Mark-Brian Sonna

Theatre of Love
Created and Conceived by  Mark-Brian Sonna
Fall in love with this amourous, rapturous, comical, and touching production.  We'll present in one evening a group of short plays, songs, and performance pieces dating from the present era all the way back to the Middle Ages that deal with love in all it's glory, deception, and exuberance.  Theatre of Love is not just a theatrical show, but an experience to be shared with a loved one.   Visit www.TheatreofLove.us for more details.
This show was called "a Perfect Valentine's treat" by Broadwayworld.com.  And as Alejandro de la Costa said it best:   “It’s a musical romp that touches your heart: a smash up of song, poetry, dance, and performance art into one theatrical evening that will plaster a big smile on your face while bringing a tear to your eye!" 
"It is a show where nine performers re-enact 26 moments, -some famous, some infamous- of 'love' throughout history. No other show you’ll see combines the glory of Shakespeare, the bawdiness of Vaudeville, the heartbreak of Poe, a saucy Gershwin tune, Henry the VIII’s dysfunctional marriage to Anne Boleyn, an old couple bickering over a park bench, a bad magic act involving decapitation, a clarinet, Madame Butterfly, a punk rock tune of John Cooper Clarke, and a man impersonating Barbra Streisand, while all the while making you laugh, and yes, at times even cry."

...a moment in the life of Willa Dee Arvis
an American Play
By Mark-Brian Sonna
Life never changes gradually; it does so in fits and starts.  There is always a moment, a realization, an incident in life in which everything changes and life is redefined.  Willa and her cousin Emily, two ordinary women living in Dallas in 1942, await with anticipation the arrival of their mail:  the newest issue of national Geographic has a pictorial of American troops in training in Bermuda, and their husbands are featured in the photographs.  The arrival of the magazine and the viewing of the photos open up a Pandora's tinder box of memories and revelations about their relationships.  The arrival of family friend Euel sets ablaze the pent up emotions that forever will alter the landscape of their lives.  Touching, bitingly funny, and ultimately tragic, this play is inspired by the July, 1942 National Geographic pictorial, and a March 2005 obituary in the Dallas Morning News.
This play was called "poignant," "genuinely affecting," "masterful."  It also received the 2007 Column award nomination for Best Scenic design, non-equity, for Alejandro de la Costa's impeccable and accurate recreation of a 1942 home that "suit the era of the play perfectly".
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