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The 50th Anniversary Season
To program our 50th season, we’ve reached back 500 years
in the literature bringing forward contemporary examples
of dramas, comedies and musicals that reflect exciting and
significant works of the 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st
centuries! Let the past inform (and delight) the future!
Among the treasures of the theatre being celebrated
in this 50th Anniversary Season are our playgoers. Loyal
playgoers, many of them subscribers with decades of play
going experience, continuously elevate the expectation of
excellence.
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A wild, wild West comedy by James
McLure
The anarchy of Englishman John O’Keefe’s
18th century comic masterpiece gets a savvy makeover as
it’s transported into a lavishly rowdy Muleshoe, Texas
in the 1800s, with a stage teeming with crooked landlords,
barn storming actors, a local madam and passels of happily
corruptible cowpokes.
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A Dallas premiere of a Broadway musical by John Bucchino
and Harvey Fierstein
This musical shows the
touching but monumentally impractical sacrifices of parents
to provide their beloved daughter a beautiful wedding. All
its powerful emotions (including joy) are elevated by Bucchino’s
gorgeous score and evocative lyrics.
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A London and New York prize-winning comedy by David
Hirson inspired by Molière
When a pig-headed patron
in 17th century France imposes a vulgar street performer
on the court’s most prestigious comedy company, there
are fireworks of indignation. This exhilarating play pitches
the crass comic against the intellectually swift and socially
significant Molière-like satirist who runs the company.
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The mile a minute Broadway drama by Oscar winner,
Aaron Sorkin
It’s 1929. Two ambitious visionaries
race against each other to invent a device called “television”.
Who will unlock the key to the powerful innovation of
the 20th century: the ruthless media mogul or the self-taught
Idaho farm boy?
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The play that won the Edgar Best Mystery Award by
Joe DiPietro
Proving an unsurpassed talent to amuse,
the lyricist and book writer of I Love You, You’re Perfect,
Now Change, tackled the comedy mystery genre – and won the
Edgar Award! Here DiPietro dives into the rarified world
of high priced art, towering ego clashes and high style
intrigue.
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Broadway’s new rock musical with music and lyrics
by Michael Friedman, book by Alex Timbers
The colorful, multi-prize-winning,
tongue-in-cheek and smart-ass rock musical exuberantly shows
the seventh president of the United Stats as virile, bold,
complex and even corrupt, as he recklessly wrestles political
power away from the elite and back to his ga-ga public.
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