SEASON 1
(2022-2023)
Mainstage
Holy Days
By Sally Nemeth
Directed by Ted Rooney
August 12th - August 28th, 2022
If a poem is a form of dense evocational shorthand, Sally Nemeth’s HOLY DAYS is a stage poem. It is uncommonly affecting — an elegy for the lost souls in the dying plains of Kansas, 1936, who clung to their blighted homesteads like bees to the poisoned hive.
Set in Kansas during the Dust Bowl, this play tells the story of two farmer brothers and their wives struggling to make it through the drought and winds that hit the southern Great Plains during the 30’s, blowing away as much withered hope as dried-out topsoil … But the play is less about plot than quiet emotion and reflection … the deep hope Dust Bowlers had to draw upon to carry on.
Laughing Wild
By Christopher Durang
Directed by Ted Rooney
October 7th - October 29th, 2022
Set in New York during the 1980's, Laughing Wild is a provocative and absurd study of the perils of modern life told by two characters struggling to find happiness and meaning in urban America.
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In the time of COVID many suffered from social isolation, addiction, loneliness and mental health challenges. This play, centered around similar themes, allows us to think about these very real issues with humor and sensitivity.
Simultaneously hilarious and sad, Laughing Wild touches on the agonies of day-to-day existence, supermarkets, mental illness, the ozone layer, and God’s alleged interest in the Tony Awards.
Going to St. Ives
By Lee Blessing
Directed by Ted Rooney
June 1st - June 25th, 2023
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Two women from different worlds engage in a struggle to heal from the past reconcile their mistakes and risk everything for a better future.