a love affair
“Witty sexual innuendos abound as the business of aging is handled with great humor and understanding! Emotionally gripping… Be sure to order your tickets in advance!” Shari Barrett, Broadway World. Read the full review here!
Drama-Logue Award Winning Play:
Outstanding Director & Outstanding Playwright
From the internationally acclaimed team that brought you
Almost Perfect, Aspirin & ELEPHANTS, 2 Across and How To Love A Republican
Almost Perfect, Aspirin & ELEPHANTS, 2 Across and How To Love A Republican
“The name Jerry Mayer has become synonymous with comedy – and with good cause… A brilliant – and very funny – portrait of real life… Jerry Mayer keeps the laughs flowing…Director Chris DeCarlo has a knack for keeping the pace fast and funny…Eric Jon’s set, lights, and video design are a joy to behold. The audience is lucky indeed to have the opportunity to join in the Jerry-Mayer-A-Thon. Clearly, the cast and crew of the Playhouse have a very special knack and light touch which is just right for Mayer’s hilarious look at life and love.” splashmag.com. Read the full review here!
A hilarious and just-a-touch-racy comedy A Love Affair takes you on the roller-coaster-ride of a 38-year (and counting) marriage, from the romantic naiveté of a 1950's honeymoon, to the lovingly annoying daily life in the Coming-of-New Age '90's.
The successes, the disappointments, the sex, the traumas, the traumas about sex and the budget and the children and the adventure of casting your lot with another human being...for life. Discounts for students, teachers, seniors, members of the military and couples married over 38 years (bring marriage license.)
The successes, the disappointments, the sex, the traumas, the traumas about sex and the budget and the children and the adventure of casting your lot with another human being...for life. Discounts for students, teachers, seniors, members of the military and couples married over 38 years (bring marriage license.)
“Jerry Mayer has gone and done it again (as those of you who saw Almost Perfect and Aspirin & ELEPHANTS would expect). Absolutely side-splitting humor. The audience was roaring throughout, and so was I. Jerry Mayer is surely one of the funniest writers alive, and he is in his best form here. The sexual innuendos are witty, the business of aging is handled with great humor and understanding, and the human condition is explored with a fresh eye. This is a marvelous evening in the theater – you can’t do better!” The Good Life
“Mayer, an old hand at turning a comic phrase, keeps the humor constant, but he has been careful not to sacrifice humanity for hilarity.” LA Magazine
“Warm of heart, quick of wit and especially enjoyable!” Daily Variety
“Full of laughter and tears. A Love Affair is just that – the story of a marriage with its many peaks and valleys, a subtle statement about the difference between the sexes and the common ground that makes it possible for them to live together in comparative harmony.“ Culver City News
“Another hit! Chris DeCarlo’s direction of this funny comedy is impeccable,
adding another success to his long list of credits.” The Enterprise
“Steeped in the stuff that makes the world go round and spiced with the laughter that keeps it whirling, it’s a memory play with an ardent present and a promising future that speaks to the youth in us as loudly as it does to the well-over-thirtysomething in the rest of us. Expect some afterthoughts, some forethoughts, some insights, some ah-hahs, some tears, but mostly a lot of laughter when the past meets the future in the present in an affair you’ll remember.” Theatre News
featuring:
Andrea Adnoff (Sunday on the Rocks, Pasadena Playhouse; The Lucky 6; Legend of Woodview Road)
Jacob Cooper (We Are Marshall – Warner Bros; Clybourne Park; La Bete)
Chris DeCarlo (Author! Author! an evening with Sholom Aleichem, Molière's The Fools, Aspirin & ELEPHANTS)
Rachel Galper (Turning Thirty, A DeLUSIONAL Affair, How to Love a Republican)
Evelyn Rudie (Raise Me Up; Climax; Audition: the Musical)
Jacob Cooper (We Are Marshall – Warner Bros; Clybourne Park; La Bete)
Chris DeCarlo (Author! Author! an evening with Sholom Aleichem, Molière's The Fools, Aspirin & ELEPHANTS)
Rachel Galper (Turning Thirty, A DeLUSIONAL Affair, How to Love a Republican)
Evelyn Rudie (Raise Me Up; Climax; Audition: the Musical)
Playwright Jerry Mayer has had an impressive career in television, writing and producing such prized shows as M*A*S*H, The Bob Newhart Show, All in the Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Facts of Life and five Mitzi Gaynor's TV Specials, plus her famous Las Vegas Act. Mayer thoroughly enjoyed his TV career, but has happily discovered that by far his first love is writing for the theatre. Five of his plays can be found in the Samuel French catalogue. Jerry Mayer's award winning plays and musicals have appeared successfully in New York city three times (Off Broadway) and in hundreds of theatres all over the US and Canada, as well as in Europe. Most of Mayer's plays deal with the "ups, downs and sideways" of male/female relationships, for which he humbly thanks the guidance of his lovely muse/wife (for lots of years), Emily Bettman Mayer.
Veteran director Chris DeCarlo has been acting, writing and directing in Los Angeles for more than 40 years, bringing to the stage over 250 World Premieres and American Premieres, including the critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground, Hard Laughs starring Sammy Shore and Ron Palillo, Michel Garneau's Quatre á Quatre, Stephen King and Robert B. Parker's RAGE, four of Jerry Mayer's comedies, Annie Reiner's Mirage à Trois, Brenda Krantz's Lovely!, starring Louise Sorrell, the Ovation-nominated Picon Pie, Todd Susman's Locked and Loaded, the long-running Wyse-Rae-Waldman hit musical Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother. Among his LA TIMES Critics' Pick productions are Doug Knott's Last of the Knotts, the Silver Anniversary production of Jerry Mayer's Aspirin & ELEPHANTS, the Sroka/Fleming comedy Dying for Laughs starring Stuart Pankin, and Charlie Lustman's pop operetta Made Me Nuclear. Recent credits: Santa Monica Playhouse's critically acclaimed productions of Arnold Schulman's Sleeping Ugly, Moliere's The Fools , and Lisa Phillips Visca's Raise Me Up , Turning Thirty, and Climax.
Veteran director Chris DeCarlo has been acting, writing and directing in Los Angeles for more than 40 years, bringing to the stage over 250 World Premieres and American Premieres, including the critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground, Hard Laughs starring Sammy Shore and Ron Palillo, Michel Garneau's Quatre á Quatre, Stephen King and Robert B. Parker's RAGE, four of Jerry Mayer's comedies, Annie Reiner's Mirage à Trois, Brenda Krantz's Lovely!, starring Louise Sorrell, the Ovation-nominated Picon Pie, Todd Susman's Locked and Loaded, the long-running Wyse-Rae-Waldman hit musical Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother. Among his LA TIMES Critics' Pick productions are Doug Knott's Last of the Knotts, the Silver Anniversary production of Jerry Mayer's Aspirin & ELEPHANTS, the Sroka/Fleming comedy Dying for Laughs starring Stuart Pankin, and Charlie Lustman's pop operetta Made Me Nuclear. Recent credits: Santa Monica Playhouse's critically acclaimed productions of Arnold Schulman's Sleeping Ugly, Moliere's The Fools , and Lisa Phillips Visca's Raise Me Up , Turning Thirty, and Climax.
Written by Jerry Mayer • Directed by Chris DeCarlo • Costume Design by Ashley Hayes • Sound Design by The Attic Room
Lighting & Set Design by James Cooper • Technical Director George J Vennes III • Projections and Special Effects by Fritz Davis
Lighting & Set Design by James Cooper • Technical Director George J Vennes III • Projections and Special Effects by Fritz Davis
*Member Actors’ Equity Association
September 23 to November 19, 2017
Extended through April 2018!
Saturdays 7:30 PM • Sundays 3:30 PM
Extended through April 2018!
Saturdays 7:30 PM • Sundays 3:30 PM
General Admission: $35
Discounts available for Students, Teachers, Seniors, & Members of the Military • Great group rates available for 8 or more - call us today!
Discounts available for Students, Teachers, Seniors, & Members of the Military • Great group rates available for 8 or more - call us today!
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