by Abby Mann

November 11, 12, 17-19, 2011 8 PM
November 13, 2011 3PM

Directed by Steve Suskin – Produced by Dee Dunn

 

 

A stage version of an Academy Award winning film. Ernest Janning, one of the most influential German legal minds of the pre war era, and other influential Nazis face a military tribunal in the second wave of post war trials at Nuremberg. Issues at the forefront of this trial reverberate through history and challenge humanity to this day.

Cast:

Col. Parker – Dennis Blomm
Merrin – Guido Schlairet
Haywood – Burt McCollom
Byers/Narrator – Tony Wright
Ives – Clint Bramkamp
Norris – Pat Hopkins
Emil Hahn – Jim Waldfogle
Hoffstetter – Tony Bergman
Lammpe – John Masterson
Janning – Dan Britt
Rolfe – Mark Waldfogle
Dr. Wickert – Ray Lebowski
Mrs. Halberstadt – Dee Dunn
Mrs. Bertholt – Julie Jordan
Peterson – Joel Lind*
Waitress – Lee Anne Waldfogle
Geuter – Dan Biron
Maria Wallner – Bridgid Dunn
Mrs. Lindnow – Cathy Bennett

* Desdemona Award

 

by James McLure

 

January 20, 21, 26-28 2012 8 PM
January 22, 2012 3PM

Directed by David Hughes – Produced by Jenny Hughes

Stage Manager - Abby Spratt

 

 

Lone Star takes place in the cluttered backyard of a small-town Texas bar. Roy, a brawny, macho type who had once been a local high-school hero, is back in town after a hitch in Vietnam and trying to reestablish his position in the community. Joined by his younger brother, Ray (who worships him), Roy sets about consuming a case of beer while regaling Ray with tales of his military and amorous exploits. Apparently Roy cherishes three things above all; his country, his sexy young wife, and his 1959 pink Thunderbird. With the arrival of Cletis, the fatuous, newlywed son of the local hardware store owner, the underpinnings of Roy's world begin to collapse as it gradually comes out that Ray had slept with his brother's wife during his absence and, horror of horrors, has just demolished his cherished Thunderbird. But, despite all, the high good humor of the play never lapses, and all ends as breezily and happily as it began.

Cast:

Roy – Fred Hunt
Cletis – Garry Hohnecker
Ray – Jonathan Gaietto*

* Desdemona Award

Laundry and Bourbon is set on the front porch of Roy and Elizabeth's home in Maynard, Texas, on a hot summer afternoon. Elizabeth and her friend Hattie are whiling away the time folding laundry, watching TV, sipping bourbon and Coke, and gossiping about the many open secrets which are so much a part of small-town life. They are joined by the self-righteous Amy Lee who, among other tidbits, can't resist blurting out that Roy has been seen around town with another woman. While the ensuing conversation is increasingly edged with bitter humor, from it emerges a sense of Elizabeth's inner strength and her quiet understanding of the turmoil which has beset her husband since his return from Vietnam. He is wild, and he is unfaithful, but he needs her, and she loves him. And she'll be waiting for him when he comes home—no matter what others may say or think.

Cast:

Elizabeth – Allyson West
Amy Lee – Shannon Briscoe
Hattie – Katrina Reynolds

 

by Alan Ball

May 11,12, 17-19, 2012 8PM
May 13, 2012 3PM

Directed by Keith Gabbard – Produced by Shannon Gabbard

 

 

During an ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee, estate, five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below. They are Frances, a painfully sweet but sheltered fundamentalist; Mindy, the cheerful, wise-cracking lesbian sister of the groom; Georgeanne, whose heartbreak over her own failed marriage triggers outrageous behavior; Meredith, the bride's younger sister whose precocious rebelliousness masks a dark secret; and Trisha, a jaded beauty whose die-hard cynicism about men is called into question when she meets Tripp, a charming bad-boy usher to whom there is more than meets the eye. As the afternoon wears on, these five very different women joyously discover a common bond in this wickedly funny, irreverent and touching celebration of the women's spirit.

Frances – Ali Collins
Meredith – Jodi Dunavan
Trisha – Allyson West
Georgeanne – Rebecca Coots
Mindy – Lori Roll
Tripp – Mark Krebs