THE ROADS TO HOME

By Horton Foote

Directed by R. Bruce Hyde

October 13 - 17 at 8 pm
October 18 at 2 pm

Arena Stage, Performing Arts Center

Horton Foote, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and two Academy Awards, died in March of this year at the age of 92. He left a large and important body of work-- over fifty plays whose characters are drawn from the citizenry of the smallish town of Harrison, Texas, during the first half of the twentieth century. Foote's work lovingly depicts and relentlessly dissects these apparently well-ordered lives, finding in them both pathos and absurdity. The Roads to Home is the darkly funny story of a troubled young woman, and of how her roubles play themselves out in a careful Texas community in a less enlightened time.

DOG SEES GOD:
Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead

By Bert V. Royal

Directed by Jeffrey Bleam

November 17 - 21 at 8 pm
November 22 at 2 pm

Center Stage, Performing Arts Center

Good Grief! The “Peanuts” gang has made it to High School and the world is no less cruel. The gruesome death of a boy’s pet beagle is one more crummy event in a life gone sour: his best friend’s a stoner, his sister’s gone Goth, and his ex-girlfriend has been institutionalized. Teen angst, peer pressure, and forbidden passion collide in this hauntingly relevant comedy for the 21st century. (Contains explicit language, drug use, and sexual situations)

DOG SEES GOD has not been approved or authorized in any manner by the Charles M. Schultz Estate or United Features Syndicate, which have no responsibility for its content.

DON JUAN

By de Molina, Moliere and Pushkin

Adapted and Directed by Vladimir Rovinsky

February 9 - 13 at 8 pm
February 14 at 2 pm

Arena Stage, Performing Arts Center

One of the most enduring and disturbing legends in Western literature, the story of Don Juan is the tragic fate of a man who could have any woman he wanted but could be satisfied with none of them. Drawing from source material spanning two centuries and three countries, this visually provocative and poetically charged production offers an original retelling of a reckless man, the love he found, and the life he lost.

THE THREEPENNY OPERA

By Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill

Directed by Brenda Wentworth

April 20 - 24 at 8 pm
April 25 at 2 pm

Center Stage, Performing Arts Center

PRODUCED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE SCSU DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC

"Oh the shark has pretty teeth, dear..."
Under the veneer of musical comedy, Brecht and Weill serve up a wickedly ironic satire, deliciously apt for today's economic climate of bail-outs and bonuses. Originally produced on Broadway in 1933, this groundbreaking musical plunges its audience into a world of greed and graft, where organized crime and prostitution serve as toothsome metaphors for a political system gone belly-up.