2011-2012 Season

Old Times
by Harold Pinter
directed by Steven Marc Weiss

Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter's darkly humorous and poetically haunting play floats adrift in a sea of mystery as a woman's husband and best friend engage one another in a fever-pitched competition to "possess" her soul. A meditation on the impossibility of ever fully knowing the object of one's desire, this deliciously witty piece plumbs psychological depths, where memory is as slippery and unreliable as present reality.

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Twelfth Night, or What You Will
by William Shakespeare
directed by Dennis Barnett

One of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, Twelfth Night celebrates the entanglements of romantic love at their most extreme. Ostensibly taking place during the twelve days of Christmas, the spirit of misrule roils beneath the surface of this jocular masterpiece, the plot of which centers (as do many of Shakespeare's comic plays) on the unfulfilled desires that develop due to mistaken identities.

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Drood, a musical mystery
book, music and lyrics by Rupert Holmes
staged by Dennis Barnett
musical direction by William S. Carson
choreography by Carol Maxwell-Rezabek

Drood, based on the last literary work by Charles Dickens, is a musical whodunnit. But because Dickens died before finishing his novel, the identity of which character he actually intended to have "dunnit" remains to this day a tangled web of mystery. The action takes place in a Victorian music hall, where a troupe of actors from that era try to work it all out, with a little bit of assistance from their audience.