2011-12 Playbill
The story of emotionally damaged World War Two veteran Jack Forrester and a brassy amphetamine-popping music writer named Emma Currie. Set in 1953, it tells the story of two hearts that come together one September weekend. Two hearts which will beat differently from that weekend on.
Five unforgettable southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, reunite every August on North Carolina's Outer Banks to catch up, laugh, & meddle in each other's lives. We experience the touching, warm & funny relationships between them, from ages 44 years through their 70s.
Canadian playwright, Daniel McIvor continues to cast spells internationally with his one man play "House". Centering around the much put upon Victor and his plausible take on life, "House" is at once surreal and inspiring, provocative and fantastical, honest and compassionate in its search for a real connection between audience and performer.
From the author of The Emperor's New Clothes, comes this classic children's favorite with music and songs by Rod Crawford. This wonderful Grimm fairytale is filled with fun and adventure for the whole family
The New York Post called Talley's Folly, Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize winner, a “funny, sweet, and touching love poem for an apple and an orange.” Set in a Missouri boathouse in 1944, the play will charm and move its audience with the romance of Matt and Sally, two very unlikely lovers.
From the author of Frozen Dreams and Autumn Leaves comes the premier production of Robert Ainsworth's The Mouse House. This suspenseful drama is set in a secluded cottage where a successful author, Carson, is writing his latest book.
Carson is a published author who, like most of us struggles with his own demons. In an attempt to rid himself of his writers block he decides to return to his old family cottage to complete his latest book. He chooses mid October after everyone else has closed up their cottages for the season. With no phone and no distractions from the outside world he sets about completing his book. One night he hears an intruder entering the cottage. Carson hides and overpowers the intruder who turns out to be an angry juvenile delinquent. This play demonstrates a clash of cultures between two very different individuals caught in a dilemma with a surprising twist in the story that keeps you on the edge of your seat and guessing right until the end.
Note: Characters in the play at times use strong language.
“The Mouse House was originally written for an audience other than the Theatre Guild. I threw away all caution, apprehension and conventionality to write beyond my usual scope. Frozen Dreams was written from my heart, The Mouse House was written from my soul. I have modified as much of the strong language as I can while trying to stay true to the complexities of the characters.”
Tony award winning Urinetown is an irreverently humorous satire in which no one is safe from scrutiny. Praised for reinvigorating the notion of what a musical could be, Urinetown catapults the “comedic romp” into the new millennium with its outrageous perspective, wickedly modern wit, and sustained ability to produce gales of unbridled laughter.
Concerned with a group of gossipy southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor, Steel Magnolias is alternately funny and touching—and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the antic banter of its characters.
"Harling has given his women sharp, funny dialogue…The play builds to a conclusion that is deeply moving." - NY Daily News.
"…a skillfully crafted, lovingly evoked picture of eccentricity in the small-town South.” - Drama-Logue.
"…suffused with humor and tinged with tragedy." - NY Post.
This Broadway hit is a composite of Neil Simon and Anton Chekhov. In one sketch a fiesty old woman storms a bank and upbraids the manager for his gout and lack of money. In another, a father takes his son to a house where he will be initiated into the mysteries of sex, only to relent at the last moment and leave the boy more perplexed than ever. In another sketch, a crafty seducer goes to work on a wedded woman, only to realize that the woman has been in command from the first overture. Let us not forget the classic tale of a man who offers to drown himself for three rubles. The stories are droll, the portraits affectionate, the humor infectious and the fun unending.
"A great deal of warmth and humor in his retelling of these Chekhovian tales." - Newhouse Newspapers
"There is much fun here. Mr. Simon's comic fancy is admirable." - The New York Times