by Charles Mee
Directed by Kelly Russell

October 14-19, Warren Theatre

Obie award-winning playwright Charles Mee delivers a modern retelling of one of the western world's oldest plays, "The Danaids" by Aeschylus, which takes a tragicomic look at societal expectations, matrimony, masculinity, femininity, sexuality and hope. Fifty brides flee their 50 grooms through arranged marriages to seek refuge in an Italian villa. After the grooms find their brides, mayhem ensues. And, finally, unable to escape their forced marriages, 49 of the brides murder their grooms—and one bride falls in love. Infusing pop music, poetry and dance, Mee paints a funny and shocking picture of present day relationships between men and women.

by Walton Jones and Carol Lees
Directed by J. Don Luna

November 14-16, Performing Arts Center

Set in the Algonquin room of the Hotel Astoria, The 1940's Radio Hour evokes the Christmas spirit of the United States at the start of World War II. The show contains such classic songs as "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," "I'll be Home for Christmas," and "Strike Up the Band." An actual radio show with a live studio audience, the musical is a perfect Christmas launch for our winter Texans and a weekend run in the beautiful Performing Arts Center. The NY Daily News raves that this play is a "totally exhilarating hour of singing, dancing, a radio drama, and outrageously funny commercials!" ABC-TV exclaims, "This is fun with a capital FUN!"

by Ken Ludwig
Directed by Dr. Terry Lewis

March 10-15, Warren Theatre

Welcome to Tinseltown 1934, where sexy starlets, cigar-chomping producers, and ga-ga columnists collide in a delectable blend of farce, fact and fantasy. When filmmaker Max Reinhardt's re-make of A Midsummer Night's Dream loses its leading men, a flash of madcap magic allows Shakespeare's Oberon and Puck to play themselves on the silver screen. This showbiz send-up is the latest hit from the author of Broadway's Lend Me a Tenor.

by William Shakespeare
Directed by Kelly Russell

April 21-26, Warren Theatre

Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands' money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old lecher's tricks and turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations, midnight terrors and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket. Gutsy, colloquial and bustling with vivid characters, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a brilliantly constructed farce and the only comedy Shakespeare set in his native land. It is also the ancestor of English bourgeois comedy and gave birth to a tradition that reaches down to the modern TV sitcom.