About the Play
Shoe-obsessed divorcee Hayley played by Annie Henks regales us with hilarious stories as she re-enters the world of dating in this 90-minute (no break) one-woman show. “And then I realize, in this sort of strange, hallucinatory moment, that the bug guy is looking kind of good, and the things he’s saying about bugs are really kind of fascinating and it is then that I realized that maybe it has been too long since I’ve been on a date.”–So confesses a single mother and self-described restaurant idiot-savant in this thoroughly charming and slyly sweet one-woman play by the author of The Butterfly Collection and Spike Heels. This idiosyncratic journey to self-discovery involves the Romanian mob, a Buddhist rainstorm, a teenage daughter, shoes, and a few very bad dates. (Concord Theatrical)
Prices
- Preview Fri & Sat 7:00 pm $26-$48
- Wed thru Sat 7:00 pm $35-$62
- Thu 2:00 pm $35-$62
- Sat & Sun 2:00 pm $40-$68
- Digital on Demand $25
Pay-What-You-Can
- Sat, Apr 17 7:00 pm
- Thu, Apr 29 2:00 pm
- Digital on Demand – Available by calling the Box Office
Virtual Discussions
- Curtain Call Digital on Demand
- Artistic Perspective Digital on Demand
Theresa Rebeck is a playwright, film writer, television writer, and novelist. Her works have been produced on Broadway and Off-Broadway to great acclaim. She has won and been nominated for numerous awards, and her play Omnium Gatherum was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2004.
Her Broadway debut was a production of her play Mauritius, which was originally performed at The Manhattan Theater Club before moving to The Biltmore Theater in 2007. Additional Broadway credits include Seminar which opened on Broadway in 2011, Dead Accounts which premiered
in 2012, and, most recently, Bernhardt/Hamlet, which was on Broadway in 2018 and was nominated for multiple Tony Awards.
In addition to her prolific career in theater, she has also been a writer on multiple television and films shows such as Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and NYPD Blue. She was a creator and producer of the NBC series Smash that followed a team of creatives in New York attempting to produce a new musical. Her first screenplay was Harriet the Spy and she has worked as a writer since on films such as Catwoman, Gossip, and Sunday on the Rocks.
Haley Annie Henk*
[*member Actors' Equity Association]
[**member United Scenic Artists]
[***member Stage Directors and Choreographers Society]
Director Jade King Carroll***
Set Design Anita Stewart**
Costume Design Rodrigo Muñoz
Light Design Scout Hough
Sound Design Charles Coes**
Stage Manager Myles C. Hatch*
- Are you ready for ‘Bad Dates’? Portland Stage hopes so. - by Bob Keyes, Portland Press Herald