Two theater companies in Washington, DC are making big changes in the way they raise and budget funds for their new play initiatives. 

In this article by The Washington Post, Theater J and Woolly Mammoth Theater Company outline their plan to buck the current industry standard: a panic-inducing production schedule, and budget for a more artist-friendly method.

What it all boils down to is the simplest of simple facts:

“Look, we’re an underfunded field,” Woolly Mammoth artistic director Howard Shalwitz says of the labor-intensive theater business. “That’s just a given, and it’s not going to change any time soon.”

What’s more, the two companies have set out to change how they produce. Sick of the assembly line strategy used by many small and mid-size companies, Theater J and Woolly Mammoth have rolled out programs designed to buy their artists some time and foster real relationships with them. 

Read more at washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance

The buzz train (Is that even a thing? It is now.) has left the station, kids!

BroadwayWorld.com has posted a delicious piece on our summer show, Alligator Summer (See what we did there? Summer show. Alligator Summer. CLEVER).

Take a gander at the full write-up here. Buy your tickets for Alligator Summer here. Donate a dollar or ten here. Watch a cute kitten nibbling on a watermelon here.

Summer is almost here and we are so excited to announce our sweet plan to bring a little of the South to the big city.

We presented it as a staged reading during our 2013 Winter Reading Lab and now we are thrilled to announce: 

Alligator Summer will be live in the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre (Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex) June 20 – July 7!

Written by Dylan Lamb, the dark-dark-darkly comic memory play centers on young Antietam Julep, a closeted prepubescent coming of age during the reptilian rapture in 1940s Louisiana. Sequestered with his family and the neighbors who have outstayed their welcome, Antietam discovers that the real blood-thirsty beasts are not the ones that lurk below. With wit, gore, sentiment, idiocy, archetypes, accents, and Gators, Alligator Summer is the guiltiest of pleasures for the refined sadist in all of us.

We will have more exciting information to share with you in the coming month, so keep an eye out! Find us on Twitter or Facebook or keep up with the goings-on here at squeakybicycleproductions.com!

Can’t wait to see you at the show!