“Purchase Rep… continues to present classic and contemporary works with production values that eclipse those on Broadway. And the talent, whose work is Broadway-bound… make the air in the black-box theater crackle with possibilities.”

~ Peter D. Kramer, The Journal News & LoHud.com

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Purchase Repertory Theatre 2011–2012 Season

For Tickets and Season Passes:
914.251.6200 or www.artscenter.org

IN REPERTORY
Performing Arts Center

BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY
by Pearl Cleage
Directed by A. Dean Irby

Harlem, 1930.  The Great Depression takes its toll on the intersecting lives and relationships of a doctor, a nurse, a costume designer, a blues singer and a preacher. A haunting, timely, and thoroughly entertaining play that connects large social issues with deeply personal dilemmas.  By the award-winning author of Flyin’ West.

Fri, Dec 2, 8pm
Sat, Dec 3, 2pm
Thu, Dec 8, 8pm
Sat, Dec 10, 8pm with talk-back immediately following

A PIECE OF MY HEART
by Shirley Lauro
Directed by Trazana Beverley
 
Based on the same diaries that inspired the TV show China Beach, this stirring and powerful docudrama tells the true stories of four nurses during and after the Vietnam War. Since its premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club in 1991, it has become the most widely performed play about Vietnam.

Sat, Dec 3, 8pm
Sun, Dec 4, 2pm
Fri, Dec 9, 8pm with talk-back immediately following
Sat, Dec 10, 2pm

LOVE'S FIRE
by Eric Bogosian, William Finn, John Guare, Tony Kushner, Marsha Norman, Ntozake Shange, and Wendy Wasserstein
Directed by Dennis Reid
Performing Arts Center

Seven wildly distinct short plays, each inspired by a different Shakespeare sonnet. The visions conjured up include a psychiatrist and her motormouth patient, a couple learning the truth about each other on the eve of their wedding, a jazz-themed mating dance, and even a brief and hilarious history of the world. Where the couplets end, the imaginations of these major American writers take flight.

Fri, Feb 10, 8pm
Sat, Feb 11, 2pm & 8pm
Sun, Feb 12, 2pm
Thu, Feb 16, 8pm
Fri, Feb 17, 8pm
Sat, Feb 18, 2pm & 8pm
with talk-back immediately following evening show

TROJAN WOMEN
by Euripides
Directed by Rachel Dickstein
Performing Arts Center

The Greeks have conquered Troy.  Now the fates of the Trojan queen, her daughters, and the unfaithful Helen must be decided. Twenty-four centuries after it was written, Euripides’ tragedy remains one of the most inspiring cries from the heart for compassion and human dignity.

Fri, Mar 2, 8pm
Sat, Mar 3, 2pm & 8pm
Sun, Mar 4, 2pm
Thu, Mar 8, 8pm
Fri, Mar 9, 8pm
Sat, Mar 10, 2pm & 8pm
with talk-back immediately following evening show

ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Sarah Grace Wilson
Performing Arts Center

1968. A Cambridge grad returns home to Czechoslovakia as Soviet tanks roll into Prague. Over the next twenty years, he discovers the true meaning of freedom, even as his mentor back in England uses political connections to keep him out of prison. A Broadway hit in 2007, it is Stoppard’s most heartfelt and personal play since The Real Thing.

Fri, Apr 20, 8pm
Sat, Apr 21, 2pm & 8pm
Sun, Apr 22, 2pm
Thu, Apr 26, 8pm
Fri, Apr 27, 8pm
Sat, Apr 28, 2pm & 8pm
with talk-back immediately following evening show

Single tickets: $20
Seniors & non-Purchase College students: $15
Purchase Students/Staff/Faculty: $5

Season Pass: $88.50 - includes box office and parking fees
(admission to one performance of each production)