Dinner and a show for one low price! Join us for an evening of great entertainment and great food. Listen to Broadway hits while dining on a delicious four-course meal (vegetarian and gluten-free options available). Tickets are $20 General Admission, $19 Faculty/Staff/Seniors, and $16 Students/Under 18. Note: This show is not included in our season ticket package.
The incessant ringing of cell phones. The constant need to be in constant touch with everyone and anyone. This 2007 surrealist comedy by Sarah Ruhl explores our need to be connected, how we deal with death, and the choices we make that can change our lives. When Jean answers the cell phone of a dead man in a café, her world will never be the same. Described by NY Times critic Charles Isherwood as “a beguiling comedy...a hallucinatory poetic fantasy that blends the mundane and the metaphysical, the blunt and the obscure, the patently bizarre and the bizarrely moving,” Dead Man’s Cell Phone is a thoughtful exploration of human interaction in the 21st century.
Winner of both the Obie and Dramatists Guild Awards for best play, The Marriage of Bette and Boo is a searingly funny, autobiographical look at a Catholic marriage through the eyes of a child. Durang explores “the disintegrating relationship and dreams of a perfect couple”—his parents—and the subsequent consequences of that crumbling relationship over the next three decades. The USA Today called Durang “wicked, wonderful and cartoony. Bette and Boo is both demented and compassionate. . . . and wise, hysterical and incredibly sad.” It is black comedy of the highest order, and fittingly Durang does not disappoint. He grants us absolution through laughter.
This moving play by Irish playwright Frank McGuiness takes place in a prison in Lebanon. Three men, one American, one Irish, and one British, are kidnapped and held hostage in a small cell with no contact with the outside world. Fearful they will be killed at any moment, the men cling to their sanity and one another, searching for hope in their memories and dreams. This poignant and heartbreaking play looks at how human beings survive in the darkest of circumstances.
Kander and Ebb’s Tony Award-winning musical follows the journey of a young American writer on his first trip to Germany and his relationship with the sultry, English nightclub singer Sally Bowles. The Emcee guides us through life—from the hedonistic, roaring 1920’s into the grotesque and deadly 1930’s—in the seedy underbelly, the Kit Kat Klub, of pre-Nazi Germany. Weimar Berlin becomes a dark and sexually charged haven of decadence, where its morally ambiguous residents doggedly keep up appearances as the real world around them collapses into chaos. Poignant, funny and ultimately disturbing, Cabaret celebrates lost innocence with such recognizable tunes as Wilkommen, Cabaret, Perfectly Marvelous, The Money Song and Two Ladies.
Student directors, designers, and actors show off their talents in this always enjoyable and diverse evening of theatre. Note: This production is not included in our season ticket package.