2010~2011 Season

Based on the popular 1988 film, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS centers on two con men living on the French Riviera.  After meeting on a train, they unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this small French town isn’t big enough for the two of them. – Music Theatre International

Not since STEEL MAGNOLIAS has a more colorful and dysfunctional group of Southern eccentrics gathered below the Mason-Dixon line. When the patriarch of the Turpin family keels over dead in the first scene, the struggle to get him buried involves the whole clan, including the not-so-grieving widow who wants to put “Mean and Surly” on the tombstone.

“If you were amused by the kind of bucolic mayhem of…GREATER TUNA, this more ambitious trip down a rustic main street could be just your dish of cola.” —NY Post.

“Dearly Departed is drop dead funny.” —NY Daily News.Dramatist Play Service, Inc.

Commissioned by Center Stage, in Baltimore, Maryland, and produced there with great critical and popular success. An ingenious and theatrically dazzling new adaptation of this great classic by one of our theatre’s most inventive and respected playwrights.

“…Horovitz’s particular talent seems to lie in maintaining remarkable fidelity to the artist whose work he adapts, losing none of the original flavor which marked their greatness. At the same time, he enlivens the work, enhancing its presentation to a modern American theatre audience in a most sublime manner.” —Catholic Review.

“Children will find it engrossing, but their parents will love it.” —Baltimore Sun.

“…a glorious success.” —Baltimore News American.Dramatist Play Service, Inc.

In this hilarious comedy by the author of Lend Me A Tenor and Moon Over Buffalo , two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing “Scenes from Shakespeare” on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. When they hear that an old lady in York, PA is about to die and leave her fortune to her two long lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives and get the cash. The trouble is, when they get to York, they find out that the relatives aren’t nephews, but nieces! Romantic entanglements abound, especially when Leo falls head-over-petticoat in love with the old lady’s vivacious niece, Meg, who’s engaged to the local minister. Meg knows that there’s a wide world out there, but it’s not until she meets “Maxine and Stephanie” that she finally gets a taste of it.

“Ludwig’s newest farce is so funny, it will make sophisticated and reasonable men and women of the 21st century cackle till their faces hurt.” – Houston Press

“Leading Ladies is consistently funny-indeed, increasingly hilarious as it progresses.” – Houston Chronicle Samuel French, Inc.

In that most idealized period of 20th-century America, the Eisenhower years of the 1950s, the Pazinski family has a lot going on in their cramped Buffalo apartment. The youngest of the bunch, 12-year-old Rudy, is a smart, wise-cracking kid who’s starting to question family values and the Roman Catholic Church. When Rudy goes up against the ruler-wielding Sister Clarissa and announces that instead of being confirmed he’d rather shop around for a more “fun” religion, all hell breaks loose. A warm and hilarious look at family, growing up, and God.

NOTES: Some mild adult language

Nothing works on the stage like a well-crafted tale, and OLIVER! is just such a show. Based on the Dickens novel, it will engage the audience with its pathos and drama, while delighting everyone with its outstanding musical numbers. Food, Glorious Food, I’d Do Anything, Where is Love?, Consider Yourself, As Long As He Needs Me, Who Will Buy and Reviewing the Situation are musical theatre classics. Dickens’ characters are brought to life-perhaps larger than life-with all their facets glowing in this production. Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc.

*Licensed by Arrangement with Oliver Productions, Ltd. and Oliver Promotions, Ltd.

One of the most successful plays of our time.

“…a play of tremendous dramatic impact…enormous theatrical power.” —NY Post.

“…Williams has fashioned his most compelling characters.” —NY Journal-American.

“This is a gripping and intensely moving play, a play that can hold its own with anything written in the post-O’Neill American theater…Brilliant scenes, scenes of sudden and lashing dramatic power, break open…There is, indeed, no one moment in the evening when the stinging accuracy of Mr. Williams’ ear for human speech is not compellingly in evidence…Mr. Williams is the man of our time who comes closest to hurling the actual blood and bone of life onto the stage; he is also the man whose prose comes closest to being an incisive natural poetry.” —NY Times.Dramatists Play Service, Inc.