The Veri**on Play
by Lisa Kron
directed by Nicholas Martin
February 26 – April 1, 2012
Bingham Theatre
When Jenni called customer service, all she wanted was to fix a minor problem with her cell phone bill. Instead she was sucked into a vortex of unimaginable horror. Now she wants revenge—or to get her cell phone service turned back on. Part thriller, part screwball comedy, part inspired by events that have undoubtedly happened to YOU.
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How We Got On
by Idris Goodwin
directed by Wendy C. Goldberg
March 2- April 1, 2012
Bingham Theatre
Hank, Julian and Luann are the flip side to the A story of hip hop’s rise in the late 1980s—kids who forge a cultural identity in the white suburbs by dueling with poetry in parking lots and dubbing beats on a boom box. In this coming-of-age tale remixed, A DJ loops us through the lives of three Midwestern teen rappers who discover the power of harmony over discord.
The Hour of Feeling
by Mona Mansour
directed by Mark Wing-Davey
March 6 – April 1, 2o12
Pamela Brown Auditorium
It’s 1967 and the map of the Middle East is about to change drastically. Fueled by a love of English Romantic poetry, Adham journeys from Palestine to London with his new wife, Abir, to deliver a career-defining lecture. As the young couple’s marriage is tested, Adham struggles to reconcile his ambitions with the pull of family and home. But what if seizing the moment means letting go of everything he knows?
Eat Your Heart Out
by Courtney Baron
directed by Adam Greenfield
March 9 – 31, 2012
Bingham Theatre
Alice and Gabe are desperate to adopt a child. Nance, a single mom just starting to date, struggles to connect with her teenage daughter Evie. And Evie wishes her best friend Colin could fall for her rather than just trying to fix things. With both humor and aching insight, these lives are woven together in a tale of parental hopes and fears, and of hearts consumed by longing.
Oh, Gastronomy!
by Michael Golamco, Carson Kreitzer, Steve Moulds, Tanya Saracho and Matt Schatz
directed by Amy Attaway
co-conceived and developed with Sarah Lunnie
March 16 – April 1, 2012
Bingham Theatre
Food, that most delicious human unifier, is rife with contradiction. It can signal both comfort and compulsion, imply both nourishment and deprivation, and make your mouth water—or your stomach turn. Get ready to dig in, as five hungry playwrights join forces with twenty-two ravenous Acting Apprentices to serve up the pleasures—and paradoxes—of food.
Death Tax
by Lucas Hnath
directed by Ken Rus Schmoll
March 20 – April 1, 2012
Victor Jory Theatre
Maxine is rich. Maxine is dying. Maxine thinks Nurse Tina is trying to kill her. When the patient confronts her caretaker, her accusations have unforeseen—and irrevocable—consequences, in this tightly-wound thriller about money, power and the value of a human life.
Michael von Siebenburg Melts Through the Floorboards
by Greg Kotis
directed by Kip Fagan
March 22- April 15, 2012
Pamela Brown Auditorium
Meet Baron Michael von Siebenburg: a 500-year-old Austrian bachelor living in an American city, whose secret of eternal youth involves endless first dates and a special meat tenderizer. But when his landlady gets suspicious and the ghost of a medieval comrade commands him to take Constantinople back from the Turks, Michael finds himself haunted by past and present. A hilariously dark comedy about the rigors of vampiric immortality.
