Current Season
Theatre 2009-10 Season
FALL 2009
| Classes begin: | Aug. 13 |
| Fall Auditions | Aug. 24-27 |
| Spring Auditions |
Nov. 3-Dec. 1 |
| Classes end | Dec. 11 |
Closer Than Ever
| By Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire |
Black Box Theatre |
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Directed by: |
Timothy Noble |
| Performances: | Oct. 1-3, 9-11 |
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As with Maltby and Shire’s earlier revue, Starting Here, Starting Now, each song in Closer Than Ever is a story—an intimate, insightful tale about love, security, happiness—and holding onto them in a world that pulls you in a hundred directions at once. Maltby and Shire bring their celebrated craft and contemporary sensibility to songs about aging, mid-life crisis, second marriages, and role reversals with parents, as well as wicked satirical jabs at Muzak, working couples and unrequited love. |
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Almost, Maine
| By John Cariani |
Polsky Theatre |
| Directed by: | Beate Pettigrew |
| Performances: | Nov. 12-14 , 20-22 |
| On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost's residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night's dream | |
SPRING 2010
| Classes begin: | Jan. 20 |
| Spring Break | March 15-21 |
| Classes end | May 14 |
Ming Lee and the Magic Tree
| By Aurand Harris |
Black Box Theatre |
| Directed by: | Beate Pettigrew |
| Performances: | March 12-14 |
| Tours to elementary schools after Spring Break | |
| This children’s play is performed in traditional Chinese style and tells the story of a Prince who will be allowed to marry the Princess of the Stars only if he can find a happy man. In his search, the Prince gives Ming Lee, a stonecutter, a circle of wishes, each of which Ming Lee thinks will make him happy. But, during his journey, he discovers fine hats do not make a fine head. | |
Antigone
| By Sophocles | Polsky Theatre |
| Directed by: | Sheilah Philip |
| Performances: | April 22-24, May 2 |
| Thebes' civil war has ended. Creon, the ascending king, proclaims, "Regarding the bodies of the sons of Oedipus: Eteocles, a hero who fought for Thebes…will be given a hero's burial…But for Polyneices who recruited foreign troops to attack our home—let his corpse rot under the sweltering sun, food for the birds and the dogs…Anyone who dares to bury the enemy will be publicly executed." So begins the story of Antigone, who battles Creon, her uncle, for the right in God's name to bury her dead brother, Polyneices, but loses that fight in a horrifying conclusion. | |
