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Quartermaine’s Terms

August 12 - August 23 Main Stage
2009 Season

Author: Gray, Simon
Director: Aitken, Maria
Tony-nominated director Maria Aitken directs this charming and heart-felt 1960s comedy about an endearingly eccentric group of English teachers in Cambridge whose insatiable quest for knowledge has masked their secret longings for passion, romance, and true happiness.

Caroline in Jersey

August 5 - August 19 Nikos Stage
2009 Season

Author: Lopez, Melinda
Director: Charlton, Amanda
Caroline is down and out in New Jersey. She’s having a nervous breakdown, her career as an actress is tragically dwindling, and a peculiar stranger has made his presence known in her new apartment. Can she find a way to conquer it all? This funny and touching new play follows one woman’s whole-hearted attempt to accept the past and take... Read More

Torch-Bearers, The

July 29 - August 9 Main Stage
2009 Season

Author: Kelly, George
Director: Baker, Dylan
Tony-nominated stage and screen actor Dylan Baker directs this side-splitting 1920s farce in which a troupe of amateur actors rehearse and perform a show-stopping new play—or try to with all their might. Their stage is riddled with comedic drama, suspense, and good old-fashioned witty mayhem, similar to both Noises Off and Boeing Boeing.

What is the Cause of Thunder?

July 22 - August 2 Nikos Stage
2009 Season

Author: Haidle, Noah
Director: Waldman, Justin
After 27 years on the same soap opera, Ada is starting to confuse her art and her life. But after so many years of acting, her art is her life. Haidle’s poignant comedy brings us the hilarity of day-time drama alongside the harsher, but often equally funny, realities of life. Festival Artistic Associate Justin Waldman directs this world-premiere.

Blanche and Beyond

August 2 Main Stage
2009 Season

Author: Lawson, Steve
Director: Lawson, Steve
Based on the hilarious, raunchy, and poignant letters which Tennessee Williams wrote between 1945 and 1957, Blanche and Beyond is the stage sequel to Lawson's A Distant Country Called Youth. While the first play traced the evolution of a young man finding his artistic voice, Blanche and Beyond spans the peak of Williams' career - the period of Streetcar, Rose... Read More

True West

July 15 - July 26 Main Stage
2009 Season

Author: Shepard, Sam
Director: Goldstein, Daniel
Former Boris Sagal Directing Fellow Daniel Goldstein directs this play by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Sam Shepard about squabbling siblings. This modern classic is an explosive exploration of family rivalry as two very different brothers attempt to sell Hollywood their version of the great American Western.

Knickerbocker

July 8 - July 19 Nikos Stage
2009 Season

Author: Sherman, Jonathan Marc
Director: Martin, Nicholas
Are you ready? The question looms over Jerry as the months tick by and his unborn son grows from the size of a peach to the size of, well, a baby. As the birth date creeps ever nearer, will the advice, encouragement and warnings of friends and family make Jerry more or less ready? The awe and terror of becoming... Read More

Children

July 1 - July 12 Main Stage
2009 Season

Author: Gurney, A.R.
Director: Tillinger, John
Tony-nominee John Tillinger directs this timeless Gurney classic set in a large summer home on an island off the coast of Massachusetts. When an estranged brother's return and a mother's impending marriage recall painful memories of their father’s death, seething arguments reignite one family’s struggle with its tragic past and uncertain future.

Schmoozy Togetherness

July 6 - July 12 Free Theatre | Main Stage
2009 Season

Author: Forman, Sam
Director: McKeon, Johanna
Schmoozy Togetherness is a new musical that follows a young girl, named Schmoozy Togetherness, who has lost her imagination and must find it before the end of recess. With the help of a mysterious boy named Phineas T. Happenstance, Schmoozy must navigate her way through the Metaforest using three pieces of advice given to her by her teacher. Will she... Read More

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