| 2010/2011 Season |
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A Midsummer Night's DreamJuly 20 - August 22, 2010Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre A Victorian Court turns upside-down — literally — when forbidden lovers escape into the forest and a jilted fiancé follows in hot pursuit. Artistic Director Christopher Ashley brings his unique, gravity-defying vision to this classic play that's for anyone who has ever felt the giddy weightlessness of true love. Featuring puppetry and an onstage orchestra performing original music as well as Mendelssohn's beloved score. By William Shakespeare 
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SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT CankerblossomA Dark Fairytale Inspired by A Midsummer Night's DreamAugust 12 - 15, 2010Mandell Weiss Forum A young couple discovers a cardboard baby on their stoop. They grow to love the child, who is completely flat, as their own. Then someone or something takes away the baby to a FlatWorld, a planar landscape populated by characters whimsical, sinister, and flat as pancakes. The couple, both ordinary and round, must enter this two-dimensional world to get their baby back. Can they rescue their adopted child and escape from a parallel universe in which there is up-and-down and side-to-side, but no way out? Directed by Dan Rothenberg
Limelight: The Story of Charlie ChaplinSeptember 7 - October 17, 2010Mandell Weiss Theatre From the gritty streets and smoky music halls of London to movie screens across the world, Limelight goes behind the camera to show how Charlie Chaplin found soaring success and later fell from grace. Limelight provides a moving and delightful close-up on the man who changed motion pictures forever. Music and Lyrics by Christopher Curtis
Notes from UndergroundSeptember 17 - October 17, 2010Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre Dostoevsky's landmark novel is brought to the stage in a searing, honest and at times heartbreakingly funny new adaptation, hailed as a "brilliantly original and theatrical work of art" (The Boston Globe). Adapted By Bill Camp and Robert Woodruff
RuinedNovember 16 - December 19, 2010Mandell Weiss Theatre As a civil war rages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mama Nadi runs a lively brothel where soldiers can lay down their weapons. But the good-time atmosphere cannot hide the battles waged on the women who work there. Despite these atrocities, their courage, humor and hope survive in this multiple award-winning, hit Off-Broadway play. By Lynn Nottage
Little Miss SunshineFebruary 15 - March 27, 2011Mandell Weiss Theatre The Hoover family has seen better days. But when the youngest Hoover… umm, energetic Olive, enters a regional children’s beauty pageant, the family thinks their luck could change and embarks on a cross-country trek chasing the coveted title of “Little Miss Sunshine.” Music and Lyrics by William Finn
PAST SHOWS
Surf ReportJune 15 - July 11, 2010Mandell Weiss Forum Judith, faced with a demanding surfer-turned-venture capitalist boss, an underachieving husband and a wanna-be artist daughter, swims against the tide as her upwardly mobile ambitions clash with her family's needs. Annie Weisman, author of the 2001 Playhouse hit Be Aggressive, once again captures our Southern California coastal vibe in this funny and poignant play that examines the sacrifices we make — or avoid — for our family. By Annie Weisman
SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT John Leguizamo Diary of a MadmanMay 18 - May 29, 2010Shank Theatre Back for a limited time! John Leguizamo thrills audiences as he gets up close and personal in his new, uncensored, uninhibited tour-de-force one-man show, John Leguizamo Diary of a Madman. Created and performed by John Leguzamo
SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT Native Voices at the AutryJune 5 - 6, 201012th Festival of New Plays Native Voices, the nation's premiere theatre dedicated to developing and producing new works for the stage by Native American and First Nations writers, concludes its 10th Anniversary Season with four powerful stories.
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