Very nice words before our closing 3 performances...

We're delighted WBUR's ARTery enjoyed the show:

"This year’s T-plays show the magical moments on the train as well as the dark and scary corners of the MBTA. See them before this train pulls out of the station for another year."

We agree!  only 3 more shows, this Thursday, Friday and Saturday!

After the first full week...

A whole new line up has emerged.  The Silver Line now leads the pack with the Green Line following.  The Blue Line is next followed by the 47 bus.  Not too far behind (and easily within striking distance) are the Red Line followed by the Orange.  This is how things will stay until we resume performances on Thursday.  Three more chances to vote for your favorites.

This is the closest one yet

After 4 shows we have a three way tie for the most votes for the audience favorite.  The Blue Line, the Silver and the Green.  Right behind them is a two way tie with the 47 bus and the Red Line.  One vote behind them is the Orange.  The matinee crowd will get their say tomorrow at 3PM.

After 3 shows...

The Blue Line remains in front with the Silver Line very close behind.  The Green, Orange and Red Lines are now all tied.  (As opposed to tied up as they usually are).  And the 47 bus is one vote behind that grouping.  The weekend crowds will definitely need to come out to support their favorites.

Vote Tallies

After the second performance several plays surged ahead in the voting.  Currently the Blue Line is still in the lead.  It is followed very closely by Green and Silver.  The 47 bus, the Red Line and the Orange round out the pack.  6 more shows.  Still plenty of time for any one of them to jump to the top.

More Photos After Our Opening Performance

The Retriever Written by Patrick Gabridge  on the #47 Bus – Wild Card

Stephanie Yackovetsky and Bob Mussett, Photo by Meg Taintor

What Does A Princess Have To Do Get Some Enchantment Around Here? 

Written by R. D. Murphy on the Orange Line

Mal Malme and Forrest Walter, Photo by Meg Taintor

All the Way to Wonderland Written by Lisa Burdick on the Blue Line

 Jacob Athyal and Lonnie McAdoo, Photo by Meg Taintor

T Plays V: Last Call - Early Photos As We Open

As we open tonight for our pay what you can show (minimum $5!) we wanted to share just a few photos that the lovely Meg Taintor took of our dress rehearsal last night!

SL1 12:32am Written by K. Alexa Mavromatis on the Silver Line, Greer Rooney and Kevin LaVelle

 The Duck’s Autoreply Written by Emily Kaye Lazzaro on the  Green Line with Jillian P. Couillard and Irene Daly

 Last Train Written by Rick Park on the Red Line with Jason Myatt and Janelle Mills

T Plays V are officially MATCHED!!

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Huzzah!

Silver line

Playwright: Alexa Mavromatis

Director: Barlow Adamson

Actors: Greer Rooney and Kevin LaVelle

Orange Line
Playwright: Bob Murphy
Director: Kathy Maloney
Actors Kelley Estes, Mal Malme, Forrest Walter,

Blue Line
Playwright: Lisa Burdick
Director: Matt Chapuran
Actors:  Jake Athyal and Lonnie McAdoo

Writers Choice of Bus Line (except ones we’ve done before)
Playwright: Pat Gabridge
Director: Kim Myatt
Actors: Bob Mussett, Stephanie Yackovetsky 

Red Line
Playwright: Rick Park
Director: Mikey DiLoreto
Actors: Janelle Mills, Jason Myatt

Green Line
Playwright: Emily Kaye Lazzaro
Director: Lindsay Eagle
Actors: Irene Daly and Jillian P. Couillard

Match Ups for T Plays V are tonight!

We're BACK!  Tonight all of our actors, directors and writers meet at Doyle's in Jamaica Plain to be matched up with their MBTA line!  We'll keep you posted on the different teams.  Show opens next Wednesday, tickets can be purchased here ! #TPlays5

Congrats to Pat, Rick and John

Three of The T Plays 2010 have been selected to be part of The Boston Theater Marathon this May.  Pat Gabridge's Escape to Wonderland (Blue Line); Rick Park's Birdbaths, Twilight and Other Sundry Topics (Red Line); and John J King's M. Riverside (Green Line) will all be part of the 50 plays performed on May 21, 2011.  We are pleased as punch that this is the case.  And it continues a fine tradition.  Three T Plays from our first round of plays made the Marathon two years ago.  It's nice that these plays get a second chance to be seen in Boston. 

We're in Today's Metro!

An interview with the terrific Rick Park, who wrote on the Red Line for us!

Metro - Whose Red Line is it anyway?

Photo: NICOLAUS CZARNECKI/METRO

And the envelope please....

And the 2008 T Plays Audience Favorite goes to....

PLEASE REPORT ANY SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY

Blue Line Week 1

Written by Rick Park

Directed by Meg Taintor

with Tony Dangerfield as Drik; Rafael Marinho as Antonio and George Saulnier as Reading Man

Congrats to the winners and to all the artists who made the past three weeks a big success.

T Plays Are Almost Sold Out!

Saturday night's performance that is, there are tickets left for tonight - we'd hate to turn anyone away, so if you can make it to tonight's (Friday) performance we'd love to see you!

Scenes from Week Two

As noted below week one had gay dolphins...what does week two offer? Here's a sneak peek of some of the shows this week. And again thanks to Meg Taintor for the photos.

Pictured are Faith Imafidon and Giselle Ty in 6AM: Violin/Viola written by Matt Chapuran and directed by Barlow Adamson. And Forrest Walter and Bonnie Duncan in The Quiet Desperation of White People written by Ken Urban and directed by Antoine A. Gagnon. Hope to see you this week.

Early Results are in...

and as the late Tim Russert demonstrated we live in a blue state. Last week's Blue Line Play - Please Report Any Suspicious Activity was hands down the audience favorite. It received almost twice as many votes as the other plays. And looking ahead to this current week it would be mathematically impossible for five plays to do better than it. And so it is safe to declare (even though the polls for this week have yet to open) that Please Report... - the play about two gay dolphins having a fight on the blue line (or if you ask George the play about a man whose reading is interrupted by two gay dolphins) will be a part of the audience favorite week Oct 2-4. Congrats to writer Rick Park, director Meg Taintor and actors Tony Dangerfield, Rafael Marinho and George Saulnier. The other four plays from last week are still in contention and we will wait until voting for this week has concluded on Sunday before posting the full breakdown.

Final Night of Week 1 - the Inbound Run!

Cannot believe our first week is over and that our second week writers are currently finishing their scripts for week 2! We'll have info on just who got matched up with who (whom? ah, that's why I'm not a writer) very soon. In the meantime, we wanted to leave you with photos from 2 more "Inbound Run" plays. Both photos taken by the lovely Ms. Meg Taintor:

from: "Please Report Any Suspicious Activity" written by Rick Park on the Blue Line. Directed by Meg Taintor, with (from left to right) Tony Dangerfield, George Saulnier III and Rafael Marinho.

"Jaggedly Edged" written by Carl Danielson on the Silver Line. Directed by Jeremy Johnson with (from left to right) Brashani Reece and Irene Daly.

The Train has left the Station

So the T Plays opened this evening. It was probably one of the smoothest openings in Mill 6 history. Perhaps we need to do these intense thematic festivals more often. All five plays were performed well and warmly received. And remember only 3 more days to catch this line up. Here is another photo taken by the talented Meg Taintor. What's in the box you ask? Well see the T Plays and find out. In the photo are Rodney Raftery and George Saulnier in Lost in Transit written by Forrest Walter on the Green Line.

T Plays in the Press!

It turns out the Papers have found "The T Plays" a pretty interesting concept as well. For Bay Windows, writer Brian Jewell accompanied Playwright Ginger Lazarus (Thanks Ginger!) for her trek on the Orange Line.

Jenna Scherer wrote a nice feature on us for the Boston Herald - always appreciated!

Photo is of Ginger Lazarus on the Orange Line and is courtesy of Bay Windows.

T Plays "Inbound Run" Opens Tonight!!

We depart the station tonight at 8pm (it's interesting to think how many subway-related terms you can plug into one post, and probably annoying for the reader) and we couldn't be happier. We have five terrific shows and even though they're all set on the T, they're all wonderfully different.

Here's a photo from our Orange Line show by Ginger Lazarus called "La Vie en Orange" taken by the lovely Meg Taintor. Meg is directing "Please Report Any Suspicious Activity", is Artistic Director for Whistler in the Dark Theatre Company and an EXcellent photographer.

Enjoy!

And thank you for riding the T Plays.

(couldn't resist)

All Aboard!

So as I type this, our playwrights have scattered across the city and will soon be boarding their respective T lines. Tonight we will begin rehearsing Week 1 of the T Plays. Here is how the match ups went last evening.

The Red Line Play
Writer: William Donnelly
Director: Antoine A. Gagnon
Cast: Greer Rooney and Andrew Winson

The Orange Line Play
Writer: Ginger Lazarus
Director: Barlow Adamson
Cast: Mike Bash and Julia Specht

The Green Line Play
Writer: Forrest Walter
Director: Nora Long
Cast: Rodney Raftery and George Saulnier

The Blue Line Play
Writer: Rick Park
Director: Meg Taintor
Cast: Tony Dangerfield and Rafael Marinho

The Silver Line Play
Writer: Carl Danielson
Director: Jeremy Johnson
Cast: Irene Daly and Brashani Reece