Copious Notes

Actors Guild of Lexington’s production this month appears to need a little clearing up.

The March production was originally announced as The Waiting Room, which would have opened next week for a four week run. Then, the economy happened, and the show was changed to a three-week run of Robert Hewitt’s one-woman show, The Blonde, The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, starring Leslie Beatty and directed by Walter May.

Then some rights issues happened.

So now, we will still have a one-woman show starring Leslie Beatty and directed by Walter May, but it will be Teresa Rebeck’s Bad Dates. In the end, this may be the best of the three options for the company, as Rebeck’s name and this show have been fairly prominent in theater circles in recent years. Rebeck has had two recent successes at the Humana Festival of New American Plays: the post-9/11 drama Omnium Gatherum, co-written with Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros, in 2003 and The Scene in 2006. Rebeck also writes for film and television, including episodes of Third Watch, L.A. Law and the feature film Harriet the Spy.

Bad Dates is about a single mother trying to get back into the dating scene while running a restaurant. It runs March 19 through April 5 at the Downtown Arts Center.