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GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS
by David Mamet
MAIN STAGE
OCTOBER 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23 - 2011
AUDITIONS: August 15 & 16 at 7 pm
Directed by Jim LaMonte
A Pulitzer Prize-winning portrait of nasty office politics is a shocking depiction of desperate men for whom honesty and honor are the real dirty words. The title refers to two Florida property developments, Glengarry Highlands and Glen Ross Farms, being peddled in a Chicago real estate office. The show is familiar to anyone who has witnessed the cruelty of power struggles in the workplace - especially those involving scared old pros versus hungry newbies. The desperate real estate salesmen in this play are arguably the most selfish, unlikable louts in American theater. Manhood is at stake here. Its measure is fistfuls of money and its method is to defeat lesser men.
The Vagina Monologues
By Eve Ensler
DREYLING STAGE - will not be judged by Encore.
AUDITIONS: October 10th & 11th 7:00 pm
NOVEMBER 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 - 2011
Co-Directed by Molly Bellner & Amy Kern-Smith
Winner of the Obie Award. "If Ms. Ensler is the messiah heralding the second wave of feminism, and a lot of people think she is, it is partly because she's a brilliant comedian…The audience…was overwhelmingly adoring." —NY Times. "The most exhilarating part is, no kidding, her extremely virtuosic way with a series of orgasmic moans…Ensler, a writer-performer with a good-natured but seriously evangelical mission about this body part, must be enjoying her success in getting the word out on such a legendarily unmentionable, mythologized and misunderstood fact of life…" —NY Newsday. "Ensler breaks taboos by talking, talking and talking some more—stripping fear and shame from what she celebrates here. It makes for quite a party. Funny, outrageous, emotionally affecting, and occasionally angry…THE VAGINA MONOLGOUES confront words to demystify and disarm them. In so doing, Ensler disarms the audience too." —Associated Press.
A Tuna Christmas
By Ed Howard, Joe Sears and Jaston Williams
Main Stage - this show will be a precast and will not be judged by Encore.
December 9 Fundraiser Doors open at 6:30 show starts at 7:30 Special pricing for opening night.
December 10, 11, 16, 17, 18 2011 all other shows at regular times
Directed By Jeremy Tuterow
In this hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna, it's Christmas in the third smallest town in Texas. Radio station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie report on various Yuletide activities, including hot competition in the annual lawn display contest. In other news, voracious Joe Bob Lipsey's production of "A Christmas Carol" is jeopardized by unpaid electric bills. Many colorful Tuna denizens, some you will recognize from Greater Tuna and some appearing here for the first time, join in the holiday fun. A Tuna Christmas is a total delight for all seasons. Audiences who have and who have not seen Greater Tuna will enjoy this laugh filled evening.
MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS
By Ron Hutchinson
DREYLING STAGE
FEBRUARY 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19 - 2012
AUDITIONS: December 12 & 13 at 7 pm
Directed by Brent Wooldridge
This play will be a delight to people who like classic movies and the more positive Hollywood folklore. The play centers around the desperate, final days in the rewriting of the script for “Gone With the Wind,” the 1939 film that gave the world its first cinematic mega-hit. Based on real characters and some actual events, “Moonlight” gives a fictional account of what happened when the acclaimed producer David O. Selznick decided that he had to call in a new writer and director after filming had already begun. Ben Hecht and Victor Fleming, after much pleading from Selznick, reluctantly agree to take on the task. The action happens entirely in Selznick’s office where the three spend a harried five days and nights, dining only on peanuts and bananas (for energy, Selznick maintains.) They hilariously belittle each other’s talents and motivations while coming up with a script.
THE FACULTY ROOM
By Bridget Carpenter
MAIN STAGE
APRIL 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22 - 2012
AUDITIONS: February 13 & 14 at 7 pm
Directed by Patrick Becker
This play is Carpenter’s engrossing look at burned-out teachers at a high school ... “an ugly small suburb in an ugly small city somewhere in the middle” of America. Zoe, the speech and drama teacher, and Adam, the English teacher, were once married and still teach at the school from which they graduated. They play hurtful cat and mouse games with each other and with Carver, the idealistic new world history teacher, who used to teach at a big-city school but left under mysterious circumstances. Zoe and Adam taunt each other about choosing boyfriends and girlfriends from their classes as they regress shockingly to rebellious juvenile behavior they see in students. The students and parents in this backwater town are aggressively Christian and regard the school as free day care and are caught up in the idea of “The Rapture” which will lift them as good Christians to Heaven when the world ends.
LIFE (x) 3
By Yasmina Reza
MAIN STAGE
JUNE 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17 - 2012
AUDITIONS: April 9 & 10 at 7 pm
Directed by Ken Klingenmeier
In Life (x) 3, Henry and Sonia, charged with hosting a dinner party for one of Henry’s colleagues and his wife, are in the midst of ordinary evening activities when their door is buzzed: Their guests have arrived a full day earlier than planned. Should Sonia greet the guests, Hubert and Inez, in her robe? Should Henry do all he can to keep their son quiet, or appease him to make sure things go off without a hitch? And when the guests do appear, and professional and personal conflicts arise, should they be confronted head-on, more covertly, or just ignored all together? One of the story’s three incarnations focuses primarily on how people believe when secrets and confidences are baldly exposed, another suggests the intricate interaction of words and the truly fragile human spirit. As the alcohol at this party flows freely, its effects change as the reasons surrounding its consumption change.
I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE
By Joe DiPietro & Jimmy Roberts
MAIN STAGE
August 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26 - 2012
AUDITIONS: June 4 & 5 at 7 pm
Directed By Jim LaMonte
Musical Direction by Todd Farling
Vocal Direction by John Phillips
Choreographed by Jeremy Tuterow
Set Design by Karen Webster
The musical is presented in the form of a series of vignettes connected by the central theme of love and relationships. The play’s tagline is “Everything you have secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit.” With few exceptions, the scenes stand independent of the others, but progress in a fashion designed to suggest an overall arc to relationships throughout the course of one’s life. A first date, for example, comes before scenes dealing with marriage, and marriage scenes come before those dealing with child rearing. The show contains 19 different sketches filled with the universal theme of love and pokes fun at the life experiences we’ve either gone through or will go through. 