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 Susan
Faucon's Sweet Surrender
One Night Only! July 29, 2005 - 8:00pm
Theatrical Jazz best describes this experience. Sweet Surrender
combines jazz, R & B and theatre to express one woman's journey
that leads her to the shedding of false image and spiritual transformation.
This performance will give you a humorous, touching and sometimes
painful look into the heart and brain of a woman in the 21st century.
Tickets $15 ($13 - students/seniors)
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 2005
Annual One-Act Festival
Producers: Käthe Park
and Neil Edgell
August 19 - September 4, 2005
A stimulating collection of mostly original one-act plays, many
by local playwrights. Each weekend will feature different plays
that prove in their own ways that humor and passions are what make
us human.
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 Old
Time Music Hall
"A Little of What You Fancy"
September 9-10, 2005
Variety show, filled with humorous old-fashioned songs, snappy dance
numbers and favorite sing-a-longs, is fun for all audiences. Generous
refreshments are included. Music Hall is an entertainment experience
not to be missed!
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 The
Tale of the Allergist's Wife
by Charles Busch
September 30-October 23, 2005
Hilarious, antic farce filled with sidesplitting one-liners, slapstick
and poignancy of a depressed middle-aged housewife revived by
a mysterious long lost friend. Outer Critics Circle Award Winner!
"A window rattling comedy of mid life malaise...wall to wall
laughs." NY Times
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 The
Cocktail Hour
by A.R. Gurney
November 11-December 4, 2005
Warm, honest and personal comedy of a family during their
favorite time of day, when the playwright son seeks permission
to reveal the family’s past in his new play. Lucille Lortel Award
Best Off-Broadway Play! "It makes for a deliciously funny
and also occasionally touching evening." NY Post
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 The
Shape of Things
by Neil Labute
January 13 - February 5, 2006
From one of today’s most thought provoking playwrights,
a surprising story of deception and artifice when a young woman
artist seduces and remakes an awkward young man. "Relation
between morality and art, preoccupation with surfaces and dividing
line between provocation and attention-seeking … fascinating and
tantalizing!" Guardian
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 Bad
Seed
by Maxwell Anderson
February 24 - March 19, 2006
Classic suspense thriller of a young mother’s suspicion
that her seemingly innocent young daughter has something to do with
a young boy’s tragic death. Tony Award winning hit! "Sets your
spine to tingling!" NY Telegram.
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 Coyote
on a Fence
by Bruce Graham
April 7 - April 30, 2006
Provocative and penetrating drama confronts racism
and justice when two Death Row inmates, liberal political activist
John Brennan and white-supremacist Bobby Alvin Reyburn, strike
up an unusual friendship despite their conflicting views. "Provoking…troubling…will
change you a little before it lets go of you." Cincinnati
CityBeat. "…excellent theater in every way…"
Philadelphia City Paper
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 The
Diary of Anne Frank
by Frances Goodrich and Albert
Hackett, adapted by Wendy Kesselman
May 12 - June 4, 2006
At the Gaithersburg Arts Barn
Gripping new adaptation, with newly discovered writings,
revives the powerful story of a young girl’s honesty, hope
and inspiration enduring the horror of Nazi persecution. "Undeniably
moving. It shatters the heart. The evening never lets us forget
the inhuman darkness waiting to claim its incandescently human
heroine." NY Times
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 Les
Liaisons Dangereuses
(Dangerous Liaisons)
by Christopher Hampton
May 19 - June 11, 2006
Brilliant, witty, seductive and sumptuous tale of betrayal,
intrigue and morality when two 18th-century French aristocrats
wager on the virtue of a young newlywed. Olivier Award –
Best Play! "An evening of high comedy, high drama and
surprising passion." NY Post
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 Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee
June 30 - July 23, 2006
The scorching, funny and thrilling award winning drama
of a mild college professor and his racy wife entertaining a young
couple with drinks, seduction and revelations. Winner of the 1963
Tony Award for Best Play. "Electric evening in the theater"
NY Times
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