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THE CHERRY ORCHARD
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Drama
By: Anton Chekhov, adapted by Tom Murphy
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Preview: 4/20/2010
Opening Night: 4/27/2010
Runs: 4/20/2010 to 10/2/2010 |
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“Calamities are happening and I do not even know
what I should be thinking.”
An aristocratic family’s way of life seems to be disappearing, and with it, their beloved cherry orchard. On the verge of financial collapse, will they finally make the decision to sell their land to make way for holiday cottages?
Or will they remain in blissful denial of the unstoppable nature of progress? This adaptation of Chekhov’s seriously comic final play by one of Ireland’s leading contemporary playwrights, maintains all the power of this Russian
classic, with an Irish twist.
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HARVEY
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Comedy
By: Mary Chase
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Preview: 4/1/2010
Opening Night: 4/29/2010
Runs: 4/1/2010 to 10/31/2010 |
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“I wrestled with reality for forty years, and I am happy to state that I finally won out over it.”
Everyone wants to meet Elwood Dowd and his friend Harvey. When they enter a room, strangers soon become friends and people want to share a drink with them. But Harvey is a six-foot invisible rabbit and Elwood’s sister wants
him gone. The question is — does the world need another “normal” chap, or more Harveys? A new look at this Pulitzer Prize-winning play, made famous by Jimmy Stewart’s portrayal of the loveable Elwood Dowd in the 1950 film.
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AN IDEAL HUSBAND
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Comedy
By: Oscar Wilde
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Preview: 4/9/2010
Opening Night: 5/26/2010
Runs: 4/9/2010 to 10/31/2010 |
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“Scandals used to lend charm to a man — now they crush him.”
When a husband behaves badly, should a wife always stand by her man? The quest for power and ambition finally catches up with a much-admired
politician one night at an elegant party, when a past misdeed is revealed by a beautiful stranger. The options are clear — public scandal or the loss of his trusting wife — but how to choose? Wilde’s play about infidelity and life
in the political arena remains witty and utterly relevant more than a century after it was first performed in 1895.
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ONE TOUCH OF VENUS
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Musical
By: Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash and S.J. Perelman
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Preview: 5/16/2010
Opening Night: 5/28/2010
Runs: 5/16/2010 to 10/10/2010 |
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“Some girls have a touch of Venus, which can help a girl a lot. Why describe a touch of Venus? You either have it or have not.”
The ancient goddess of love visits Manhattan in this musical fantasy. A modern art collector brings a statue of Venus to town. Through the magic of a ring, Venus comes to life, falls for a barber named Hatch and chases him all over New York. But will this wild woman allow herself to be tamed? A comic caper from the pen of the Marx Brothers’ writer S.J. Perelman and New Yorker poet Ogden Nash, with classic Weill songs like “Speak Low” and “I’m A Stranger Here Myself.”
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THE WOMEN
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Comedy
By: Clare Boothe Luce
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Preview: 5/12/2010
Opening Night: 5/29/2010
Runs: 5/12/2010 to 10/9/2010 |
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“I don’t ask any man to understand me.
How could he? I’m a woman.”
Welcome to a secret society — the world of women. A Manhattan socialite finds out her husband is cheating on her, and her girlfriends are no help at all. With manicured claws, these women are fighting to maintain their
status while scheming to leave, steal or win back their own husbands. This classic play captures a world that only half the population ever really gets to see. A revealing look into the lives of the ladies-who-lunch that is clever, cut-throat and full of outrageous humour.
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THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA
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Comedy
By: Bernard Shaw
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Preview: 6/10/2010
Opening Night: 7/9/2010
Runs: 6/10/2010 to 10/30/2010 |
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“Life does not cease to be funny when people die,
any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”
A doctor who has discovered a lifesaving cure must make an impossible decision. Who should he treat: a kindly colleague who serves the poor,
or an extremely talented but unscrupulous young artist, who also happens to have a beautiful young wife? When there’s only room for one more,
who can he afford to save? Shaw’s comic exploration of the medical establishment and the value of art.
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HALF AN HOUR
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Drama
By: J. M. Barrie
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Preview: 6/26/2010
Opening Night: 7/10/2010
Runs: 6/26/2010 to 10/9/2010 |
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“Those who risk all and lose have to face the consequences.”
How much can a life change in half an hour? One night, just before a dinner party, Lilian Garson makes an escape from her confining husband. But when these best-laid plans go horribly awry — can she quickly slip back into her old life in time for dinner at eight? A compelling story of a woman who’s only got half an hour to change her life.
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JOHN BULL'S OTHER ISLAND
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Comedy
By: Bernard Shaw
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Preview: 6/18/2010
Opening Night: 7/10/2010
Runs: 6/18/2010 to 10/9/2010 |
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“When an Englishman is sentimental he behaves
very much as an Irishman does when he is drunk.”
Friends and business partners Broadbent and Doyle travel to a small town in Ireland with a business deal in mind. The Englishman, Broadbent, falls in love with everything about the place, including Nora Reilly, Doyle’s old flame. Doyle, the hometown boy, only sees a country trapped in its past. Shaw’s
unromantic look at the romance of Ireland, and a play so funny that at a royal command performance, Kind Edward VII laughed so hard he broke his chair!
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AGE OF AROUSAL
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Drama
By: Linda Griffiths
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Preview: 7/23/2010
Opening Night: 8/13/2010
Runs: 7/23/2010 to 10/10/2010 |
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“Type, damn you. Type! It’s the way to liberty!”
It’s 1885, and in London there are half a million more women than men. Mary, an ex-suffragette, has opened a secretarial school for women to teach liberation through typing. When three sisters sign up, unexpected passions and secret desires are unleashed as they each learn what being a New Woman can truly mean. A contemporary look at our mandate by an award-winning writer.
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SERIOUS MONEY
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Drama
By: Caryl Churchill
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Preview: 7/31/2010
Opening Night: 8/14/2010
Runs: 7/31/2010 to 9/12/2010 |
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“Greed is all right. Greed is healthy.
You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.”
The London Stock Market in the 1980s was the new Wild West — a land of corporate raiders and stock traders created by a financial boom that seemed to have no end. This no-holds barred look at corporate greed and financial excess is Caryl Churchill at her most provocative and penetrating. And all in rhyming verse!
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