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SWEAT by Lynn Nottage
directed by Darlene Harris Sept 13 - Oct 6, 2019 Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, Sweat tells the story of friends and coworkers who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working on the same factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other in a heart-wrenching fight to stay afloat. Set in a fictional bar in Reading, Pennsylvania, Nottage brings out “the heart of working-class America” (Variety), many of whom are still recovering from and coping with shutdowns of factories that sustained many towns across the United States. Sweat is a 2015 play by American playwright Lynn Nottage. It won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2015; it was produced Off-Broadway in 2016 and on Broadway in 2017. |
Auditions: July 27 & 28, 2019
Topic Tuesday: Tue, Aug 27, 2019 7:00pm Opening Night Reception: Fri, Sept 13, 2019 Join the cast & director for a post show reception Ten Spot Thursday: Thur, Sept 19, 2019 All Tickets just $10.00 Talk Back w/ Cast & Director: Sun, Sept 29, 2019 Immediately following performance |
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MOON OVER BUFFALO by Ken Ludwig
directed by Brandon Richards Oct 25 - Nov 17, 2019 It is the summer of 1953, and George and Charlotte Hay, formerly a couple of Broadway stars, have taken their run-down touring company to Buffalo, New York. In Buffalo they have the intention of running “Cyrano de Bergerac” and “Private Lives” in repertory, all the while grumbling about missed Hollywood opportunities. But on-stage harmony is compromised when George performs an off-stage infidelity, impregnating the company’s ingenue. When Charlotte learns of this, she prepares to run away with the family lawyer, sending lightweight George on a grief-stricken drinking binge. It turns out that Frank Capra is headed to town on a talent scouting mission looking to hire the couple for his swashbuckling Scarlet Pimpernel epic. As a result, the Hay family -- including scornful, deaf mother in law Ethel, determinedly practical daughter Rosalind, and dashing actor Paul, Rosalind’s ex-boyfriend -- must work overtime to get sloppy drunk George into his Cyrano hat and nose…. or is it his Elyot Chase smoking jacket? With the entrance of Rosalind’s fiance, anxious TV weatherman Howard -- one man with two mistaken identities -- and Richard Maynard, the wealthy lawyer hoping to lure Charlotte away to his mansion -- the confusion only intensifies. With a plethora of pratfalls, slamming doors aplenty, and backstage shenanigans, Ken Ludwig’s Moon Over Buffalo is a fast-paced, hilarious screwball comedy in the old tradition, a throwback farce, a valentine to the stage, and the larger-than-life personalities that inhabit the world of the theatre. |
Auditions: Aug 10 & 11, 2019
Topic Tuesday: Tue, Oct 1, 2019 7:00pm Opening Night Reception: Fri, Oct 25, 2019 Join the cast & director following the performance Ten Spot Thursday: Thur, Oct 31, 2019 All Tickets just $10.00 Talk Back w/ Cast & Director: Sun, Nov 3, 2019 Immediately following performance |
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THE FOREIGNER by Larry Shue
directed by Sherrionne Brown Dec 13 - Dec 22, 2019 and Jan 3 - Jan 12, 2020 The Foreigner is a fun, two-act comedy by American playwright Larry Shue. The story takes place in a fishing lodge in rural Tilghman County, Georgia where two Englishmen, Froggy and Charlie, arrive as guests. The shy Charlie agreed to accompany Froggy on the trip after his sick wife begged him to go. When people at the lodge try to talk to Charlie, however, he remains silent: he is terribly shy, depressed about his wife's illness, and cannot find the words to reply. Froggy claims that Charlie cannot talk because he is a "foreigner" from an exotic country, and does not understand English. Taking the explanation that he's a non-English speaker as fact, the lodge's guests quickly begin revealing their secrets, and Charlie soon discovers scandals amongst some of the residents of the lodge. Set against a backdrop of white supremacy and the KKK, who work to take control of the lodge and remove the "Foreigner" this comedy allows us to confront the xenophobia and racism still present today. |
Auditions: Sept 28 & 29, 2019
Topic Tuesday: Tue, Nov 12, 2019 7:00pm Opening Night Reception: Fri, Dec 13, 2019 Join the cast & director following the performance Ten Spot Thursday: Thur, Dec 19, 2019 All Tickets just $10.00 Talk Back w/ Cast & Director: Sun, Jan 5, 2020 Immediately following performance |
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THE SHADOW BOX by Michael Cristofer
directed by Sharon Weaver Feb 7 - Mar 1, 2020 Joe, Brian, and Felicity come from different walks of life, different parts of the country, and are in different stages of accepting the things they have in common: they are all dying of cancer, and they are all living out their final days, in company with friends and family, in homey hospice cottages on the green and pleasant grounds of a large California hospital. They are observed, studied, and counseled by an invisible Interviewer as they talk candidly about their emotional and physical struggles, and face interpersonal challenges: Joe’s wife Maggie, in denial about her husband’s impending death, refuses to go inside his cottage; artistic Brian, busy trying to write and paint enough for twelve lifetimes, must mediate between his ex-wife Beverly and his boyfriend Mark; and Felicity, confused and in pain, refuses to die until she gets a visit from her daughter Claire -- a daughter who has been dead for years. Michael Cristofer’s sensitive, emotionally devastating, ground-breaking play exploring the end of life experience won both a Tony Award for Best Play and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1977. |
Auditions: Oct 26 & 27, 2019
Topic Tuesday: Tue, Jan 7, 2020 7:00pm Opening Night Reception: Fri, Feb 7, 2020 Join the cast & director following the performance Ten Spot Thursday: Thur, Feb 13, 2020 All Tickets just $10.00 Talk Back w/ Cast & Director: Sun, Feb 23, 2020 Immediately following performance |
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CANCELED by COVID-19 ShutDown
DOGFIGHT by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul (Music and Lyrics) and Peter Duchan (Book); Based on the Warner Bros. film and screenplay by Bob Comfort directed by Michael Blum, in collaboration with Baltimore Design School for costumes and set design Mar 20 - Apr 12, 2020 Dogfight tells the story of three young Marines, who, on the eve of their deployment to Southeast Asia, indulge in a night of debauchery that includes playing a cruel joke on unsuspecting women. In the rowdy process, PFC Eddie Birdlace meets awkward and idealistic Rose Fenny, who survives the insults to teach Eddie about the power of compassion. The haunting, beautiful score and the heartbreaking plot, set against the tapestry of events of the 1960s, take audiences on a memorable theatrical journey through the horrors of war and a woman’s realization of her worth as a human being. |
Auditions: Jan 4 & 5, 2020
Topic Tuesday: Tue, Feb 25, 2020 7:00pm Opening Night Reception: Fri, Mar 20, 2020 Join the cast & director following the performance Ten Spot Thursday: Thur, Mar 26, 2020 All Tickets just $10.00 Talk Back w/ Cast & Director: Sun, Apr 5, 2020 Immediately following performance |
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CANCELED by COVID-19 ShutDown
A MIDSUMMER GENDER-FLUID DREAM (An adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream) directed by Lanoree Blake May 1 - May 24, 2020 In A Midsummer Night's Dream, residents of Athens mix with fairies from a local forest, with comic results. In the city, Theseus, Duke of Athens, is to marry Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons. Bottom the weaver and his friends rehearse in the woods a play they hope to stage for the wedding celebrations. Four young Athenians are in a romantic tangle. Lysander and Demetrius love Hermia; she loves Lysander and her friend Helena loves Demetrius. Hermia’s father, Egeus, commands Hermia to marry Demetrius, and Theseus supports the father’s right. All four young Athenians end up in the woods, where Robin Goodfellow, who serves the fairy king Oberon, puts flower juice on the eyes of Lysander, and then Demetrius, unintentionally causing both to love Helena. Oberon, who is quarreling with his wife, Titania, uses the flower juice on her eyes. She falls in love with Bottom, who now, thanks to Robin Goodfellow, wears an ass's head. As the lovers sleep, Robin Goodfellow restores Lysander's love for Hermia, so that now each young woman is matched with the man she loves. Oberon disenchants Titania and removes Bottom’s ass’s head. The two young couples join the royal couple in getting married, and Bottom rejoins his friends to perform the play. |
Auditions: Feb 22 & 23, 2020
Topic Tuesday: Tue, Apr 7, 2020 7:00pm Opening Night Reception: Fri, May 1, 2020 Join the cast & director following the performance Ten Spot Thursday: Thur, May 7, 2020 All Tickets just $10.00 Talk Back w/ Cast & Director: Sun, May 17, 2020 Immediately following performance |
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CANCELED by COVID-19 ShutDown
ZANNA DON'T by Tim Acito (Book, Music and Lyrics); additional book & lyrics by Alexander Dinelaris Directed by Stephen Foreman June 12 - July 5, 2020 Welcome to Heartsville High, set in a world where everyone is gay–well, almost everyone! The big-man-on-campus is the chess champion, and the captain of the football team is made cool by being cast as the lead in the school musical. The students write a controversial show called “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” about straight people in the military, which becomes the catalyst for a young man and woman to fall in love. Enter Zanna, a magical, musical fairy who, with a wave of his wand, brings true love to one and all! |
Auditions: Mar 28 & 29, 2020
Topic Tuesday: Tue, May 19, 2020 7:00pm Opening Night Reception: Fri, June 12, 2020 Join the cast & director following the performance Ten Spot Thursday: Thur, June 18, 2020 All Tickets just $10.00 Talk Back w/ Cast & Director: Sun, June 28, 2020 Immediately following performance |
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CANCELED by COVID-19 ShutDown
DINNER WITH FRIENDS by Donald Margulies Directed by Darlene Harris July 24 - Aug 16, 2020 Gabe and Karen, a happily married, middle-aged couple, live in Connecticut. They have been friends with Tom and Beth, another married couple, for many years. In fact, it was Gabe and Karen who introduced their friends in the first place. While having dinner at Gabe and Karen's home, Beth tearfully reveals that she is getting a divorce from Tom, who has been unfaithful. Tom, who had been away on business, finds out that Beth has told their friends about the looming divorce, and hastens to Gabe and Karen's home. Tom and Beth had planned to tell their friends about their breakup together, but Tom now believes that Beth unfairly has presented herself as the wronged party, and feels he must present his own side of the story. The time flashes back 12 years to a vacation home on Martha's Vineyard, when Karen and Gabe introduce Beth to Tom. Over the course of the play, both couples are seen at different ages and stages of their lives. Tom and Beth's breakup affects Gabe and Karen, who first feel compelled to choose sides, and then begin to question the strength of their own seemingly tranquil marriage. They also begin to see the real meaning behind their friendships with Tom and Beth. |
Auditions: May 2 & 3, 2020
Topic Tuesday: Tue, June 30, 2020 7:00pm Opening Night Reception: Fri, July 24, 2020 Join the cast & director following the performance Ten Spot Thursday: Thur, July 30, 2020 All Tickets just $10.00 Talk Back w/ Cast & Director: Sun, Aug 9, 2020 Immediately following performance |
