Into the Woods

Music and Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Book by JAMES LAPINE

Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick

Directed by Caroline Good
Music direction by Orcenith Smith
Choreography by Deborah Grammel

Thursday - Saturday, September 26–28 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, September 29 at3 p.m.
The Green Center for Performing Arts, Moore Theatre

As the result of a curse by a once-beautiful witch, a baker and his wife are left childless. Three days before the rise of a blue moon, they venture into an enchanted forest to find the ingredients needed to reverse the spell and restore the witch’s beauty: a milk-white cow, hair as yellow as corn, a blood-red cape, and a slipper of gold. During their journey, they encounter a trove of storybook characters—Cinderella, 

Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Jack—each one on a quest to fulfill a wish, as they chase their deepest desires into the woods.

Vinegar Tom

by Caryl Churchill
Music for the original production by Helen Glavin

Directed by Ron Dye
Music by Teresa Shunk '23

Thursday - Saturday, November 7 - 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 3 p.m.
The Green Center for Performing Arts, Moore Theatre

In a seventeenth century rural village a young woman named Alice takes as a lover a married man who lives on a neighboring farm. After she rebukes the man’s further advances both Alice and her widowed mother are accused of witchcraft following their neighbors’ growing family strife and agricultural failures. The two women eventually must submit to the doctors who would cure them as well as to the land speculators who covet their meager farm. Another kindred spirit, a betrothed young daughter of a prosperous landowner, is judged to be insane and is locked away because she doesn’t wish to marry. And in the minds of the local villagers, behind it all is Vinegar Tom, the stealthy black cat who is often seen lurking about, boldly plundering barns and milk sheds.
     Vinegar Tom was written in 1976 by one of Great Britain’s most accomplished contemporary playwrights, Caryl Churchill, in collaboration with the all women’s theatre ensemble Monstrous Regiment. Playwright Churchill has said of her inspiration for the play, “I wanted to write a play about witches with no witches in it; a play not about evil, hysteria and possession by the devil but about poverty, humiliation and prejudice, and how the women accused of witchcraft saw themselves.”

“Vinegar Tom” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

tickets go live 5 weeks before production)

Communicating Doors

By Alan Ayckbourn

Directed by Susan Anthony

Thursday - Saturday, March 6 - 8 at7:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 9 at 3 p.m.
The Green Center for Performing Arts, Moore Theatre

Phoebe, a young dominatrix, learns that her rich elderly client doesn’t require her services, only her signature—on his confession of murder. Reese and his man servant Julian murdered Reese’s first and second wives. Now the dying Reese wants to confess, but Julian will do anything to stop him. When Julian learns that Phoebe knows of the crimes, he tries to kill her too, but Phoebe hides in a closet and discovers a hidden door that is a portal through time. When Phoebe slips through that “communicating door,” she lands in the same hotel --but 20 years earlier-- and she meets the second wife, Ruella, on the evening that she is to be murdered.  In a race against time, the two women use the communicating door to warn the first wife, Jessica---but Julian is stalking all of them—in every time.

Will the combined wits of these three women save all of their lives—in time?  

Described as a “comic thriller” Communicating Doors by Alan Ayckbourn was awarded Britain’s “Best West End Play.” 

“Communicating Doors” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.www.concordtheatricals.com

(tickets go live 5 weeks before production)

A Lunar Rhapsody

By Jose Rivera

Directed by Dr. Dennis Sloan

Thursday - Friday, April 17  & 18 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 19 at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
The Green Center for Performing Arts, Moore Theatre

Two refugees of a cosmic war, the last two of their kind – called Dimensionals -- have entered our dimension through a portal created by a lunar eclipse.  As they try to hide from cosmic assassins, they observe, analyze, and try to make sense of the random people they find at a basketball court on a warm summer night in Brooklyn, as a lunar eclipse takes over the sky -- four teenagers, an older interracial couple, and three Latina millennials.  By the author of Marisol and "The Motorcycle Diaries."

(tickets go live 5 weeks before production)