Calendar

All season shows will run Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Door opens at 7:30pm; show begins 8:00pm. Open seating.

Evenings with the Playwright series will be Sundays, 7:30pm.

2007

January 11-27

The Praying Mantis

Written by Alejandro Seiveking. Directed by William Eyerly.

A surreal comedy by the Chilean playwright Alejandro Sieveking, the story of a young man named Juan, engaged to one sister who asks him to rob a bank so they can escape the stifling small town, and, no less, the object of attempted seductions by her two older sisters, both of whom have murdered suitors, and a fourth sister, known only as a voice offstage, to whom Juan is drawn. His Pandora-like temptation ends the play, but in a way the audience has not been expecting.

February 18, 7:30pm

An Evening with Tom Stoppard

Directed by Sidney Homan

A collage of favorite scenes from the preeminent comic playwright of the modern theatre. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is only one of many! A dramatic review of Stoppard from his first play to the present. A brilliant craftsman of the English language in the tradition of Shakespeare, Congreve, and Wilde. Evening with the Playwright Series.

February 8-24

Twilight Time

Directed by Kevin Mack.

The deeply moving story of an old woman who has come home to family festivities to die.

March 15-31

The Taming of the Shrew

Written by William Shakespeare. Directed by William Eyerly.

GACA's Act Up! ensemble takes the stage in a dynamic and raucous adaptation of this classic Shakespeare comedy of battling lovers, Kate and Petruchio.

March 15, 7:30pm

An Evening with Harold Pinter

Directed by Sidney Homan

Spend an evening with the playwright of the pregnant pause, of dialogue hidden beneath the surface that he calls "the weasel under the cocktail cabinet." The playwright of The Birthday Party, The Real Thing, Old Times, The Homecoming, Betrayal, The Dumb Waiter, along with excerpts from his controversial Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Evening with the Playwright Series.

April 19-May 5

Beauty Queen of Leenanne

Written by Martin McDonagh. Directed by Jerry Rose.

Set in the town of Galway, and focusing on a mutual loathing, which may be more durable than love, between the old manipulative Meg and her virginal daughter Maureen. Critics have called it the best work of a playwright known for his "blasphemously funny tragic-comedies."

April 22, 7:30pm

An Evening with Sam Shepard

Directed by Sidney Homan

Spend an evening with the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Sam Shepard, author of such powerful family dramas as Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Classs, and True West. Evening with the Playwright Series.

May 17-June 2

True West by Sam Shepard

Directed by Drew Blair.

The classic tale of two brothers, one who lives life fully, the other who writes about it. Add in a slick Hollywood producer and a mysterious mother who has returned from Alaska.