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Evening Performances
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Matinee Performances
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2009-2010 Mainstage Season |
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Doubt
by John Patrick Shanley
Sept. 25, 26 & Sept 30 Oct. 1-4, 2009
Directed by Brook Davis
This Pulitzer Prize winning play shines a light on the gray area between truth and suspicion when a determined nun confronts a progressive priest with allegations of impropriety. Set in St. Nicholas Catholic School in the Bronx in 1964, this riveting drama challenges the safety of certainty.
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Sonnets for an Old Century
by Jose Rivera
Oct. 30, 31 & Nov. 4-8, 2009
Directed by Cindy Gendrich with Christina Tsoules Soriano
Jose Rivera’s fearless, funny, lyrical monologues form a dreamscape filled with characters at the edge of life. In this vibrant theatre/dance collaboration, we join in sending their stories out to the universe, “recycling them among the living—like rain, like part of some ecology of the spirit.” |
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Fall Faculty & Guest Artist
Dance Concert
Nov. 19-22, 2009
Artistic Direction by Nina Lucas |
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The Threepenny Opera
Feb. 19-20 & 24-28, 2010
By Bertolt Brecht
Directed by John E. R. Friedenberg
with Teresa Radomski and David Hagy
This wicked, entertaining, and groundbreaking masterpiece exposes the comfortable fictions we hold dear about the social institutions that define our culture. A feisty and cutting story reveals the easy and convenient corruption of power (in all its manifestations) as more than just the cost of doing business.
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Moonchildren
by Michael Weller
April 9-10 & 14-18, 2010 (Ring Theatre)
Directed by Sharon Andrews
It’s 1965 in their communal apartment, their senior year of college. Social, political and sexual revolutions are brewing and graduate school might still be a deferment from Vietnam. Michael Weller’s Moon Children brilliantly captures a specific and electric moment in time while telling a humorous and anxious story of youth facing adulthood that is still startlingly contemporary.
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Spring Student Choreographic Concert
April 22-25, 2010
Artistic Direction by Christina Soriano |
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| The Studio Series consists of several student-directed one-act double bills. Performances are in the Ring Theatre. Tickets are free to our season subscribers or $2.00 at the door. Call the Box Office at 758-5295 for more information. |
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Studio Series I
Monday, September 14 at 7:30 PM
Tuesday, September 15 at 4:30 PM |
Melanie Marnich’s The Right to Remain
directed by JC Bobbitt
A quiet suburban family is rocked by accusations of infidelity. The normality of family life is challenged as this play explores a family torn by a father’s actions.
David Lindsay-Abaire’s Crazy Eights
directed by Mike Discepolo
A parolee returns home past curfew to find her parole officer sleeping on her couch, bearing threats of sanction and home-made torte. Despite his interrogation, he avoids answering the biggest question of all: What exactly is he doing breaking into her apartment?
John Bartholomew Tucker’s Good Neighbors
directed by Stephany Rayburn
Upstate New York, 1978. Two neighbors have a romantic afternoon planned - but they both have terrible colds. Can Ann and Bill enjoy themselves despite their influenza?" |
Studio Series II
Monday, October 12 at 7:30 PM
Tuesday, October 13 at 4:30 PM |
Christopher Durang’s 'dentity Crisis
directed by Lucy Hillman
Jane is recovering from a nervous breakdown and suicide attempt. Her therapist is not helping. Her family is REALLY not helping.
Edward Allan Baker’s The Seventeenth of June
directed by Liz Shumate
Dee's abusive husband has just died, and she is overwhelmed with guilt. Can her sisters and the neighbor downstairs get her to move on? |
Studio Series III
Monday, November 9 at 7:30 PM
Tuesday, November 10 at 4:30 PM |
Benjamin Bettenbender’s The Siren Song of Stephen Jay Gould
directed by Brittni Shambaugh
Two desperate individuals who, in the midst of heartache, depression, and loneliness, remind the audience that humor can be found in any situation.
Jacquelyn Reingold’s 2B or not 2B
directed by Maggie Choumbakos
Franny Dambrose feels stuck with the sting of rejection when one day, Dave, a tireless admirer, bugs her until she begins to see that her life could really bee as sweet as honey.
Melvin I. Cooperman’s Dispatches from Hell
directed by Abby Suggs
February 1942. The SS gives railroad superintendent Mittle a new, top-priority assignment. This play challenges both the characters and the audience to confront reality and consider, 'What is a life worth?'" |
Studio Series IV
Wednesday, December 2 at 7:30 PM
Thursday
, December 3 at 4:30 PM |
William Inge’s The Tiny Closet
directed by Jenny Malarkey
Delves into the ideas of privacy, and individual freedom, while illuminating the destructive nature caused by fear, narrow mindedness, and intolerance.
Edward Allan Baker’s North of Providence
directed by Aleshia Price
Explores the tumultuous relationship of two siblings [Carol and Bobbie], uncovering old wounds on the last day of their father's life.
Paul Dooley and Winnie Holzman’s
Post-Its (Notes on a Marriage)
directed by Kate Miners
Spanning the duration of a couple's life together, Post-its explores the ups and downs of a relationship, unexpectedly captured on little scraps of sticky yellow paper. |
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Theatre Technology (USITT National) |
