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The Foreigner

  • By: Larry Shue
  • Directed By: Jay C. Brown
  • September 10-12, 17-19, 24-26, 2010
  • Rating: Comedy: Family Fare
Have you ever wanted to just get away from everything and everybody and not say a single word? Charlie Baker has this chance when he goes to an old fishing lodge in rural Georgia and pretends he is a "foreigner' and cant speak or understand a word of English. The problem is since he cant communicate, everyone at the lodge thinks he is fair game to confide in with their most intimate secrets. American playwright Larry Shue mixes laughter and poignancy in this comedy about the equality of all humans.

The Elephant Man

  • By: Bernard Pomerance
  • Directed By: Bill Gelber
  • October 22-24, 29-31, November 5-7, 2010
  • Rating: Drama: PG 13
John Merrick, a young man with a severaly debilitating disease, is rescued by Dr. Frederick Treves from his explotation as a side-show freak and becomes a London celebrity. Merrick changes the lives of those around him as he questions the rules of Victorian society. Winner of numerous Tony Awards including Best Play, the New York Times said that "It addresses the simple issue of what it means to be human."

The Shadow Box

  • By: Michael Cristofer
  • Directed By: Kevin Ten Eyck
  • Februrary 18-20, 25-27, March 4-6, 2011
  • Rating: Drama: Mature Audiences
Experience the courage of three terminally ill hospice patients as they learn to accept the final stages of life in this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play. This drama observes the lives of these people as they come to terms with their mortality and the impact which their death will have on their families, partners, friends and others in their lives. The play shows that even though death is a individual struggle, all human beings are bound together by the same fear of death--it is how each deals with that fear that separates them.

Moon Over Buffalo

  • By: Ken Ludwig
  • Directed By: C.D. Adamson
  • March 25-27, April 1-3, 8-10, 2011
  • Rating: Comedy: PG-13
Follow Charlotte and George Hay, an aging acting coulple who are not exactly star material as they tour Buffalo in 1953 with a repertory company. Fate has given the Hays one more shot at stardom in The Scarlet Pimpernel epic, and Hollywood director Frank Capra himself is en route to Buffalo to catch a matinee performance of their show. Will Charlotte appear or run off their agent. Will George be sober enough to emote? These questions and many others are answered in this hilarious valentine to Theatre hams everywhere.

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

  • Authors: Book and Lyrics by Joe DiPietro, Music by Jimmy Roberts
  • Directed By: John A. Packard
  • May 6-8, 13-15, 20-22, 2011
  • Rating: Comedy: PG-13
It's like Seinfeld set to music! This celebration of the mating game takes on the truths and myths behind the contemporary conundrum known as "the relationship". Follow various couples from waiting to dating through love and marriage and moving on through the agonies and triumphs of in-laws, newborns and even pick-up techniques of the geriatric set. This hilarious musical review pays tribute to those who have loved and lost, to those who have fallen on their face at the portal of romance, and to those who have dared to ask, "What are you doing Saturday night".

 

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