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Torch-Bearers, The

July 29 - August 9 Main Stage
2009 Season

Author: Kelly, George
Director: Baker, Dylan
Tony-nominated stage and screen actor Dylan Baker directs this side-splitting 1920s farce in which a troupe of amateur actors rehearse and perform a show-stopping new play—or try to with all their might. Their stage is riddled with comedic drama, suspense, and good old-fashioned witty mayhem, similar to both Noises Off and Boeing Boeing.

The Autumn Garden

August 15 - August 26 Main Stage
2007 Season

Author: Hellman, Lillian
Director: Jones, David
America's foremost woman playwright, Lillian Hellman, believed THE AUTUMN GARDEN to be her best play. The setting is a summer resort on the Gulf of Mexico in 1949. Seven friends confronting middle age assess the choices they have made and are about to make. The work is compassionate, savagely funny and perhaps Hellman's most perceptive comment on the difficulties of... Read More

Sweet Bird of Youth

July 19 - July 30 Main Stage
2006 Season

Author: Williams, Tennessee
Director: Jones, David
"Relentless caper for all those who step / The legend of their youth into the noon." With this quote from his spiritual and literary mentor, Hart Crane, Tennessee Williams began his last great lyric play. A movie star who's seen better days, Alexandra Del Lago (travelling incognito as "Princess") occupies a hotel room with a young man, Chance Wayne. chance... Read More

On the Razzle

August 3 - August 14 Main Stage
2005 Season

Author: Stoppard, Tom
Director: Jones, David
While their boss is away, two store clerks have madcap adventures filled with mistaken identities, malapropisms and Tom Stoppard’s trademark wordplay. Freely adapted from Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy's 19th Century farce, Einen Jux will er sich machen (which also inspired Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker), On the Razzle is high-octane non-stop fun.

Top Girls

July 20 - July 31 Main Stage
2005 Season

Author: Churchill, Caryl
Director: Bonney, Jo
What kind of a victory is women’s progress in the workplace? Or is it a victory at all? At a dinner party celebrating Marlene’s promotion, five women, superstars of the golden ages of history, literature and art, weigh in on the personal sacrifices a woman makes to achieve success. More potent now than ever, Top Girls is the play that... Read More

Street Scene

August 1 - August 12 Main Stage
2001 Season

Author: Rice, Elmer
Director: Greif, Michael

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