The Philadelphia Story is an intelligent, sophisticated, classic romantic comedy-farce (part screwball) of love and marriage, human growth and class distinctions. Philadelphia heiress Tracy Lord throws out her first husband, C.K. Dexter Haven, shortly after their marriage. Two years later, Tracy is about to marry respectable George Kittredge whilst Dexter has been working for a

• Tracy Lord.....Summer Stevens
• C.K. Dexter Haven.....Alex Wharff
• Uncle Willie.....Lee Lowrimore
• Margaret Lord.....Debra Gillingham
• Mike Connor.....Eric Holloway
• Liz Imbrie.....Eleanor Zeddies
• Sandy Lord.....Chase Harrison
• Dinah Lord.....Sarah Burns
• Seth Lord.....Ken Cressman
• George Kittredge.....Aaron Mills
• Edward.....Chris Schatzle
• May.....Allison Winschief
• Mary.....Pamela Grier
• Elsie.....Jenn Mullins

An exciting festival of never-before-produced works by both youth and adult playwrights. Previous plays have gone on to productions across the United States. Award-winning playwright Virginia Davis will guide the playwrights through workshops leading up to an exhilarating premiere.

(Produced in part with a grant from The Landfall Foundation)

Music Direction by Chiaki Ito.

A contemporary song-cycle musical by Jason Robert Brown that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up... or from break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it. Written by Jason Robert Brown (Parade, Songs For A New World), The Last Five Years is an intensely personal look at the relationship between a writer and an actress told from both points of view. Musicals about relationships are nothing new, but The Last Five Years manages to reinvent the familiar formula and offers up one of the brightest, freshest scores of the new century.

• Cathy.....Heather Dahlberg
• Jamie.....Gray Hawks

This thriller chiller had a successful revival Off Broadway. It

• Woman.....Bonnie Hales
• Man.....Kevin Wilson
• Young Woman.....Annya Broderick
• Young Man.....Aaron Mills

This brilliant, unusual adaptation by Phyllis Nagy of the classic novel has a decidedly contemporary slant. Although set in Puritan times, it deals with issues which make it almost a feminist deconstruction of the novel even as it preserves the familiar story of Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmesdale. The play was originally presented Off Broadway by Classic Stage Company.

• Hester Prynne.....Maggie Miller
• Arthur Dimmesdale.....Alex Wharff
• Roger chillingworth.....Randall Lucas
• Pearl.....Summer C. Stevens
• Governor Bellingham.....Bill Piper
• Master Brackett.....Paul Hall
• Mistress Hibbins.....Katherine Vernon