2008-2009 Season
You Can't Take It With You
Written by George S. Kaufman & Moss Heart
Directed by Ron Bashford
November 5-9
The 1936 Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway hit that became the Academy Award winning film . . . You'll have the "swellest" time of your life with the wacky Sycamore family . . . The most enduring and joyful American comedy ever produced!
Festival of Amazing Plays:
February 25-March 1, March 4-8
Thom Pain (Based on Nothing)
Written by Will End
Performed by Glenn Reed and directed by Ron Bashford
Dubbed "stand-up existentialism" by The New York Times . . . As lyrical as it is deadpan, as surreal as it is sincere . . . A mini masterpiece of theatrical irony . . . Winner of the First Fringe Award at the Edinburgh Festival, 2005.
The Glass Menagerie
Written by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Bobby Bailey
The most touching play of the American Theatre . . . Searing the Wingfield family into our collective consciousness . . . Winner of the New York Drama Critic's Circle Award.
4.48 Psychosis
Written by Sarah Kane
Performed by Lauren Kriel and directed by Ron Bashford
British playwright Sarah Kane was only twenty-eight when she committed suicide in 1999 . . . Her innovative, expressionistic plays have gone to achieve nearly canoical status in Europe . . . Kane's final play, a hypnotic and beautiful one-woman tour-de-force . . . A modern masterpiece of emotional honesty and mental anguish.
How I Learned to Drive
Written by Paula Vogel
Directed by Lora Hawkins
Paula Vogel evokes a world of painful family contradictions with empowering humor and empathy . . . A ground-breaking memory play about sexual abuse, growing up, and forgiveness . . . Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize and 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play.
The Alchemist
Written by Ben Jonson
Directed by Graham Paul
April 30-May 3
As hilarious and timely today as when it was first performed by Shakespeare's company in 1610 . . . The action accelerates to a frenzy . . . Three con artists go after a seemingly endless stream of willing victims . . . A play for our time.