Current Season
Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
By John Bishop
The creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls were murdered by the “Stage Door Slasher”) assembles for a backer’s audition at the estate of a wealthy “angel.” The house is replete with sliding panels, secret passageways and a German maid who is apparently four different people (all diabolical). The infamous “Slasher” makes his reappearance and strikes again—and again. The team prepares the audition during a blizzard that cuts off any possible retreat as bodies start to drop, knives spring out of nowhere, masked figures drag their victims behind swiveling bookcases, and accusing fingers point in all directions. This murder mystery will keep you guessing while you’re laughing.
August 30-September 1 at 7:30pm
September 2 at 3:00pm
The Crucible
By Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller may be best know for Death of a Salesman, but there is no greater tragic protagonist than John Proctor. This play focuses upon farmer John Proctor, his wife, and a young servant-girl who maliciously causes the wife’s arrest for witchcraft. Proctor brings the girl to court to admit the lie—and it is here that the monstrous course of bigotry and deceit is terrifyingly depicted. The farmer, instead of saving his wife, finds himself also accused of witchcraft and ultimately condemned with a host of others.
October 18-19; 25-27 at 7:30pm
October 28 at 3:00pm
The Cripple of Inishmaan
By Martin McDonagh
Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland in 1934, The Cripple of Inishmaan is a strange comic tale in the great tradition of Irish storytelling. As word arrives on Inishmaan that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island of Inishmore to film the movie MAN OF ARAN, the one person who wants to be in the film more than anybody is young Cripple Billy, if only to break away from the bitter tedium of his daily life.
November 29-December 1 at 7:30pm
December 2 at 3:00pm
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
By Bert V.Royal
When CB’s dog dies from rabies, CB begins to question the existence of an afterlife. His best friend is too burnt out to provide any coherent speculation; his sister has gone goth; his ex-girlfriend has recently been institutionalized; and his other friends are too inebriated to give him any sort of solace. But a chance meeting with an artistic kid, the target of this group’s bullying, offers CB a peace of mind and sets in motion a friendship that will push teen angst to the very limits. Drug use, suicide, eating disorders, teen violence, rebellion and sexual identity collide and careen toward an ending that’s both haunting and hopeful.
February 21-23 at 7:30pm
February 24 at 3:00pm
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Book by
BURT SHEVELOVE and LARRY GELBART
Music and Lyrics by
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Originally Produced on Broadway by Harold S. Prince
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684
www.MTIShows.com
April 10-13 at 7:30pm
April 14 at 3:00pm
