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2012-13 Season Tickets Now Available! 

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September 27-30, 2012 
Selections from 365 Days/365 Plays
by Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Lisa Byrd
8pm | Thursday, Friday & Saturday
3pm | Sunday
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater 

Playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks wrote a play each day for a year. More than 700 theater groups performed selections of her 365 Days/365 Plays. The subject matter ranges from presidents to deities to soldiers. Read more. (For mature audiences.) 

There will be a special post-show talk after each performance, where the audience has the opportunity to interact with the cast and creative team. 

Suzan-Lori Parks will also be this year’s Writer’s Voice speaker.

“…one of the American theater’s most wily and innovative writers, and her stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic images transform her work into something haunting and marvelous” – TIME

 

 

 

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November 16-18, 2012
Theatre for Young Audiences
A Year with Frog and Toad
by Robert and Willie Reale, based on the books by Arnold Lobel
7pm | Friday
10am | Saturday
3pm | Saturday & Sunday
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater

This whimsical story features two great friends, the cheerful and popular Frog and the rather grumpy Toad, through four fun-filled seasons. They learn life lessons as they go, including friendship and rejoicing in the attributes that make each of us different and special. They find that true friendship never goes out of season. (Suitable for all ages.)

Nominated for six Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre and a Tony Award for Best Musical.

 

 

 

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January 31- February 3, 2013
This is Our Youth
by Kenneth Lonergan
Directed by Abraham Ramirez ‘13
7pm | Thursday
8pm | Friday & Saturday
3pm | Sunday
Heather Hall

Set in 1982, This is Our Youth follows three lost young souls in New York City. Warren, who steals $15,000 from his abusive lingerie-tycoon father; Dennis, a charismatic domineering drug dealer whose father is a famous painter and mother a social activist; and Jessica, the anxiously insightful woman Warren yearns for. A wildly funny, bittersweet, and moving story about trying to escape a dysfunctional family and finding your place in the world.
(For mature audiences, adult language and subject matter.)

“very funny…comedies of such brio and darkly satiric edge are rare.”–The New York Times

 

 

 

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February 21-24, 2013
Little Shop of Horrors 
By Alan Menken and Howard Ashman
8pm | Thursday, Friday & Saturday
3pm | Saturday & Sunday
Alma Thomas Theater

A down-and-out floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood that demands to be fed. Soon “Audrey II” grows into an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore who offers him fame and fortune in exchange for feeding its growing appetite, finally revealing itself to be an alien creature poised for global domination!

One of the longest-running Off-Broadway shows of all time! Charming, tuneful, and hilarious Little Shop of Horrors never fails to entertain!

 

 

 

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April 25-28, 2013
Heartbreak House 
by George Bernard Shaw
8pm | Thursday, Friday & Saturday
3pm | Sunday
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater

A soap opera of the 1900’s, where no one is who they seem and everyone gets their heart broken. During a weekend party at the eccentric Captain Shotover’s estate, Ellie causes a commotion with her decision to marry for money rather than love. As the Captain’s daughter Hesione protests, a lively debate about money, morality, idealism, and realism ensues among Hesione’s playboy husband, snobbish sister, and Ellie’s fiancée, a wealthy industrialist.

“brilliant comedy”–The New York Times

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