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Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by James Lapine
A dark yet beguiling take on the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales, Into the Woods is the Tony Award-winning musical in which the familiar stories of
Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel and Little Red Riding Hood intermix with the story of a baker and his wife who cannot have a child
until they break the curse of the witch next door.
With wit, wisdom and a sumptuous score, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine give us a parable about the loss of innocence, the price paid for
getting the things you really want and what happens after “happily
ever after.”
THE DRAMA THEATRE
OCTOBER 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 @ 7:30 PM
OCTOBER 13 & 20 @ 2:00 PM
Students $5
Non-Students $10
By Beth Henley
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Crimes of the Heart comes this
tender and dark comedy that, according to The New York Times, “…sometimes has the tone of a rambunctious tongue-in-cheek Twain
story, with echoes of Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man.”
Starting in the 1860s and spanning 25 years, mail-order brides Bess and
Macon travel to the Wyoming Territory for romance, adventure and the
“boundlessness of it all.” Their pioneer journey entails big dreams,
disappointing and abusive husbands, betrayal, Indian captivity and a bigmoney
lecture tour. From young girls to wise women, they must learn to
survive both life and friendship in the ever expanding west, while
discovering the various meanings of abundance along the way.
F. PERRY SMITH STUDIO THEATRE
NOVEMBER 9, 10, 15, 16, 17 @ 7:30 PM
NOVEMBER 10 @ 2:00 PM
Students $5
Non-Students $10
by Sophie Treadwell
 A classic of 20th-Century feminist literature, Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal is,
in part, based on the celebrated 1927 trial of Ruth Snyder, the first woman
to be put to death in New York’s electric chair for the murder of her husband. Like many American women playwrights of her generation,
Treadwell was trained as a reporter. Keenly aware that the legal system of
the time and most social and cultural norms were dictated by male interests, Treadwell responded with a powerful play about “an ordinary young woman” whose inescapable entrapment in an oppressively mechanized, materialistic
and impersonal world drives her to commit murder. Expressionistic in style,
Machinal presents events as seen through the eyes and the haunting
perspective of the main character. As The New York Times wrote in 1928,
Machinal is a work that “in a hundred years… should still be vivid!”
THE DRAMA THEATRE
FEB. 29 & MAR. 1, 6, 7, 8 @ 7:30 PM
MARCH 1 @ 2:00 PM
Students $5
Non-Students $10
By Lorraine Hansberry
In her 1950s story of a family living and struggling on Chicago’s South Side,
Lorraine Hansberry created one of the first honest depictions of a black
family on the American stage. In an age when predominantly black
audiences simply did not exist, Hansberry was the first African-American
woman to be produced on Broadway, and according to The New York Times,
her play “changed American theatre forever.” A fiercely moving portrait of
people whose hopes and dreams are constantly deferred, A Raisin in the Sun
has been hailed as “one of a handful of great American plays – it belongs in
the inner circle along with Death of a Salesman, Long Day’s Journey into
Night and The Glass Menagerie.”
F. PERRY SMITH STUDIO THEATRE
APRIL 18, 19, 24, 25, 26 @ 7:30 PM
APRIL 19 @ 2:00 PM
Students $5
Non-Students $10
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