This touching, often hilarious play is about an eccentric English family during WWII. Romantic, funny and lyrical, the play captures the everyday moments of life and love on the "Home Front."

• .....Barbara Wilder
• .....Eric Paisley
• .....Daniel Morris
• .....Mike O'Niel
• .....Lauren Levian
• .....Jennah McKay
• .....Joseph Dall

Featuring plays by Local Young Playwrights

Kate Bakewell, Danielle Bringard, Laura Guidry, Katie Shucavage, Brett Smith, Kalli Smith, and Sarah A. Syme

The 2004 New Play Festival features Angst in the Family, the Premiere Production of an Original

Comedy Written and Directed by Virginia Davis

• .....Suzanne Nystrom
• .....Ann Tucker
• .....Anne O'Shea
• .....R. Manley Lucas
• .....Bart Canny
• .....M.C. Erny
• .....Mary Catherine Penn
• .....Karly Cosec
• .....Walton Lee

A smart, compassionate play that explores the relationships between a young woman; her father, a brilliant but unstable mathematician; her estranged sister; and her father's protégé. Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award

• Robert.....Dan Morris
• Catherine.....Christy Grantham
• Claire.....Melissa Stanley
• Hal.....Danny Richani

A warm-hearted, compassionate comedy that examines the plight of three sisters from Mississippi whose lives have gone terribly wrong. True, touching and consistently hilarious, Crimes of the Heart is the only play to ever win the Pulitzer Prize before opening on Broadway. The film version was shot locally in Southport, NC.

• .....Heather Shore
• .....Melissa Stanley
• .....Jessica Miller
• .....Alisa Harris
• .....Benny Baldwin
• .....Jon Sachtjen

Chekhov's timeless masterpiece centers on the yearnings and frustrations of the Prozorov family at the end of the 19th century, and their brave, feverish and at times absurd search for meaning in their lives. Translated by the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of Talley's Folly and Mound Builders.

• Prozorov, Andrei Sergeich.....Michael Brady
• Natalya Ivanovna (Natasha).....Christy English
• Olga Sergeevna.....Michelle Miller Falco
• Masha Sergeevna.....Hillary McAndrew
• Irina Sergeevna.....Jennifer Thomas
• Kulygin, Fyodor Illich.....Lee Lowrimore
• Chebutykin, Ivan Romanych.....Windy Wenderlich
• Vershinin, Alexandr Ignatych.....Mike O'Neil
• Tuzenbach, Nikolai Lvovich.....Danny Richani
• Solyony, Vasily Vasilych.....Tom Huff
• Anfisa.....Phyllis Wenderlich
• Ferapont.....Brian Perry