PARADE
May 24 - July 15, 2017 | Performed at 325 Tudor Court
Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Co-conceived by Harold Prince
Music Direction by Michael Mahler
Choreographed by Ericka Mac
Directed by Gary Griffin
This stirring, Tony Award-winning musical explores the endurance of love and hope against seemingly insurmountable odds, telling the true story of Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-raised Jewish man accused of murder in 1913 Atlanta. Innovative, daring, and filled with soaring music, Parade is a moving love story, a riveting murder mystery, a gripping courtroom drama and a powerful exploration of innocence and naïveté coming face-to-face with ignorance and prejudice.
THE MYSTERY OF LOVE & SEX
April 05 - July 2, 2017 | Performed at 325 Tudor Court
Written by Bathsheba Doran
Directed by Marti Lyons
Charlotte and Jonny have grown up together, and are now trying to determine whether their close friendship might be something more. When they discover exactly what “more” actually entails, however, it comes as a surprise to them both—and to Charlotte’s parents, who are holding secrets and resentments of their own. This compelling, spirited story of intricate relationships is an entertaining and explosive look at race, sexual identity and family dynamics.
THE SCENE
February 22 - April 2, 2017 | Performed at 325 Tudor Court
Written by Theresa Rebeck
Directed by Kimberly Senior
What starts off with an amusing exchange at a hip Manhattan party quickly turns into something more complex. When close friends Charlie and Lewis meet Clea, a determined young woman making her mark on the New York scene, it sets them off on an emotional roller coaster. This provocative comedy-drama explores the dark edges of commitment and the struggles of balancing authenticity with ambition.
THE HUNTER AND THE BEAR
December 7 - January 29, 2017 | Performed at 325 Tudor Court
Written by PigPen Theatre Co
Directed by Stuart Carden and PigPen Theatre Co.
Cast in flickering campfire light, this combination frontier ghost-story and modern-day parable unfolds in PigPen Theatre Co.'s signature style: using resourceful staging, captivating storytelling, ingenious shadow puppetry and award-winning folk music to fuel a headlong plunge into the darkest part of the woods.
EAST TEXAS HOT LINKS
October 19 - January 29, 2017 | Performed at 325 Tudor Court
Written by Eugene Lee
Directed by Ron OJ Parson
In the woods of East Texas, the Top o' the Hill Cafe offers comfort, solace and companionship for the regulars who come in each night. However, it is the summer of 1955, and times are changing. In the face of oppressive Jim Crow laws, seven strong-willed locals join forces to protect one of their own—until the unthinkable catches them by surprise, changing life at Top o' the Hill forever.
JULIUS CAESAR
September 7 - October 23, 2016 | Performed at 325 Tudor Court
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Michael Halberstam and Scott Parkinson
Shakespeare’s masterpiece of power and conspiracy, friendship and betrayal, stands as the greatest political drama ever written. Caesar made Rome the world’s most powerful Empire through his brilliant military strategies, and upon his return from the wars wishes for a reluctant Republic to crown him King. When his fellow Senators decide that his advancement must be halted, they come to a brutal and extreme solution: the great man must fall.
COMPANY
June 15, 2016 - August 7, 2016 | Performed at 325 Tudor Court
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by George Furth
Originally produced and directed on Broadway by Harold Prince
Original Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Music Direction by Tom Vendafreddo
Choreographed by Brock Clawson
Directed by William Brown
It's Bobby's 35th birthday, and he's still single, trying to find a way to have serious relationship without a serious commitment. But as his friends—all couples at different stages in their marriages—impose their unique perspectives of relationship function and dysfunction on him, Bobby is forced to consider relaxing his determined grip on bachelorhood and begin exploring one of life's greatest questions—what does it mean to be alive?