“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 2012–2013 Season
For Tickets and Season Passes:
914.251.6200 or www.artscenter.org
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by William Shakespeare
Directed by Jenny Bennett
Friday Oct 12 at7:30pm
Saturday Oct 13 at1:30pm & 7:30pm
Wednesday Oct 17 at7:30pm
Thursday Oct 18 at 7:30pm
Friday Oct 19 at 7:30pm
Saturday Oct 20 at 1:30pm & 7:30pm
Beatrice and Benedick are perfect for each other, if only they could admit it to themselves. Claudio could live happily ever after with Hero, if only he could trust his heart and not his eyes. One of the Bard’s best loved comedies, peopled with larger than life characters and bejewelled with sparkling wit. A joyous comedy but with a dark, poisonous heart.
ORPHEUS DESCENDING by Tennessee Williams
Directed by A. Dean Irby
Friday Nov 9 at7:30pm
Saturday Nov 10 at1:30pm & 7:30pm
Wednesday Nov 14 at7:30pm
Thursday Nov 15 at 7:30pm
Friday Nov 16 at 7:30pm
Saturday Nov 17 at 1:30pm & 7:30pm
A woman with a dying husband falls in love with a passionate drifter in spite of the ominous, and ultimately violent, disapproval of her small town community. The basis of the film The Fugitive Kind, a poetic masterpiece by one of the world’s greatest playwrights.
THE GUT GIRLS by Sarah Daniels
Directed by Trazana Beverley
Friday Dec 7 at7:30pm
Saturday Dec 8 at1:30pm & 7:30pm
Wednesday Dec 12 at7:30pm
Thursday Dec 13 at 7:30pm
Friday Dec 14 at 7:30pm
Saturday Dec 15 at 1:30pm & 7:30pm
In Victorian England, a duchess attempts to “rescue” a group of women, who clean the entrails of slaughtered animals, by training them to be domestic servants. This blazing satire about the effects and challenges of capitalism and inequality could not be more timely.
AMERICAN VISIONS by Sam Shepard
1. Icarus’ Mother
2. Red Cross
3. Fourteen Hundred Thousand
Directed by Zenon Kruszelnicki
Friday Feb 8 at7:30pm
Saturday Feb 9 at1:30pm & 7:30pm
Wednesday Feb 13 at7:30pm
Thursday Feb 14 at 7:30pm
Friday Feb 15 at 7:30pm
Saturday Feb 16 at 1:30pm & 7:30pm
Before he became a movie star and won the Pulitzer prize, Sam Shepard wrote wild, funny, mysterious, and powerful short plays. His three best feature picnickers who communicate with a swooping fighter plane, a family fight that becomes hilariously physical, and a cleaning woman who learns to swim without leaving a motel room. These rarely produced plays will be unlike anything you’ve ever seen.
IN REPERTORY:
A DEVIL INSIDE by David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Chris McCann
Friday March 8 at7:30pm
Saturday March 9 at1:30pm
Thursday March 14 at 7:30pm
Saturday March 16 at 7:30pm
When Gene Slater’s mother tells him to avenge his father’s murder, he doesn’t believe it. Maybe because they’re in a laundromat. Thus begins a wacky, bloody, dark-comic farce that is also a love letter to New York City, Russian literature, and Christopher Durang, from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Rabbit Hole.
HEDDA GABLER by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by David Bassuk
Saturday March 9 at 7:30pm
Wednesday March 13 at7:30pm
Friday March 15 at 7:30pm
Saturday March 16 at 1:30pm
Frustrated by the limitations and emptiness of her life, an unhappily married woman sets out to destroy her former lover. Ibsen’s haunting masterpiece is considered one of the world’s greatest plays.
F**KING A by Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Dennis Reid
Thursday April 18 at 7:30pm
Friday April 19 at7:30pm
Saturday April 20 at1:30pm
Wednesday April 24 at7:30pm
Thursday April 25 at 7:30pm
Friday April 26 at 7:30pm
Saturday April 27 at 1:30pm & 7:30pm
A Brechtian musical from the Pulitzer prize winning author of Topdog/Underdog about an abortionist in a mythical country who tries to free her son from prison. Shocking, savage, and thought-provoking, it offers Parks’ most uncompromising vision to date of a corrupt and fallen world in which personal expression is the only escape.
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)
