2009-2010 Performance Schedule

Mainstage Season:

The Great White Hope

by Howard Slacker
Directed by Randy Messersmith

Theatre gets no better than being the winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award. This is an epic story of a tragic hero, cheated, degraded, and at last brutally beaten. Mr. Sackler uses his hero, a figure based on the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson, as a symbol with enormous scope and range. The story picks up on the Johnson storyline soon after the Australian day in 1908 when Johnson whipped Tommy Burns and then takes his trade to Havana in 1915, when Jess Willard, the Great White Hope, attempts to even to score for White society.

Showtimes:

• February 25, 26, 27 @ 7:30 P.M.
• February 28 @ 2:00 P.M.

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To Gillian on her 37th Birthday

by Michael Brady
Directed by Joe Martinez

Though To Gillian begins as a simple dramatization of its hero's obsessive mourning and loss, it gradually expands to become a richer form of family drama. To Gillian is peppered with sharp, evenhanded observations about the tenuous ties that connect husbands and wives and parents and children. It is a play that sends a ghost flying out of heaven, but its appeal derives from a keen sensitivity to life for those of us here on earth.

Showtimes:

• April 29, 30, May 1 @ 7:30 P.M.
• May 2 @ 2:00 P.M.

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