2008-09 -- 87th Season
Old Friends/New Friends
Bright
Ideas
By Eric Coble
October 10-11 & 17-18, 2008
Some parents will stop at nothing to give their children an advantage. "Coble’s deliciously black comedy benefits from hilariously funny, psychologically astute portraits…the near surreal spoof hits home with rib-tickling acuity…” —NY Times.
A
Christmas Carol
By John Jakes
December 12-13 & 19-20, 2008
Jim Volz, former managing director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival where the play received its professional premiere, says of it: "In John Jakes' hands, A Christmas Carol recaptures the magic and mystique of the Dickens original. It is a brilliant script."
Intimate
Apparel
By Lynn Nottage
February 6-7 & 13-14, 2009
Winner of the 2004 New York Drama Critics Circle and the Outer Critics Circle Awards. “…a deeply moving portrait of Esther, a middle-aged African-American woman…Nottage’s play has a delicacy and eloquence that seem absolutely right for the time she is depicting" —NY Daily News.
Tom
Sawyer
Book by Ken Ludwig
Music and Lyrics by Don Schlitz
April 3-4, 11-12, 2009
Mark Twain's classic story comes to exuberant musical life in this Broadway adaptation of America's favorite book.