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The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black written by Susan Hill and adapted for stage by Stephen Mallatratt. Hill set out to write a classic ghost story that included a haunted place like a lonely house or church, an appropriate atmosphere, weather, a ghost, and a reason for the ghost to haunt people. Mallatratt created the script for…
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Christmas Dreams: A World of Wonder
Christmas Dreams: A World of Wonder was the brain child of director and creator, Doug Austen. Christmas has always been a big deal in the Austen house, whether it was lots of decorations (Clark Griswold would be proud), or Mom’s crocheted stocking (which Santa still fills e;very year), or lots of great comfort food (macaroni &…
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Nobody’s Perfect
‘Love Is All Round’ is a feminist publishing house where Harriet Copeland is running a competition to find new romantic fiction; their motto is ‘For Women By Women’. To avoid this gender bias, Leonard Loftus is forced to submit his novel under a female pseudonym. So when Lulabelle Latiffa wins the first prize, Leonard begins…
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When Mars Meets Venus
A musical review based upon the idea that the Theater is a place to expose new ideas, thoughts, creativity, to step outside the box, and hopefully spark a conversation and sometimes controversy. PERFORMANCE DATES: July 16-August 1, 2010 CAST: Daniel Weller, Karen Dunn, Cale Morrow, Robert FLetcher, Mariel Ferreiro, Amanda Dahna, Emilyjane Pyle, David Fisher, Kara…
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Spirit Gum
Shelly Martin has it pretty good. He owns a half-way decent hotel in downtown Kansas City and lives there with his poker playing buddies and his memories of the heyday of the Kansas City jazz scene. When the granddaughter he never knew he has shows up at his doorstep homeless, penniless and six months pregnant,…
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On Golden Pond
This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect…
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Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2nd Reprise)
(Original: December 1998; First Reprise 2005). The Company again reprised The Best Christmas Pageant Ever which tells the story of 6 children (The Herdmans) who are poorly behaved and not exposed to church. They go to church for the first time merely because they find out snacks are offered at Sunday School. Instead, they find…
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Jekyll & Hyde
Dr. Henry Jekyll is a brilliant scientist frustrated by dull “respectable” life in 1888 Victorian London. He creates a formula to unleash his inner bestial nature, transforming him into the brutish but oddly compassionate Edward Hyde. Hyde lives the high life while Jekyll’s middle-aged normalcy continues — until Hyde’s passions begin to turn up a…
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She Loves Me
She Loves Me is a musical and movie with a book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock. The musical is the fifth adaptation of the play Parfumerie by Hungarian playwright Miklos Laszlo, following the 1940 James Stewart-Margaret Sullavan film The Shop around the Corner and the 1949 Judy Garland-Van…
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Play it Again Sam
Play It Again, Sam by Woody Allen was a play that told the story of Allan Felix has just been through a messy divorce. His two friends, Linda and Dick, attempt to convince him to go out with women again. He agrees, and throughout the play, he is seen receiving dating advice from the ghost…