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RENT
Presented by Wright State University
Jan. 19-29
Dayton

Reviews: Dayton Most Metro |

This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story.

• Thu, Jan. 19 at 7pm
• Fri-Sat, Jan. 20-21 at 8pm
• Sun, Jan. 22 at 2pm
• Wed-Thu, Jan. 25-26 at 7pm
• Fri, Jan. 27 at 8pm
• Sat, Jan. 28 at 2pm & 8pm
• Sun, Jan. 29 at 2pm

DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE
Presented by Wright State University
Nov. 4-6
Dayton 

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man—with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by playwright Sarah Ruhl, recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play The Clean House. A work about how we memorialize the dead—and how that remembering changes us—it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
-Amazon.com

• Fri, Nov. 4 at 8pm
• Sat, Nov. 5 at 2pm & 8pm
• Sun, Nov. 6 at 2pm

HAIRSPRAY
Presented by Wright State University
Oct. 27-Nov. 13
Dayton

Reviews: Dayton Most Metro |

In 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, plump teenager Tracy Turnblad’s dream is to dance on The Corny Collins Show, a local TV dance program based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show.[1] When Tracy wins a role on the show, she becomes a celebrity overnight. She then launches a campaign to integrate the show. Hairspray is a social commentary on the injustices of parts of American society in the 1960s. -Wikipedia

• Thu, Oct. 27 at 7pm
• Fri-Sat, Oct. 28-29 at 8pm
• Sun, Oct. 30 at 2pm
• Wed-Thu, Nov. 2-3 at 7pm
• Fri, Nov. 4 at 8pm
• Sat, Nov. 5 at 2pm & 8pm
• Sun, Nov. 6 at 2pm
• Fri, Nov. 11 at 8pm
• Sat, Nov. 12 at 2pm & 8pm
• Sun, Nov. 13 at 2pm

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DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Presented by Wright State University
Sept. 22-Oct. 2
Dayton

Dayton Most Metro review |

Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize winning play of 1949 is widely considered to a cornerstone of American letters. A caustic attack on the “American Dream” of materialism, DEATH OF A SALESMAN is a three-act play, centering on the main character, Willy Loman.

At age sixty-three, Willy has been a traveling salesman all his life. Despite his hard work and grueling schedule, the Lomans have always lived on the edge of poverty and Willy has always been an underling in his company. Yet Willy constantly tells himself and his family that the “big break” he deserves is just around the corner. He has raised his two sons, Biff and Happy, to also believe that somehow life has cheated them and insists that one day they will get their due. Linda, Willy’s dutiful wife, lives under the thin veneer of denial that her husband has so long tried to keep from collapsing.

• Thu, Sept. 22 at 7pm
• Fri-Sat, Sept. 23-24 at 8pm
• Sun, Sept. 25 at 2pm
• Wed-Thu, Sept. 28-29 at 7pm
• Fri, Sept. 30 at 8pm
• Sat, Oct. 1 at 2pm & 8pm
• Sun, Oct. 2 at 2pm

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