The 2010-2011 Season is coming into focus and will feature works by Sarah Ruhl, George Bernard Shaw, Richard Greenberg and the Bard himself. Find out more about next season’s plays, their writers and directors, and get some early casting news. SCR veterans will be happy to learn that Founding Artists Richard Doyle and Hal Landon, Jr. are both slated to appear in two plays next year: A Christmas Carol and …
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Southern Sisters Laugh Through Their Tears
Sisters Meg, Babe and Lenny have major problems – dead careers, dead horses, near-dead husbands. But playwright Beth Henley has also given these Mississippi women more than enough grace and gumption to muddle through their catastrophes. Full of heart and humor, Crimes of the Heart reminds us that in the end, it’s really your family that you can count on—to make you laugh as much as cry. You won’t want to miss the final show of the season, which opens May 7.
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Chinese Folk Tale Gets Modern Update
A pair of plucky orphans battles the greedy, evil Mrs. Crawly and her dim-bulb husband in Ben and the Magic Paintbrush, the latest world premiere in our Theatre for Young Audiences series. Based on a Chinese folk tale, the play takes children on a magical journey that includes a purple house, a crooked policeman, sleeping potions, disguises and a trip to the kingdom of Bohemia. Not to mention, of course, a happy ending. Ben runs May 21 through June 6.
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The Main Characters are Dead, but the Story Lives On
The young lovers have dispatched themselves with poison and knife, and the curtain has come down on Romeo and Juliet. The Capulets and Montagues declare peace, but the kids keep feuding. Benvolio (Romeo’s best friend) loves Rosaline (Romeo’s girlfriend before Juliet), but she still pines for Romeo—and wants revenge. Filled with love, laughter and swordplay, this modern sequel is based on an idea by Keira Knightley and written by her mother with thanks to Shakespeare.
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