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The Women
Open:
May-10 2013
Close:
Jun-16 2013
The Women is an delectably sharp-tongued commentary on the pampered lives and power struggles of various wealthy Manhattan socialites and up-and-comers and beautifully illustrates the gossip that propels and damages their relationships. While men frequently are the subject of their lively discussions and play an important role in the action on-stage, they are strictly characters mentioned but never seen. |
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Moose on the Loose
Open:
Jun-03 2011
Close:
Jul-24 2011
A loose moose wanders into town and four generations of an Italian/Canadian immigrant family soon realize the moose is not the only one that is displaced and confused. The Tappino family - Rodolfo, Pina, Maria and Giuseppe, left the Mediterranean warmth of Southern Italy, in the early 60's, with no idea of where in the world they were actually headed except that it was somewhere in North America. They soon realized they were probably in the wrong place, when they arrived in Way Up Bay, in Canada.... |
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Goodbye, Louie...Hello!
Open:
Apr-01 2011
Close:
May-08 2011
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“Goodbye, Louie….Hello!” is a drama (with lots of jokes) about a comedian’s bad sense of timing. Lou Berns was a numero uno comic. He headlined in nightclubs, films, Broadway, and had his own TV series. With a remarkably successful career now over, he plans to move from his New York apartment to retire in a community for seniors in Arizona, to the consternation of his grown daughter... |
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The Ugly Duckling
Open:
Mar-05 2011
Close:
Jul-09 2011
Storybook Theatre presents its award-winning musical about the Ugly Duckling who turns into a beautiful swan. Its a happy, fun show, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s beloved fairy tale. The interactive musical features lots of opportunities for audience participation as the kids in the audience will learn to quack and waddle like ducks. “The Ugly Duckling” is ideal entertainment for kids aged 3 to 9. The whole family is welcome. |
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The Women of Spoon River
Open:
Jan-28 2011
Close:
Feb-20 2011
The Women of Spoon River: Their Voices from the Hill is a one-woman show performed by the talented Lee Meriwether. A star of stage, screen and television, Lee is well-known not only for winning the title of Miss America in 1955, but for memorable roles like “Catwoman” in BATMAN (1966), her eight year run as Betty in BARNABY JONES opposite Buddy Ebsen, Lilly Munster in THE NEW MUNSTERS, “Ruth Martin” in the soap opera All My Children and many others. Lee began her career at Theatre West understudying... |
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Jack and the Beanstalk
Open:
Oct-08 2010
Close:
Feb-26 2011
Storybook Theatre’s award-winning “Jack and the Beanstalk” is a rollicking interactive version of the famous story. There are plenty of songs and lots of audience participation to delight the whole family. There is a rapping giant, a talking goose and chases up and down the beanstalk as members of the audience try to hide Jack from the giant on his adventure... |
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Waiting for Lefty
Open:
Sep-03 2010
Close:
Oct-10 2010
“Waiting For Lefty” takes place at a union meeting of New York taxi drivers, where the cabbies contemplate a strike. As they wait for Lefty Costello, their elected Chairman, they share their stories, and explain how they became cabbies, and what brought them to the meeting. We meet Joe, whose wife threatens to leave him unless he stands up for himself; Miller, a lab assistant asked by his boss to help produce poison gas for the military; Syd and Florrie, a young couple who want to marry but... |
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Deli Cats
Open:
Aug-17 2010
Close:
Aug-17 2010
written and directed by David P. Johnson.
A wander-lusting waitress manages one journey - which lands her in a diner with an antagonistic busboy, a supernova and a room full of trouble. |
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Beshert
Open:
Aug-15 2010
Close:
Aug-15 2010
by Julie Daniels.
Marina is scared to death about getting married. Ready to call it off, her decision is abruptly intercepted by a ghostly visitation from Emma Goldman. |
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Favorable Company: A Trilogy
Open:
Aug-10 2010
Close:
Aug-10 2010
by Kent Hamilton.
Surprises are found in the human heart. |
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The Magic String
Open:
Aug-08 2010
Close:
Aug-08 2010
by Nicole Hoelle.
Hilarity and heartbreak ensue when a misanthropic writer and an obsessive-compulsive salesman help one another to confront and move beyond their own insecurities. |
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A Teachable Moment
Open:
Aug-01 2010
Close:
Aug-01 2010
by Nalsey Tinberg. Director: Alan Freeman.
To the chagrin of its new woman president, a women's college erupts in controversy when a beloved award-winning professor fabricates his Viet Nam experience. |
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Aftermath
Open:
Jul-27 2010
Close:
Jul-27 2010
written and directed by Chris DiGiovanni.
Rina must remember who she is and what she did the night she fled her home. |
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Bard of Blood
Open:
Jul-25 2010
Close:
Jul-25 2010
written and directed by Lloyd J. Schwartz.
Come and be delighted as some of your favorite Theatre West members are murdered.
The murder mystery comedy is set at the Wildcat Theatre where Artistic Director Bertram Gantz has gathered a group of well-to-do donors for the theatre's fund raiser,a night of scenes from Hamlet. Little does the audience know that there is a murderer loose.
People drop like flies as homicide is the order of the day. Could the vicious killer... |
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Aftershocks
Open:
Jul-20 2010
Close:
Jul-20 2010
by Doug Haverty. Director: John Gallogly.
Two escaped housewives from Cleveland are having the time of their lives being extras in Hollywood until reality shows up on their doorstep. |
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