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
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...
Continue Reading →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...
Continue Reading →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...
Continue Reading →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...
Continue Reading →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...
Continue Reading →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 –...
Continue Reading →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...
Continue Reading →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...
Continue Reading →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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