Shooting Star

  • by Steven Dietz
  • directed by Mark Fleischer
  • starring Diana Sheehan and James Crawford
  • co-production with WaterTowerTheatre
  • Production Sponsor: Maxwell KBC

“Director Mark Fleischer, currently producing artistic director of Adirondack Theatre Festival…
has crafted a tight, pensive and polished dramedy that highlights some world-class acting from the
two-person cast”. M Lance Lusk, D Magazine

“Shooting Star offers … the opportunity to create an inspired tangibly real airport waiting room set and give
two regional stage luminaries, Diana Sheehan and James Crawford, the chance to work comprehensive
thespian magic in tandem accord.” Alexandra Bonifield, criticalrant.com

Preview July 7
Opening Night July 8
Runs through July 16
Wednesday matinee at 2pm on July 13


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Can young love make a return engagement? 

Reed and Elena were college sweethearts but haven’t seen each other in twenty-five years. He’s grown into a suit-and-tie with Blackberry while she has remained an idealistic hippy. When both are stranded at the same snowed-in airport during the “blizzard of the century”, the conversation crackles and the sparks begin to fly. When morning comes and all flights are cleared for departure – what’s the final destination for these two? Shooting Star is a sweet, touching comedy filled with humor, heartache, secrets and snow.

Running Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes without intermission
Contains mature themes and some adult language

 

 

 

 

Special Events:

July 12 – 15 stay after the show to catch ATF’s Second Act Cabaret starring Gary Adler and Phoebe Kreutz

July 13 at 7:00 pm: Pre-Show Wine Tasting sponsored by UnCorked Glens Falls.

Meet the cast and learn more about the show:

 

 

Hear the song that inspired the title:

Artist Bios

STEVEN DIETZ (playwright) is one of America’s most widely-produced and published contemporary playwrights. Since 1983, his twenty-plus plays have been seen at over one hundred regional theatres in the United States, as well as Off-Broadway. International productions have been seen in England, Japan, Germany, France, Australia, Sweden, Austria, Russia, Slovenia, Argentina, Peru, Singapore and South Africa. His work has been translated into seven languages.

Mr. Dietz is a two-time winner of the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, for FICTION (produced Off-Broadway by the Roundabout Theatre Company), and STILL LIFE WITH IRIS. He received the PEN USA West Award in Drama for LONELY PLANET; the 2007 Edgar Award for Drama from the Mystery Writer’s of America for his widely-produced SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE FINAL ADVENTURE (adapted from William Gillette and Arthur Conan Doyle); and the 1995 Yomuiri Shimbun Award (the Japanese “Tony”) for his adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s novel SILENCE. Other widely produced plays include INVENTING VAN GOGH, GOD’S COUNTRY, PRIVATE EYES, THE NINA VARIATIONS, TRUST, ROCKET MAN, HALCYON DAYS, TEN NOVEMBER, FOOLIN’ AROUND WITH INFINITY and MORE FUN THAN BOWLING. Other award-winning stage adaptations include FORCE OF NATURE (from Goethe), OVER THE MOON (from P.G. Wodehouse), THE REMEMBERER (from Joyce Simmons Cheeka), PARAGON SPRINGS (from Ibsen), DRACULA (from Bram Stoker), and, with Allison Gregory, GO, DOG. GO! (from P.D. Eastman).

Diana Sheehan is making her ATF debut with Shooting Star. She has appeared on WaterTower Theatre’s stage in Grey Gardens and Black Pearl Sings! For the dual roles of Edith and Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens, she received the 2009 Dallas-Fort Worth Critics Forum Award and the 2009 Column Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Her Dallas-area debut in Irving Berlin’s As Thousands Cheer at Lyric Stage also received the Dallas-Fort Worth Critics Forum Award for Best Ensemble. Diana recently stood by for Betty Buckley and Tovah Feldshuh in the Dallas Theater Center’s production of Arsenic and Old Lace. She starred in the off-Broadway hit, Forbidden Broadway, in New York, Boston, and on National Tour. Regional credits include: Casa Mañana, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, 42nd Street Moon Productions, American Stage Shakespeare in the Park, North Shore Music Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Forum Theatre, and The Jewish Theatre of New England. She has performed her cabaret shows at New York’s Triad, San Francisco’s Plush Room and Boston’s Club Cafe. Diana is a graduate of Smith College and the British American Drama Academy. You can visit Diana online at dianasheehan.com.

James Crawford is making his ATF debut with Shooting Star. At WaterTower Theatre he has appeared in Holiday Memories and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, for which he received a Dallas/Fort Worth Critics Forum Award, a Leon Rabin Award, and was named Best Actor by D Magazine, the Dallas Voice and the Dallas Observer. James has acted in many productions at Dallas Theater Center, including Arsenic and Old Lace, Pride & Prejudice, Joe Egg, The Real Thing, Twelfth Night, The Importance of Being Earnest, Our Town, The Night of the Iguana, A Christmas Carol, and Inexpressible Island. In addition, James has performed at the Trinity Shakespeare Festival (Much Ado about Nothing, Hamlet), Kitchen Dog Theatre (Sick), Contemporary Theatre of Dallas (Shadowlands), Theatre Three (Stones in his Pockets, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, As Bees in Honey Drown), Stage West (Angels in America, Man of the Moment), Echo Theatre (Cloud Nine, Off the Map) and Theatre Britain (Betrayal). James has appeared off Broadway and at theatres across the country. A graduate of Brown University, James received his M.F.A. from the University of California at San Diego. James currently teaches acting in the Division of Theatre at the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU.

Production Photos by Mark Oristano.