Category : Program Notes

My Fair Lady – A Note from the Artistic Director

My Fair Lady – A Note from the Artistic Director

George Bernard Shaw was a revolutionary for his time, a member of the famed and radical Fabian Society and a passionate feminist who believed...

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Curious Incident – A Note from the Artistic Director

Curious Incident – A Note from the Artistic Director

When I first read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, I was awed not only by its original storytelling format, but by its unique...

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Fat Ham – A Note from the Artistic Director

Fat Ham – A Note from the Artistic Director

Adaptations of Shakespeare abound from West Side Story to Romanoff and Juliet to & Juliet. The composer of Hair wrote a musical adaptation of Two...

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Exotic Deadly: Or The MSG Play – A Note from the Artistic Director

Exotic Deadly: Or The MSG Play – A Note from the Artistic Director

Exotic Deadly: Or The MSG Play is one of those rare scripts that became a front-runner for season selection before I even finished reading it. The...

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Waitress – A Love Song to Community

Waitress – A Love Song to Community

Community is a word we see bandied about a lot these days. It is used to sell products, memberships in organizations promising belonging while asking...

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The Play That Goes Wrong: A Note from Artistic Director Bill English

The Play That Goes Wrong: A Note from Artistic Director Bill English

Why do we laugh at a farce? Because otherwise we would have to cry. As Samuel Taylor Coleridge put it, “Farce is nearer tragedy than comedy...

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Evita: A Note from Dramaturg and Cultural Consultant Juan Rebuffo

Evita: A Note from Dramaturg and Cultural Consultant Juan Rebuffo

In the late 1940s, the Eva Peron Foundation granted my grandmother the opportunity to build a home in a budding Buenos Aires neighborhood –...

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Evita – A note from the Artistic Director

Evita – A note from the Artistic Director

Initially, I selected Evita for our 2023/24 Season because I knew it was going to be an election year in the U.S. and our democracy was certain to be...

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The Glass Menagerie – A Note from the Artistic Director

The Glass Menagerie – A Note from the Artistic Director

A high school junior who had played a supporting role in one musical but hadn’t really cared much about the experience was waiting for a bus when...

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The 39 Steps: A Note from the Artistic Director

The 39 Steps: A Note from the Artistic Director

Bill English, Artistic Director From the back seat of my parents’ Country Squire station wagon at the local drive-in theatre, I watched Cary...

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