The best of the best, stunning classics, modern masterpieces and proven hits.
ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR by Alan Ayckbourn directed by David Emmes September 7 - October 7, 2012
He’s back! England’s most prolific and most ingenious playwright—and one of SCR’s most popular—outdoes himself this time by setting a party in the living room but keeping the drama in the kitchen. Three kitchens, in fact, on three successive Christmas Eves when relationships change, fortunes soar and then dive and the social kaleidoscope gets all shook up. Add an off-stage couple whose jokes are really bad, some of the most ingenious failed suicide attempts ever devised and lots of gin, and you’ve got a ferociously funny farce with very sharp teeth. Take a bite!
HOW TO WRITE A NEW BOOK FOR THE BIBLE by Bill Cain directed by Kent Nicholson October 19 - November 18, 2012
“Write about what you know.” Bill Cain took that advice, and this is the dazzling result—a play about a family so appealing that you want to find a comfortable chair and settle down in their living room. When Bill comes back home to care for Mary, his often maddening (but always funny) mother, he tells the family story as it unfolds—in evocative flashbacks. The memories are both bitter and sweet, for this is a family with its own set of commandments. They squabble, yes, but even their arguments are beguiling.
CHINGLISH by David Henry Hwang directed by Leigh Silverman January 25 - February 24, 2013
Daniel’s sign-making company is in trouble, but he has a great idea: score a fat contract in China, where signs for English-speaking tourists are mangled by hilarious mis-translations. But he forgets the first rule: always bring your own translator because business deals involve much more than wining and dining. And when Daniel falls in love with a beautiful bureaucrat, even feelings take on different meanings. The repartee is fast and funny, and the timing is spot-on in this East-West comedy that embraces both sides of the cultural divide. (A co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre.)
SMOKEFALL by Noah Haidle directed by Anne Kauffman March 29 - April 28, 2013
This family is full of surprises. Violet’s twins will soon be born, but her husband can’t cope with life, her father can’t remember yesterday, and her daughter stopped talking when she had nothing left to say. The dog is silent, too, but wait until you hear what he’s thinking! Magical and tragic, funny and fascinating, Smokefall is Our Town for a new generation. (A world premiere co-production with Goodman Theatre, Chicago, Illinois.)
THE FANTASTICKS music by Harvey Schmidt book and lyrics by Tom Jones directed by Amanda Dehnert May 10 - June 9, 2013
A carnival midway of magic, mischief and theatrical thrills! Amanda Dehnert, celebrated throughout the American theatre for re-imagining classics, has added a multitude of visual delights and fantastical illusions to the original charm and beautiful ballads (like the haunting “Try to Remember”) of The Fantasticks. When two scheming fathers conspire with the mysterious El Gallo to keep their daughter and son apart (to be sure they’ll fall in love!) the dewy-eyed lovers venture into the real world. But as fantasy turns to reality, El Gallo is there to remind them that “without the hurt, the heart is hollow” in one of the most popular musicals of all time, which the Washington Post calls, “Fresh and alive again.”
Plays SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
Segerstrom Stage seating chart.
