Name: Time Flies Like an Arrow
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Location: The State Theatre

Presented by The Next Stage Theatre Company

We’re celebrating our 30th season in State College with a few audience favorites from earlier years.   

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, our Summer mainstage production, includes four of David Ives’s best one-act plays from an evening during our 2011 season, and one of Alan Arkin’s finest from our 2001 season.

 dubbed the playwright David Ives “the maestro of the short form... Mr. Ives's theories may owe much to … such dense thinkers as Einstein and Derrida, but…his obsessions with randomness and relativity… are translated into little gems that percolate with comic brio and zesty bits of stagecraft….”

Our audiences loved Alan Arkin’s “Virtual Reality”. 

 described this short play as “A deeply funny, finely graded psychological portrait that becomes a tribute to the conjuring powers of theater…. Imagine the testy, silly one-upmanship of Abbott and Costello crossed with the menacing ambiguity of Harold Pinter….”  

Note that some language and material may not be appropriate for children.

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