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Welcome to the Phoenix! It's our thirteenth anniversary, and we couldn't be more proud.
In 1995, an 1885 building sat on a parcel of property once owned by Ebenezer Johnson, Buffalo's first mayor, its barred doors cobwebbed, its interior a junked ruin. It had been, in its time, a lecture hall for Buffalo Seminary, a séance house, and soup kitchen; now
it sat abandoned. Wouldn't 95 Johnson Park make a lovely theatre?
Now the New Phoenix rises on Buffalo's oldest park and the renovations continue (and, with your help, continue!). We think that the past has led us to the present and, in turn, to you. This season, we're cheering a big welcome to Loraine O'Donnell. Her gorgeous voice finally finds a way to our stage in Dusty Springfield...With You, a biographical performance created just for her. In Conor McPherson's The Seafarer, direct from Broadway this past season, Artistic Director Robert Waterhouse makes a date with the devil in a game of chance that reaches its climax on  Christmas Eve. With The Beauty Queen of Leenane, by Martin McDonagh, Joe Natale directs Betsy Bittar and Mary Loftus in a darkly funny tale of love and loss. With the thrilling Blackbird (another WNY premiere direct from New York), Kelli Bocock Natale makes a triumphant return to direct an exploration of a love affair at once forbidden, unspoken, and taboo. Freud and the Sandman reunites our A.D. with multiple-award winning composer Paul Kozlowski and puppeteer extraordinaire Michelle Costa in a multimedia event that showcases the Phoenix at what we do best.
Finally, our annual Eric Bentley New Play Competition brings a national contest winner home to Buffalo and onto our humble stage. In short, we look forward to an extraordinary season, and we hope you'll agree. With Folkloric Dance, and a full calendar of collaborating and visiting artists, our board, our staff, our actors, and our sponsors are all working to make our humble, historic home into an inclusive enclave for the arts.
BUT WE NEED YOU TOO...
For just $100.00, you can purchase a member's pass which gives you six seats to use any way you wish and us the means to continue our renovations, our artistic goals, and our community work. It's not only the best deal in town, but one that will guarantee every earned dollar is stretched to the maximum as we continue to build Buffalo's home to alternative theatre. Come see for yourself! Please turn to the back panel to join us,
or email for us more details about tax-deductible, specific gifts at newphnxtheatre@aol.com.
Or.....Just press play!
Richard Lambert, Executive Director
Bob Waterhouse, Artistic Director
This Season is Dedicated to Tom and Betty
The New Phoenix Theatre On The Park
is grateful to M&T Bank, The Fund For the Arts, The
New York State Council On The Arts, The Margaret L. Wendt
Foundation, The Rupp Foundation, The Western New York
Foundation, The Arts Council Of Buffalo And Erie County,
Talking Leaves and WBFO for their support.
The New Phoenix is a proud member of The Johnson
Park Association. Please join our friends on the web at
http://www.johnson-park-assoication.org/
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