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2009-2010 Season
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P.O. Box 15513, Richmond, Virginia 23227 (804) 262-9760
Playhouse: 319 North Wilkinson Road
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October 23 - November 8, 2009
Written By Herb Gardner
Directed By Jennifer Frank
Audition Dates:
Sunday, Aug 16, 2009 7:00 PM
Monday, Aug 17, 2009 7:00 PM
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The author of A Thousand Clowns brings us another set of the particular creatures that are New Yorkers. I'm Not Rappaport! takes place under a bridge in Central Park, where two octogenarians, one white one black, meet regularly, determined to fight off all attempts to put them out to pasture. Nat is a cantankerous Communist whose daughter is urging him into the old folk's home. Midge, an apartment superintendent spends his days in the park hiding in the past and from his disgruntled tenants.
"Rambunctiously funny."- N.Y. Post
"A warm and entertaining evening." -WWD
Tony Award Winner, Best Play 1986.
(Comedy, 5 m, 2 f)
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January 22 - February 13, 2010
Written By Beth Henley
Directed By Art Trotter
Audition Dates:
Saturday, Oct 3, 2009 2:00 PM
Sunday, Oct 4, 2009 2:00 PM
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The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at thirty and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who quickly outgrew Hazlehurst, is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach. Their troubles, grave and yet, somehow, hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by the awkward young lawyer who tries to keep Babe out of jail while helpless not to fall in love with her. In the end the play is the story of how its young characters escape the past to seize the future—but the telling is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the curtain has descended.
Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. An astonishing first play, initially presented by the Actors Theatre of Louisville, then Off-Broadway, and then on Broadway, where it established the author as a major voice in our theatre. Warm-hearted, irreverent, zany and brilliantly imaginative, the play teems with humanity and humor as it examines the plight of three young Mississippi sisters betrayed by their passions. "While this play overflows with infectious high spirits, it is also, unmistakably, the tale of a very troubled family. Such is Miss Henley's prodigious talent that she can serve us pain as though it were a piece of cake." —NY Times. "It has heart, wit and a surprisingly zany passion that must carry all before it…it would certainly be a crime for anyone interested in the theatre not to see this play." —NY Post. "From time to time a play comes along that restores one's faith in our theatre…" —NY Magazine.
(Comedy/Drama,2 men, 4 women)
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March 26 - April 11, 2010
Written By D.W. Gregory
Directed By Amy Berlin
Audition Dates:
Saturday, Jan 2, 2010 2:00 PM
Sunday, Jan 3, 2010 2:00 PM
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 Presented as part of MINDS WIDE OPEN: Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts, RADIUM GIRLS, by Pulitzer-prize nominated playwright D.W. Gregory, is based on the tragic true story surrounding the U.S. Radium Corporation scandal of the 1920's. In the sleepy suburbs of Orange, New Jersey, nearly one hundred young, female factory-workers were slowly poisoned to death with radium. Part courtroom drama, part chilling cautionary tale, RADIUM GIRLS is also a theatrical tour de force: nine actors play more than thirty parts in a sweeping production spanning several decades. This haunting play presents a wry, unflinching looks at a scientific discovery, flaunted as a miracle cure, that instead spread new diseases, toppled successful businesses, devasted families, and spurred an inspiring battle for justice.
"Radium Girls may speak to our collective capacity for denial. But it also celebrates our individual courage." (The Daily Record, Morristown, NJ)
"the best new play" in New Jersey professional theatre. (The Star-Ledger)
(Comedy/Drama, 4 to 5m, 5w)
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May 28 - June 13, 2010
Written By Caroline Smith
Directed By Lynn Smith
Audition Dates:
Sunday, Mar 28, 2010 7:00 PM
Monday, Mar 29, 2010 7:00 PM
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Isobel Lomax and Dolly Biddle are two "mature" cable-access cooking show hostesses who have hated each other for 30 years, ever since Stephen Biddle dated one and married the other. When circumstances put them together on a TV show called The Kitchen Witches, the insults are flung harder than the food! Dolly's long-suffering TV-producer son Stephen tries to keep them on track, but as long as Dolly's dressing room is one inch closer to the set than Isobel's, it's a losing battle, and the show becomes a rating smash as Dolly and Isobel top both Martha Stewart and Jerry Springer!
"Canadian playwright Caroline Smith has whipped up a hilarious tale."-Simcoe Times-Reformer
"Take a handful of animated actors, add a lively and responsive audience, let the plot thicken and you get a savoury show that's sure to please even the fussiest palate."-The Orangeville Banner
Winner of the 2005 Samuel French Canadian Play Contest
(Comedy,2 m, 2 f)
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