and Latin Soul in Atlantic City.

KIRK BOOKMAN (Lighting Designer) returns to Pittsburgh Public Theater where he recently designed Oedipus the King, The Tempest, Ain't Misbehavin' and last season's RolePlay. Other credits included New York productions of The Cook at Intar Theatre 53, Recent Tragic Events at Playwrights Horizons (starring Heather Graham), Shanghai Noon at Drama Dept. (starring Charles Busch). For the National Actors Theatre: The Sunshine Boys (Jack Klugman and Tony Randall), The Gin Game (Julie Harris and Charles Durning, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Right You Are. For the Irish Rep: Bedbound, Playboy of the Western World, Eclipsed, and two productions directed by Tony Walton: The Importance of Being Ernest and Major Barbara. Other New York productions include Mondo Drama, Havana Is Waiting, Force Continuum, My One Good Nerve (starring Ruby Dee), The Green Heart at Manhattan Theatre Club, The Shawl, Rude Entertainment, The Book of Liz (David and Amy Sedaris) Les MIZrahi (Isaac Mizrahi), ‘Hope' Is the Thing With Feathers, As Thousands Cheer, and June Moon. Regionally, Mr. Bookman has designed at such notable theaters as Goodspeed Opera House, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Geva Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse, and Sante Fe Stages. Ballet credits include English National Ballet, Santiago Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet and the Kansas City Ballet. He is a member of the New York Off-Broadway theater company, Drama Dept.

MARTHA BROMELMEIER (Costume Designer) returns to The Public where she recently designed The Gin Game. New York Credits: Playhouse 91 - Menopause: The Musical; The Century Theatre - The Gorey Details; The Blue Heron Theatre - Sacred Journey; LaMama - God, the Devil, and the Crackhouse; Naked Angels - Saturday Mourning Cartoons, Naked Faith, and The Stand In. Primary Stages - The Joy Solution, and At the Still Point. Regional Theatre Designs: Goodspeed Musicals - Double Trouble, Gotham, Glimmerglass, and co-designer with Tony Walton for Where's Charlie; Pittsburgh Public Theater - Falsettos, Sweeney Todd, and Roleplay; Barrington Stage - Tea; North Carolina Broadway Preview Series - Funny You Don't Look Like a Grandmother. Associate Designer with Martin Pakledinaz on Gypsy, starring Patti LuPone and to William Ivey Long for Princesses, Sweet Charity, The Producers, Cabaret, A Christmas Carol, and Hairspray.

ZACH MOORE (Sound Designer) most recently designed the sound for The Glorious Ones, Life X 3, Cabaret, the revival of The Chief, the world premiere of The Secret Letters of Jackie and Marilyn, and Oedipus the King here at Pittsburgh Public Theater. He has designed over 35 productions at Pittsburgh Public, including the world premieres of The Chief and Paper Doll, the American premieres of The Bird Sanctuary and RolePlay (also original music), as well as Gem of the Ocean, I Am My Own Wife, The Tempest, Broadway: the Play, Anna in the Tropics, Mary Stuart, The Mikado, Dirty Blonde, The Piano Lesson, Man of LaMancha, Fully Committed, Medea, Tea, Wit and You Can't Take it With You. Other designs include Completely Hollywood (abridged) for the Reduced Shakespeare Company, The Bird Sanctuary (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Falsettos (The Huntington), Blue/Orange (TheaterWorks Hartford), Paper Doll (Long Wharf Theatre), Fully Committed (Dallas Theater Center, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, and McCoy/Rigby Productions in LA), and Games of Steel for Attack Theater. Up next: Amadeus.

PAT MCCORKLE CASTING, LTD (Pat McCorkle, C.S.A.) Broadway credits include: The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Glass Menagerie, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Amadeus, A Doll's House, An Ideal Husband, She Loves Me, Blood Brothers, and A Few Good Men. Off Broadway credits include: Almost Maine, Address Unknown, Ears on a Beatle, Down The Garden Paths, Killer Joe, Visiting Mr. Green, and Mrs. Klein. Film credits include: War Eagle, Bereft, Secret Window, Tony-N-Tina's Wedding, Basic, The Thomas Crown Affair, The 13th Warrior, Madeline, Die Hard With A Vengeance, and School Ties. Television credits include: "3 lbs," "Barbershop," "Chappelle's Show," "Hack," and "The Education of Max Bickford."

RUTH E. KRAMER (Production Stage Manager) is delighted to be returning to Pittsburgh Public Theater for her eleventh season and her eighteenth show. Cabaret, The Importance of Being Earnest, RolePlay, Broadway, The Mikado, Man of La Mancha, Much Ado About Nothing, You Can't Take It With You, and Forum are among her favorite, previous productions. Other credits include Anne of Green Gables and Tovah: Out of Her Mind. Off Broadway, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company, Goodspeed-At-Chester, Great Lakes Theater Festival, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Ogunquit Playhouse, Mountain Playhouse, Pilobolus Dance Theatre, and Trinity Repertory Company. Ms. Kramer serves on the National Council of Actors' Equity Association.

FREDRIC H. ORNER (Assistant Stage Manager) is happy to return for his second season at Pittsburgh Public Theater. Stage management credits include: Broadway-Private Lives, Waiting in the Wings, If You Ever Leave Me...I'm Going With You, The Capeman, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, City of Angels, A Few Good Men, Mule Bone, Sunday in the Park with George, and Our Country's Good. National Tours-Cats, City of Angels, Laughter on the 23rd Floor. Off Broadway-Indian Blood, Beast on the Moon, Big Bill (Lincoln Center Theater), Hamlet, The Death of von Richthofen (Public Theater), The Syringa Tree. Regional-The MUNY in St Louis, American Repertory Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, McCarter, Milwaukee Rep, Roundabout Theatre, Actors Theatre at Louisville, Pasadena Playhouse, ACT (Seattle), Theatreworks (Mountainview, CA). He has also toured with productions in the UK, Ireland, and Canada.

 

 

News About the Show

• October 18, 2007: City Paper Review of The Comedy of Errors
  Pittsburgh City Paper
• October 18, 2007: Certain Good Time at THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
  Pittsburgh City Paper
• October 16, 2007: Pittsburgh Public Theater presents 'Comedy of Errors'
  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• October 11, 2007: October 11, 2007: Pittsburgh Public Theater piles on laughs in play about mistaken identity
  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• October 11, 2007: Pittsburgh Public Theater Piles on Laughs in Play About Mistaken Identity
  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• October 8, 2007: DeWolf, Eliker, Ford and Mertz See Double in Pittsburgh Comedy of Errors
  Playbill Online
• October 4, 2007: Stage Preview: The Public turns to local actors for 'Comedy of Errors'
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• October 4, 2007: The Public Turns to Local Actors for 'Comedy of Errors'
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette