88th Season | 2009-2010
Follies
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Goldman
Directed by Todd Pearthree
"One more kiss to melt the heart
One more glimpse of the past..."
A host of players has assembled to bid
adieu to the ruin of a vaudeville theater.
They caress memories of faded youth
accompanied by Sondheim's Tony Award
winning score.
February 12 - 28, 2010
The Swirnow Theater, at the Mattin Arts Center
Johns Hopkins University, Homewood campus.
Tickets $20
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The Glorious Ones
Book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Directed by Todd Pearthree
Based on the novel by Francine Prose
"...When they see your tears
Now the audience cheers.
So you take a bow. What comedy!"
"Don't you love farce?" *
Before the Marx brothers and Lucy, ragtag
troupes lifted skirts and spirits in the town squares
of Europe. This valentine to the clowns of
Commedia delle 'Arte is adorned with a soaring score
by the Tony Award-winning creators of "Ragtime".
June 11 - July 4, 2010
The Swirnow Theater, at the Mattin Arts Center
Johns Hopkins University, Homewood campus.
Tickets $20
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* Lyric by Stephen Sondheim
Past Performances
The Light in the Piazza
Book by Craig Lucas
Music and Lyrics by Adam Guettel
Directed by Todd Pearthree
June 12-July 5, 2009
The area premiere of this Tony Award-winning musical, luscious
Italy provides the background for this tale of two American
tourists, mother and daughter, who dream of romance but whose
elegant luggage also contains family secrets.
Ancestral Voices
By A. R. Gurney
Saturday, June 27, 2009
The author of The Dining Room returns to his roots: portrait of
the author as a young boy reliving a golden summer with his grandfather
whose sudden divorce is a scandal. This staged reading was a cherished
project of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Newman.
~ Special Program ~
Mistress of Riversdale
Adapted from the original words in the letters edited in
Margaret Callcott's book, this one-woman dramatization
devised by Suzanne Pratt, director of Theatre Hopkins, and
performed by Cherie Weinert details the life of wealthy
Belgian émigré Rosalie Stier Calvert, wife of
George Calvert, at their plantation near Washington during
the first two decades of the 19th century.
Well
By Lisa Kron
February 14 through March 1, 2009
Thornton Wilder and Pirandello may be the proud godfathers of
this innovative work where the ancient pain of parent and child
is fused with the magic of the living stage.
"Lisa Kron's Well is a splendid play very funny and deeply
serious. If an audience will give itself to it without
preconceptions of how a play should behave, then they will have a
deeply satisfying time."
—Edward Albee
Ancestral Voices
By A. R. Gurney
February 21 & Feb 28 2009
The author of The Dining Room returns to his roots: portrait of
the author as a young boy reliving a golden summer with his grandfather
whose sudden divorce is a scandal. This staged reading was a cherished
project of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Newman.
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
By Steve Martin
April 17-19, 2009
A staged reading of Martin's cheeky fantasy as the author
imagines a jaunty duel between Einstein and Picasso at the dawn
of the 20th century, contending with the sharpest of
pencils.
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