Category: Previous Shows

Born Yesterday

By Garson Kanin

Directed by Dia Frid
Produced by Michelle Spanik

The story of junkyard tycoon Harry Brock, who, as the play opens, is checking into a luxury hotel suite where he intends to stay as long as it takes to buy himself a Senator. Accompanying Harry are his cousin-cum-manservant, Eddie, his schyster attorney, Ed Devery, and his longtime cutie pie, a dim-witted doll named Billie Dawn. Besides her obvious recreational value, Billie is useful because she unwittingly serves as a front for Harry’s shady shenanigans, but she’s also embarrassingly ignorant and uncouth. When Paul Verrall, a nosy young reporter for the New Republic, comes sniffing around for a story, Harry puts him off the trail by putting him on the payroll as Billie’s private tutor. In the process of smoothing out the ex-chorus girl’s considerable rough edges, Paul falls hard for Billie and before long, Billie’s eyes are opened, not only to Harry’s dirty deeds, but also to the exhilaration of discovering that she’s got a brain and thanks to Paul, she’s learning how to use it.

Production Dates: February 1-2, 7-10*, 14-16 2008

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Crimes of the Heart

By Beth Henley

Directed by Vincenzo Guerriero
Produced by Chuck Learn

The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at thirty and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who quickly outgrew Hazlehurst, is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach. Their troubles, grave and yet, somehow, hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by the awkward young lawyer who tries to keep Babe out of jail while helpless not to fall in love with her. In the end the play is the story of how its young characters escape the past to seize the future…but the telling is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the curtain has descended.

Production Dates: September 14-15, 20-22, 27-29 2007

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The Long Weekend

A comedy by Norm Foster

Directed by Al French
Produced by Inez Hayes

The truth and lies of a friendship come to the surface during a weekend visit between two couples. There are plenty of surprises along the way in this biting comedy of manners.

Production Dates: April 20-21, 26-28, May 3-5 2007

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Geometry in Venice

A drama by Michael Mackenzie

Directed by Tom Mackan
Produced by Michelle Spanik

A finely crafted play set in Venice in 1880. A young Canadian grad is hired to tutor the son of an outwardly aristocratic family.

Performance Dates: February 2-3, 8-11*, 15-17 2007
*matinee 2:00 pm

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Love Letters

A performance piece by A.R. Gurney

Directed by Yo Mustafa
Produced by Inez Hayes

Tracing the lifelong correspondence of the staid, dutiful lawyer Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and the lively, unstable artist Melissa Gardner, the story of their bittersweet relationship gradually unfolds from what is written — and what is left unsaid — in their letters.

Production Dates: September 16-17, 22-24, 29-30 October 1 2005

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I Ought to be in Pictures

A comedy by Neil Simon

Directed by Vincenzo Guerriero
Produced by Clair Bonanno

Herb, a once successful Hollywood scriptwriter, is having a dry run and his confidence is shaken. He does have some consolation in his off and on sleep in relationship with Steffy, a movie makeup woman. Then suddenly he’s confronted with his distant and almost forgotten past in the person of his teenage daughter, Libby, who’s trekked to Hollywood from Brooklyn where Herb had simply up and left wife, daughter and son sixteen years earlier. Libby’s extremely confident and articulate and she tells Herb she wants him to get her into “pictures”. But actually she’s going to try to salvage him and also find a bit of lost love along the way.

Production Dates: September 15-16, 21-23, 28-30 2006

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Kiss the Moon, Kiss the Sun

A comedy by Norm Foster

Directed by Peter Churey
Produced by Chuck Learn

On the surface it appears to be a story about a disabled man. However, it is also a story about people finding the nerve to take responsibility, and about persevering against the odds. And finally, it is a story about relationships born out of hardship.

Production Dates: April 21-22, 27-29, May 4-6 2006

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Ring Round the Moon

A comedy by Jean Anouilh
Adapted by Christopher Fry

Directed by Dia Frid
Produced by Michelle Spanik

How far will a brother go to keep his twin from marrying the wrong girl? Hugo is as devious as his brother is clueless, and he has only one night to stop the engagement. But is she the wrong girl, after all? Jean Anouilh’s dizzy account of a grand ball gone haywire, as adapted by Christopher Fry, is not something one gets a chance to see very often. Join us for a magical evening at Hugo’s chateau.

Production Dates: February 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19*, 23, 24, 25 2006
*matinee 2:00 pm

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