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The Philadelphia Story
Philip Barry directed by Marybeth Hampton February 15-18, 22-25, and March 1-4 This Broadway hit starred Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord of the Philadelphia Lords, an inhibited and spoiled daughter of the privileged. Divorced from C.J. Dexter Haven, she is engaged to a successful young snob. A gossip weekly sends a reporter and a camera woman to report the wedding arrangements and they are injected into the house by Tracy's brother who hopes to divert their attention from father's romance with a Broadway dancer. Tracy finds herself growing interested in Connor, the fascinating reporter. At the end of a pre wedding party, Tracy and Connor take a moonlight dip in the pool and meet her ex husband and finance on their way back to the house. The following morning her intended agrees to forgive her, but his smug attitude enrages Tracy and she breaks off the engagement. Connor offers to marry her, but she turns him down and remarries Dexter, to the satisfaction of everyone.
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11th Annual New Play Festival Various Local and Emerging Playwrights directed by Various May 17-20 & 24-27 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) |
The Last 5 Years
Jason Robert Brown directed by Jacki Booth June 28-July 1, 5-8, and 12-15Music 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.
Reviews: StarNews 1, StarNews 2, StarNews 3, Encore |
Veronica's Room
Ira Levin August 16-19, 23-26, 30 - September 2 This thriller chiller had a successful revival Off Broadway. The play opens with an elderly couple inviting a young girl (Susan) and her date, whom they had spotted while dining at a restaurant, to visit the bedroom of a dead girl (Veronica) that they knew and who looked like Susan. The young pair accept the invitation, led by curiosity to see a photograph that shows Veronica's likeness. Before long, they are trapped in an unexpected situation that leads to a dramatic ending
Reviews: StarNews, Encore1, Encore 2, StarNews Yearly Award |
The Scarlet LetterAdapted by Phyllis Nagy, from the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne
October 4-7, 11-14, and 18-21This 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.
Reviews: Encore 1, Encore 2 |
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