Plays and Events
OUR 2019–2020 SEASON
STORIES OF OBSESSION
SEASON SPONSOR: CAROL MANGOLD,
IN LOVING HONOR OF BILL MANGOLD, M.D.
Long Day’s Journey into Night
by Eugene O’Neill
directed by Cynthia Meier
September 12–29, 2019
A masterful image of a day in the Tyrone household, struggling with alcoholism, morphine addiction, and regret, as they reflect on love, dreams, and roads not taken. One of the most lauded of American plays, this deeply personal play received both the Tony Award for Best Play and a Pulitzer Prize.
Sponsored by Pat & John Hemann
Blithe Spirit
by Noël Coward
directed by Joseph McGrath
November 7–24, 2019
The novelist Charles Condomine invites the spiritualist Madame Arcati to hold a séance in his home. Arcati inadvertently summons the ghost of Charles’ first wife, Elvira, who Charles can see, but his present wife, Ruth, can’t. A jealous ghost, Elvira tries to upset the marriage.
Sponsored by Katharina Phillips & Sheldon Trubatch
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville, adapted by Cynthia Meier
directed by Cynthia Meier
January 9–26, 2020
The obsessed Captain Ahab assembles a whaling crew to pursue the albino sperm whale, Moby Dick, that took his leg in a prior voyage. Regarded by many as the great American novel, Moby Dick is Homeric, biblical, and Shakespearean in its breadth of expression.
Sponsored by Barbara Martinsons & Larry Boutis
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
by Martin McDonagh
directed by Christopher Johnson
February 27–March 15, 2020
In a rural Irish cottage of the aging Mag and her spinster daughter Maureen, their comic and appalling lives are brought to a head as a romance develops for Maureen that Mag resents.
Sponsored by Paul Winick & Ronda Lustman
Twelfth Night
by Willam Shakespeare
directed by Joseph McGrath
April 23–May 10, 2020
The shipwrecked Viola dresses as a boy for protection and is employed by Duke Orsino to woo Olivia for him. Olivia falls in love with Viola-in-disguise and Viola herself falls in love with Orsino. Meanwhile, the pranksters of Olivia’s household dupe the puritan Malvolio into falling in love with Olivia.
Sponsored by John Wahl & Mary Lou Forier