Tony-nominated director Maria Aitken directs this charming and heart-felt 1960s comedy about an endearingly eccentric group of English teachers in Cambridge whose insatiable quest for knowledge has masked their secret longings for passion, romance, and true happiness.

Quartermaine's Terms

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2009

Are you ready? The question looms over Jerry as the months tick by and his unborn son grows from the size of a peach to the size of, well, a baby. As the birth date creeps ever nearer, will the advice, encouragement and warnings of friends and family make Jerry more or less ready? The awe and terror of becoming a new parent shines through Sherman’s newest play as he examines whether one can ever truly be ready for parenthood. Nicholas Martin directs this world-premiere.

Knickerbocker

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After 27 years on the same soap opera, Ada is starting to confuse her art and her life. But after so many years of acting, her art is her life. Haidle’s poignant comedy brings us the hilarity of day-time drama alongside the harsher, but often equally funny, realities of life. Festival Artistic Associate Justin Waldman directs this world-premiere.

What is the Cause of Thunder?

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Caroline is down and out in New Jersey. She’s having a nervous breakdown, her career as an actress is tragically dwindling, and a peculiar stranger has made his presence known in her new apartment. Can she find a way to conquer it all? This funny and touching new play follows one woman’s whole-hearted attempt to accept the past and take hold of the future, despite the many surprises that might pop up along the way. Festival Artistic Associate Amanda Charlton directs this world premiere.

Caroline in Jersey

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Schmoozy Togetherness is a new musical that follows a young girl, named Schmoozy Togetherness, who has lost her imagination and must find it before the end of recess. With the help of a mysterious boy named Phineas T. Happenstance, Schmoozy must navigate her way through the Metaforest using three pieces of advice given to her by her teacher. Will she make it back to class in time?

Schmoozy Togetherness

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Based on the hilarious, raunchy, and poignant letters which Tennessee Williams wrote between 1945 and 1957, Blanche and Beyond is the stage sequel to Lawson's <i>A Distant Country Called Youth</i>. While the first play traced the evolution of a young man finding his artistic voice, Blanche and Beyond spans the peak of Williams' career - the period of <i>Streetcar, Rose Tattoo, Summer and Smoke, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</i> - and explores a no-longer obscure playwright facing the seismic shock of international fame.

Blanche and Beyond

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Golden Gate - Fellowship Musical

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After the Revolution - Fellowship Play

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Tony-nominee John Tillinger directs this timeless Gurney classic set in a large summer home on an island off the coast of Massachusetts. When an estranged brother's return and a mother's impending marriage recall painful memories of their father’s death, seething arguments reignite one family’s struggle with its tragic past and uncertain future.

Children

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Former Boris Sagal Directing Fellow Daniel Goldstein directs this play by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Sam Shepard about squabbling siblings. This modern classic is an explosive exploration of family rivalry as two very different brothers attempt to sell Hollywood their version of the great American Western.

True West

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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 playâ€”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.

Torch-Bearers, The

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All 2009 Programs

Quartermaine's Terms

Knickerbocker

What is the Cause of Thunder?

Caroline in Jersey

Schmoozy Togetherness

Blanche and Beyond

Golden Gate - Fellowship Musical

After the Revolution - Fellowship Play

Children

True West

Torch-Bearers, The

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All 2009 Programs

Quartermaine's Terms

Knickerbocker

What is the Cause of Thunder?

Caroline in Jersey

Schmoozy Togetherness

Blanche and Beyond

Golden Gate - Fellowship Musical

After the Revolution - Fellowship Play

Children

True West

Torch-Bearers, The

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