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ROCK 'N' ROLL
by Tom Stoppard
September 10 - October 4, 2009
This extraordinary theatrical event, from four-time Tony Award winner Tom Stoppard (The Coast of Utopia), is making its Southeastern Premiere following a record-breaking run on Broadway and in London's West End. It's August 1968, and Russian tanks are rolling into Prague... Jan, the Czech student, lives for rock music; Max, the English professor, lives for Communism; and Esme, the flower child, is high. By 1990, the tanks are rolling out, the Stones are rolling in and idealism has hit the wall. Stoppard's sweeping and passionate play spans two countries, three generations and 22 turbulent years, at the end of which, love remains - and so does rock 'n' roll.
"TRIUMPHANT! ROCK 'N' ROLL is STOPPARD'S FINEST PLAY. ROCK N' ROLL had me HOOKED." - Ben Brantley, The New York Times
WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM
by Christopher Durang
November 19 - December 13, 2009
Christopher Durang turns political humor upside down with this raucous and provocative satire about America's growing homeland "insecurity." Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them tells the story of a young woman suddenly in crisis: Is her new husband, whom she married when drunk, a terrorist? Or just crazy? Or both? Is her father's hobby of butterfly collecting really a cover for his involvement in a shadow government? Why does her mother enjoy going to the theater so much? Does she seek mental escape, or is she insane?
"DURANG'S FUNNIEST play! Don't feel guilty about laughing so hard at this HILARIOUS new comedy." - Ben Brantley, The New York Times
MAKE ME A SONG: THE MUSIC OF WILLIAM FINN
February 25 - March 21, 2010
Over twenty hits from one artist's exceptional career unite in splendid harmony in Make Me a Song: The Music of William Finn. Effortlessly woven together, these treasured tunes by the composer of the acclaimed Falsettos series and the Tony Award-winning smash hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee tell personal, haunting and often hilarious tales from Finn's rich and touching songbook.
"Equal parts HOPE, JOY, SPRING and LAUGHTER is what we get in this UPROARIOUS and MOVING soundscape of the world as seen by William Finn." - Variety
DYING CITY
by Christopher Shinn
April 15 - May 9, 2010
Dying City, Pulitzer Prize Finalist of 2008, is a powerful thriller and a gripping, psychological drama. A year after her husband's death in Iraq, Kelly, a young therapist, confronts his identical twin brother, who shows up at her apartment unannounced. At first it seems to be a story of a wife and brother left grieving after a soldier's baffling death in Iraq, but as the layers are peeled away, we find it a tender, then shockingly raw and complex, portrait of three very different people.
"Anyone who doubts that Mr. Shinn is among the most provocative and probing of American playwrights today need only experience the creepy, sophisticated welding of form and content that is DYING CITY." - NY Times
GROUNDSWELL
by Ian Bruce
June 3 - June 27, 2010
On the barren, diamond-diving coast of South Africa, Johan and Thami, an ex-cop and a gardener from starkly contrasting backgrounds, maintain a beachfront guest lodge during the off-season while looking for a way out. When Smith, a retired businessman, shows up one foggy night, the two men think they've found an ideal investor for their scheme to buy into a government-run diamond concession. Soon, these ruthless men find themselves in a power struggle fueled by greed, desperation and entitlement. GROUNDSWELL is a psychological thriller about hunger and hope, and the glittering promises of a transforming society.
"A cross between MAMET and FUGARD... A SUSPENSE-STOKED tale of DESPERATE MEN willing to go to DANGEROUS lengths to secure one last chance at a big prize. ENGROSSING Play!"
- Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
All plays and dates are subject to change.
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