OUR 2024–2025 SEASON
Just When You Thought You Knew Where Things Were Headed…
SEASON SPONSOR: MARIANNE LEEDY
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH
by Thornton Wilder
directed by Joseph McGrath
September 6–29, 2024
A timeless statement about human foibles and endurance and winner of the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the play combines farce, burlesque, and satire to show a family narrowly escaping one disaster after another, from ancient times to the present.
“It’s not easy to think of any other American play with so good a chance of being acted a hundred years from now.”—Atlantic Monthly, 1943
Sponsored by Sally Krusing and Betsey Parlato & David Zucker
If on a winter’s night a traveler
by Italo Calvino
adapted to the stage by John Capecci
directed by Cynthia Meier
November 1–24, 2024
Calvino’s 1979 novel—frequently ranked among the “top 100 of all time”—follows a protagonist named Reader in his quest to read If on a winter’s night a traveler. Along the way, he encounters ten engaging novels and becomes enmeshed in a dizzying international conspiracy. This classic work of postmodern metafiction contains themes that still resonate: computer-generated texts, book banning— and the simple, singular pleasure of curling up with a good book.
Sponsored by Holly Morris and Brock & Chantal McCaman
THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD
by John Millington Synge
directed by Cynthia Meier
January 10–February 2, 2025
Set in a pub in western Ireland in the early 1900s, the play tells the story of a roguish young man who attains a hero-like status among the local villagers by telling a rousing story about having murdered his father. When the play debuted at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, riots broke out, but the play was soon recognized globally as one of the great masterpieces of modern drama.
Sponsored by Andy Watson and Max McCauslin & John Smith
MARJORIE PRIME
by Jordan Harrison
directed by Christopher Johnson
February 21–March 16, 2025
What would we remember, and what would we forget, if given the chance? It’s the age of artificial intelligence, and 85-year-old Marjorie has a handsome new companion who is programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. In this richly spare, wondrous new play, Jordan Harrison explores the mysteries of human identity and the limits of what technology can replace.
Sponsored by Barbara Martinsons & Larry Boutis and Andy Watson
ROMEO AND JULIET
by William Shakespeare
directed by Christopher Johnson
April 25–May 18, 2025
Romeo is a Montague, and Juliet a Capulet. Their families are enmeshed in a feud, but the moment they meet, the two fall in love. One of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies is finally given a passionate rendering at The Rogue.
Sponsored by Jack Wahl & Mary Lou Forier and Shawn Burke