2014/2015 SEASON
Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike
September 24 - October 12, 20142013 Tony Award-Winning Comedy! A dysfunctional family’s reunion you won’t soon forget. This raucous comedy smashes together Chekhov’s classic themes of loss and longing with really impressive abs, Disney’s Snow White, and a prophetic housekeeper. Sonia and Vanya have frittered their lives away in the family farmhouse. Enter their sister, self-absorbed movie star Masha, with her 20-something boy toy Spike, and the stage is set for a weekend of hilarity.
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The Piano Lesson
October 22 - November 9, 2014Haunted and haunting. August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. The past threatens to pull apart brother and sister. Bernice treasures a one-of-a-kind piano, an heirloom with carved figures of their enslaved ancestors. Boy Willie suddenly arrives from the South determined to sell the piano and buy the land his family worked on. When the ghost of the piano’s original owner appears, family conflicts escalate to a dramatic confrontation. With lyrical language rolling from the rowdy to the tender, this is one of Wilson’s finest.
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Hairspray
November 28, 2014 - January 4, 2015The hit Broadway musical piled bouffant high with laughter, romance, and deliriously tuneful songs. Bubbling with joy and 60s era music and dance, Hairspray delights with the pleasures of a classic American musical. Tracy Turnblad is a teen whose life revolves around dancing on the Corny Collins TV show. Who knew that a teenybopper TV show could be a catalyst for integration? You can’t stop the beat, and truth be told, you won’t want to once the all-singing and dancing cast takes the stage.
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In the Next Room, or the vibrator play
January 28 - February 15, 2015Fresh and funny new play about love, sex and marriage in the 19th century. It’s the 1880s and electricity is all the rage. In a quiet home office, a doctor experiments with a new instrument for treating “hysteria.” The device? A vibrator. In this genuinely touching, original, and wickedly funny play, Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House) explores relationships and sexual fulfillment while managing to stay discreetly beneath the crisp white sheets of Victorian propriety.
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Sizwe Banzi is Dead
February 25 - March 15, 2015Intensely funny and poignant South African classic exploring freedom and identity. In this intensely funny and poignant drama exploring the universal struggle for human dignity, a black man in apartheid-era South Africa tries to overcome oppressive work regulations to support his family. Co-creator John Kani performed in the original production and won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Actor. Now, 40 years later, Kani directs his son, Atandwa Kani, in this new international production.
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Other Desert Cities
April 8 - April 26, 2015Riveting seriocomedy by the creator of TV’s hit drama Brothers & Sisters. Are there secrets that should always be kept? In this smart, sharply funny, and sensitive contemporary play, Jon Robin Baitz folds art, politics, and family secrets into a tumultuous drama that pits a liberal middle-aged writer against her conservative parents. Who owns a family’s history? There are no easy answers in this 2012 Pulitzer Prize-nominated play where certainty shifts like sand dunes in the wind.
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