Season 2019-2020
By Alfred Uhry
Directed by Jeffrey Bigger
A warm-hearted, humorous and affecting study of the unlikely relationship between an aging, crotchety white Southern lady, and a proud, soft-spoken black man. This play was the winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize and the Outer Critics Award for the Best Off-Broadway Play
Starring:
Wendy Ishii
Herman Gabin Gaddy
Kris Erickson
By Arlene Hutton
Directed by Steven Keim
May and Raleigh meet in 1940 on an eastbound train carrying the bodies of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West. Unable to enlist because of a medical condition, he wants to be a writer; she wants to be a missionary and they discover they are from neighboring towns in Kentucky. In this boy-meets-girl romance, two young people navigate through the tough times of a country at war discovering what they have to give up to get what they really want. This play was nominated for Best Play by the New York Drama League in 2000 and received critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Starring:
Elizabeth (Liz) Kirchmeier
Galen Trine-McMahan
By Daniel Maclvor
Directed by Lynn Bogner
Bunny Best has met her unfortunate end after a mishap at a Gay Days parade. Now her two sons, Kyle and Hamilton have the task of arranging her funeral and caring for her beloved Italian greyhound. In the bustle of obituary writing, eulogy giving, and dog sitting, sibling rivalry quickly reaches its peak and years of buried contentions surface.
Starring:
Jeffrey Bigger
Kevin Crowe
By Juan Mayorga
Directed by Robert E. Braddy
Way to Heaven is about a notorious incident in 1944 in which a delegation from the International Red Cross visited the Theresienstadt concentration camp. What they saw was a model cleaned up for their visit. Duped, by the Nazi officials, the Red Cross delegation reported that conditions were good and that they saw no evidence to support reports of mass murder.
Starring:
Greg Clark
Bruce Gammonley
James Curley
Adia Spezza
Sarah Ramsey
Rysom Sanderlin
Piper Gurvich
Marlow Austin-Groen
Jackson Bramwell
Mollie Fry
Bill Moorcroft
By Noel Coward
Directed by Eric Prince
Skeptical novelist Charles Condomine invites self-proclaimed medium Madame Arcati to his home for a séance, hoping to gather material for a new book. When the hapless psychic accidentally summons the spiritof Condomine’s late wife, Elvira, his home and life are quickly turned into a shambles as his wife’s ghost torments both himself and his new bride, Ruth.
Lou Ann Wright
Jeffrey Bigger
Robyn Cuthbertson
Bruce Gammonley
Blair Carpenter
Hannah Honegger
Anna Dory