PUTNEY — Melissa James Gibson's “What Rhymes with America,” presented by Next Stage Arts Project and The Apron Theater Company and directed by Hallie Flower, will be performed on July 21, 22, 23 and 28, 29, 30 at 7:30 p.m., with a 2 p.m. matinee on July 24.
The play features a cast of seasoned Apron performers: Mark Bateman, Katrina Spenceman, Julia Tadlock, and Kenzie Klem.
A father and his teenage daughter stand on either side of a closed door. Life is unraveling for him, and it is entirely uncertain for her. So begins Gibson's poignant, funny play about estrangement and the partially examined life, according to a news release.
According to The New York Times, “this touching, sorrowful comedy [is] ... full of compassionate wonder at the innumerable ways in which lives can go wrong.”
New York magazine says Gibson “writes fluidly and beautifully for that Impatient Age, slowing down our emotional metabolism for deeper scrutiny while speeding proficiently through her scenes, each a sketchlike contrivance, but none of them sketchy.”
The Apron Theater Company was founded by Karla Baldwin and Hallie Flower and is Next Stage Arts Project's theater-company-in-residence. The Company has wowed audiences with outstanding casts, direction, sets, and technical production values.