ABOUT US
The Vicious Circle was founded in 2010 by Jerry Marsini, Meredith Lynsey Schade, and Tony Speciale to create, develop and produce new, ensemble-based works. The company is currently represented on Broadway with The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez.
Past projects have included producing the international Gun Control Theatre Action Week festival of plays with NoPassport, the development of the play Buyer Beware or “How Lenny Bruce Found a Safe Space” (and lost it again) by Michael Weller, Locust Song by Jerry Marsini, Unnatural Acts by Plastic Theatre (Classic Stage Company), and Soulographie: Our Genocides, a series of 17 plays written by Erik Ehn on human rights issues – the latter of which was produced across the nation over the course of two years, culminating in a two-week marathon at La MaMa in November 2012.
PRESS
Unnatural Acts
“…powerfully riveting….Speciale has staged this engrossing story with flair and impressive theatricality, employing a company of extremely talented actors. In a riveting series of increasingly charged vignettes, he unspools a story of prejudice, intimidation, friendship, fear and betrayal that displays the crushing effect of societally-approved homophobia.”
– Associated Press
Soulographie
“It is clear that Mr. Ehn has something vitally important to say and a many-splendored voice with which to say it.”
– Anita Gates, New York Times
The Inheritance
“There’s no question that The Inheritance, which is often explosively funny and more often piercingly moving, is a major work of contemporary theater, the rare play that matches its breathtaking imaginative breadth with equal measures of dramatic ingenuity and electrifying emotional power.”
– Charles Isherwood,
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