Horse Trade Theater Group Presents
A Tobacco Bar Theatre Company Production of
Golden Age
A Play by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

"Clever and Engaging!"

"Mr. Aguirre-Sacasa is in control of this fantasy the whole time, eventually bending his tale around so that it all makesperfect sense."

"[Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa] has found the perfect co-conspirators for his eccentric vision in the actors of the Tobacco Bar Theatre Company, who have the casual verve and comic timing the script needs."

Neil Genzlinger
The New York Times

Full Review

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
March 30 through April 22

(Saturday, April 23 at 2:30)
TIME: 7:30 PM

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Tickets:
Adults $15
Students and Seniors $10

Horse Trade presents the New York Premiere of a new play by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, fresh from his Off Broadway hit The Mystery Plays at Second Stage Theater. Directed by Claire Lundberg (Off-Bway’s Getting Into Heaven), GOLDEN AGE is a comic book fantasia that journeys through time and space, chronicling the life and times of freckled, red-headed, everyman Buddy Baxter - His rise from high school heartthrob to college misfit to struggling New York writer.
With a cast including Cameron Cash, Michael Chernus*, Sarah Elliott*, Greg Felden*, Christopher J. Hanke*, Peter Katona*, Christopher Kromer*, Tami Mansfield*, and Chuck Wagner*, GOLDEN AGE has tons o' locker room hi-jinx, hot boy-on-boy kissing, teenage thrill-killing, dances at the gym, and four- color romance along the way.
GOLDEN AGE also showcases the work of set designer Wilson Chin, costume design by Melissa Levin, lighting design by Matt Richards and sound design by Daniel Baker.

What critics have said about GOLDEN AGE:
"… the most imaginative play of the season... "
---Jim Farmer, SOUTHERN VOICE
"An exhilarating...dispatch from a brainy Yale punk straddling underground stardom with mainstream discovery..."
---Wendell Brock, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA (playwright)
Born in Washington, DC, and raised in both the United States and Nicaragua, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is a 2003 graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where his Shakespearean romance Rough Magic, which transplants characters from The Tempest to present-day Manhattan, was produced—before being further developed at New York Theatre Workshop.
While at Yale, he received the Eugene O’Neill Scholarship and the ASCAP Cole Porter Award—both for excellence in playwriting. Also while a student, Roberto spent his summers working with New Haven’s Dwight-Edgewood Project, a youth mentoring and teaching program modeled on New York City’s 52nd Street Project.
In 2002, his play The Mystery Plays received the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. Subsequently, in February of 2004, The Mystery Plays was presented in England as part of the Old Vic/New Voices series before receiving its world premiere in a co-production between 2econd Stage Theatre and Yale Repertory Theatre (winning the Connecticut Critics’ Award for Outstanding Play/Production).
His folkloric thriller The Muckle Man was included in the Public Theatre’s 2002 NEW WORK NOW! festival and then received a two-week workshop at the Manhattan Theatre Club (funding provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation). In August of 2001, the Source Theatre in Washington, DC, presented an earlier version of The Muckle Man, earning two Helen Hayes Award nominations: The Charles MacArthur Award for Best New Play and Best Actress in a Play, winning the latter.
Down in Atlanta, Dad’s Garage Theatre has premiered two of Roberto’s plays: the occult romantic comedy Say You Love Satan (in September 2001) and the comic book fantasia Archie’s Weird Fantasy (in April 2003), which was subsequently re-worked, re-titled to Golden Age, and included in the Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre’s 2003 Exposure Festival in New York City. (In October of 2004, Dad’s Garage will present an evening of Roberto’s short plays: The Weird.)
Say You Love Satan was a runaway hit at the 2003 International Fringe Festival in New York City, where it received a 2003 Excellence in Playwriting Award from Fringe judges, and has since been produced at Berkeley’s Impact Theatre (February of 2004) and Boston’s Zeitgeist Stage (August of 2004).
His play about the mysteries of deep space and alien abduction, Dark Matters, was developed at the 2003 O’Neill Playwrights Conference in Waterford, Connecticut, and presented as a staged reading. It was further workshopped at the Dallas Theatre Center in November of 2003 and the Geva Theatre in Rochester, New York, in March of 2004.
Roberto received his BA from Georgetown University and an MA in English literature from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has studied playwriting with Diana Son, Eric Overmyer, Jeff Jones, Constance Congdon, Mark Bly, and Paula Vogel, and received fellowships from both the Organization of American States and the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts.
Currently the playwright-in-residence at 2econd Stage Theatre in New York (through a grant from the NEA and TCG), Roberto is working on commissions for Manhattan Theatre Club, the Geva Theatre, and California Shakespeare Festival. He writes the monthly adventures of The Fantastic Four and Nightcrawler for Marvel Comics and is developing a cartoon series for Nickelodeon, “Punk Rock Angel Girl,” in collaboration with the singer/songwriter Jewel.