PARK YOUR CAR IN HARVARD YARD --- A resounding success throughout America and Europe
By Israel Horovitz
April 29 - May 25
Low-price Previews April 29, 30 & May 1
This hilarious and deeply-moving tale is about the toughest, meanest teacher to ever set foot in Gloucester High. Now he is dying and he hires a mousey, middle-aged woman to look after him during his final year. What he has forgotten is that he flunked her...and her mother and her father...and her recently deceased husband.
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CABARET --- Winner of 8 Tony Awards
Book by Joe Masteroff
Lyrics & Music by Fred Ebb and John Kander
February 5 - March 9
An enormous sucess with critics and audiences alike, CABARET follows the romance of an English cabaret performer and an American writer. Set in the early 1930's, against the backdrop of a crumbling Germany, the colorful goings-on inside the Kit Kat Club offer a place where "life is beautiful...the girls are beautiful...even the orchestra is beautiful!" CABARET is a captivating theatrical experience you won't want to miss.
"Cabaret is one of the most brilliant musicals..." - Boston Globe
"It'll be an intoxicating cocktail for everyone..." - Variety
PARK YOUR CAR IN HARVARD YARD
By Israel Horovitz
April 29 - May 25
This hilarious and deeply-moving tale is about the toughest, meanest teacher to ever set foot in Gloucester High. Now he is dying and he hires a mousey, middle-aged woman to look after him during the his final year. What he has forgotten is that he flunked her...and her mother and her father...and her recently deceased husband.
"Israel Horovitz has written his best play." - New Yorker
"Tickles, provokes, soothes and entertains..." - NY Magazine
THE SWEEPERS --- West Coast Premiere
By John C. Picardi
June 10 - July 6
Bella, Mary and Dotty have been friends and next-door neighbors in Boston's North End Italian neighborhood since childhood. Husbands and sons are away fighting and World War II impacts the neighborhood, exerting pressure on those who cherish traditions to assimilate and change with the times. Skillfully written and hauntingly dramatic, THE SWEEPERS moves you from tears to laughter and back again.
"Often humorous, eventually gripping. Mr. Picardi renders his characters timeless." - NY Times
"Picardi's twists of tale are worthy of a Miller play." - Times Union
FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE
August 26 - September 21
A critical and popular success, this bittersweet comedy combines poignancy and laughter as it traces the unlikely romance that begins to develop between two middle-aged "losers". Out of the sometimes touching, sometimes hilarious interplay between two searching souls, the promise of a relationship beyond a first date begins to emerge.
"...extraordinarily funny, romantic and ribald comedy..." - NY Post
"...a hit...abundance of laughs..." - Variety
THE GRAPES OF WRATH --- Winner of Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle Award
By Frank Galati
Based on the novel by John Steinbeck
October 14 - November 9
Celebrated first as a novel, and then as a prize-winning motion picture, the story of the Joad family and their flight from the dust bowl of Oklahoma is familar to all. A powerful and deeply affecting stage version of one of the masterpieces of Americn literature, this thrilling theatrical achievement conveys the timeless message of the persistence and strength of the human spirit.
"...a thrilling theatrical achievement..." - NY Post
"...a lesson in history, stagecraft, and truth that we cannot afford not to learn." - NY Magazine
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