Oct. 18 to 21 Thursday, Oct. 18 – 5:30 p.m. (audience talkback following)
Friday, Oct. 19 – 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 20 – 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 21 – 2 p.m. Office Hours
By A.R. Gurney
Directed by Tom Kephart Out with the old and in with the new! Across college campuses in the 1970s, teachers and students engaged in a battle of their own – making education relevant. Office Hours tackles the Great Books curriculum and puts dead white men to the test in this comedy from the author of Sylvia, Love Letters and The Dining Room. “Literate and funny ... Even if you never saw a slide-rule, you’ll enjoy this often-amusing look at the ups and downs of beleaguered academics buffeted by the tides of a societal revolution.” – The Associated Press
| March 21 to 24 Thursday, March 21 – 5:30 p.m. (audience talkback following)
Friday, March 22 – 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 23 – 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 24 – 2 p.m. Wit
By Margaret Edson
Directed by Tom Kephart In her extraordinary first play, Margaret Edson created a work that is as intellectually challenging as it is emotionally immediate. Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English, has spent years studying the difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne. When she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer, she comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience. “A dazzling and humane new play that you will remember until your dying day.” – New York Magazine
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| Nov. 29 to Dec. 2 Thursday, Nov. 29 – 5:30 p.m. (audience talkback following)
Friday, Nov. 30 – 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 1 – 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 2 – 2 p.m. Biloxi Blues
By Neil Simon
Directed by Tom Kephart
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French Inc. The second in Neil Simon’s autobiographical trilogy, Biloxi Blues takes Eugene Jerome from Brighton Beach to Biloxi, Miss., as a young Army recruit during World War II. He learns a little about basic military training and much more about life as he develops his “writer’s sensibility” at boot camp. Eugene and his fellow recruits suffer under a hard-nosed sergeant, take a group visit to the local whorehouse and officially become adults. “Joyous and unexpectedly rewarding.” – The New York Times | May 16 to 19 Thursday, May 16 – 5:30 p.m. (audience talkback following)
Friday, May 17 – 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 18 – 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 19 – 2 p.m. Note: The following show replaces the play initially scheduled for this slot in the theatre season. The Miss Firecracker Contest
By Beth Henley
Directed by Tom Kephart It’s just before the Fourth of July in the small town of Brookhaven, Miss., and Carnelle Scott (known locally as “Miss Hot Tamale”) is rehearsing furiously for the Miss Firecracker Contest. Winning the contest – a combination talent show and beauty pageant – would salvage her tarnished reputation and let her leave town in a blaze of glory … or so she hopes. When her cousin Elain (a former Miss Firecracker herself) arrives along with Elain’s eccentric brother Delmount (who’s just been released from a mental institution), things get a bit complicated. But aided by a sweetly awkward seamstress named Popeye, Carnelle succeeds against all odds, and everyone is forced to deal with their unhappy pasts and move hopefully toward a better future. “The evening’s torrential downpour of humor – alternatively Southern-Gothic absurdist, melancholy and broad – almost never subsides.” – The New York Times |
