Opening at City Garage August 3, 2024
The world premiere of “If I Needed Someone” by Neil LaBute
City Garage is excited to announce the world premiere of a new play by Neil LaBute, “If Needed Someone.” This smart, sexy, funny, timely comedy follows a girl and guy over the course of one night while they try to navigate the minefield of contemporary gender politics. They’ve just met. They like each other. They’re attracted to each other. They’ve ended up back at her place but now the true test begins. How do they avoid saying or doing the wrong thing? How do they say or do the right thing? What does that even mean in today’s world of relationships? Neil LaBute, well known for his biting, provocative plays that show men at their worst and women at their most frustrated, here takes a gentler, sweeter tone and crafts a love story that remains just as edgy, just as full of razor-sharp insights, showing two people who maybe, just maybe, might make it to the other side of the dating wars and find each other out there in the darkness.
Tickets: www.citygarage.org
Production Title: If I Needed Someone
Author: Neil LaBute
Director: Frédérique Michel
Producer/Production Designer: Charles A. Duncombe
Preview: Friday, August 2, 2024 8:00pm
Opening: Saturday, August 3, 2024 8:00pm
Performances: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 8:00pm; Sundays 4:00pm
Q&A, Sunday, August 25th: There will be an informal Q&A with cast and crew after the 4:00pm show, Sunday, August 25th.
Closes: Sunday, September 8th, 2024
Tickets General Admission $30; Students/Seniors w/ID $25 Thursdays, “Two-for-One” and Sundays, “Pay-What-You-Can” at the door only (or full price for advance reservations)
Box Office/Information: (310) 453-9939
Performance Address: City Garage 2525 Michigan Ave. Building T1, Santa Monica, Ca. 90404
Directions: City Garage is located at Bergamot Station Arts Center. Take the 10 West to Cloverfield Exit. Turn right (north) on Cloverfield to Michigan Ave. Right on Michigan (east) to the end of the street and enter the main gate to Bergamot. Building T1 is at the west end of the parking lot across from the Metro station.
Theatre includes: Bash: Latter-Day Plays (Douglas Fairbanks Theatre, Almeida Theatre); The Shape of Things (Almeida Theatre, Promenade Theatre); The Distance from Here (MCC Theatre, Almeida Theatre); The Mercy Seat (MCC Theatre, Almeida Theatre); Filthy Talk For Troubled Times (MCC Theatre); Fat Pig (MCC Theatre, Trafalgar Studios); Autobahn (MCC Theatre); Some Girl(s) (Gielgud Theatre, MCC Theatre); This is How it Goes (Donmar Warehouse, The Public Theatre); Land of the Dead/Helter Skelter (Ensemble Studio Theatre, Bush Theatre); Wrecks (Everyman Palace Theatre, The Public Theatre, The Bush Theatre); In a Dark Dark House (MCC Theatre, Almeida Theatre); The Break of Noon (MCC Theatre, Geffen Playhouse); Reasons to be Pretty (MCC Theatre, Almeida Theatre); In a Forest, Dark and Deep (Vaudeville Theatre, Profiles Theatre); The Heart of the Matter (MCC Theatre); Woyzeck – adaptation (Schauspielhaus Zurich); Things We Said Today (Profiles Theatre, Sala Beckett); The Furies/The New Testament/Romance (59E59); The Great War (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Taming of the Shrew – additional scenes (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Short Ends (Open Fist Theatre); Lovely Head (Spoleto Festival – Italy, Fringe Festival – Madrid, La Mama); In The Beginning (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Theatre Row); Miss Julie – adaptation (Geffen Playhouse); Reasons to be Happy (MCC Theatre); Good Luck (In Farsi) (59E59); Over The River And Through The Woods (Planet Connections Theatre Festivity); Pick One (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Young Vic); One Day Like This (American Academy of Dramatic Arts); Here We Go ‘Round The Mulberry Bush (59E59); I’m Going To Stop Pretending That I Didn’t Break Your Heart (Venice Biennale); The Money Shot (MCC Theatre); Happy Hour (La Mama); Exhibit A (Theatre Delicatessen); The Way We Get By (Second Stage); 10K (59E59); Mohammed Gets A Boner (Planet Connections Theatre Festivity); Kandahar (St. Louis Actor’s Studio)); 16 Pounds (Trafalgar Studios); All The Ways To Say I Love You (MCC Theatre); I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From (La Mama); Break Point (59E59); We Have a Situation (Konstanz Theatre – Germany); Hate Crime (St. Louis Actor’s Studio); Reasons To Be Pretty Happy (MCC Theatre); The Answer to Everything (Stattstheater – Augsburg); Great Negro Works of Art and Unlikely Japan (St. Louis Actor’s Studio), Appomattox (59E59), Comfort (St. Louis Actor’s Studio) and the upcoming It’s Not You, It’s Me (Radu Stancu National Theater – Sibiu).
Film includes: In the Company of Men; Your Friends & Neighbors; Nurse Betty; Possession; The Shape of Things; The Wicker Man; Lakeview Terrace; Death at a Funeral; Some Girl(s); Some Velvet Morning; Dirty Weekend; Out Of The Blue; House Of Darkness; Fear The Night; Tumble (short); After-School Special (short); Sexting (short); Denise (short); Double or Nothing (short); Bench Seat (short); Sweet Nothings (short); BFF (short); It’s Okay (short); Good Luck (In Farsi) (short); The Mulberry Bush (short); 10K (short); Over The River And Through The Woods (short); Black Chicks (short); Sparring Partner (short) and the upcoming feature Murderous.
Television includes: Bash: Latter-Day Plays (Showtime); Full Circle (DirectTV); Ten X Ten (DirectTV); Billy & Billie (DirectTV); Van Helsing (SYFY); The I-Land (Netflix), and the upcoming Autobahn.
Fiction includes: Seconds of Pleasure (Faber & Faber).
This project is supported, in part, by the California Arts Council, the Los Angeles County Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission.
Questions/Press Reservations/Interview Requests: charles@citygarage.org