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A Drama By Christopher Piehler In Collaboration With Scott Alan Evans On Saturday, March 25, 1911 at 4:45 p.m., a discarded cigarette ignites a fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory off Manhattan’s Washington Square. Panic erupts. In the space of 28 minutes the fire is brought under control - but 146 Polish, Russian and Italian female immigrant workers are dead. Historic accounts of the tragedy serve as resources for telling how the enraged outcry inspired by the shocking acquittal of those held responsible, shape social, political and economic policies for decades to come. September 15-16, 21-23, 28-30, October 5-7, 2006 |
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A Comedy By Mark Steven Jensen A rural women’s craft society, centered on raising funds to support their local children’s home, is joined by a "Gender Studies" professor gathering research on rural women. The group’s intentions to eject him as a trespasser dissolve when they discover he is gay. Their new resolve? - "To find this guy a woman!" "Insightful and deliciously entertaining." November 17-18, 24-25, 30, December 1-2, 7-9, 2006 (There is no Thanksgiving Day performance) |
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A Drama By Michael Frayn In 1941 German physicist, Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see Neils Bohr, his old friend, colleague, and Danish counterpart. In the 1920’s they had revolutionized atomic physics with their work on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle. Now, on opposite sides in a world war, their meeting is fraught with danger and ends in disaster. Their purpose is to determine, "how we can ever know why we do what we do." A Tony Award-winning play described as, "A piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session." January 12-13, 18-20, 25-27, 2007 |
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A Drama By Margaret Edson Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., is a renowned professor of English literature whose life comes to reveal the indomitable nature of the human spirit. Having spent years studying and teaching the sonnets of poet John Donne, she has now been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. She is led to reevaluate her work and life with a sensitivity that transforms both her and all those around her. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. "A dazzling and humane play you will remember till your dying day." John Simon, New York Magazine. March 9-10, 15-17, 22-24, 29-31, 2007 |
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A Comedy By Steven Dietz Donny Rowen has made a decision. Having given up his worldly goods, he sits in his E-Z Boy recliner staring at the heavens through the skylight in his attic, believing fully that somewhere in the heavens there is a place where all the roads we never chose converge. Here is the story of one man’s obsessive desire to find this "parallel world" - and the profound effect his decision has on his family and friends. May 4-5, 10-12, 17-19, 24-26, 2007 |
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