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Past
Seasons
- 2008
- 2009 Season
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- The
Instant Play Festival!
- September
27-28 Alexander Stage
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- Seven
instant plays each evening. After three weeks of
workshops with professional playwrights Kristen Kosmas,
Nick Zagone, and Kia Corthron, students will receive a
theme in the evening and write a play for rehearsal the
following afternoon and performance that
night.
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- Our
Town by Thornton Wilder
- October
23-26 Alexander Stage
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- A
requiem for an America that may never have existed, this
stage treasure attempts, in the words of the playwright,
"to find a value above all price for the smallest events
in our daily life."
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- Perfect
Pie by Judith Thompson
- November
12-16 Freimann Stage
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- In this
play from Canada, a rhubarb pie and a cassette tape bring
together two childhood friends, estranged for thirty
years, to confront the terrifying event that separated
them and rediscover the grace of friendship.
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- The
Shadow by by Yevgheny Shvarts, translated by
Elisaveta Fen
- December
11 - 14 Alexander Stage
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- From
Soviet Russia, a darkly comic fable of innocence and
corruption. A young scholar, visiting a kingdom where
"all they tell you in fairy tales happens every day,"
longs to marry its princess but is betrayed by his own
shadow.
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- Annual
Student One-Act Play Contest
- February
11 - 15 Freimann Stage
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- Students
submit original scripts. A chosen three compete for cash
prizes. You are the judge.
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- Moonlight
on the Avenue of Faith adapted from the novel by
Gina B. Nahai by Cynthia Croot
- March 5
- 8 Alexander Stage
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- The
best-selling author traces the journey of an Iranian
Jewish family from the Teheran ghetto to Los Angeles,
beginning with Roxanna the Angel. When her mother pushes
this "bad luck daughter" from the rooftop, Roxanna
discovers she can fly.
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- Medea's
Children by Per Lysander and Suzanne
Osten
- April 8
- 12 Freimann Stage
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- This
contemporary classic from Sweden views the story of Medea
and Jason through the eyes of their children. Little
Jason and Little Medea take us on a moving, often funny
journey into the real world of children torn apart by
divorce.
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- She
Loves Me Book by Joe Masteroff, Music by Jerry
Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
- May
7-10, 21, 22, 23 Alexander Stage
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- Budapest,
1930, an elegant parfumerie where two clerks, Georg and
Amalia, constantly squabble during their workday. What
they don't know is that they are passionate pen pals by
night, having answered the same lonely-hearts ad. This
romantic musical gem is "one love affair that has only
grown deeper with time." Frank Rich, New York
Times.
May
23 Benefit Performance for Drama Club. Season tickets and
Whitman passes may not be used for admission to this
performance.
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- Special
Bonus Performance:
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- My
Name Is Rachel Corrie Edited from the writings of
Rachel Corrie by Alan Rickman and Katherine
Viner
September
11 - 14
- 2007
~ 2008 Season
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- From
Inner Rooms
- September
26 - 30 Freimann Stage
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- Isn't
It Romantic
- by
Wendy Wasserstein
- October
18 - 21 Alexander Stage
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- The
Ghost Sonata
- by
August Strindberg
- November
7 - 11 Freimann Stage
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- Così
fan tutte
- by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte
- December
6 - 9 Alexander Stage
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- Annual
Student One-Act Play Contest
- February
6 - 10 Freimann Stage
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- Major
Barbara
- by
George Bernard Shaw
- February
28 - March 2 Alexander Stage
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- Apparition:
An Uneasy Play of the Underknown
- by
Anne Washburn
- April
2 - 6 Freimann Stage
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- As
You Like It
- by
William Shakespeare with music by Mark
Nichols
- May
1 - 4, 15 - 17 Alexander Stage
2006
~ 2007 Season
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- Mr.
Marmalade
- by
Hoah Haidle
- September
27 - October 1 Freimann Stage
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- Arsenic
and Old Lace
- by
Joseh Kesselring
- October
19 - 22 Alexander Stage
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- A
Midsummer Night's Dream
- by
William Shakespeare
- November
8 - 12 Freimann Stage
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- Ivona,
Princess of Burgundia
- by
Witold Gombrowicz
- December
8 - 11 Alexander Stage
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- Annual
Student One-Act Play Contest
- February
7 - 11 Freimann Stage
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- Tartuffe
- by
Euripides translation by Dana Burgess
- March
1 - 4 Alexander Stage
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- Electra
- by
Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers
- April
11 - 15 Freimann Stage
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- It's
A Grand Night for Singing
- by
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
- May
4 - 7, 18 - 19 Alexander Stage
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2005
~ 2006 Season
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- Five
Flights
- by
Adam Bock
- September
28 - October 2 Freimann Stage
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- You
Can't Take It With You
- by
George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
- October
20 - 23 Alexander Stage
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- The
Long Christmas Ride Home
- by
Paula Vogel
- November
9 - 13 Freimann Stage
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- The
Merchant of Venice
- by
William Shakespeare
- December
8 - 11 Alexander Stage
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- Annual
Student One-Act Play Contest
- February
8 - 12 Freimann Stage
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- The
Caucasian Chalk Circle
- by
Bertolt Brecht
- March
2 - 5 Alexander Stage
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- Matt
& Ben
- by
Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers
- April
5-9 and 12-15 in repertory with Anton in Show
Business
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- Anton
in Show Business
- by
Jane Martin
- April
5-9 and 12-15 in repertory with Matt &
Ben
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- Urinetown:
The Musical
- by
Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis
- May
4 - 7, 18 - 19 Alexander Stage
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2004
~ 2005 Season
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- WAIT!
- by
Julie Jensen
- September
29 - October 3 Freimann Stage
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- Polish
Joke
- by
David Ives
- October
21-24 Alexander Stage
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- The
Trojan Women
- by
Euripides
- November
10-14 Freimann Stage
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- Twelfth
Night
- by
William Shakespeare
- December
9-12 Alexander Stage
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- Annual
Student One-Act Play Contest
- February
9-13 Freimann Stage
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- Spring
Awakening
- by
Frank Wedekind
- March
3-6 Alexander Stage
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- Inventing
Van Gogh
- by
Steven Dietz
- April
13-17 Freimann Stage
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- The
Mikado
- by
W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
- May5-8,
19-21 Alexander Stage
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- 2003
~ 2004 Season
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- The
Laramie Project
- by
Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre
Project
- October
1-5 Freimann Stage
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- The
Time of Your Life
- by
William Saroyan
- October
23-26 Alexander Stage
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- Tha
Afghan Woman
- by
William Mastrosimone
- November
12-16 Freimann Stage
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- Radio
Gals
- by
Mike Craver and Mark Hardwick
- December
11-14 Alexander Stage
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- Annual
Student One-Act Play Contest
- February
4-8 Freimann Stage
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- Pride
and Prejudice
- adapted
from Jane Austen by Kamella Tate
- March
4-7 Alexander Stage
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- Venecia
- by
Jorge Accame
- April
14-18 Freimann Stage
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- Company
- by
Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
- May
6-9, 20-22 Alexander Stage
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- 2002
~ 2003 Season
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- Big
Love
- by
Charles L. Mee
- October
2-6 Freimann Stage
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- The
Cripple of Inishmaan
- by
Martin McDonagh
- October
24-27 Alexander Stage
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- Oh,
Coward!
- Words
and music by Noel Coward, devised by Roderick
Cook
- November
13-17 Freimann Stage
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- The
Cherry Orchard
- by
Anton Chekhov
- December
12-15 Alexander Stage
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- Annual
Student One-Act Play Contest
- February
12-16 Freimann Stage
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- Holiday
- by
Philip Barry.
- March
6-9 Alexander Stage
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- Phaedra
+ Hippolytus = ?
- drawn
from the texts of Euripides and Racine
- April
16-20 Freimann Stage
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- Candide
- Book
by Hugh Wheeler adapted from Voltaire, music by Leonard
Bernstein, lyrics by Richard Wilbur with additional
lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and John Latouche
- May
8-11,22,23 Alexander Stage
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2001
~ 2002 Season
Tempest
adapted
from William Shakespeare's The Tempest
Dracula
dramatized
by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston from the
original story by Bram Stoker
Betty's
Summer Vacation
by
Christopher Durang
Bridewell
and Traces
by
Charles Evered
Annual
Student One-Act Play Contest
Scapin
adapted
from Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin by Bill
Irwin and Mark O'Donnell
Wilderness
of Mirrors
by
Charles Evered
Damn
Yankees
words
and music by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, book by George
Abbott and Douglass Wallop
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2000
~ 2001 Season
The
Misanthrope
by
Molière translated and adapted by Lauren Goldman
Marshall - based on a concept by Alan Craig DiBona
And
The World Goes 'Round: The Songs of Kander and Ebb
conceived
by Scott Ellis, Susan Stroman, and David
Thompson
A
Doll's House
by
Henrik Ibsen
Popcorn
by Ben Elton
Annual
Student One-Act Play Contest
Moon
Over Buffalo
by
Ken Ludwig
An
Actor's Christmas Carol
by
Charles Dickens; adapted by Frank Barrie
Shakespeare's
R & J
by
Joe Calarco
Cabaret
by
Joe Masteroff, John Kander, and Fred Ebb
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1999
~ 2000 Season
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- Ruthless!
The Musical
by
Joel Paley and Melvin Laird
Love's
Labour's Lost
by
William Shakespeare
Agnes
of God
by
John Pielmeier
Picasso
at the Lapin Agile
by
Steve Martin
Annual
Student One-Act Play Contest
The
Last Night of Ballyhoo
by
Alfred Uhry
The
Playboy of the Western World
by
John Millington Synge
The
Hyacinth Macaw
by
Mac Wellman
The
Pirates of Penzance
by William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
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1998
~ 1999 Season
Simpatico
By
Sam Shepard
Stepping
Out
By
Richard Harris
The
Triumph of Love
By
Marivaux
Filumena
By
Eduardo de Filippo
The
Cover of Life
By
R.T. Robinson
Annual
Student One-Act Play Contest
subUrbia
By
Eric Bogosian
Sudden
Death and The Crack
By
Sabina Berman
Anything
Goes
By
Cole Porter
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1997 ~ 1998 Season
The
Diva Classification System
By
Jeff Resta
The
Constant Wife
By
William Somerset Maugham
Thugs
By
Alan Averill
The
Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter
By
George Etherege
The
Barber of Seville
By
Giochino Rossini and Cesare Sterbini
Annual
Student One-Act Play Contest
Forever
Plaid
By
Stuart Ross and James Raitt
Iphigenias
From
the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
The
Comedy of Errors
By
William Shakespeare
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1996
~ 1997 Season
The
Middle Ages
by
A.R. Gurney
Don't
Dress for Dinner
by
Marc Canoletti
Macbeth
by
William Shakespeare
The
House of Bernarda Alba
by
Federico Garcia Lorca
One-Act
Play Contest
Arcadia
by
Tom Stoppard
Private
Eyes
by
Steven Dietz
City
of Angels
by
Larry Gelbart, Cy Coleman, and David Zippel
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1995
~ 1996 Season
The
Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
by
Jane Wagner
A
Small Family Business
by
Alan Ayckbourn
All
in the Timing
by
David Ives
A
Christmas Carol
by
Charles Dickens, adapted by Jerry Patch
Baby
Dance
by
Jane Anderson
The
Glass Menagerie
by
Tennessee Williams
Seventh
Annual One-Act Play Contest
An
Evening of One-Act Operas
As
You Like It
by
William Shakespeare
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