June 10, 11, 12, 13

Plaza Suite by Neil Simon Directed by Anne Levy Set Design Justin Miller          Costume Design Karen Kangas-Preston

Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the Plaza. A suburban couple take the suite while their house is being painted and it turns out to be the one in which they honeymooned 23 (or was it 24?) years before and was yesterday the anniversary, or is it today

This wry tale of marriage in tatters is followed by the exploits of a Hollywood producer who, after three marriages, is looking for fresh fields. He calls a childhood sweetheart, now a suburban housewife, for a little sexual diversion. Over the years she has idolized him from afar and is now more than the match he bargained for. The last couple is a mother and father fighting about the best way to get their daughter out of the bathroom and down to the ballroom where guests await her or as mamma yells, "I want you to come out of that bathroom and get married!"

An adult comedy for couples of all kinds.

 

 

June 12, 13 (Late Show)

Scenes from All in the Timing  by David Ives Directed by Kristina Miller

   

June 17, 18, 19, 20

Leading Ladies by Ken Ludwig Directed by Sam O’Neill Set Design Justin Miller        Costume Design Kristina Miller

                

In this hilarious comedy by the author of Lend Me a Tenor  and Moon Over Buffalo, two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing "Scenes from Shakespeare" on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. When they hear that an old lady in York, PA is about to die and leave her fortune to her two long lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives and get the cash.

 

The trouble is, when they get to York, they find out that the relatives aren't nephews, but nieces! Romantic entanglements abound, especially when Leo falls head-over-petticoat in love with the old lady's vivacious niece, Meg, who's engaged to the local minister. Meg knows that there's a wide world out there, but it's not until she meets "Maxine and Stephanie" that she finally gets a taste of it. 

 

 

June 19, 20 (Late Show)

Rough Theatre I by Samuel Beckett Directed by David Peterson

 

 

 

June 24, 25, 26, 27

Kid Purple by Donald Wollner  Directed by Lynn Lammers  Set Design Amber Cook  Costume Design Amber Cook

 

Benjamin Schwartz was born with “a slight pigmentation abnormality.” In other words, he’s purple from the neck up. This naturally leads to problems with the other kids, who call him a “retarded grape.” Ben becomes so good at using his fists to defend himself that he pursues a career in the ring and eventually has a shot at the title.

But the story of his pugilistic successes is also an opportunity for the author to poke fun at some abiding clichés of our times, as Kid Purple becomes the great “off-white” hope. Variety calls this play “the universal story of every offbeat kid who did not fir the family or community mold and went out and made a world for himself.”

 

 

June 26, 27 (Late Show)

Clevenger’s Trial by Joseph Heller Directed by David Peterson

 

A memorable and hilarious episode from Joseph Heller’s famous novel, Catch 22.