2013-14 SEASON

Hoping to touch the lives of her students at a troubled inner-city high school, wide-eyed Sylvia Barrett feels happy and excited when walking into her still-empty classroom on the first day of school and writing her name on the blackboard.  Hoping to nurture her students’ interest in classic literature and writing, this idealistic, young English teacher becomes discouraged during her first day from a blizzard of paperwork, incompetent colleagues, contradictory orders, and indecipherable instructions.  This comedic spin on her unruly and indifferent students and her attempts to get them not to go up the down staircase is both hilarious and heart-breaking.  Will Sylvia even be able to survive her first semester at Calvin Coolidge High School?

Set in the energetic, crackling city of New York, this oddball romantic comedy - considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy - soars with the spirit of Broadway as it introduces us to a cast of vivid characters who have become legends in the canon: Sarah Brown, the upright but uptight "mission doll," out to reform the evildoers of Time Square; Sky Masterson, the slick, high-rolling gambler who woos her on a bet and ends up falling in love; Adelaide, the chronically ill nightclub performer whose condition is brought on by the fact she's been engaged to the same man for 14 years; and Nathan Detroit, her devoted fiance, desperate as always to find a spot for his infamous floating crap game.  Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1950, this musical classic will delight theatre-goers of all ages with classic songs such as “I’ve Never Been in Love Before,” “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat,” and “Luck Be a Lady Tonight.”

"This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying." Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama set in the fictional town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire has become an American classic and is his most renowned work and one of the most frequently performed plays of all time.  Through unconventional elements in the play’s staging, Wilder tells the story of an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century.  Their everyday lives are depicted illuminating universal reveries and giving even the simplest of human moments a philosophical perspective in this hauntingly beautiful play.