Dallas Theater Center announced today complete details for the mind-bending love story, “Constellations.” Directed by Wendy Dann, “Constellations” will begin with a Pay-What-You-Can performance on Wednesday, Aug. 24th and will run through Sunday, Oct. 9th. in the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre Studio Theatre. Press Night will be Sunday, Sept. 4th at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to “Constellations” are on sale now at www.DallasTheaterCenter.org and by phone at (214) 880-0202.
“I am thrilled to launch our new season with ‘Constellations,'” said DTC Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty. “Constellations explores deep questions about love, time, our infinite universe and how each choice we make in our daily lives, both large and small, sets off a chain reaction of events that ultimately determines our personal destiny. I’m immensely happy to welcome my dear friend and colleague, Wendy Dann, back to Dallas Theater Center to direct this beautiful, thoughtful and emotionally resonant play.”
Written by Nick Payne, “Constellations” introduces audiences to a theoretical physicist and a beekeeper whose spellbinding, romantic journey breaks the boundaries of the space-time continuum. Selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 best plays of 2015, Constellations will have the audience swimming in a sea of infinite possibilities with this wildly entertaining, gripping drama that confronts the difference between choice and destiny.
“‘Constellations’ shows us two perspectives on time: the vast and the intimate, the universe and the hive, the cosmos and the bee,” explained Dann. “In ‘Constellations,’ these two perspectives and people collide, fall in love, divide, reunite, and marry in multiple universes. The smallest choice they make changes the outcome of the next minute, the next hour, and the rest of their relationship. If every encounter has millions of potential outcomes, this play asks: is there one outcome that is inevitable? One outcome we all share? And how do we use the time we have together before the inevitable happens?”
Starring in the two-person play is Diane and Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company member Alex Organ (“Dreamgirls,” “All the Way,” “Sense and Sensibility”) and Dallas-native Allison Pistorius (“Sense and Sensibility,” “Clybourne Park”).
Set in the round within the Studio Theatre, “Constellations” will come to life with set and lighting designer Steve TenEyck making his DTC debut alongside costume designer Melissa Panzarello and sound designer Ryan Rumery. Anne Schilling (“Sense and Sensibility,” “Stagger Lee,” “Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure”) returns to DTC as the dialect coach along with Laurel Whitsett (“Clybourne Park”) as the British Sign Language consultant.
DTC’s Come Early sponsored by Wells Fargo will take place one hour before every performance and will be led by Organ. DTC’s Stay Late will take place after each performance and will be led by Pistorius.
