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Announcing our 2008-2009 Season
Dirty Business
by William Mastrosimone
World Premiere
Oct. 22, 2008 - Nov. 30, 2008
From the celebrated, Emmy Award-winning author of Into the West, Extremities and The Woolgatherer, comes a fiery new drama about the political shenanigans and personal dalliances leading up to a presidential election. Based on the true story of a party girl caught between a mafia capo and the President of the United States. A hit of 2008 1st Stage New Works Festival.
Mezzulah, 1946
by Michele Lowe
Southeastern Premiere
Dec. 10, 2008 - Jan. 18, 2009
The war is over and the boys are home, but at the Boeing airplane plant Mezzulah has no intention of giving her job to a man. Like her hero, Leonardo da Vinci, 19-year-old Mezzulah is ahead of her time and dreaming of flight. But she won't be flying solo. Along with Mezzulah, the other women of Monroe, Washington are about to take wing - each in her own way. A transcendent new play with heart, humor and period music by the author of String Of Pearls.
Cagney!
by Peter Colley and Robert Creighton
World Premiere
Jan. 28, 2009 - Mar. 8, 2009
A brand new musical celebration! A tour-de-force production! A tribute to a legend of film and stage! From the mean streets of New York came Jimmy Cagney, an accomplished "hoofer" and the cinema's quintessential tough guy. this is an intimate portrait of the man, his art and his politics, his love of family and his enormous generosity. Full of fabulous music and astonishing dance, come celebrate Cagney, America’s favorite gangster and beloved Yankee Doodle Dandy.
The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock
by Catherine Trieschmann
World Premiere
Mar. 25, 2009 - May. 3, 2009
The War Between the States is over and young soldiers are struggling to stitch together the pieces of their shattered worlds. A young blind woman's romance with a sweet-talking Union soldier fuels her mother's need to avenge her Confederate son's death. Another hit of the 2008 1st Stage New Works Festival.
Yankee Tavern
by Steven Dietz
World Premiere
May 13, 2009 - Jun. 21, 2009
From the acclaimed playwright of Lonely Planet, Private Eyes and Fiction, come this dramatic thriller set in a crumbling tavern in New York. A young couple is caught in a web of conspiracy theories surrounding the 9/11 attacks, when in an instant outlandish hypothesis becomes dangerous reality as critical facts continue to emerge. A highly praised selection from the 2007 1st Stage New Works Festival.
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