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Oct 27 – Nov 18, 2000
Music by Cy Coleman Lyrics by David Zippel Book by Larry Gelbart Directed by Richard Baker |
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The story follows Stein, a fiction writer in Hollywood trying to adapt his own detective novel into a screenplay. As the action begins, we meet Stone, Stein’s detective, in the hospital with a bullet wound. As Stone relates the story of his injury, Stein begins to rewrite his story. As he rewrites, the “movie” is rewound and the actors move and speak backwords. As Stein buries himself in the fantasy world of his detective story, however, his personal life begins to fall apart. When his wife leaves him, he must make some decisions about what is really important in his life. |
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Not About Nightingales
Not About Nightingales January 12- February 3, 2000 By Tennessee Williams Directed by Johnathan Weirzbicki An early work by the revered playwright that caused a recent sensation in Houston, New York, and London, this is a raw, sprawling dramatization of real events at a Philadelphia prison in 1937. Convicts who led a hunger … Read more