GALILEO | CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY
EXTENDED! NOW FEBRUARY 1 - MARCH 18, 2012

"In the year sixteen hundred and nine,
science's light began to shine;
Galileo Galilei set out to prove,
the sun is still, the earth is on the move."

So begins Bertolt Brecht's masterful depiction of how the simplest of truths can topple the most powerful of regimes. Starring F. Murray Abraham. With Jon DeVries, Robert Dorfman, Aaron Himelstein, Andy Phelan, Amanda Quaid, Steven Rattazzi, Steven Skybell, Nick Westrate. Directed by Brian Kulick. For tickets and more information, visit CSC.

 

SPARC: ARTIST RESIDENCY | NYC DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS JANUARY - JULY 2012
Amanda was selected by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs to be an artist-in-residence with SPARC: Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide.

Amanda will be in residence at the Hudson Guild, a Manhattan senior center, leading weekly workshops in Shakespeare. The seniors will read Shakespeare's plays and poetry, learn about verse structure and the tools classical actors use to bring the language to life. Amanda will arrange guest speakers from various theatrical disciplines and will organize outings to classical plays around town. The program culminates in a public presentation by the seniors of scenes, monologues, and sonnets.

 

HAPPY HOUR | ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY
PERFORMANCES NOVEMBER 16, 2011 - JANUARY 1, 2012
Three world premiere one-act plays by Ethan Coen. An embittered barfly has a theory—or two—about what the world has become. A lonely young man and lonely young woman can’t see how right they are for each other. His motel room is so ugly a business traveler wants to end it all. Your life could be worse—and in “Happy Hour,” three one-act comedies show you how.

“Sharply acted dark comedies. Misanthropes have made for lively theater since before Moliere, and Coen has made a career of putting them to good use. His characters jump to life from their very first words.”
- Entertainment Weekly

With Cassie Beck, Aya Cash, Clark Gregg, Susan Hyon, Rock Kohli, Gordon MacDonald, Amanda Quaid, Ana Reeder, Joey Slotnick and Lenny Venito. Directed by Neil Pepe. At the Peter Norton Space, 555 West 42nd St. For tickets and more information, visit Atlantic.

 

THE ILLUSION | SIGNATURE THEATRE
PERFORMANCES MAY 17 - JULY 17
A lawyer, facing mortality, desperate to find the son he drove away years before, travels in the dead of night to a mysterious cave. There he engages the services of a wizard, who conjures up visions of the romantic, adventurous, perilous life the lawyer's son has been living since his father expelled him from home. The Illusion, freely adapted from Pierre Corneille's L'Illusion Comique, is Tony Kushner's most joyfully theatrical play, a wildly entertaining tale of passion and regret, of love, disillusionment and magic.

"The stage is wreathed in wonders for the Signature Theater Company’s stately production of The Illusion, the final offering in its season devoted to the works of Tony Kushner. Adapted by Mr. Kushner from L’Illusion Comique, a mongrel oddity of a work from the 17th-century French playwright Pierre Corneille, this Illusion trafficks in a special, baroque brand of magic in which flowers bloom out of nowhere, a half-buried piano plays itself, and spectral circles of seemingly airborne lanterns glow wanly, with the threat of sudden darkness always lurking. Yet these elaborate visual flourishes are hardly the most ornate elements . . . the most lavish and picturesque special effects are what come out of the mouths of the people onstage." - The New York Times

Cast: Peter Bartlett, Sean Dugan, David Margulies, Amanda Quaid, Lois Smith, Henry Stram, Merritt Wever, Finn Wittrock. Directed by Michael Mayer.

View photos and more multimedia from the production.


HB STUDIO SUMMER SEMINAR SERIES
The Hagen Institute presents a series of public seminars
Working Artists talk about Career and Craft
Monday, July 11 @ 7:30pm | HB Playwrights Theatre | 124 Bank Street

Amanda Quaid: Journey of a Working Actress
moderated by Carol Goodheart

Suggested Donation $10. Reservations: please call 212-675-2370 ext. 1

THE WITCH OF EDMONTON | RED BULL THEATER
PERFORMANCES JANUARY 25 - FEBRUARY 20
Critics praised Red Bull's production of this fantastic tragicomedy, directed by Jesse Berger. In a new adaptation of the original Jacobean play by Thomas Dekker, John Ford and William Rowley, this rarely-performed classic explores the nature of evil and the power of community (for both good and evil) in a small town outside of London.

"Insightful ... a singular blend of psychological realism, naturalistic detail and lurid, black-magic-shadowed sensationalism. Magnetic. Perfectly entertaining."
- The New York Times

Cast: Craig Baldwin, Justin Blanchard, Adam Green, Christopher Innvar, Christopher McCann, Carman Lacivita, Christina Pumariega, Amanda Quaid, Everett Quinton, Andre de Shields, Miriam Silverman, Derek Smith, Raphael Nash Thompson, Sam Tsoutsouvas and Charlayne Woodard. Directed by Jesse Berger.

Visit BroadwayWorld for photo coverage of the Opening Night Party and curtain call

BANISHED CHILDREN OF EVE | IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE
OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2010
Amanda played Irish immigrant Margaret O'Driscoll in the world premiere adaptation of Peter Quinn's bestselling novel. Commissioned by the Irish Repertory Theatre, the play centers on a diverse array of New Yorkers, including minstrel performers and Tammany Hall bosses, through a few days in the summer of 1863 when the Civil War had just entered its third bloody year.

"During a single summer evening, we see songwriter Stephen Foster holing up in a Bowery bar, while an Irish actor in blackface performs scenes from Uncle Tom's Cabin alongside his biracial paramour. An Irish maid (a pitch-perfect Amanda Quaid) goes on a date, while a freed slave sells fish at the Fulton market."
- The Village Voice

Cast: Malcolm Gets, David Lansbury, Christopher Borger, Rory Duffy, Amber Gray, Patrice Johnson, Graeme Malcolm, Kern McFadden, Jonny Orsini, and Amanda Quaid. Directed by Ciaran O'Reilly.

NOVEMBER 8 & 15
LESTER AND DOYLE LLP READING at the CANAL PARK PLAYHOUSE, 7pm
A new play by Joe Roland, LESTER AND DOYLE LLP explores sexual politics in the workplace, corruption, and how far our principles will bend before they break our hearts. (But in a funny way.) With Bill Buell, Bill Christ, Richard Gallagher, Devin Horne, JR Horne, Sherman Howard, Alexandra Kern, Sheryl Moller, Lucas Caleb Rooney, and Amanda Quaid.


MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION | SHAKESPEARE THEATRE
JUNE - JULY 2010
Amanda starred as Vivie Warren opposite Tony Award winner Elizabeth Ashley in George Bernard Shaw's famous play about a daughter who discovers the secret of her privileged upbringing. Cast also included Ted Van Griethuysen as Mr. Praed, Andrew Boyer as Sir George Crofts, Tony Roach as Frank Gardner, David Sabin as Rev. S Gardner and Caitlin Diana Doyle as Ghost of Kitty Vavasour. Keith Baxter directed. June 8-July 11 at the Sidney Harmon, Washington DC.

"In Amanda Quaid’s exquisitely controlled reading, Vivie’s disgust at the hypocrisy embedded in the whole enterprise seems both morally right and off-puttingly puritanical ... Baxter and Quaid, more sensitive to individual character than the old polemicist ever was, leave us with a soberer, more strained picture, a Vivie sitting rigid and grim at her desk, attacking her work with the fierceness of someone determined to drive doubt and despair away. She’s not wrong, this Vivie, but she’s not 100 percent happy, either—and that makes for as poignant an assessment of Mrs. Warren's Profession as I can remember." -Washington City Paper

"It's Quaid who is the revelation here. Shaw described Vivie as happy at play's end, unconflicted about having broken with her mother on principle. But in offering a wearier, more resigned interpretation, Baxter and Quaid have done Shaw one better: They've made their Vivie a truly independent woman by allowing her to be a human being." - The Examiner

Read more reviews for Amanda's performance as Vivie Warren opposite Elizabeth Ashley in Mrs. Warren's Profession.