2013 Season

Run For Your Wife
by Ray Cooney
directed by Francis A. Daley
Friday & Saturday
Apr. 5,6 12,13 19,20 26,27 at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, Apr. 14 at 2 p.m.

Following the success of Not Now, Darling in our 2009 Season, director Francis A. Daley brings you another rollicking farce by Ray Cooney. Run For Your Wife was Cooney's biggest success, lasting for nine years in London making it its longest-running comedy. This superb example of British farce had them rolling in the aisles in London and New York. A London cab driver John Smith, has two wives, two lives and a very precise schedule for juggling them both. With one wife at home in Streatham and another at home in Wimbledon, and with occupants of the flat upstairs at the latter location. Trouble brews when Smith is mugged and ends up in hospital, where both of his addresses surface, causing both the Streatham and Wimbledon police to investigate. Complication is piled upon complication as Smith tries to keep his double life from exploding. "Virtually continuous laughter" ~ N.Y. Post "Audiences will enjoy the show tremendously" ~ N.Y. Daily News "A laugh a minute!" ~ WABC Radio

Anne of Green Gables
by Lucy Maude Montgomery
adapted for stage by Joseph Robinette
directed by Robin Frome
Friday & Saturday
Jun. 28,29 July 5,6 12,13 19,20 26,27 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, Jul. 7 at 2 p.m.

Anne of Green Gables is L.M. Montgomery's enduring classic about an orphan girl, Anne Shirley. From Anne's first encounter with her austere guardian to her thrilling graduation from Queen's Academy, the play, dramatized by Joseph Robinette, faithfully recreates the memorable events and characters from the brilliant novel. All the tragedies and triumphs that mark Anne's growth from adolescence to early adulthood are here: her friendship with Diana, her feuds with Gilbert, her adoration of Matthew, the mistaken wine bottle, the cake disaster, the broken leg, the scholastic achievements and the saving of Green Gables. Whether you, the playgoer, are an "old friend" of Anne's or meeting her for the first time, this play will solidify a lasting friendship between the audience and one of literature's most unforgettable characters. "You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair... People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is." ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Book of Days
by Lanford Wilson
directed by Sara Panaccio
Friday & Saturday
Sept. 13,14 20,21 27,28 Oct. 4,5 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 22 at 2 p.m.

Small town life collides with ruthless, spiteful ambition in Lanford Wilson's Book of Days. When a prominent figure and business owner is mysteriously killed while hunting, the townsfolk accept it as an accident. All except Ruth, his bookkeeper and close friend, who suspects foul play. Honored with the American Theater Critics Association's "Best Play Award," Book of Days is considered Wilson's "best work since Fifth of July." Through "note-perfect language" a community reexamines a shared experience by painstakingly reliving agonizing memories. Each character, "remarkable for both their comic turns and for their enormous depth," struggles with their past choices and actions that ultimately led to the death. Wilson's "cosmic consciousness, intense moral concern, sense of human redemption, and romantic effusion" amplifies the raw emotions surrounding the deep trauma. The people of Dublin, Missouri relive and analyze their inadequacies and learn the impact of murder. "Book of Days is lively storytelling by one of our best playwrights." ~ Detroit Free Press.

Aladdin
adapted & directed by Patricia Michael
Friday, Dec. 6,13,20,27 Jan. 3 2014 at 8 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday
Dec. 7,8 14,15 21,22 28,29 Jan. 4,5 2014 at 2 p.m.

The story of Aladdin is hundreds of years old and was first told by Scheherazade in The Book of the Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights. It began its existence as a British style Pantomime at Covent Garden in 1788 and then again in 1813 in a comic musical starring the famous English clown Joseph Grimaldi. At that time, the great clipper ships, like the Cutty Sark, were racing cross the ocean from China with tea for the merchants of London. Throughout Britain, people were fascinated by everything to do with the Orient and, as a result, a great deal of the story of Aladdin was given a Chinese theme rather than its original Arabian setting. Aladdin's mother was named Twankey after a popular Chinese green tea and other "Chinese" characters were added such as Aladdin's brother Wishee Washee. Sherman's very own version of Aladdin will be an hilarious blend of Arabia, China and Connecticut! There will be tuneful songs, funny jokes and lots of audience participation. Bring the kids, bring granny, bring the whole family and have fun!