Spotlighters  -  Season 57
Spotlighters is thrilled to announce our 57th Season!


This season brings together an array of
Strong Voices
                                           . . . bringing guidance, support and laughter to lead us into a new world.  
 

We hope that you will join us for Exceptional, Diverse, Creative & Bold theatre at Spotlighters.
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Season 57 - 2018/2019
 
Lysistrata
Aristophanes (Translated by Sarah Ruden)
Directed by Michael Blum / Darlene Harris
09/21/18 - 10/14/18
Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sun at 2pm 
       
Lysistrata, originally written and performed in 411 BCE, is considered by many to be the greatest work of the ancient comic playwright Aristophanes. In the play, as part of her extraordinary mission to stop a grinding, never‑ending war, Athenian matron Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sex and to capture the Acropolis, thus bankrupting the war effort and reducing men to comic deprived desperation. 
Bawdy, unrestrained and surprisingly modern in its world view, Lysistrata is performed in a recent translation by Sarah Ruden that critics call “a perfect Lysistrata for the new millennium.”   

Ten Spot Thursday: Sept 27, 2018     All tickets for this performance just $10
Talk Back: Sun, Oct 7, 2018     Post Show discussion with cast & director following the matinee performance.
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Songs for a New World
Words & Music by Jason Robert Brown
directed by Michael Tan / Jillian Bauersfeld
musical direction by Michael Tan
11/02/18 - 11/25/18
Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sun at 2pm    
 
It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice... or take a stand... or turn around and go back. These are the stories and characters of today.  With a rousing score that blends elements of pop, gospel and jazz, featuring tight harmonies and darling vocals, Songs for a New World transports its audience, as each character ‑‑ in their own way ‑‑ takes hold of that one moment and enters a new world.

​Ten Spot Thursday: Nov 8, 2018     All tickets for this performance just $10
Talk Back: Sun, Nov 18, 2018     Post Show discussion with cast & director following the matinee performance.
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Blithe Spirit   . . . An Improbable Farce in Three Acts
Noel Coward
Directed by Fuzz Roark
12/14/18 - 12/23/18
Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sun at 2pm
   Holiday Break
01/04/19 - 01/20/19
Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sun at 2pm

Filled with the wit and charm of Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit is a comedy gem! As inspiration for his new novel, fussy and cantankerous Charles Condomine invites the wonderfully eccentric medium, Madame Arcati to perform a seance in his house. When things go terribly awry, Charles suddenly finds himself caught in an improbable love triangle between his naive living wife, Ruth, and his decidedly "spirited" former wife, Elvira.
 
Ten Spot Thursday: 12/20/18     All tickets for this performance just $10
Talk Back: Sun, Jan 6, 2019     Post Show discussion with cast & director following the matinee performance.
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Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Sherrionne Brown
02/15/19 - 03/10/19
Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sun at 2pm
 
Eliza Doolittle, an intelligent, but poor woman who sells flowers . . . crosses paths with Henry Higgins, a boorish, insensitive, but brilliant linguist who studies phonetics. He realizes we are all equal under the skin and that social class is a matter of skilled behavior. What starts as a phonetic experiment becomes a social experiment. As these two headstrong people spar, we follow Eliza through to her emotional and financial independence, as Eliza herself realizes she was already a lady. The sparkling wit and biting humor of Shaw's script has made Pygmalion into a classic which has endured for over a century, still speaking to us about the false constructs of social class and wowing us with a portrayal of a strong woman who overcomes the conventions of her time.

Opening Night Reception with Cast & Directors:  Fri, Feb 15, 2019 - immediate after the show!
FUN NIGHT FRIDAY:  All Friday performance tickets are just $19
Ten Spot Thursday: Feb 21, 2019     All tickets for this performance just $10
Talk Back: Sun, Mar 3, 2019     Post Show discussion with cast & director following the matinee performance.
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Smokey Joe's Café
Due to a possible Nation Tour performance in the DC area, Rodgers & Hammerstein Music has withdrawn our rights & license to produce & perform Smokey Joe's Cafe.  Please see the new show below!




Beehive - the 60's musical
Created by Larry Gallagher
Directed & Choreographed by Quae Simpson
Musical Direction by LeVar Betts
03/29/19 - 04/21/19            
Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sun at 2pm
 
From solo powerhouses like Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, and Janis Joplin to glamorous girl groups such as The Supremes and TheShirelles, Beehive the 60's Musical is the ultimate celebration of 1960's female empowerment. Featuring such timeless classics as My Boyfriend’s Back, Be My Baby, Respect, Proud Mary, and Me and Bobby McGee, Beehive nostalgically recalls the days of miniskirts, transistor radios and flower power. Told from the perspective of those who came of age in this enigmatic decade, they look back on a host of issues ranging from their first Beehive Dance to the challenges we faced as a nation - civil rights - women's rights - politics - all accomplished by an array of the most celebrated and memorable songs of the era.
Let’s Rock!
Appropriate for all audiences and groups.

Beehive is presented through special arrangement with and all performance materials are supplied by Theatrical Rights Worldwide - 1180 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 540, New York, NY 10036.

Opening Night Reception with Cast & Directors:  Friday, Mar 29, 2019 - immediate after the show!
Fun Night Friday:  ALL Tickets just $19!
Ten Spot Thursday: Apr 4, 2019 All tickets for this performance just $10
Talk Back: Sun, Apr 14, 2019 Post Show discussion with cast & director following the matinee performance.
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Vinegar Tom
Caryl Churchill
Directed by Erin Riley
05/10/19 - 06/02/19            
Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sun at 2pm
 
Witch Hunt: a community targets its weakest members as “other”, then uses law and religion to persecute and destroy them. It’s no coincidence the victims are female identified. What was true in 1670 is eerily true in 2018. A play about power, sex and witches by acclaimed British playwright Caryl Churchill. An intense journey back and forth through time, propelling us from the 17th to the 21st century to see just how much things have changed even as they remain the same

Opening Night Reception with Cast & Directors:  Fri, May 10, 2019 - immediately after the show!
FUN NIGHT FRIDAY - all Friday performance tickets are just $19
Ten Spot Thursday: May 16, 2019     All tickets for this performance just $10
Talk Back: Sun, May 26, 2019     Post Show discussion with cast & director following the matinee performance.
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Steel Magnolias
Robert Harling
Directed by Fuzz Roark
06/21/19 - 07/14/19            
Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sun at 2pm
 
In Truvy's beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, all the ladies who are "anybody" come to have their hair done . . . and get the latest news and gossip!  The outspoken, wise‑cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to all who will listen. Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play moves through life and tragedy, with a sense of humor, and Southern Charm. The sudden realization of their mortality affects the everyone, but also draws on the underlying strength - and love - which give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.  These characters appear delicate as magnolia blooms, but are tough as steel.

Opening Night Reception with Cast & Directors:  Fri, June 21, 2019 - immediately after the show.
FUN NIGHT FRIDAY - all Friday performance tickets are just $19
Ten Spot Thursday: Jun 27, 2019    All tickets for this performance just $10
Talk Back: Sun, July 7, 2019     Post Show discussion with cast & director following the matinee performance.
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Individual Ticket Prices for the 2018/2019 Season
   Adults   $24
   Seniors (60+) / Students / Military (ID required)   $21
  
Information will be available online by early May, and subscription sales will be available in late May 2018.
 
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