2010 Season

The Housekeeper  

by James Prideaux

Directed by & starring Steve and Amy Sever

Dates: February 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27, & 28 (Matinee)

This offbeat, delightfully zany comedy deals with the unlikely involvement which develops between a middle-aged, rather stuffy bachelor and the eccentric bag lady he hires as a housekeeper.

The Rainmaker

by N. Richard Nash

Directed by Jay Young

Dates: March 26, 27, April 2, 3, 9, 10, 11 (Matinee)

Set in a drought-ridden rural town in the West in Depression era America, the play tells the story of a pivotal hot summer day in the life of spinsterish Lizzie Curry. Lizzie keeps house for her father and two brothers on the family cattle ranch. She has just returned from a trip to visit pseudo-cousins (all male), which was undertaken with the failed expectation that she would find a husband. As their farm languishes under the devastating drought, Lizzie's family worries about her marriage prospects more than about their dying cattle. A charming confidence trickster named Starbuck arrives and promises to bring rain in exchange for $100. His arrival sets off a series of events which enable Lizzie to see herself in a new light.

The Mystery of Irma Vep

by Charles Ludlam

Directed by Ronnie Miller

Dates: April 30, May 1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16 (Matinee)

Mandacrest Estate is the home of Lord Edgar and Lady Enid. Lady Enid is Lord Edgar's second wife, though he has yet to recover entirely from the passing of his first wife, Irma. The house staff, a maid named Jane Twisden and a swineherd named Nicodemus Underwood, have their own opinions of Lady Enid. The play includes eight characters that are intended to be performed by two actors. The actors play roles of both sexes.

The Jungle Book

by Thomas W. Olson, adapted from the story by Rudyard Kipling

Directed by Josh Aguirre

Dates: June 4,5, 11, 12,13 (Matinee), 18, 19

The Jungle Book transports audiences to mystical India and the tale of the young “man-cub,” Mowgli, a boy raised by animals who inhabits this mysterious jungle. Befriended by some animals and pursued by others, Mowgli is eventually forced to choose between the animal kingdom and the more “civilized” human world. Presented as a play-within-a-play, The Jungle Book uses masks, dance, mime to create this amazing and wonderful adventure.

Harley Sadler Show – The Would-Be Gentleman

by Jean Batiste Moliere

Directed by Zack Kocurek

Dates: July 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24, 25 (Matinee)

The play takes place entirely at Jourdain's house in Paris. Jourdain is a middle-aged bourgeois whose father grew rich as a cloth-merchant. The rather foolish Jourdain now has one aim in life—to rise above this middle-class background and be accepted as an aristocratic gentleman. me Jourdain, his sensible wife, sees that he is making himself ridiculous and urges him to return to his previous unpretentious middle-class life, but to no avail. Jourdain wants his daughter Lucille to marry a nobleman. But Lucille is in love with the middle-class Cléonte. He, with the assistance of his valet Covielle, disguises himself and presents himself to Jourdain as the son of the Sultan of Turkey. Needless to say, Jourdain is taken in and consents with delight to have his daughter marry foreign royalty. He is even more delighted when the "Turkish prince" informs him that, as father of the bride, he too will be officially ennobled at a special ceremony.

Sweet Nothing in My Ear

by Stephen Sachs

Directed by CD Adamson

Dates: August 13, 14, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25 (Matinee)

In Sweet Nothing in My Ear, Laura, who is deaf, and Dan, who is hearing, are an attractive young couple happily married for nine years.  Their son Adam was born hearing, but by age six has also become deaf.  When Dan decides to pursue the possibility of a cochlear implant for his boy - a tiny computer chip inserted in the brain that would allow him to regain his hearing - a divisive wedge is driven between husband and wife that threatens to shatter their marriage.

Ruthless! The Musical 

Book & Lyrics by Joal Paley, Music by Marvin Laird

Directed by Jacob Miller

Dates: September 24, 25, October 1, 2, 8, 9, 10 (Matinee)

Synopsis: Ruthless! The Musical is the story of a daughter who would literally kill for a part and her split-personality mother and conniving grandmother. A merry melodrama of inherited theatrical talent and unchained ambition reaching from the school play of Tina Denmark to the Broadway of Ginger DeMarco.