2012-2013 Season!

YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU
By George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Directed by Wil Kilroy
October 12-21, 2012

Fri. October 12 & October 19 at 7:30 pm
Sat. October 13 & October 20 at 7:30 pm
Sun. October 14 & October 21 at 5 pm
Wed. October 17 at 5 pm all seats $5
Thu. October 18 at 7:30 pm

It’s the height of The Great Depression, but hey – the Sycamore family could not be any less depressed. Can Alice Sycamore get her straight-laced fiancé to accept her crazy family? Amateur wrestling, ballet lessons, exiled royalty, xylophone serenades and spontaneous fireworks are the chaotic backdrop to a Romeo and Juliet story everyone can relate to.

THE GLASS MENAGERIE
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Thomas Power
November 16-December 2, 2012 

Fri. November 16 & November 30 at 7:30 pm
Sat. November 17 and December 1 at 7:30 pm
Sun. November 18 and December 2 at 5:00 pm
Tue. November 27 at 10:00 am, High School Matinee
Wed. November 28 at 5:00 pm; all seats $5
Thu. November 29 at 7:30 pm

Tennessee Williams took the tragedy of his own family and transformed it into a poetic work of beauty and pain. The dreams of a woman living in a fantasy world and a woman living in the past clash and create spectacular dramatic lightning. The fragile and radiant Laura Wingfield is a character that will lodge in your heart and stay with you forever.

THE ZOO STORY & THE AMERICAN DREAM
By Edward Albee
Directed by William Steele
February 1-10, 2013

Fri. February 1 & February 8 at 7:30 pm
Sat. February 2 & February 9 at 7:30 pm
Sun. February 3 & February 10 at 5:00 pm
Wed. February 6 at 5:00 pm; all seats $5
Thu. February 7 at 7:30 pm

Portland Stage Company Studio Theatre, Portland

Two men meet at a park bench. A neighbor visits a suburban family. These innocuous premises become savage satire in two of Edward Albee’s famed plays.  By turns horrifying and hilarious, these one-acts offer a singular vision of a world spinning off its axis.  As unflinching indictments of American idealism, this is a theatrical event that will send you reeling.

DIE FLEDERMAUS
Operetta by Johann Strauss
Directed by Assunta Kent
Musical Direction by Ellen Chickering
Conducted by Robert Lehmann 

March 8-16, 2013

A quadrennial joint production with The USM School of Music
with the Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra 

Fri. March 8 & March 15 at 7:30 pm
Sat. March 9 & March 16 at 7:30 pm
Sun. March 10 at 5:00 pm
Wed. March 13 at 7:30 pm

A ball at a royal palace, a husband hoping for a fling, and a case of mistaken identity. Stir these ingredients into a crystal glass of bubbly and you have the comic opera that has delighted audiences for over a hundred years. You’re invited to a party at Prince Orlovsky’s villa. But be careful - champagne and desire can be a scandalous combination! 

ORLANDO
By Virginia Woolf
Adapted by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Meghan Brodie
April 19-28, 2013

Fri. April 19 & April 26 at 7:30 pm
Sat. April 20 & April 27 at 7:30 pm
Sun. April 21 & April 28 at 5 pm
Tue. April 23 at 10 am, High School Matinee
Wed. April 24 at 5 pm; all seats $5
Thu. April 25 at 7:30 pm

In the hands of playwright Sarah Ruhl, Virginia Woolf’s gender-bending satire becomes a lavish pageant of sex, style, and soul. Orlando, a man born during Shakespeare’s time, lives and loves through six centuries without aging and – fantastically – transforms into a woman along the way. This play is like a dream – strange, beautiful and not easily forgotten.