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| The Bermuda Avenue Triangle directed by Carla Brandon |
A comedy by Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna. This outrageous comedy by the authors of Lovers and Other Strangers and other uproarious hits starred Nanette Fabray and the authors on Broadway. It concerns the adventures of a Jewish widow and an Irish widow whose successful daughters move them to Las Vegas, where they share a retirement village condo. On an excursion they are saved from a mugger by a charming, if not quite sober, gambler who is short on cash. They allow him to curl up on the living room floor and he manages to sweet talk his way into both ladies' beds. Each situation is rife with the outrageous excessive comedy that endears these playwrights to audiences everywhere. "Bologna and Taylor possess a lovely and friendly sense of the ridiculous and they have a natty way with sight gags." N.Y. Post | Performances: 9/8/00-9/30/00 |
| Same Time, Another Year directed by Colleen Mahan |
A comedy by Bernard Slade. This sequel to the hit Same Time, Next Year continues the yarn of an extramarital affair conducted one weekend a year at a seaside cottage in northern California, sailing through the years 1976 to 1993 in six well-crafted scenes. Maturing from their early fifties into their late sixties, Doris and George share the inevitabilities of aging and the convolutions of parenting and grandparenting as they continue to redefine love outside of their annual tryst and romance within it. Hilarity and tenderness are perfectly balanced against the changing backdrop of life in the United States during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Same Time, Another Year is a memorable evening with two of the world's favorite characters. "Features the same kind of comic dialogue, moments of tenderness and romantic notions that made the first chronical such a hit." Back Stage West | Performances: 11/10/00-12/9/00 |
| Fences directed by T.J. Johnson |
A drama by August Wilson. Winner of every major award, including Desk Drama, Outer Critics Circle, New York Drama Critics, Tony and Pulitzer Prizes, this sensational drama starred James Earl Jones as Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who is working as a garbage man in 1957. Maxson sees the world as composed mostly of fences that enclose him. He is very bitter that he was excluded from major league baseball during his prime and was too old to play when the sport finally was integrated. Maxson's son wants a chance at professional sports but Maxson refuses to let him try his luck. Troy Maxson does not see that not all the fences in his life are societal and that he is fencing in his family. "One of the richest experiences I have ever had in the theatre. I wasn't just moved. I was transfixed." N.Y. Post | Performances: 2/9/01-3/3/01 |
| Don't Dress for Dinner directed by John Simonds |
A comedy Marc Camoletti, adapted by Robin Hawdon. This boulevard comedy was a smash hit in Paris, where it played for over two years, and in London, where critical acclaim greeted the Apollo Theatre production. Bernard is planning a weekend with his chic Parisian mistress in a stylish converted French farmhouse. He has arranged for a cordon bleu cook to prepare gourmet delights, is in the process of packing his wife, Jacqueline, off to her mother's and has even invited his best friend to provide the alibi. It's foolproof; what could possibly go wrong? Suppose Robert turns up not knowing why he has been invited? Suppose Robert and Jacqueline are secret lovers? What happens if the cook is mistaken for the mistress and the mistress is unable to cook? Mix these ingredients and you have the recipe for an evening of hilarious confusion as Bernard and Robert improvise at breakneck speed. "Hurtling along at the speed of light (this) breathtaking farce is a near faultless piece of theatrical invention. Within seconds we are drawn into a delicious web of marital treachery which accelerates with classic symmetry to an all star denouement." Guardian | Performances: 4/27/01-5/19/01 |