in partnership with
Keen Company
NOV 8–DEC 10, 2023
Conceived and Directed by Jonathan Silverstein Featuring Kathleen Chalfant
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Jacob G. Padrón ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Kit Ingui MANAGING DIRECTOR
in partnership with Keen Company PRESENT
YEAR
The
Of
MAGICAL THINKING BY
JOAN DIDION CONCEIVED AND DIRECTED BY
JONATHAN SILVERSTEIN† STARRING Kathleen Chalfant* JOAN DIDION CREATIVE Norman Anthony Small* PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
Anshuman Bhatia^ LIGHTING DESIGNER
Jennifer Paar^ COSTUME DESIGNER
Presenting Sponsors:
Production Sponsors:
Dr. Craig M. Crews & Dr. Katherine C. McKenzie
Nina Adams & Moreson Kaplan
Library Series Sponsors:
Bob & Priscilla Dannies
Sandy Allison & Jim Horwitz Bill Graustein
The Friends of the Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library & Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library Seedlings Foundation
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association ^Member of United Scenic Artists
Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC)
†
The production was originally conceived and produced by Keen Company in New York City, NY on October 19 - November 20, 2022. 2 LONG WHARF THEATRE
D AR RI NDS It is with great joy that we welcome you to Long Wharf Theatre’s 2023-2024 season—one that is fifty-nine powerful, enduring, and boundary-breaking years in the making—and one in which we delight in the discovery that, even amidst moments of change, anything is possible. In 1997, Kathleen Chalfant transfixed the minds and transformed the hearts of Long Wharf Theatre audiences through her luminous turn as Vivian Bearing in Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Donning her iconic baseball cap and hospital gown, Kathleen-as-Vivian embodied the universal human experience of how it might look, what it might mean, and how it might feel to stare down one’s own mortality while affirming one’s dignity. It was a performance for the ages.
Jacob G. Padrón
Kit Ingui
Now in an exciting partnership with Keen Company, an acclaimed Off-Broadway theatre, Long Wharf is thrilled to have this theatre legend return to New Haven in Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking. In a stunning reversal of fate, Kathleen-as-Joan now faces the fragile mortality of her daughter and husband. Through the vessel of Chalfant’s virtuosic artistry, one performer across twenty-six years and in one city illuminates for us the courageous possibilities on the other side of change. This production marks an exciting moment in the life of Long Wharf Theatre. We are literally bringing theatre to the people. But now, instead of just one single stage, The Year of Magical Thinking is playing on 20 different stages in numerous neighborhoods throughout Greater New Haven. Boundary-breaking theatre is no longer simply about the world class art we make; it is us reaching out to you to imagine and celebrate our communities in bold and innovative ways. We are deeply grateful to director Jonathan Silverstein, whose visionary leadership and artistry have made this production possible; we are indebted to Jonathan for his partnership with us. In our 2023-2024 season, what might we share through the stories brought to life on all the “stages” of Long Wharf Theatre? We hope to discover with you that, together, everything is possible. Warmly yours,
Jacob G. Padrón, Artistic Director
Kit Ingui, Managing Director
“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.” – Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING 3
ROM T E DIRECT OR Theater can happen anywhere. It doesn’t need a building, stage, or fancy sets and lights. Of course, I love the ritual of going to the theater in the typical way: the lights going to black, the music swelling, and the actors appearing as if magically materializing before our eyes. However, when the brilliant Kathleen Chalfant and I first met several years ago to discuss Keen Company’s production of this play, she read it to me in her kitchen. It was at that moment that I realized that the most impactful way to experience Didion’s universal work would be to do so intimately, outside of the theater. Instead of an actor on stage, in the light, and the audience in the dark, it was important to me that everyone share the same space and be on equal terms. Theater stimulates connection. It is my hope you feel especially connected tonight: to the performer, to your fellow audience members and to the challenges and joys of the human condition itself.
– JONATHAN SILVERSTEIN
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We acknowledge that indigenous peoples and nations have for generations stewarded the lands and waterways of what we now call the state of Connecticut. We honor and respect the enduring relationship that exists between these peoples and nations and this land. The offices of Long Wharf Theatre, the supporter and producer of this production, are located on the unceded territory of the Quinnipiac, Paugussett and Wappinger peoples. We remind ourselves that along with stolen land came stolen people. It is our responsibility to the future to know our past.
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BIOS Joan Didion (she/her) (Author & Playwright) Born in California and a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Joan Didion (1934-2021) spent her adult life in New York and Los Angeles. Winner of the 2005 National Book Award, The Year of Magical Thinking is one of 13 books by Joan Didion. Her other books include Play It As It Lays, Democracy, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Salvador, Miami, and Political Fictions. With her husband, John Gregory Dunne, she wrote the screenplays for such pictures as The Panic in Needle Park with Al Pacino, True Confessions with Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall, A Star Is Born with Barbra Streisand and Up Close & Personal with Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert Redford. She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which awarded her its 2005 Gold Medal in nonfiction. She also received the 1996 Edward MacDowell Medal, the 1999 Columbia Journalism Award and the 2002 George Polk Book Award. She contributed to various periodicals, most frequently The New York Review of Books.
Jonathan Silverstein (he/him) (Conception & Direction) Artistic Director of Off Broadway’s Keen Company, where his directing credits include: The Year of Magical Thinking, This Space Between Us by Peter Gil-Sheridan, Ordinary Days, Lonely Planet, Tick, Tick…Boom!, Travels With My Aunt, John & Jen, Middle of the Night, The Old Boy, Marry Me a Little. Also with Keen as Resident Director: Lemon Sky, The Dining Room (Drama Desk Award: Outstanding Ensemble), I Never Sang For My Father, Tea and Sympathy, and The Hasty Heart. Selected Off-Broadway: The Temperamentals (Drama Desk Award: Outstanding Ensemble), Red Herring (FringeNYC; Outstanding Direction Award), Blueprint (Summer Play Festival), and The Train Play (Clubbed Thumb). Regional: Bucks County, Huntington, Old Globe, Cleveland Play House, Merrimack Rep, Dorset Theatre Festival, Cape Rep Theatre. Alumnus, The Drama League Directors Project. MFA, UCSD. Member, SDC.
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BIOS Kathleen Chalfant (she/her) (Joan Didion) BROADWAY: Angels in America (Tony, Drama Desk nom.), Racing Demon, Dance With Me. ADDITIONAL THEATRE: Here There are Blueberries, Four Quartets, A Woman of the World, Wit (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Connecticut Critics Circle, Obie Awards), For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday, A Walk in the Woods (Drama Desk nom.), Talking Heads (Obie Award), Nine Armenians (Drama Desk nomination), Henry V (Callaway Award). FILM: Familiar Touch, Old, Isn’t it Delicious?, Lillian, Duplicity, The People Speak, Lackawanna Blues, Perfect Stranger, Kinsey, Laramie Project, SELECT TELEVISION: Recurring on “The Affair,” “Bull,” “The Strain,” “The Americans,” “House of Cards,” “Rescue Me,” “The Guardian,” “One Life to Live,” “Madam Secretary,” “High Maintenance,” “Georgia O’Keeffe” (Lifetime), “Voices from the White House” (PBS). AWARDS: 2004 Lortel Award—Sustained Excellence of Performance, 2015 Lifetime Achievement—League of Professional Women, 2018 OBIE Award—Lifetime Achievement. Recipient of the Drama League and Sidney Kingsley Awards and holds an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Cooper Union.
Anshuman Bhatia (he/him) (Lighting Designer) designs for opera, theater, and dance have been seen at Arena Stage, Austin Opera, Bard Music Festival, Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts, Chautauqua Theater Company, Classic Stage Company, Dublin’s Civic Theater, Hartford Stage, HERE Arts Center, Keen Company, Kentucky Opera, LoftOpera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Madison Opera, Opera Columbus, Opera Omaha, Opera San Jose, Pacific Symphony, Palm Beach Opera, Primary Stages, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Santa Fe Opera, Soho Rep, The Atlantic, The Juilliard School, The McKittrick Hotel, The Park Avenue Armory, The Public, Virginia Arts Festival, WP Theater, Writers Theater | Member USA829 | M.F.A. NYU | bhatiadesign.com
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Jennifer Paar (she/her) (Costume Designer) has been working in New York and regionally as a costume designer for over 20 years. In New York, she has worked extensively with the Obie-Award winning Keen Company, having designed 16 shows with them including: The Year of Magical Thinking, Ordinary Days, Tick, Tick…Boom, and Alphabetical Order. Other New York credits include Othello (New Place Players), Transatlantica (Operating Theater), Futurity, The Musical (Joe’s Pub), Every Day Above Ground with SaBooge Theatre (PS 122) and Thrill Me (York Theatre). Regional credits include Baskerville, Sense & Sensibility (Cape Playhouse), On Golden Pond (Bucks County Playhouse), Glengarry Glen Ross (Asolo Rep), The Tempest, Elizabeth Rex, Much Ado about Nothing (Opera House Arts), and Rabbit Hole (Premiere Stages). Jennifer is also the Co-Founder of The Costume Studio, a non-profit organization that provides space and supplies for costume designers working on non-profit productions in NYC. For more information visit jenniferpaar.com or thecostumestudionyc.org.
Norman Anthony Small (he/him) (Production Stage Manager) Long Wharf Theatre—Fires in the Mirror. Broadway—The Shark Is Broken, Leopoldstadt, American Buffalo. Off-Broadway—Keen Company: Adventurephile, All We Need Is Us, Digging in the Dark; WP Theater: Where We Stand; Atlantic Theater Company: Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven; The Public Theater: A Night of Wild Beauty (Ntozake Shange Tribute). Tour— Apollo Theater/Baltimore Center Stage: Twisted Melodies; National Public Radio (NPR): Water +. Regional—Crossroads Theatre Company: Emergency; Shakespeare & Company: Measure for Measure, Art; Baltimore Center Stage: Fires in the Mirror, A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction, Where We Stand. Education—MBA: Metropolitan College of New York (Media Management); BM: University of Miami (Music Engineering Technology). Award—Charlie Blackwell Symposium Scholarship for Stage Managers of Color. Member of Actors’ Equity Association.
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BI S Keen Company (in Partnership with) is a Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Off-Broadway company creating theater that connects. In intimate productions of plays and musicals, we celebrate the complexities of hope and the joys of the human condition. In recent seasons, Keen has brought to the New York City stage: Crumbs from the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage (first NY Revival), The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (first NY Revival), This Space Between Us by Peter Gil-Sheridan (World Premiere), Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage (NY Premiere), Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel, Surely Goodness and Mercy by Chisa Hutchinson (NY Premiere), Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon (first NY Revival, Drama League Nomination), Tick, Tick…BOOM! by Jonathan Larson (first NY Revival, Drama Desk Nomination), and a reimagined version of Marry Me a Little by Stephen Sondheim (Drama League Nomination). Keen also fosters mid-career playwrights through our Keen Playwrights Lab and mentors students from all five boroughs of NYC through our Keen Teens education program. In everything we do, Keen Company thrives through our welcoming ethos and community commitments. You’re invited to learn more at keencompany.org or connect @keencompany. About Long Wharf Theatre Birthed during America’s regional theatre movement, Long Wharf Theatre opened its doors on July 4, 1965 with an inaugural production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Guided by our three core pillars of artistic innovation, radical inclusion, and kaleidoscopic partnerships, we continue to build on an extraordinary body of more than 400 world-class productions that represent the best of classic plays, beloved musicals, and world premieres, including works by Anna Deavere Smith, Paula Vogel, Tracey Scott Wilson, Lloyd Suh, Tina Landau, Whitney White, Ricardo Pérez González, and Dominique Morrisseau. Recognized for a historic commitment to commissioning, developing, and producing new plays that expand the legacy of storytelling in the American theatre—including three winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama: D.L. Coburn’s The Gin Game, Michael Cristopher’s The Shadow Box, and Margaret Edson’s Wit—Long Wharf Theatre transferred more than 30 successful productions to Broadway or Off-Broadway. In recognition of its artistic achievements, Long Wharf Theatre won a Tony Award; one of the first regional theatres to receive this honor. Founded with the mission of creating an accessible theatre culture unique to the Greater New Haven community, Long Wharf Theatre (Jacob G. Padrón, Artistic Director; Kit Ingui, Managing Director) is now entering a bold new chapter in its storied history moving beyond its physical home of nearly 60 years to activate venues, neighborhoods, and public spaces throughout our city and region to bring theatre to everyone. 8 LONG WHARF THEATRE
T ANK YOU TO OUR DONORS The following donors extended extraordinary support to this production. We are grateful to them for believing in the impact that this particular story produced in this unique manner could have on our community.
PRESENTING SPONSORS
Dr. Craig M. Crews & Dr. Katherine C. McKenzie Bob & Priscilla Dannies
PRODUCTION SPONSORS
Nina Adams & Moreson Kaplan Sandy Allison & Jim Horwitz Bill Graustein
LIBRARY SERIES SPONSORS
The Friends of the Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library & Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library Seedlings Foundation
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Brenner, Saltzman and Wallman LLP Cathy Edwards & Mike Wishnie
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TH STAFF EXECUTIVE
Jacob G. Padrón
Kit Ingui
ARTISTIC & COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
AUDIENCE SERVICES
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T ANK YOU TO OUR DONORS Kathleen Crisafi Jennifer Crookes Carpenter Lafayette Cruise Phyllis CummingsTexeira Gail Curran Eva Curtin Harriet Cutler & David Bass, M.D. Ann Dallavalle Caitlin Dalton Susan Dardik Elizabeth Darling Timothy Davidson Toby Davis Karen L. Dawson William Dean Denese Deeds & David Gioiello Francis & Helen Degnan Maureen Derbacher Bernadette DiGiulian & Leo Christofar Lois M. Dioro Milo Dittrich Linda DiVicino Marialina Dominguez Elizabeth Donius Julia Downs John Downs Karen DuBois-Walton David Earle Elizabeth East Patricia Egan & Peter Hegeman Deborah Elkin Kathi Ellison Alice Engbith Linda English Amy Eppler-Epstein Ellen Erway Sally Esposito Kevin Ewing Christine Fabian Shirley Fappiano Kathryn Feidelson Glennie Feinsmith Andy & Polly Fiddler Pamela & David Field Carrie-Lynn Fisher Julie Fitzpatrick Terry Flagg Steven & Susan Floman Barbara Fortunato Fanta Fortune Megan Fountain Kathleen Fox Linda Francis Deborah Freedman & Ben Ledbetter
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G. Reen Patricia Ann Reese Sandra Resnick Bill & Sharon Reynolds David & Cristin Rich Cynthia Rider Terrence Riggins Nicole & Christopher Rivera Marie & Earl Robert Susanne F. Roberts & Stephen Victor Leslie Robinson Sergio Rodriguez Chantal Rodriguez John Rose, Jr. Esq. Ken & Harriet Rosen Phyllis & Herb Ross Carolyn Ross-Lee Samuel & Ellen Rost Sheilah B. Rostow John Ruckes Hana & Gary Rudnick Elisabeth Sacco Klock Nancy & Roger Sachs Adrienne Saint-Pierre Rhoda Samuel George Sanders Mr. Robert D. Sandine & Dr. Irene Kitzman Helene Sapadin Linda R. Savitsky Sarah Schellhorn, MD Rebecca & Alan Scheps Pauline Scherer Penelope Schlesinger Eileen Schuman & Robert J. Snyder Fiona Scott Morton Patricia A. Scully Gregory Seaman Florie Seery Edwin Selden Jeffrey Alan Johnson Cis & Jim Serling
Sarah Shampnois Debra Shapiro Anita Sharif-Hyder Connie Shaw Michael Shea & Candace Barrington Alan Siegal Dr. Lorraine D. Siggins Alix Simonetti The Carol L. Sirot Foundation Wayne Sirota Sarah Smalley Geoff & Vicki Smith J. Philip & Loretta K. Smith Jill Snyder Veronica & Dieter Soell Gladys Soto Raina Sotsky Cynthia Sparer Lisa Stanger & Gregory Colodner Edward Stannard & Patricia CarlStannard Aleta Staton Jeanne Steiner & Will Rosenblatt Saundra Stephenson Harold & Sandra Stern Anne Stevens Carolyn Stockage Shilarna Stokes John Stoltenberg Peter & Lee Stolzman Shepard & Marlene Stone Leslie Stone Bennet Stroich Mark Suchman Jennifer Suski Luke Sutherland Larue and Capleton Swanson Sidra Syed Valencia TaftJackson
Tohanash Tarrant Kathleen Tereb Aaron Testa Mark & Lauren Thunem Sally Tomiko & David Taraskevich Patricia Trisko Mary Ann Turner Erika Ulanecki Harrison Valante Anandi Van Diepen Lissa van Dyke Karen Vaslow Kathie Ventura Jonathan Victorian Bruce Villineau Jean Vitalis Claudia Volano Harron Walker Marc Wallman & Cynthia Carr Mary-Jo Warren Kalman L. Watsky & Deborah Fried Seymour Weingarten Martha Weisbart Dr. & Mrs. Robert Weiss Marshall & Joan Weiss Emily Wexler Shelley White James White Sandra Wiens Endia Williams Judith Wilson Walton Wilson Jimmy & Melanie Wolf Sue Wolf OrLando Yarborough III Rolan Joni Young Steven & Barbara Zalesch Anna Zayaruznaya Sheila Zinn Jessica Zyrie
Donor lists up to date as of 10/01/23.
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T ANK YOU TO OUR DONORS LEGACY CIRCLE Robert Alvine & Joann Thompson June Baldyga Joan & Richard Bonomi Dr. Harold D. Bornstein, Jr. Alice B. Colonna
Richard & Barbara Franke Toddie & Chris Getman Charles & Gretchen Kingsley Jacqueline Koral Henry Lord
LEGACY CIRCLE : ESTATE GIFTS Cynthia Kellogg Barrington James T. Brown, Jr. Louise W. Dimond
James D. English Robert Evans Mary C. Hallenbeck Gilbert Kenna
Ruby Melton & Gail McAvay R. Lee Stump Jean Routt & Richard Shanahan Liana & David Snyderman
Pamela Tatge & Jerry Zinser Patsy R. Taylor Dr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Tinghitella Frank P. Villani
Ruth Lord M. Carol Mihalik June M. Rosenblatt Paula L. Schiller
Joan H. Scranton Martin Shubik Charitable Remainder Unitrust
For more information on how you can join the Long Wharf Theatre Legacy Circle through bequests, retirement plan designations, life income gifts, and other deferred gifts, please contact development@longwharf.org.
IN HONOR OF... Adela H. French by Rob Overdeck Sheila Hickey Garvey, Ph.D. by Rita A. Landino, Ph.D. Betty Monz by Stuart Warner & A. David Paltiel
Jacob G. Padrón by Nancy Alexander & Phillip Bernstein and by Mark Bauer & Joe Gordon and by Constance Royster, JD Elba Ramirez by Rodney Brooks
Albert & Rita Stone by Ellen Creane Eileen Wiseman by The Tow Foundation Marc & Ada Zubrzycki by Rob & Vandy Esposito
IN MEMORY OF... Katherine A. Berman by Christopher J. Berman Adele BorosonGreenberg by Andrea Konetchy
David Crompton by Vicki Crompton Priscilla Leibowitz by Gary Leibowitz Robert John Levine by Jeralea Hesse
MATCHING GIFT ORGANIZATIONS Aetna Foundation, Inc. Bank of America Matching Gifts Program
Bristol Myers Squibb Matching Gift Program Casey Matching Gift Programs
GIFT-IN-KIND SUPPORT Arakelian Rugs & Interiors Atelier Cho Thompson
Cambria New Haven Hotel IKEA Lotta Studio
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Francis D. & Marcella A. Moran by Michael J. Moran
Lewis A. Swyer by Susan & David Earle
Jeff Stryker by Travis Jackson
Andy Wolf by Jimmy & Melanie Wolf
GE Foundation IBM Corporation Pfizer Foundation State Street Matching Gift Program
UBS Foundation United Technologies
Madeo Studio
T ANK YOU TO OUR DONORS WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM THESE FUNDERS:
Long Wharf Theatre is pleased to be in deep partnership with Southern Connecticut State University.
Long Wharf Theatre programs are made possible, in part, with the support of Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts. Support has been provided to Long Wharf Theatre from CT Humanities (CTH), with funding provided by the Connecticut State Department of Economic and Community Development/Connecticut Office of the Arts (COA) from the Connecticut State Legislature. Long Wharf Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre.
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