The Rimers of Eldritch poster

The Rimers of Eldritch

Oct 14, 2009

Set in the mid-20th century in Eldritch, Missouri, a decaying Bible Belt town that once was a prosperous coal mining community, it focuses on the murder of the aging local hermit by a woman who mistakenly thought he was committing rape when he actual...

The Country Club poster

The Country Club

Nov 12, 2009

The plot finds Soos, a young, witty and charmingly neurotic, who retreats from a failed marriage to her upper-class hometown. The type of WASP domain with the houses "that made Martha Stewart forget she was Polish", she says. As party after party unf...

Dido and Aeneas Poster

Dido and Aeneas

Dec 11, 2009

This opera, in a prologue and three acts, was written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell. The story is based on Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid. It recounts the love of Dido, Queen of Carthage, for the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair when h...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood poster

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Apr 01, 2010

In the musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's last, unfinished novel, the audience gets to decide who murdered the mysterious orphan Edwin Drood, with the musical presented in the style of a Victorian music hall. ...

The Dining Room Poster

The Dining Room

Oct 14, 2010

"The Dining Room," a play by the American playwright A. R. Gurney, Jr., is a comedy of manners, set in a single dining room where 18 scenes from different households overlap and intertwine. Each story is focused on a different family (during differ...

Autobahn Poster

Autobahn

Nov 17, 2010

Neil LaBute's collection of one-act plays is set within the confines of the front seat. Each of these vignettes explore the ethos of perception and relationship – from a make-out session gone awry to a kidnapping thinly disguised as a road trip, a ...

Sunday in the Park with George poster

Sunday in the Park with George

Mar 10, 2011

As Georges Seurat works on his most famous painting, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte," his mistress, Dot, threatens to leave him, and later in the show, his great-grandson struggles to succeed as an artist and to understand those...

Crumbs from the Table of Joy

Crumbs from the Table of Joy

Apr 14, 2011

Crumbs is a memory play told through Ernestine, a seventeen year old, African-American young woman whose family is dealing with their own realities of change. After the death of his wife, a man named Godfrey Crump finds religion and decides to move h...

The Consul

The Consul

Oct 26, 2011

A political dissident in a European totalitarian country flees the authorities but tells his wife that he will not leave the country until she, his mother, and child are safely out. ...

The Comedy of Errors

The Comedy of Errors

Nov 16, 2011

The Comedy of Errors, one of William Shakespeare's early plays, is a farcical comedy featuring slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. ...