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Our 2002 Season A season of fabulous entertainment featuring Pulitzer Prize and Tony winners by America’s leading playwrights! January 23 - February 10 HARVEY By Mary Chase Ask your teenager to join you for a lively evening centered on the "imaginary friend" of Elwood P. Dowd, called Harvey. He’s a six feet tall rabbit, invisible, of course, and behaves like a contemporary pooka, a furry Celtic mischievous spirit. Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize winning play provides an evening of laughter and warmth, as mix-ups are undone and the question of "who’s crazy?" takes a delightful turn.
March 13 - 31 The Dining Room By A.R. Gurney A brilliantly conceived and richly humorous theatrical experience as the troupe of 6 actors portray a wide variety of diverse characters in 18 scenes, all set in an elegant dining room. From the Depression to the 1980s the play delineates the waning wealthy lifestyle and decline of traditions and values that once centered the families of WASPdom. "Hilarious and touching as comic sketch crazily succeeds comic sketch" – NY POST Play Calendar: The Dining Room
May 8 - 26 Over the River and Through the Woods By Joe DiPietro A side splitting comedy about an Italian-American family whose grandson Nick wants to move to Seattle. The four grandparents declare all out war to keep him from moving, using tantalizing food, a beautiful woman, and hilarious logic. You don’t have to be Italian to wonder about the questions the play raises, "What do we owe our families who love us?" and "To what degree should we arrange our lives to stay close to the family?". "Loaded with laughs every step of the way. – Star-Ledger
September 18 - October 6 Steel Magnolias By Robert Harling
The action, set in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are "anybody" come to have their hair done, is alternately hilarious and touching – and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness underling the antic banter of its characters. "Harling has given his women sharp, funny dialogue...The play builds to a conclusion that is deeply moving." – NY Daily News. "...suffused with humor and tinged with tragedy." – NY Post.
November 6 - 24 My Three Angels By Sam and Bella Spewack
It is 104 degrees on Christmas Day, 1910, in French Guiana. In this wacky and heartfelt comedy, three felons on work release from the local penal colony set out to make things right for a family whose roof, finances and lives are in need of repair. Come see how two murderers and a con man redeem themselves as real life angels during a wonderful, laugh filled evening. "A completely captivating comedy." – Philadelphia Inquirer "Exudes a welcome and congenial air of humanity" – Christian Science Monitor
December 13th - December 22 Animals
A repeat of our last year's fun performance.
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