Name: It's Only A Play
Start: 2025-11-15T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-15T23:00:00-05:00
Location: The Heights Players (Brooklyn, NY)

It's Only A Play by Terrence McNally
Directed by: Laura Chartrand
Synopsis: It’s the opening night of The Golden Egg on Broadway, and the wealthy producer Julia Budder is throwing a lavish party in her lavish Manhattan townhouse. Downstairs, the celebrities are pouring in, but the real action is upstairs in the bedroom, where a group of insiders have staked themselves out to await the reviews. The group of insiders includes the excitable playwright; the possibly unstable wunderkind director; the pill-popping leading lady, treading the boards lightly after becoming infamous in Hollywood; and the playwright’s best friend, for whom the play was written but who passed up this production for a television series. Add to this a drama critic who’s panned the playwright in the past and a new-in-town aspiring singer, and you have a prime recipe for the narcissism, ambition, childishness, and just plain irrationality that infuses the theatre- and for comedy.
Meet The Cast
Gordon Rothman as Peter Austin
Dayna Kurtz as Julia Budder
Patrick Leonard as Ira Drew
Noah Chartrand as Frank Finger
Jessica Cauttero as Virginia Noyes
Danny McWilliams as James Wicker
Clay Schoolman as Gus P. Head
Gary Lizardo as Peter Austin understudy (Performs: Saturday November 15th, 2pm)
Lucy Haskill as Julia Budder understudy (Performs: Saturday November 15th, 2pm)
Will Godby as Frank Finger understudy (Performs: Saturday November 15th, 2pm)
Anna Knobloch as Virginia Noyes understudy (Performs: Saturday November 15th, 2pm)
Landon Hubbard as Gus P. Head understudy (Performs: Saturday November 15th, 2pm)
Creative Team
Laura Chartrand (Director)
Monica Ramirez (Stage Manager)
Isaiah Michaels (Assistant Director)
Gary VanderPutten (Set Design)
Jan VanderPutten (Props)
Hannah Simpson (Lighting Design)
Michelle Maccarone (Sound Design)
Amanda Enriquez (Graphic Designer)