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Do You Like Green Eggs and Ham?
Written and Directed by Fred T.
Saturday August 6, 2011, 3 pm, $10
Mr. Fudu's Italian Restaurant is on the verge of shutting down, until a young cook named Sam shows up with some strange and exotic dishes. Will Sam's new ideas ruin Mr. Fudu's or will it take it to unbelievable heights?
World Premier Staged Reading of a New Play by Texas Novelist and Playwright Shelley Kaehr
Indulgent Confessions (Cancelled)
Attending a society party a young man is bewitched by the lovely and married mistress of the house. Encouraged by this older woman Charles enters into a lascivious relationship despite the danger and regardless of the cost. After confessing several unfortunate events to a priest, Charles hopes for forgiveness. Will he find absolution or come to a very unfortunate end?
Directed by Henry Hartman
July 29-30, 2011, 8 pm
Tickets: $10, $8 seniors
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Crimes of the Heart
January 28-February 20
Beth Henley
The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at thirty and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who quickly outgrew Hazlehurst, is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach. Their troubles, grave and yet, somehow, hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by the awkward young lawyer who tries to keep Babe out of jail while helpless not to fall in love with her. In the end the play is the story of how its young characters escape the past to seize the future—but the telling is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the curtain has descended.
http://thecolumnawards.org/columnonline/review/02-12-2011_CRIMES-OF-THE-HEART/
God's Favorite
April 8 - May 1
Neil Simon
Successful Long Island businessman Joe Benjamin is a modern-day 'Job' with a high-maintenance wife, ungrateful children and wise-cracking household help. Just when it seems things couldn't get any worse, he is visited by Sidney Lipton aka A Messenger from God (and compulsive film buff) with a mission: test Joe's faith and report back to "the Boss". The jokes and Tests of Faith fly fast and furious as Neil Simon spins a contemporary morality tale like no other in this hilarious comedy.
"Awesomely funny...The work of a man of vision. It'll make you laugh out loud."-New York Daily News. "His jokes have a kind of hilarious deadpan ecstasy and, even better, are taken from life."-The New York Times
The Column Review http://thecolumnawards.org/columnonline/review/04-18-2011_GOD'S-FAVORITE/
Theatre Jones Review http://www.theaterjones.com/reviews/20110412073749/2011-04-13/Richardson-Theatre-Centre/Gods-Favorite
To Kill a Mockingbird
June 17-July 17
Dramatized by Christopher Sergal
Set in Alabama during the Great Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows the journey of Jem and Scout Finch, whose father has been appointed to defend Tom Robinson, a black man framed for a crime he didn’t commit. As the trial progresses, Jem and Scout witness their community in a tense tug of war between justice and racism. This timeless classic compels us to take an honest look at our nation’s past and our moral responsibility to each other.
Read Theater Jones Fabulous Review of this show.
Read Pegasus Wonderful Review of this Show
The Gingerbread Lady
August 19-September 11 (date change)
By Neil Simon
Maureen Stapleton won Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actress for the role of Evy Meara, a popular singer who has hit the skids. After a short stay in rehab, her best friend age-defying Toby, her daughter Polly, and Jimmy Perry, a gay actor try to help her adjust to sobriety with a jolly birthday party. Enter Lou Tanner, a former lover, who ends up giving her a black eye. The party is a wash out, the "gingerbread lady" falls off the wagon and hits the ropes once again. Later rewritten by Neil Simon as the film Only When I Laugh starring Marsha Mason. "He has combined an amusing comedy with the atmosphere of great sadness. His characteristic wit and humor are at their brilliant best, and his serious story of lost misfits can often be genuinely and deeply touching."-New York Post
Dial M for Murder
October 7-30
By Frederick Knott
Tony Wendice has married his wife, Margot, for her money and now plans to murder her for the same reason. He arranges the perfect murder. He blackmails a scoundrel he used to know into strangling her for a fee of one thousand pounds, and arranges a brilliant alibi for himself. Unfortunately…the murderer gets murdered and the victim survives. But this doesn't baffle the husband: He sees his hireling's death as an opportunity to have his wife convicted for the murder of the man who tried to murder her, and that is what almost happens. Luckily, the police inspector from Scotland Yard and a young man who is in love with the wife discover the truth, and in a scene of almost unbearable suspense they trap the husband into revealing his guilt, thus freeing Margot.
A Nice Family Gathering (change)
November 18-December 19
By Phil Olson
A Nice Family Gathering is a story about a man who loved his wife so much, he almost told her.
It’s Thanksgiving Day and the first family gathering at the Lundeen household since Dad died. At the gathering, Dad comes back as a ghost with a mission; to tell his wife of 35 years that he loved her, something he neglected to tell her while he was alive. The problem is, she can’t hear or see him. The trouble begins when Mom invites a date for dinner.
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