2010-11 Theater Productions
Vanities
by Jack Heifner
Oct. 21- 31, 2010
MainStage Theater
Three women’s lives intertwine and diverge in surprising ways from the day they met on the cheerleading squad of a small town Texan high school in the early 1960’s. Come laugh and maybe even shed a tear as time tests the “ties that bind” among three sworn friends. Vanities will be directed by Paul Meshejian, longtime company member of People’s Light and Theatre and founder of the PlayPenn Conference for New Plays.
Doubt
by John Patrick Shanley
Nov. 12–14, 2010
The Chat Performance Area
A priest is suspected of impropriety with a boy. Did he? Or didn’t he? Lots of suspicion—nothing is clear. A searching look at the potential for abuse for those in positions of authority. Doubt will be directed by Theater Arts major Ellen Podolsky ’11.
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
Dec. 2-12, 2010
MainStage Theater
This masterpiece invites us to peer into the Wingfield home in 1930’s St. Louis for what might be taken (70 years after it was written) as a prophetic look at the coming strains on America’s idea of the “nuclear” family. This play wrestles with the high cost of avoiding family conflict in favor of coddling fantasy. It is directed by Rebecca Wright, literary director and resident dramaturge for InterAct Theatre Company and artistic director of Applied Mechanics.
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
Feb. 24–March 6, 2011
MainStage Theater
Directed by Mark Wade, artistic director of the Arcadia University Theater Program, this spell-binding tale wrestles with the tension between personal gain and public good. Witness the fierce struggle among the conflicting demands of honor, patriotism and friendship, where everything you’ve ever feared about potential “back-stabbers” turns out to be true.
July 7, 1994
by Donald Margulies
April 1–3, 2011
The Chat Performance Area
A haunting look at a day in a doctor's life as she lives and works in the inner city. Her patients’ troubled lives challenge her efforts to navigate the line between professional and personal compassion making tending to their medical needs “child’s play” by comparison. July 7, 1994 is directed by Curio Theater founder Jared Reed.
Club California [A Workshop Production]
Music and lyrics by Craig Safan
Book by Darrah Cloud
April 28–May 8, 2011
MainStage Theater
Sick of her job and convinced there’s no future in her boring hometown in Moldovia, Liv becomes enthralled with the idea of becoming an au pair in America. Duped into leaving home, she becomes trapped as an “employee” in the “world’s oldest profession.” Is a UN official her get-out–of-hell-free card or just another horny CIA operative? Dancing, rock music, this workshop of a brand new musical would not be your grandma’s idea of a night at the theater. Rocky Horror Show director and Azuka Theatre artistic director Kevin Glaccum will direct.
