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THE ODD COUPLE (FEMALE VERSION)
Written by: Neil Simon
Comedy
Directed by: Diane Jones
Produced by: Cydney King
July 5 through July 28, 2024
Neil Simon’s revision of his hugely successful play, The Odd Couple, sees the lead characters transformed into Olive Madison and Florence Unger. Olive and their group of girlfriends are enjoying their weekly Trivial Pursuit night in Olive’s messy and ill-equipped apartment. As the game continues, Florence arrives, fresh from being dumped by her husband. Fearful that the neurotic Florence might attempt suicide, Olive invites her to move in as her roommate. However, Olive and Florence have VERY different personalities. Where Olive is messy, untidy, and unconcerned about the state of her apartment, Florence is obsessively clean, tidy, and obsessed with hygiene. Olive’s easy-going outlook on life soon clashes with Florence’s highly-strung neurotic tendencies, testing their friendship to the limit. When Olive organizes a double-date with the Costazuela brothers, their differences come to a head and sparks fly
PERFORMANCE DATES: July 5 through July 28, 2024
PERFORMING: Friday and Saturday* at 7:30 pm; Sunday at 2:00 pm
* NEW MATINEE: Saturday July 13 at 2:00pm. No evening performance.
TICKETS: General admission: $27; Students/Seniors/Military: $24;
Groups of 10 or more/same performance: $22
THE REVOLUTIONISTS
Written by: Lauren Gunderson
Comedy
Directed by: Katrina Peterson
Produced by Pamela Stompoly
August 23 through September 15, 2024
Four beautiful, bad-ass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the
French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world.
It’s a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection…that ends in a song and a scaffold.
PERFORMANCE DATES: August 23 through September 15,2024
PERFORMING: Friday and Saturday* at 7:30 pm; Sunday at 2:00 pm
* NEW MATINEE: Saturday August 31 at 2:00pm. No evening performance.
TICKETS: General admission: $27; Students/Seniors/Military: $24;
Groups of 10 or more/same performance: $22
I HATE HAMLET
Written by: Paul Rudnick
Comedy
Directed by: Tyler Hewes
October 11 through November 3, 2024
Andrew Rally seems to have it all: celebrity and acclaim from his starring role in a hit television series; a
rich, beautiful girlfriend; a glamorous, devoted agent; the perfect New York apartment; and the chance to play Hamlet in Central Park. There are, however, a couple of glitches in paradise. Andrew’s series has been canceled; his girlfriend is clinging to her virginity with unyielding conviction; and he has no desire to play Hamlet. When Andrew’s agent visits him, she reminisces about her brief romance with John Barrymore many years ago, in Andrew’s apartment. This prompts a seance to summon his ghost. From the moment Barrymore returns, dressed in high Shakespearean garb, Andrew’s life is no longer his own. Barrymore, fortified by champagne and ego, presses Andrew to accept the part and fulfill his actor’s destiny. The action becomes more hilarious with the entrance of Andrew’s deal-making friend from LA, spouting the laid-back hype of the Coast and offering Andrew a fabulous new TV deal worth millions of dollars. The laughs are nonstop
PERFORMANCE DATES: October 11 through November 3, 2024
PERFORMING: Friday and Saturday* at 7:30 pm; Sunday at 2:00 pm
* NEW MATINEE: Saturday October 19 at 2:00pm. No evening performance.
TICKETS: General admission: $27; Students/Seniors/Military: $24;
Groups of 10 or more/same performance: $22
January 10 through February 2, 2025
WAIT UNTIL DARK
Written by: Frederick Knott, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
Drama/Thriller
Directed by: Kara Tuckfield
January 10 through February 2, 2025
Forty-seven years after Wait Until Dark premiered on Broadway, Jeffrey Hatcher has adapted Frederick
Knott's 1966 original, giving it a new setting. In 1944 Greenwich Village, Susan Hendrix, a blind yet capable woman, is imperiled by a trio of men in her own apartment. As the climax builds, Susan discovers that her blindness just might be the key to her escape, but she and her tormentors must wait until dark to play out this classic thriller's chilling conclusion.
PERFORMANCE DATES: January 10 through February 2, 2024
PERFORMING: Friday and Saturday* at 7:30 pm; Sunday at 2:00 pm
* NEW MATINEE: Saturday January18 at 2:00pm. No evening performance.
TICKETS: General admission: $27; Students/Seniors/Military: $24;
Groups of 10 or more/same performance: $22
A PERFECT GANESH
Written by: Terrence McNally
Drama
Directed by: Jennifer Peters
February 28 through March 23, 2025
The pilgrimage tradition is turned on its head when two outwardly unremarkable, middle-aged lady friends
throw themselves into a rousing tour of India, each one having her own secret dreams of what the fabled land of intoxicating opposites will do for the suffering she hides within. Margaret Civil, an uptight example of WASP prerogative, has just discovered a lump in her breast but hasn’t told her friend. The more theatrical and adventurous Katharine seeks a respite from the haunting of her son, Walter, and even thinks of kissing the leprous hordes of Bombay to atone for the way she rejected him and maybe, she thinks, contributed to the gay-bashing in which he died. Faced with the women’s despair, who but the golden elephant god could intervene? Fluid in his power to assume any guise, at peace with all things, Ganesha is the spiritual center around which the play spins itself, drawing upon the t agic and the comic, the beautiful and the deplorable, until a breathtaking release arrives for both women at his hands.
PERFORMANCE DATES: February 28 through March 23, 2024
PERFORMING: Friday and Saturday* at 7:30 pm; Sunday at 2:00 pm
* NEW MATINEE: Saturday March 8 at 2:00pm. No evening performance.
TICKETS: General admission: $27; Students/Seniors/Military: $24;
Groups of 10 or more/same performance: $22
BRIGHT STAR
Music, Book & Story: Steve Martin
Music, Lyrics & Story: Edie Brickell
Musical
Directed by: Teri Brown
Music Direction by: Jerrica Stone
April 18 through May 18, 2024
Inspired by a true story and featuring the Tony®-nominated score by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Broadway’s BRIGHT STAR tells a sweeping tale of love and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the American South in the 1920s and ’40s. When literary editor Alice Murphy meets a young soldier just home from World War II, he awakens her longing for the child she once lost. Haunted by their unique connection, Alice sets out on a journey to understand her past—and what she finds has the power to transform both of their lives. With beautiful melodies and powerfully moving characters, the story unfolds as a rich tapestry of deep emotion. An uplifting theatrical journey that holds you tightly in its grasp, BRIGHT STAR is as refreshingly genuine as it is daringly hopeful.
PERFORMANCE DATES: April 18 through May 18, 2025
PERFORMING: Friday and Saturday* at 7:30 pm; Sunday at 2:00 pm
* NEW MATINEE: Saturday April 25 at 2:00pm. No evening performance.
TICKETS: General admission: $30; Students/Seniors/Military: $27;
Groups of 10 or more/same performance: $25
