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Theatre USA 2012 -2013 Season

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Children of Eden
by Steven Schwartz
September 28, 29, & October 4, 5, & 6 at 7:30 pm
September 30 at 2:00 pm

From Adam and Eve to Noah and the “Father” who created them, this joyous Biblical musical about parents and children stomps its feet and raises its voice with warmth and a sublimely inspirational message.
Steven Schwartz who wrote both music and lyrics for the play is perhaps known best recently for his stage musical Wicked as well as the Disney musical, Enchanted. Co-produced with the Department of Music


Dead Man’s Cell Phone
by Sarah Ruhl
November 9, 10, 16, 17, & 18 at 7:30 pm
November 11 at 2:00 pm

A phone rings in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table has had enough. Of course the phone’s messages lead a woman on an odyssey of assumptions about the need to reach out and answer in a noisy digital world.
Sarah Ruhl is the author of The Clean House among other plays and the winner of both the MacArthur

Fellowship and the Susan Blackburn Award as well as a finalist for two Pulitzer Awards.

 

The Burial at Thebes
by Seamus Heaney
February 22, 23, 28, March 1 & 2 at 7:30 pm
February 24 at 2:00 pm

The Burial at Thebes is the celebrated version of Sophocles’ Antigone by the Irish Nobel Prize-winning Poet, Seamus Heaney.
First staged in the 5 century B.C., it explores the conflict between human rights and state security. Filled with both darkness and humanity. Heany’s version speaks clearly of ancient and current times.

 

Cyrano de Bergerac
by Antony Burgess
April 19, 20, 25, 26 & 27 at 7:30 pm
April 21 at 2:00 pm

Since Coquelin toured America in the play in 1900 with Sarah Bernhardt, productions have been celebrated as one of the classic versions of a great and secret love story. Fluid, funny, and yet fragile, the production survives on sheer “panache.” Antony Burgess’ translation and adaptation of this deeply romantic comedy.