Anima Mundi

by Don Nigro
Directed by Kelly Russell

February 5 & 6

This poetic play traces a young American's search for God, his elusive love, and the meaning of art in a stunning tapestry of memories and nightmares. David Armitage travels to London in 1900, falls in love with a troubled dancer, and has his fortune told by Madame Blavatsky. With each turn of her tarot cards, a scene from David's future is revealed. Throughout his life's journey he meets a host of literary icons including Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, and Ezra Pound. He also faces the horrors of World War I and struggles to understand the significance of his existence. A National Play Award finalist, this magical drama is central to the author's cycle of Pendragon plays. (Anima Mundi contains adult language and mature themes.)

by Laura Shamas
Directed by Marshall Carby

November 13-18

Laura Shamas' new comedy goes behind the scenes of 17th century French theatre to reveal the hysterical underbelly of playmaking. The great comic dramatist Moliere, in order to mend the strained relationship with his wife, struggles to create a play about divine love. Moliere must find a balance between making his company happy, making the King happy, and most importantly making his wife happy. He battles literary and romantic rivals, a meddlesome royal patron, an insane deadline and his own ego in order to create a work worthy of his task.

The Exonerated

by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen
Directed by J. Don Luna

February 19-24

Winner of the 2003 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, The Exonerated tells the true stories of six wrongfully convicted survivors of death row in their own words. Culled from interviews, letters, transcripts, case files, and the public record, The Exonerated is a deeply moving and original theatrical experience. Moving between first person monologues and scenes set in courtrooms and prisons, the six interwoven stories paint a picture of an American criminal justice system gone horribly wrong-and of six brave souls who persevered to survive it.

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Chris Lusk

April 17-20, 24-27

Tennessee Williams transformed the American Theatre of the twentieth century with A Streetcar Named Desire, his masterpiece of lyrical heightened naturalism. Blanche Dubois, a faded and fragile Southern belle, arrives in a seedy New Orleans neighborhood to visit her younger sister Stella. Near the end of a downhill path in her life, Blanche comes repeatedly into confrontation with Stella's sexually aggressive husband, Stanley Kowalski, whose coarseness both offends and attracts her educated sensitivity. As jazz from the local bars blares through the night, tensions rise to an inevitable breaking point.