Determined not to trust her husband when circumstances suggest he’s been unfaithful, the effortlessly desirable Lady Margaret Windermere “modern, independent and deliciously free of self-doubt" resolves to leave him flat. But the true nature of her husband’s relationship with the 'other woman' is very different from what young Margaret assumes it to be. The play is Oscar Wilde’s first comedy and, more than a century later, a provocative season-opener for WTF’s 2005 season in the hands of cutting-edge director Moisés Kaufman.

Lady Windermere's Fan

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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 established Caryl Churchill as one of the late 20th century’s truly important "and prescient" playwrights.

Top Girls

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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.

On the Razzle

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Cherie’s a hard-up nightclub singer. Bo’s a good ol’ cowboy. And when a snowstorm leaves their bus stranded somewhere between Kansas City and Topeka, they spend the night discovering truths and uncovering lies. This romantic finale to our Main Stage season is a mid-twentieth century classic from William Inge, the author of Come Back, Little Sheba and Picnic.

Bus Stop

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Love can be a brutal game. When the deck is stacked against him, Nathan does the only thing he can to get the love of his life to notice him: he calls in the professionals. When is true love a product of fate, and when is it just a set of well-choreographed accidents?

Create Fate

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Seventeen-year-old Dani surfs internet chat rooms searching for someone who is honest and direct.  What she finds is a man twice her age who thinks she is an eleven year-old boy.  With richly textured writing and humor, it’s Lucy Prebble’s play that’s honest and direct.  And fierce.  And devastatingly, disarmingly, disturbingly funny.  

Sugar Syndrome, The

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Diagnosed with breast cancer, trying to stay married, raise two small sons and endure poisonous treatments, Angela confronts her childhood ideas about God and goodness, and wrestles with the haunting question, "What did I do wrong?" Funny, poignant and tough.

Tough Titty

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Family-friendly, funny, a little frightening, and free, The Witching Hour: Three Tales of The Unexpected, The Mysterious, &amp; The Bizarre will play one week only. The Witching Hour is adapted from three different short stories. First, something is amiss as a newlywed couple gets more than they bargained for at a creepy seaside English town in Ringing the Changes. Then, a young man obsessed with radio waves tunes in a whole new world of sound in The Sound Machine. And finally, The Canterville Ghost, Oscar Wilde's classic and hilarious take on the genre, rounds out the thrills, chills, and wickedly wry comedy. Be sure to bring the whole family to WTF’s wildly entertaining Free Theatre, performed in the new ’62 Center Main Stage auditorium.

Witching Hour, The

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I Have Loved Strangers - leapFROG Play

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Triangle - leapFROG Musical

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All 2005 Programs

Lady Windermere's Fan

Top Girls

On the Razzle

Bus Stop

Create Fate

Sugar Syndrome, The

Tough Titty

Witching Hour, The

I Have Loved Strangers - leapFROG Play

Triangle - leapFROG Musical

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All 2005 Programs

Lady Windermere's Fan

Top Girls

On the Razzle

Bus Stop

Create Fate

Sugar Syndrome, The

Tough Titty

Witching Hour, The

I Have Loved Strangers - leapFROG Play

Triangle - leapFROG Musical

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