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BRUCE GRAHAM

Directed by M AT T H EW G R AY

Cast REGAN ADAIR* AS DALE WISTON CHAMBLEE FERGUSON* AS TONY WISTON DANIEL FREDRICK** AS LEO BAXTER DEN NIS MAHER AS DOC BARTELLI AND GUSTAV VON MEYERHOFF NANCY SHERRARD**AS SONIA FELDMAN

Time: The early 40’s Place: Hollywood, California There will be a fifteen minute intermission between Acts I & II.

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Taking of pictures and/or making of visual or sound recordings is expressly prohibited. Please refrain from texting. Cell phones must be turned off during the performance. Food & drink are not allowed in the theatre. SOMETHING INTANGIBLE was originally produced by the Arden Theatre Company, Terrence J. Nolen, Producing Artistic Director, Amy Murphy, Managing Director, in Philadelphia, PA. This production is presented by special arrangement with the Playwright and Harden-Curtis Associates, 850 Seventh Avenue, #903, New York, NY 10019.

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PLAYWRIGHT INTERVIEW

Excerpts from Arden Theatre’s Interview with Bruce Graham …

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QUESTION: What was the seed for Something Intangible? BG: It was 15 years ago. It was going to be a play about the Van Gogh brothers. I made notes on it. I had Lautrec and Gauguin and all those guys in it. That seemed like too much work! And, also, it was too diverse; too many characters, too many stories to follow. And so I boiled it down to these guys. I started to work on it while I was fishing in Alaska, thinking I’d get a few pages done and I had so much time on my hands I wrote the whole first act! Once it started, after being up (in my head) for so long, it just kind of thaws out. So it was really easy. I guess it was 15 years, so it wasn’t that easy...But once it comes out, it’s a breeze.

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QUESTION: Too many characters, too many stories. Any other reason you made the switch from the Van Goghs to the Wistons? BG: Yeah, that, and, you know I’m a film historian, I teach it. Look, I was in the 6th grade reading Hollywood in the ‘30s. Staying up late at night and watching these old movies on the weekends. I saw every Universal horror movie ever made. My daughter didn’t know movies came in color until she was like six. QUESTION: And do you think Tony, like Van Gogh, would cut off his ear for someone? BG: Yes! Not for someone, but for his project. Absolutely. I think real artists would do anything...I think William Wilder said, or one of those famous directors of the 40s and 50s, when they heard about Sam Peckinpah being such a bastard on the set, said, “Hm, sounds like he’s trying to make a good movie.” It was Wilder who said, the first thing a director has to do is repress the urge to be a nice person. When he was off the set he was the nicest guy in the world, but when he got on the set he was a bastard and would make you do it 45 times. He didn’t mind staying there until 10 o’clock at night, and the guy’s track record is pretty impressive. I really think artists do that. Me, I’m too lazy to be an artist.

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QUESTION: Bruce, what excites you about this play? BG: This one is really, really different. And, it’s been something I’ve wanted to say for a long time. I always hate, you know, “the author’s message,” and the, what, the “Aristotelian thought,” and all that, but the whole left brain/ right brain interests me. Some of us in the arts often look down our noses at – continued on p. 9-

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“civilians,” who are out there raising the money, balancing the books. There has to be a real partnership. Even in the best marriages, if anyone is too much alike, forget it. You’ve got to have balance. Tony couldn’t create these things without Dale. And yet people like Dale are often overlooked. I can’t wait to see if it works. I write scenes I don’t want to watch sometimes, scenes where I feel I’m making the characters do embarrassing or awkward things. Once I watch it in performance, I’m going to be like,“OK! I’m going to be looking the other way!” I feel like I make people do terrible things! QUESTION: How do you know when a script you’re working on is ready? BG: I don’t, always. I don’t even try to write the script until I have the end of the first act. The end of the first act is going to drive the rest of the play. Then I want at least two conflicts or twists or something in the second act. Once I have all those ingredients, I think I have a play that will work. And it has to be a world that interests me. I think human experiences are universal. I’m always telling my students, you write a play about your family, that’s great, we all have families, but what is it about your family that I’m going to be interested in? Why am I going to sit there and pay attention to your family? My world cannot be further from the world of Asher Lev, but I still got caught up in the story. Opus – I know nothing about music except that I like it, but I could get caught up in the story of (Opus’) characters. To me, that’s smart playwriting. QUESTION: You are a screenwriter as well. How similar or different are the disciplines? BG: For me, the actual writing discipline is similar. You write for x amount of hours, find act breaks, that sort of thing. You don’t fall in love with it, because they (the producers) can do anything they want to it. Sometimes you get a producer that protects you. But I’ve dealt with some very well-educated, stupid people in Hollywood. Look, back when Tony and Dale were working, these guys weren’t artists. Louis B. Meyer was a junkman. Harry Cohen was a song plugger. These were all just immigrants, no money. Sam Goldwyn was a glove maker. But their gut told them if a story would work, if people would buy tickets to see something. They put out 52 movies a year back then as opposed to the ten that Universal will put out this year. So, I’m dealing with a bunch of people who know nothing about the history of movies, know nothing about audiences. I made a reference to African Queen one time in a meeting with a young executive and he had no idea what I was talking about. I’m like,“1951, Humphrey Bogart won his Oscar for it, what, are you a moron?” It’s like baseball players who don’t know who Babe Ruth or Lou Gehrig are. You gotta know the history of your business!

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at the Rainbow Bar and Grille, Moon Over the Brewery, Minor Demons, Belmont Avenue Social Club, The Champagne Charlie Stakes, Desperate Affection, According to Goldman and Dex and Julie Sittin’ in a Tree. His play, Coyote on a Fence, won the 1998 Rosenthal Prize, was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards and played on London’s West End, starring Ben Cross. Graham recently returned to acting, playing Lenny in his play, Any Given Monday, at Theatre Exile in Philadelphia. His one-man show, The Philly Fan, plays semi-continuously throughout the Philadelphia area and the premiere production of Something Intangible, at the Arden Theatre in Philadelphia, won seven Barrymore Awards, including Best New Play. Graham’s newest play, The Outgoing Tide, was commissioned by Northlight Theatre in Chicago and will open in the spring of 2011, starring John Mahoney. Film: Dunston Checks In, Anastasia, Steal This Movie. TV Movies: Hunt for the Unicorn Killer, The Christmas Secret, Ring of Endless Light (Humanitas Award Winner – Best Children’s Screenplay), Right on Track, Tiger Cruise, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. Television: Roseanne, Leg Work, and various soap operas. Graham has received grants from the Pew Foundation, the Princess Grace Foundation (Statuette Award Winner), the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative, and the Edgerton Foundation. Along with Michele Volansky, he is the author of the book, The Collaborative Playwright. Graham is a graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He teaches film and theatre courses at Drexel University and lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Stephanie; daughter, Kendall; and Truman-the-beagle.

MATTHEW GRAY (Director) is excited to be back at Circle Theatre, having previously directed our production of Dex and Julie Sittin’ in a Tree, which was also written by Bruce Graham. Work at other theatres includes: Gift of the Magi (Classical Acting Company); Humpty Dumpty and Snake Eyes at the Mardi Gras Hotel (Second Thought Theatre); and The Shape of Things (Dallas Theater Center). He will also direct Dallas Theater Center’s A Christmas Carol in December 2010 and Kitchen Dog’s production of Macbeth in January 2011. Matthew is a member of the Diane and Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company at the Dallas Theater Center, a member of Actors’ Equity Association, and is represented by The Horne Agency. Thank you to Emily and Henry for their love, inspiration, and patience.

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REGAN ADAIR (Dale Wiston) Work at Circle Theatre: This is Regan’s first show at Circle. Work at Other Theatres: Dallas Theater Center: Fat Pig, Reasons to be Pretty, The Misanthrope, Hamlet; WaterTower Theatre: Doubt, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Unnecessary Farce, Indoor Outdoor, Bash, You Can’t Take it With You, Enchanted April; Theatre Three: House and Garden, Murder on the Nile; Stage West: Right Ho, Jeeves!, Code of the Woosters; Second Thought Theatre: Edmond; Contemporary Theatre of Dallas: Right Ho, Jeeves!; Echo Theatre: Boy Gets Girl Work in Television/Film/Print: Selected Commercials: Chesapeake Energy, Joe’s Crabshack, Direct Buy; Commercial Print: American Airlines, Chili’s Awards: 2008 DFW Critics Forum Award – Best Actor; 2005 DFW Critics Forum Award – Best Actor; 2004 Leon Rabin Award – Best Supporting Actor; 2003 Leon Rabin Award – Best Supporting Actor; 2003 Dallas Observer Award – Best Actor Professional Affiliations and/or Education: Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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CHAMBLEE FERGUSON (Tony Wiston) Work at Circle Theatre: Dex and Julie Sittin’ in a Tree, A Moon for the Misbegotten Work at Other Theatres: Dallas Theater Center: Death of a Salesman, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Christmas Carol, The Illusion, South Pacific, The Seagull; Stage West: Copenhagen, Stones in His Pockets, The Swan, Barefoot in the Park; Lyric Stage: The Fantasticks, Richard Cory; Casa Mañana: Moon Over Buffalo, Gigi, The Complete History of America (abridged), Shear Madness; WaterTower Theatre: The Crucible, Noises Off; Tidewater Regional Repertory Theatre: Of Mice and Men; Florida Stage: Cradle of Men Work in Television/Film: Prison Break; Karma Police; A Scanner Darkly; The Newton Boys; Walker, Texas Ranger; The Chase; Wishbone Awards: Chamblee has received multiple DFW Theater Critics Forum Awards, Leon Rabin Awards, and an Austin Circle of Theatre Award. Professional Affiliations and Education: Member of the Diane and Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company at the Dallas Theater Center, Actors’ Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild; Master of Fine Arts in Acting, Southern Methodist University DANIEL FREDRICK (Leo Baxter) Work at Circle Theatre: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, King O’ the Moon (staged reading) Work at Other Theatres: WaterTower Theatre: Laughter on the 23rd Floor; Trinity Shakespeare Festival: Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet; Firestarter Productions: Sonnets for an Old Century; Heart of America Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing; Theatre TCU: Our Town, A Chorus Line, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Private Lives, Anatomy of Gray, The Shape of Things, Noises Off, Misalliance, You Can’t Take it With You Work in Television/Film: The Highschooler’s Guide to College Parties, Not High School (Webisode series) Awards: Fort Worth Weekly - “Best of 2009: Top 5 Male Theatrical Performances” – Twelfth Night; Critical Rant & Rave - “Best of 2009: Male Performers” – Trinity Shakespeare Festival and Picasso at the Lapin Agile; Ann L. Rhodes Award for Excellence in Performance: 2008 and 2009 – Theatre TCU Professional Affiliations and Education: Equity Membership Candidate; Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting, Texas Christian University Dedication or Special Comment: Many thanks to Matt, Rose, and Bill for the opportunity to perform at Circle Theatre again, and even more thanks, as always, to my mother, brothers, and sisters, who make it all worthwhile.

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CAST DENNIS MAHER (Doc Bartelli and Gustav Von Meyerhoff) Work at Circle Theatre: My Life from A to B (solo performance as Robert Benchley)

Work at Other Theatres: Theatre Three: The Middle of Nowhere; Stage West: The Crucible; Theatre Arlington: Moon Over Buffalo (Actor), Over the River and Through the Woods (Director); University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Theatre: Director of over 50 musicals and plays, The Trouble Begins at Eight; A to Z Girls Productions: Nunsense, Nuncrackers, Nunsensations Work in Television/Film: The Trouble Begins at Eight (solo performance, WHA-TV [PBS]); Voice characters for Japanime cartoons, Funimation, Inc.; Voiceover for the US Winter Olympic Skeleton Team; Radio Deejay, KBIL-AM, St. Louis; PBS Radio Earplay series Awards: Theatre Arlington: Stony Award/Director – Over the River and Through the Woods, Stony Award nomination – Best Actor, Moon Over Buffalo; Nominated four times for UTA’s highest honor, The Academy of Distinguished Teachers; Three-time speaker at UTA’s commencement Professional Affiliations and Education: Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas; The Society for American Baseball Research; The Association for Theatre in Higher Education; Bachelor of Arts, St. Louis University; Master of Arts, The University of Memphis; Ph.D,,The University of Wisconsin; Associate Professor and Dramaturg at UTA for 29 years

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Dedication or Special Comment: Thanks to Wolfgang Korngold, Michael Curtiz, and Professor Memory from The 39 Steps for the inspiration, and special thanks to Melanie Mason - - the Ariel to my Caliban. NANCY SHERRARD (Sonia Feldman) Work at Circle Theatre: This is Nancy’s first show at Circle. Work at Other Theatres: Second Thought Theatre: Lie of the Mind; WaterTower Theatre: The Receptionist, Doubt, a Parable; Contemporary Theatre of Dallas: The Cemetery Club; Stage West: Code of the Woosters, Major Barbara; Dallas Shakespeare Festival: All’s Well That Ends Well, Love’s Labour’s Lost; Theatre Three: Pygmalion; Uptown Players: Die, Mommie, Die! Work in Television/Film: Midnight Oil Films: Revenge of the Grasshoppers; Lofgren Productions: The X’ed Files (Mother Superior); Manor of Grace Productions: The Prodigal; Ken Bailey Studios: Interlining; A.C.T.S. Network: Galley Proof Awards: Column Award Nominee: Die, Mommie, Die!; Grace Theater, Houston: Best Actress; Outstanding Achievement: Arts Mentoring Program, Houston Professional Affiliations and Education: Equity Membership Candidate; University of Oklahoma; National Theatre of London Dedication or Special Comment: Many thanks to Circle Theatre, Matthew Gray, and cast and crew of Something Intangible; my husband, David; Cody, Cleo & Joel Sherrard.

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Work in Television/Film: Whatta Ya Think?!, Ciao Awards: Multiple Column Awards, 4 DFW Theatre Critics Forum Awards, and 5 Dallas Theatre League Leon Rabin Awards for set design Professional Affiliations and/or Education: Bachelor of Architecture, Syracuse University; Licensed Architect, state of Texas; NCARB; Artistic Associate Kitchen Dog Theater DAVID H. M. LAMBERT (Sound Designer) Work at Circle Theatre: The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Sound Design), Opus (Actor and Sound Design), Incorruptible (Actor and Sound Design), Unnecessary Farce (Actor and Sound Design); Resident Sound Designer since 2006 Work at Other Theatres: Trinity Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing (Sound Design); Dallas Children’s Theater: Honus & Me (Actor and Sound Design); Theatre Three: Democracy (Actor); Pocket Sandwich Theatre: 400 performances as Ebenezer Scrooge (Actor and Sound Design), Run for You Wife (Actor), Caught in the Net (Actor); Theatre Britain: Communicating Doors (Actor); Amphibian Productions: A Buyer’s Market (Actor); Labyrinth Theatre: The Guys (Actor); Second Thought Theatre: Earth and Sky (Actor); Dallas Repertory Theatre: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Actor) Awards/Nominations: Nominated for 2007 Leon Rabin Award: Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Play) - Caught in the Net, Pocket Sandwich Theatre; Nominated for 2003 Leon Rabin Award: Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Play) – Everybody Loves Opal, Pocket Sandwich Theatre; Nominated for 2001 Column Award: Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Play) – The Boys Next Door, Pocket Sandwich Theatre; Received the Live Theatre League of Tarrant County’s 2008 Design and Technical Theatre Award Professional Affiliations and /or Education: Equity Membership Candidate Dedication or Special Comment: Special thanks to my wife, Lesli, who lovingly supports my theatre habit.

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JOHN LEACH (Lighting Designer) Work at Circle Theatre: Resident Lighting Designer since 1990 Work at Other Theatres: Choral performance for Sir John Rutter, Carnegie Hall, NYC 2007; Contemporary Dance Fort Worth: Lighting Designer for various productions and performed in Dialogues in Motion and God and Guns; Hip Pocket Theatre: Technical Director and Lighting Designer (1995 – 1998) and acted in Bowl of Red, The Crimson Pirate, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Attack of the B-Girls; Gracey Tune Productions: Performed in Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt; Ballet Concerto: Technical Director & Lighting Designer (1995 – 1998); Trinity Valley School: set construction and lighting design; John has also done design work in Dallas, New York, California State University at Long Beach and Paris, TX Awards: Column Award: Best Lighting Design for a Drama, The Memory of Water at Circle Theatre, 2001 CATHY O’NEAL (Props Designer) Work at Circle Theatre: A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant, (Stage Manager); Resident props designer at Circle Theatre since 2006

G E N E R A L I N F O R M AT I O N Box Office Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .817.877.3040 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817.877.3536 Website . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.circletheatre.com Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tuesday thru Friday 12:00pm - 5:00pm When a play is in performance, the box office opens one hour before show time and at 1:00pm on Saturday. Online Ticketing is now available at our website.

Work at Other Theatres: Stage Manager for Theatre Arlington, Uptown Players, Kids Who Care; Props design for Theatre Arlington, Uptown Players, Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, Imagination Players, SecondThought Theatre, WaterTower Theatre, Casa Mañana

Performance Schedule and Pricing

Professional Affiliations and Education: Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, University of Texas at Arlington; Communications Coordinator for the Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts in Arlington. Member of Actors’ Equity Association

Friday evening. . . . . . 8:00pm $25-$30

Work at Circle Theatre: Appeared in Wonderful to be Wicked (melodrama series), A Month of Sundays, Eleemosynary, The Golden Shadows Old West Museum, Daughters of the Lone Star State, A Delicate Balance, Fuddy Meers; Resident Dramaturg since 2001

(Musicals are an additional $5 per ticket.)

Awards: Live Theatre League of Tarrant County’s 2009 Life Time Achievement Award, 2004 Arts Advocate Award CHRIS “WAFFLES” WATHEN (Stage Manager) Work at Circle Theatre: This is Chris’ first show at Circle. Work at Other Theatres: Dallas Theater Center:The Beauty Plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sarah Plain and Tall, In the Beginning, The Who’s Tommy, The Misanthrope, 365 Days/365 Plays, Pride and Prejudice, A Christmas Carol (past 3 seasons); Illinois Shakespeare Festival:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), The Comedy of Errors; East Carolina University/Loessin Summer Theatre: Barefoot in the Park Professional Affiliations and Education: Member of Actors’ Equity Association; Bachelor of Science: Theatre Design and Technology, emphasis in Stage Management, Ball State University

Circle Theatre now offers complimentary valet parking on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings! Look for the sign on Throckmorton Street.

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Saturday matinee. . . 3:00pm $20-$25 Saturday evening . . . 8:00pm $25-$30

Professional Affiliations and Education: Member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, Artisan Center Theater Board and The Live Theatre League of Tarrant County Advisory Board; Bachelor of Science, Simmons College; Ed.M, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Ph.D, Texas Woman’s University

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Thursday evening. . . 7:30pm $20-$25

DOROTHY SANDERS (Dramaturg)

Work at Other Theatres: Stage West, Theatre Arlington, Fort Worth Theatre, OnStage, Sage & Silo, Artisan Center Theater, Runway Theatre

Students: $5.00 off all performances. High school & college students may also purchase tickets for half price at half-hour before show time, with valid school ID. (Subject to availability) Seniors (65+): $5.00 off all performances. Groups (10 or more): $5 discount on each regular-priced ticket.

Ticket Policy

ALL TICKET SALES ARE FINAL AND NON-REFUNDABLE. Reservations must be paid in advance. Only one discount may be applied to each ticket. Discounts or special offers may NOT be used for preview or opening night performances. Season-ticket holders will receive a $5 discount when purchasing additional single tickets.

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Individuals like you make a huge impact on the health and welfare of the arts in our community. The Board of Directors and staff of the Arts Council offer our sincere thanks to these generous donors who made a contribution of $150 or more to our 2009 Annual Fund Campaign. The Arts Council is proud to support Circle Theatre! In 2010, Circle Theatre received grants totaling $35,100 from the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County. Since the Arts Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creation in 1963, Circle Theatre has received support totaling more than $213,000.

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COMING NEXT TO CIRCLE!

AUG. 19 - SEPT. 18

OCT. 21 - NOV. 20

Pick up a brochure in our lobby or visit www.circletheatre.com to find out more about these exciting new shows!