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The delightfully witty plot spotlights a few days in the life of the successful light comedy actor, Garry Essendine, as he prepares to travel for a touring commitment in Africa. Amid a series of events bordering on farce, Garry has to deal with younger women who want to submit to him, placate both his long-suffering secretary and his estranged wife, and cope with a super-contemptuous young playwright determined to change him into a more "serious and consequential" artist. As Garry has just turned forty, he's fending off all these attacks just as he senses his oncoming mid-life crisis. Coward himself originated the role and called the wildly amusing story "a series of semi-autobiographical pyrotechniques." All is played out by actors on a glamorous high style art deco suite in splendidly lavish high fashions. A feast of laughter and high spirits!
It's September 3, 1939, the cusp of World War II and two weeks before Freud's death. On that day, 83-year-old Freud, the great psychiatrist (and avowed atheist) suffers from life-threatening cancer. He has, in the playwright's imagination, somewhat mysteriously summoned Christian writer C. S. Lewis (then 40) to his London study. Bringing these two historical figures together is a clever dramatic construct, but doing it on that particular day is especially ingenious. A part of the prime minister's radio address provides a bit of a break from a just-begun-but-already-intense discussion about God, the Catholic Church and the hovering question of suicide. Intriguing biographical insights are woven into the strenuous yet witty arguments about belief, Lewis' friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, and Freud's attention to ancient artifacts positioned on his desk. The play was inspired by Dr. Armand S. Nicholi Jr.'s 2003 book The Question of God.
What happens when the heir to a New York banking company who secretly dreams of life on the stage is sent to Deadrock, Nevada to foreclose on the tiny town's only theater? He falls in love with the theater owner's daughter and tries to save the theater by producing an extravagant show! Brimming with the exuberant music of the celebrated musical duo, George and Ira Gershwin, this Tony Award-winning musical is a toe-tapping, riotously entertaining dazzler.
The lives of two American Marines and an Iraqi translator are forever changed by an encounter with a quick-witted tiger who haunts the streets of war-torn Baghdad attempting to find meaning, forgiveness and redemption amidst the city's ruins. Rajiv Joseph's groundbreaking new American play explores both the power and the perils of human nature. Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize and ran on Broadway in a limited engagement in 2011 with Robin Williams starring.
This play with music is a valentine to Elvis Presley's most devoted fans. The show weaves together the stories of an elderly couple touring the United States to exhibit the toilet Elvis used at their gas station sometime in the 1970s, a biker chick and her boyfriend stranded in the desert on their way to an Elvis concert, a man fighting a "conspiracy of the demon dentists", and a spinster piano teacher who fantasizes that she and Elvis are a couple. Combined with the music of Elvis Presley, this show is a heartfelt tribute to the fans who crowned Presley "The King".
One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic in Lucy Prebble's new play. Mixing classical tragedy with savage comedy, it follows a group of flawed men and women in a narrative of greed and loss which reviews the tumultuous 1990s and casts a new light on the financial turmoil in which the world finds itself in 2009.
This musical imaginatively weaves together two plots, the "real" world of a writer trying to turn his book into a screenplay, and the "reel" world of the fictional film. The setting is Hollywood in the late 1940's, with two stories occurring simultaneously: a Hollywood comedy and a detective drama. The real-life scenes are in color and the movie scenes in black and white with settings and costumes reflecting the reality vs. film. A striking socialite is ushered into detective Stone's office and hires him to find her step-daughter, a beautiful "bad girl". The simple missing daughter case turns complicated (partly because the novelist keeps rewriting the plot of the film to suit the charismatic film producer). When the novelist fulfills the producer's request to tone down a racially-motivated plotline in the screen play, the character of the detective protests. Thus creator and creation wrangle until the pair of them collaborate on writing an ending that concludes all with self respect and artistic triumph.
In partnership with Dallas Puppet Theater
Avenue Q is a laugh-out-loud musical that tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. There, he meets Kate (the girl next door), Rod (the Republican), Trekkie (the internet sexpert), Lucy the slut (need we say more?), and other colorful types who help Princeton finally discover his purpose in life!
It's a hugely entertaining show that Theatre Three revives every year around Valentine's Day -- and it sells out! It's the perfect revue of courtship and marriage that has earned its place as a signature piece by Theatre Three, and features gifted sketch comedy players who sing and dance their way through all the phases of romance and marriage.
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