a Hilarious show-biz farce by Ken Ludwig
Opens October 15th, 2010
Directed by Chris Pinto
Lights, Camera, Shakespeare! It's 1934, and Shakespeare's most famous fairies, Oberon and Puck, have magically materialized on the Warner Bros. Hollywood set of Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Instantly smitten by the glitz and glamour of show biz, the two are ushered onto the silver screen to play (who else?) themselves. With a little help from a feisty flower, blonde bombshells, movie moguls, and arrogant "asses" are tossed into loopy love triangles, with raucous results. The mischievous magic of moviedom sparkles in this hilarious comic romp. Winner of the Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play.
"A fast, funny, entertaining night!"- NBC-4.
"Shakespeare in Hollywood will charm your socks off" - The Wall Street Journal.
"So deliciously inventive, you'd swear that Ludwig and the Bard were in cahoots."- The Baltimore Sun.
a Timeless drama by Henrik Ibsen
Translation by Christopher Hampton
Opens January 14th, 2011
Directed by James Aday
It’s boom time in the spa town. Investment in the public baths is paying off handsomely. Visitor numbers have never been higher. But one man knows the toxic secret underlying the town’s newfound wealth. Dr. Thomas Stockmann expects his findings to be celebrated, but his community is divided in a bitter struggle pitting security, social position and the opinion of the majority against truth and personal idealism. Stockmann's concern is for the health of the people. So how can he be their enemy? Henrik Ibsen’s searing play about one man's lonely struggle against ignorance and official corruption, is adapted to the Pacific Northwest of 1972 using a brilliant new translation by Christopher Hampton.
“An Enemy of the People has been reborn as a passionate current debate about the value of the individual. " –Spectator.
"… You want an unforgettable picture of the idealist at his most necessary yet impossible? Here it is." - The Times
the Award-winning musical by Kander & Ebb
Opens March 11th, 2011
Directed by Michael P. Watkins
In roaring twenties Chicago, chorus girl Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband Amos to take the rap...until he finds out he's been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another "Merry Murderess" Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, joining forces with razzle-dazzle lawyer Billy Flynn in search of the "American Dream": fame, fortune and acquittal. This sexy, sharp edged, darkly humorous musical features a dazzling score with several show-stopping numbers like “All That Jazz”. Based on a real-life “ripped from the headlines” play about a pair of murderesses, written by the crime reporter whose sensational newspaper columns riveted Chicago in 1924.
"'A pulse racing revival that flies us right into musical heaven."-The New York Times.
"Wildly entertaining...[with a] dazzling score." - New York Daily News.
a Charming drama by Rinne Groff
Opens May 27th, 2011
Directed by Chris McVay
Who was the real inventor of television? What if it had been Ruby, a poor, self-educated girl who, in 1927, struggles to turn her dream of the first all-electrical television system into a reality? Fast forward to 1952 and a television studio in the grip of the McCarthy-era's censorship and communist witch hunts. A talented writer looking for a new idea for a television play meets Ruby’s daughter, Lulu, whose own ambition is to tell her mother's story — whatever it takes. A dramatic tale of ambition and dreams, The Ruby Sunrise charts the course of television from early idealism and sparks of genius, to promises fulfilled and compromises brokered, and beyond.
"Smart and absorbing." - Star-Ledger.
"With her stylish new play … Rinne Groff demonstrates both vaulting thematic ambition and sinuous theatrical flair." - Broadway.com.
the Prize-winning comedy-drama by Sarah Ruhl
Opens July 29th, 2011
Directed by Patrick Torelle
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man—with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Sarah Ruhl, author of The Clean House and Eurydice. A work about how we memorialize the dead—and how that remembering changes us—it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
"Ruhl's zany probe of the razor-thin line between life and death delivers a fresh and humorous look at the times we live in." - Variety.
“… blends the mundane and the metaphysical, the blunt and the obscure, the patently bizarre and the bizarrely moving.” – New York Times.
Plus: Three Shows in STAGE LEFT!
Season subscribers have the first chance to reserve tickets for:
by Sam Bobrick & Julie Stein
Opens December 3rd, 2010
Directed by Chris McVay
What happens when comic Lenny Bruce returns from the grave for one last performance?
by Richard Greenberg
Opens April 22nd, 2011
Directed by Sarah Etherton
A sad, funny, unexpectedly romantic family story
Book & lyrics by Dorothy Velasco, music by Karl Mansfield
Opens August 26th, 2011
Directed by Peg Major & Reva Kaufman
An original musical about the dreams of 1920s rodeo cowgirls. |
