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On Fridays and Saturdays, curtain times are at 7:30 p.m.
For special Sunday showings (Musicals only) curtain times are at 2:30 p.m.
2011 -- 2012 Season
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf
By Ntozake Shange
February 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25
Winner of a 1974 Obie award and nominated for two 1977 Tony Awards, including Best Play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf is a “choreopoem” that mixes powerful prose and free verse narrative to tell the endearing, dramatic stories of the modern African American woman. Told by seven women who are represented by a color, i.e. the Lady in Red, Shange’s powerful poems have created an iconic feminist work that discusses love, abandonment, rape, and abortion and how women empower themselves to discover their own strength and love. With a musical underscore, For Colored Girls… transcends the ordinary theater experience to create an emotional exploration of the limitations and beauty of life and love.
Directed by Danette Scott Perry.
The Miracle Worker
By William Gibson
March 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24
This classic tells the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller, dramatizing the volatile relationship between the lonely teacher and her charge. Trapped in a secret, silent world, unable to communicate, Helen is violent, spoiled, and almost sub-human and treated by her family as such. Only Annie realizes that there is a mind and spirit waiting to be rescued from the dark, tortured silence. With scenes of intense physical and emotional dynamism, Annie's success with Helen finally comes with the utterance of a single, glorious word: "water." Helen Keller is now recognized for her opinions and ultra-progressive attitudes. She campaigned for many things in her lifetime, including women’s suffrage and workers’ rights. She also spoke out against the war, and championed socialism. She lectured and taught and was a published author. A friend of luminaries such as Mark Twain, Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin and even American presidents, Helen Keller left an undoubted mark on this world.
Directed by Andy Hall.
Next Fall
By Geoffrey Nauffts
April 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21
Geoffrey Nauffts' Next Fall, a witty and provocative look at faith, commitment and unconditional love, is about two gay men in a committed relationship with a twist: one is devoutly religious and the other is a militant atheist; and it’s driving their crazy friends crazy! The play revolves around their five-year relationship and how they make it work despite their differences. Luke, a hard-core Christian from Florida, believes that Adam, the man he loves, is going to hell. Not for having sex with men, mind you (that’s just sinning and can be forgiven on Judgment Day), but for not believing in Jesus. With sharp humor and unflinching honesty, Next Fall is an intellectual stealth bomb. When an accident changes everything, Adam must turn to Luke’s family and friends for support and answers which lead to confrontations they have all been putting off for years. It creates the freedom to deal with their shared crisis with all the awkwardness, evasion and denial that allow people to live with themselves, even if such things poison them inside. This timely and compelling new American play forces us all to examine what it means to "believe" and what it might cost us not to.
Directed by Ralph Hyman.
A...My Name is Alice
Conceived by Joan Miklin Silver and Julianne Boyd
May 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20
Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, A…My Name is Alice is a slick and lively musical revue created by a wide variety of comedy writers, lyricists, and composers that offers a kaleidoscope of contemporary women. Sophisticated, bawdy, funny, and insightful, the twenty musical numbers and lyrics portray a varied range of relationships and interactions between characters. A song called Friends recounts the entire history of a friendship that sustains two women from high school through marriage and old age; and another song called Sisters details a similar account of a lifelong sibling rivalry that finally reaches a bittersweet resolution in a lonely apartment in Queens. A true showcase for comedic talent,
A…My Name is Alice promises to be a riotous spectacle of interpersonal relationships.
Directed by Duane Jackson
