TICKETS
GO ON SALE APRIL 19TH!
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September 2 - 12
Boston's sold out hit!
Trad
by Mark Doherty
Directed
by Carmel O'Reilly
Starring original cast members, Nancy E.
Carroll, Colin Hamell & Billy Meleady
  
A hit in Boston, this is the hilarious fable
of hundred year old Thomas and his
improbably ancient Dad. When Thomas
reveals that he once fathered a son in
a long-ago fling, the pair set off across
the Irish countryside to fi nd the child,
with nothing more than a hobble and a
limp to help them. • Artists’ post-show“Talk
Back” Sunday,
September 5.
"Exactingly tended by Tír Na, Trad is a vaudeville
routine that somehow blooms into a poem". Carolyn
Clay, Boston Phoenix. |
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PAST PRODUCTIONS |
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Sponsors: John and Mollie Byrnes and
Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation |
June 17 - July 3
Table Manners
By Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Eric C. Engel
Cast includes Steven Barkhimer, Lindsay Crouse, Jennie Israel, Richard Snee,
Sarah Newhouse and Barlow Adamson
A heartbreakingly hilarious reunion of siblings and their spouses, the first
of Ayckbourn’s infamous The "Norman Conquests" trilogy. • Artists’ post-show “Talk
Back”
Sunday, June 20. |
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July 8 - July 25
Tender
A New Play
By Kelly Younger
Directed by Eric C. Engel
Cast includes Denise Cormier, Richard McElvain and Brendan
Powers
The family home, wallpapered with a lifetime of I.O.U.s,
is about to go into foreclosure and Christopher, the Patron
Saint of Travelers, is on standby. All that is tender is
not green in this humorous and heartbreaking family drama
by one of America’s emerging playwrights. Tender was
developed with support of New Repertory Theatre, Watertown,
MA. • Artists’ post-show “Talk Back”
Sunday, July 11.
Sponsored by The Selma and Bayness Andrews
Fund of The Boston Foundation, Kathe and Allan Cohen, Advisors |
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Two weeks only!
JULY 29 - AUGUST 8
Trying
By Joanna McClelland Glass
Directed by Eric C. Engel
Featuring Richard Mawe and Becky Webber
  Winner of the prestigious Jefferson Award for Best New Play,
2004. A cross-generational tour de force ensues when Sarah,
a young secretary from the Canadian prairie, fi nds herself
working for the aging Francis Biddle, Attorney General during
World War II and the primary American judge on the postwar
Nuremberg Trials. This intimate and inspiring story, based
on the playwright’s own experience, has been acclaimed
by audiences and critics in the United States and Canada. • Artists’
post-show “Talk Back”
Sunday, August 1. |
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August 12 -29
An Ideal Husband
By Oscar Wilde
Adapted by Daniel Morris
Directed by Karen MacDonald
Cast includes Carrie Ann Quinn, Angie Jepson, Brendan Powers & Lewis
Wheeler
   
Four actors portray nine characters, adding a genderbending
layer to Wilde’s classic comedy about friendship, political
corruption, blackmail, and redemption—as timely today
as when first presented in 1895. Acclaimed actress and director,
Karen MacDonald returns to direct this novel adaptation,
developed by one of Boston’s
exciting new companies, Bad Habit Productions. • Artists’
post-show “Talk Back” Sunday, August 15. |
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