Airline Highway
Airline Highway
by Lisa D’Amour
The play takes place over the course of one long day and night—the day of community matriarch Miss Ruby’s “living funeral.” With her passing imminent, the former burlesque queen wants her life celebrated while she can hear it. World Premiere at Steppenwolf Chicago December 2014 directed by Joe Mantello.
Synopsis
In the parking lot of The Hummingbird, a once-glamorous motel on New Orleans’ infamous Airline Highway, a group of friends gather. A rag-tag collection of strippers, hustlers and philosophers have come together to celebrate the life of Miss Ruby, an iconic burlesque performer who has requested a funeral before she dies. The party rages through the night as old friends resurface to pay their respects. A world premiere from the author of Detroit, Airline Highway is a boisterous and moving ode to the outcasts who make life a little more interesting.
Lisa D’Amour
Lisa D’Amour is a playwright, performer, and former Carnival Queen from New Orleans who resides in New York. D’Amour is an alumnus of New Dramatists.D’Amour’s plays have included Hide Town produced by Infernal Bridegroom Productions, Houston (2006), Anna Bella Eema Produced by New Georges, NYC (2003), Blue Theater/Physical Plant, Austin, TX (2001), Ten Thousand Things, Minneapolis. Winner, Best New Play, Austin Critics’ Table (2002), the Obie Award–winning play Nita & Zita Produced by HERE, NYC 2003 and ArtSpot Productions, New Orleans, 2002, The Cataract at the Women’s Project in New York (originally produced by PlayLabs, Minneapolis, MN, 2003 and then in Providence, Rhode Island by Perishable Theatre). Also, Stanley 2006 was to go up at HERE Arts Center in SoHo, NYC but was withdrawn due to an intellectual property dispute involving the character Stanley Kowalski. In August 2008, she collaborated with the printmaker / installation artist SWOON on Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, a fleet of seven intricately handcrafted vessels that navigated the Hudson River in August 2008. Lisa made a performance to be presented by the crew in towns along the Hudson. Detroit, set to première on Broadway in 2011, coming off the production at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, directed by Austin Pendleton. Instead, the play will open the 2012-13 season at Playwrights Horizons.
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| Apr 23, 2015– Jun 14, 2015 | Play, Original |
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, New York, NY
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Cast Chicago Steppenwolf December 4, 2014 — February 8, 2015
- Carolyn Braver
- Kate Buddeke
- Maggie Corbett
- Chris Daley
- Stephen Louis Grush
- Terry Hamilton
- Kate Harris
- Kenn E. Head
- Scott Jaeck
- Will Kinnear
- Toni Martin
- Susan Monts-Bologna
- Caroline Neff
- Joel Reitsma
- Tim Edward Rhoze
- Judith Roberts
- Gary Simmers
- Brenann Stacker
- Elizabeth Stenholt
- Gordon Joseph Weiss
- Jacqueline Williams
- Robert Breuler
- K Todd Freeman
Creative (Chicago)
Author: Lisa D’Amour
Directed by: Joe Mantello
Scenic Design: Scott Pask
Costume Design: David Zinn
Lighting Design: Japhy Weideman
Sound Design: Fitz Patton
Stage Manager: Malcolm Ewen
Assistant Stage Manager: Christine D. Freeburg
Dialect Coach: Eva Breneman
Casting: Erica Daniels
Category: Play
