PRIVATE LIVES (comedy) by Noel Coward

Performance dates: September 17 - October 9, 2010

Cast: 3 W, 2 M.

This classic comedy, by one of the icons of the sophisticated, worldly, superior and self-absorbed upper classes of the 30's, reflects all the values they embraced, values that left them open to the merciless satire that Coward inflicted on them in Private Lives. When Amanda and Elyot meet accidentally at the same hotel, their passions carry them away from the wedding nights of their new marriages into a tumultuous return to their marriage and divorce of years before. The comedy reveals what split them up, pricking the sensibilities and efforts at decorum they fail so hilariously to maintain. Swept away by their emotions, trying to behave correctly but overmatched by their feelings, they have provided delighted audiences with hilarious evenings at the theater for 80 years.

Note: this is a change to the season initially announced and replaces The Great Sebastians.

EARTH AND SKY (mystery) by Douglas Post

Performance Dates: October 29 - November 20, 2010

Cast: 3 W, 6 M.

Earth and Sky is a poetic thriller about a would-be poet and part-time librarian named Sara McKeon whose lover of ten weeks, David Ames, is found dead one hot August morning in the city of Chicago. It appears that David, owner and manager of an expensive art-deco restaurant, may have been involved in several illicit activities including kidnapping, rape and murder. Unable to believe that the man she gave her heart to was a killer, and outraged that the police seem to have closed the book on the case, Sara begins her own investigation of the crime and is led deeper and deeper through the urban labyrinth into the contemporary underworld. As the detective story moves forward in time, scenes from the love affair take us back to the moment when Sara and David first met. Finally the plots converge, and Sara finds herself face to face with the person who murdered her beloved. "The devious U-turns in the plot continue past the evening of this taut new thriller." -NY Times.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL (musical) by Rick Wade & Dick Gessner

Performance Dates: December 9 . 19, 2010

Cast: Flexible

The Holiday tradition returns

THE DIVINERS (drama . Arc Show) by Jim Leonard, Jr.

Performance Dates: January 7 . 22, 2011

Cast: 5 W, 6 M.

In a small farm community during the depression, water and faith are in short supply. A charismatic but back-sliding preacher drifts into town and meets a gentle but misunderstood boy with the gift of divining or water-witching. The two outcasts find a common bond and help each other divine for truth, faith and hope. When the townspeople demand the preacher return to a way of life he no longer believes in, it drives both men to a crisis of trust. This earthy, funny, poignant is profoundly tragic and has echoes of Steinbeck's classic depression era work. The characters are simple but good people searching for hope and something to believe in.

RADIO GOLF (dramedy) by August Wilson

Performance Dates: February 4 . 26, 2011

Cast: 1 W, 4 M.

Radio Golf is a fast-paced, dynamic and wonderfully funny work about the world today and the dreams we have for the future. Set in Pittsburgh in the late 1990's, it's the story of a successful entrepreneur who aspires to become the city's first black mayor. But when the past begins to catch up with him, secrets get revealed that could be his undoing. The most contemporary of all of August Wilson's work, is the final play in his unprecedented 10-play cycle chronicling African-American life in the 20th century.

COMPANY (musical) book by Georg Furth and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Performance Dates: March 18 - April 16, 2011

Cast: 8 W, 6 M.

Winner of five Tony Awards. Originally entitled Threes, its plot revolves around Bobby (a single man unable to commit fully to a steady relationship, let alone marriage), the five married couples who are his best friends, and his three girlfriends. Unlike most book musicals, which follow a clearly delineated plot, Company is a concept musical composed of short vignettes, presented in no particular chronological order, linked by a celebration for Bobby's 35th birthday. Company was among the first musicals to deal with adult problems through its music. As Sondheim put it, "Company does deal with upper middle-class people with upper middle-class problems. Broadway theater has been for many years supported by those people. They really want to escape, and here we're saying we'll bring it right back in their faces ... what they came to a musical to avoid, they suddenly find facing them on the stage.".

LETTICE AND LOVAGE (comedy) by Peter Shaffer

Performance Dates: May 6 . 28, 2011

Cast: 3 W, 3 M.

Lettice Duffeet, is an expert on Elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, is an indefatigable enthusiast of history and the theatre. She is also a tour guide at Fustian House "one of the least stately and least interesting of Britain's" stately homes. Lettice begins to embellish its historical past and her lecture gains theatricality and romance as it strays from the facts. Lotte Schon, an inspector from the Preservation Trust, is neither impressed nor entertained by these uninhibited and less than factual history lessons. Lotte fires Lettice, but gradually becomes fascinated by her unusual past, her romantic world-view and her refusal to accept the mediocre and the second rate. To entertain themselves, the two new friends begin to secretly reenact the the trials and deaths of Englands most infamous kings, queens, and mistresses, but the fun nearly turns to murder and sets the two women off on a course neither one ever expected.

THE SHAPE OF THINGS (drama . Arc Show) by Neil LaBute

Performance Dates: June 10 . 25, 2011

Cast: 2W, 2M.

While visiting an art museum, a nerdy college student named Adam meets an iconoclastic artist named Evelyn and is instantly smitten. As their relationship develops, she gradually encourages Adam to change in various ways that surprise his older friends, Jenny and Philip. However, as events progress, Evelyn's antics become darker and darker as her influence begins to twist Adam and his friends in hurtful ways. When playwright-filmmaker Neil LaBute turns to the question, What is art?, you can predict two things about his answer: It will entertain and disturb you. Christine Dolen, Miami Herald.

Evenings; Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8 pm

Matinees; all Sundays 2 pm;

One double run on second Sunday , 2 pm and 7:30 pm