MAYTAG VIRGIN
March 8-16
Join us as we follow Alabama school teacher Lizzy Nash and her new neighbor, Jack Key, over the year following the tragic death of Lizzy’s husband. The play explores the ideas of inertia and self-enlightenment, and the bridge between the two.
STRING OF PEARLS
May 3-11
Spanning more than 35 years, our play explores the possibilities that open up in the lives of an array of women as they come into contact with a certain strand of pearls. While the pearls have been stolen, bought, bestowed, unstrung and nearly lost follow their story as the pearls touch the lives of mothers and daughters, sisters and friends, even husbands and wives as they weave a deeply affecting story of love and loss.
BOSTON MARRIAGE
June 21-29
Meet two “women of fashion” who have lived together on the fringes of upper-class society. Anna is the mistress of a wealthy man while Claire is infatuated with a respectable young lady and wants to enlist the jealous Anna’s help for an assignation. All while exchanging barbs and taking turns at taunting Anna’s hapless Scottish parlor maid. A wickedly, funny comedy.
INTO THE WOODS
Aug. 9-17
The story follows a Baker and his wife, who wish to have a child; Cinderella, who wishes to attend the King’s Festival; and Jack, who wishes his cow would give milk. When the Baker and his wife learn that they cannot have a child because of a Witch’s curse, the two set off on a journey to break the curse. Everyone’s wish is granted, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later with disastrous results.
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Sept. 20-28
Amanda Wingfield is a faded remnant of Southern gentility who now lives in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and her daughter, Laura, who has a physical handicap and debilitating shyness. When Amanda convinces Tom to bring home from his workplace a “gentleman caller” for Laura, the illusions that Tom, Amanda, and Laura have each created in order to make life bearable collapse about them.
THE THANKSGIVING PLAY
Nov. 9-16
Good intentions collide with absurd assumptions in this wickedly funny satire, as a troupe of terminally “woke” teaching artists scrambles to create a pageant that somehow manages to celebrate both Turkey Day and Native American Heritage Month.
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