2009-2010 Season 2009-2010 Season
Private Lives Summer and Smoke Pygmalion Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf The Threepenny Opera
Private Lives Private Lives
a COMEDY
by Noël Coward

October 1 - 17, 2009
"...[Noël] Coward is most seriously good when he is funniest." - New York Times
Amanda and Elyot can't live together and they can't live apart. When they discover they are honeymooning in the same hotel with their new spouses, they not only fall in love all over again, they learn to hate each other all over again. A comedy with a dark underside, fireworks fly as each character yearns desperately for love.
Summer and Smoke Summer and Smoke
a DRAMA
by Tennessee Williams
November 19 - December 5, 2009
"The innocent and the damned, the lonely and the frustrated, the hopeful and the hopeless... [Williams] brings them all into focus with an earthy, irreverently comic passion." - Newsweek
One of Williams' most highly regarded works! The play is a simple love story between a somewhat puritanical young Southern girl and an unpuritanical young doctor. However, they find themselves caught between the dictates of their environments, and the dicatates of their hearts.
Pygmalion Pygmalion
a COMEDY
by George Bernard Shaw

January 14 - 30, 2010
"The most brilliant comedy of the century." - Times of London
One of Shaw's finest plays, and a source of theatre-audience delight for over a hundred years! It achieved further distinction when adapted into the stunning musical My Fair Lady. Phonetics expert Henry Higgins, wagers he can transform the flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, into a lovely lady of high society.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
a DRAMA
Edward Albee

March 11 - 27, 2010
"Albee can...be placed high among the important dramatists of the contemporary world theatre." - New York Post
Husband college faculty member George, and president's daughter Martha have learned to survive within the world and within their relationship. A young faculty couple arrive as guests. They have yet to come to terms with their existence, but in one evening George and Martha teach them all they know. Sparkling dialogue and emotional fireworks imbued with brilliant psychological and sociological insight. Absolutely riveting!
The Threepenny Opera The Threepenny Opera
a MUSICAL
by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
English adaptation by Marc Blitzstein

May 6 - 22, 2010
"The greatest musical of all time." - Newsweek
Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera is one of the best-loved pieces of musical theatre from the 20th century. Set in the seedy underbelly of Victorian London, the show brings us into a world of starving beggars, conniving hookers, and ruthless criminals and tells the wry love story of Polly Peachum and "Mack the Knife."