He Who Gets Slapped

by Leonid Andreyev

Directed by Tony McKay
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"You are the crowd laughing at my humiliation! The joke is -- you are laughing at yourselves!"
In an exotic French circus, a man battles desperately to come to terms with his shadowy past. Leonid Andreyev’s He Who Gets Slapped is a thrilling and powerful work that explores acceptance, social vanity and moral corruption. Will a man’s failure to conform inevitably lead to his public mortification and private destruction or could his indomitable spirit save them all?

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Directed by Don Wadsworth
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“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”
A Midsummer Nights Dream is one of Shakespeare's most popular and most surprising works; a tale of fantastical creatures within a romantic comedy within a dream. A new light will shine on this funny, sexy, poetic and wildly imaginative play.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Music and Lyric William Finn

Book by Rachel Sheinkin
Directed and Choreographed by Joe Deer
Music Direction by Thomas Douglas
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“Where they treat you well, all because you love to spell.”
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee follows six semi-pubescent middle schoolers competing to be the best speller, as well as their equally quirky adult moderators. This fabulous musical with a heart of gold was directed on Broadway in 2005 by James Lapine. It won two Tony Awards, two Theatre World Awards, three Drama Desk Awards and two Lucille Lortel Awards.

The Alice Project

Directed by Marianne Weems

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“Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing—turn out your toes as you walk—and remember who you are!”
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There takes us into a delirious, contrary world behind the mirror. This hallucinogenic journey across a futuristic chessboard ends with a 21st century Alice carrying out the White Queen’s proclamation: “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.” This innovative production will be developed through a year long interdisciplinary collaboration.

Good Person of Setzuan

Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Peter Kleinert
Musical Director Jürgen Beyer

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“If a few good people can be found, who live lives worthy of human beings, then the world can stay exactly as it is.”

Good Person of Setzuan explores the notion of good and evil when three gods arrive on earth in search of one “good” person. Brecht asks if an individual’s capacity for good still exists in a world riddled with iniquity, avarice and envy. If it does, what would such a person look like? If it does not, what are the consequences for society? Translated and adapted by Wendy Arons and Tony Kushner, and directed by international guest artist Peter Kleinert, Good Person is epic theatre that will provoke and entertain in equal measure.
 

Mad Forest

Caryl Churchill

Directed by Jed Allen Harris

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“I see people running away and I try to stop them to ask what is happening...at last someone says, Let's hope it has started.”

The 1989 Romanian revolution left a country in chaos. Caryl Churchill uses a blend of theatrical journalism and magical realism to provide an account of this wrenching moment in European history. Part documentary, part bold imagining, Mad Forest challenges our expectations about the nature of civic revolution, and the people left to pick up the pieces.

Suddenly Last Summer

Tennessee Williams
Directed by Katherine Brook

“The truth is the bottom of a bottomless well.”

Suddenly Last Summer is an elegantly grotesque one-act play, in which the traumatized family of an eccentric gay poet struggles to repress, dismember and reconstruct the story of his death. Approaching the production through innovative performance styles will shine new light on Williams’ poetic and darkly somber masterpiece

Sweeney Todd

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Libretto by Hugh Wheeler

Directed by Joe Calarco
Musical Director Thomas Douglas

PLEASE NOTE: SWEENEY TODD IS SOLD OUT

“The more he bleeds, the more he lives. He never forgets and he never forgives.”

Sweeney Todd is a Tony Award winning masterpiece by composer Stephen Sondheim. Directed by guest artist Joe Calarco, this hauntingly chilling story explores love, loss and blood soaked revenge. Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett systematically kill and bake people into pies – the whole set to a magical score and breathtaking book and lyrics. “Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd” - and you'll get the closest shave you've ever known!

Bus Stop

William Inge

Directed by Gregory Lehane

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“Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.”

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Inge’s 1955 Tony Award winning play, Bus Stop, features eight idiosyncratically fascinating characters in search of personal fulfillment. Stranded by a fierce snowstorm in a rural Kansas diner, passengers on an interstate bus engage, commiserate, challenge and romance a group of town locals unused to the company of strangers. This beautiful and introspective play reveals the possibility that dignity and grandeur lie in each and every human action

Les Enfants Terribles

Jean Cocteau
Directed by Josh Gelb

“The joy of youth is to disobey, but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders…”

In 1929 Jean Cocteau penned the acclaimed Les enfants terribles over three weeks whilst recovering from an opium addiction. A tragic thriller, Cocteau’s work tells of two sibling adolescents, Paul and Elisabeth, who escape the mundane adult world through an increasingly sinister series of fantastical twists they call “The Game.” This adaptation of Cocteau’s 1950 screenplay explores the delirious contradictions of our modern technological world