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Los Angeles audience and critics love the World Premiere of “The Alamo” at the Ruskin Group Theatre. Due to over whelming demand it has now been extended to May 13th!. Continue reading
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Apr 25, 2018 /prREACH/ -- Los Angeles audience and critics love the World Premiere of "The Alamo" at the Ruskin Group Theatre. Due to over whelming demand it has now been extended to May 13th.
In the blue collar Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn sits a rundown neighborhood institution called The Alamo; the last great American bar. The owners, Munce and Carmen, along with some of their regulars watched, from the roof, as the World Trade Towers fell, taking down their relatives, friends, and neighbors.
Today, with an aging clientele, the place is fighting to keeps it’s doors open and the only hope seems to be the arrival of artist/gentrifiers who are moving into the neighborhood and wanting to adopt the bar as an entertainment hangout. Bay Ridge locals and Alamo regulars don’t want to surrender their bar, much less their neighborhood, to these young neo-carpetbaggers without a fight. Touching on themes of nativism, racism, and war, The Alamo paints a humorous yet heartbreaking portrait of eight working class Bay Ridge natives who always seem to find themselves on the front lines of change in America.
Director Kent Thompson is widely known for directing both classics and new plays. He is a vital advocate and developer of new plays and served as Producing Artistic Director of the Denver Center Theatre Company (2005-2017) and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival (1989-2005). Kent created the Colorado New Play Summit, the Women’s Voices Fund, Off-Center (for immersive, interactive theatrical experiences) and the Southern Writer’s Project. He has produced close to fifty world premieres that have subsequently been staged by theatres such as Playwrights Horizons, Goodman Theatre, South Coast Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Chance Theatre, Victory Gardens, Old Globe, Donmar Warehouse (U.K.), and more. The Alamo Is one of those plays that you don't want to miss. Tickets are selling and avaiable at www.ruskingrouptheatre.com
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