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We are proud to announce our 2013 season
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On the Ceiling
by Nigel Planer
Staged Reading
Sunday, January 27, 2 PM
Monday, January 28, 7 PM
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Lapo and Loti, two fresco plasterers, face another grueling day at work, performing menial labor and covering for their absent boss. In their case, however, the boss is Michelangelo, and the office is the Sistine Chapel. Certain that this work by the first-time painter is doomed to be a disaster, the two men endeavor to save the fresco, and as their world crumbles around them, they must confront the ties that bind them to the work in progress. This comedy by Nigel Planer blurs the line between master and assistant and asks what distinguishes a tradesman from an artist.
"Nigel Planer's first play is glorious, a truly original piece" – The Stage |

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Fiction
by Steven Dietz
Main Stage Production
February 21 – March 17
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Best-selling authors Michael and Linda Waterman treasure their honest marriage, until a harsh twist of fate compels them to read each other's diaries. Between the lines, stretching deep into the past, a secret liaison with a mysterious stranger surfaces, forever altering married life's delicate balance of fact and fiction.
"Take this as a fact. Fiction, a new play by Steven Dietz, is a work of uncommon insight – an adult, unsparing and yet often witty look at the intimate relationship between a man and a woman during a time of crisis." – Associated Press |

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The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
by Mike Daisey
Directed by Jaime Castañeda
Starring Steven Young
Main Stage Production
April 25 – May 12
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Mike Daisey, hailed as "the master storyteller" by The New York Times, turns his razor-sharp wit to America's most mysterious technology icon in this hilarious tale of pride, beauty, lust, and industrial design. By examining the human price we pay for our high-tech toys, Daisey has sparked a revolution in the world of technology and production, demanding social responsibility in the corporate sector and inspiring his audiences to action.
Following the media storm generated by Mike Daisey's appearance on This American Life and its subsequent retraction, Daisey released the Version 2.0, which The New York Times calls "more powerful, funny, and engaging than the earlier production." This all-new version cuts the contested material and addresses the controversy head on, using the struggle over fact and fiction to confront the truths we choose to believe, and those we choose to ignore, about our devices.
"I will never be the same after seeing that show." - Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder
"Anyone who sees Mr. Daisey's show — and anyone with a cellphone and a moral center should — will find it hard to forget the repercussions that our casual purchases can have in the lives of men and women (and children) half a world away." – The New York Times |

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The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)
by Adam Long, Reed Martin, and Austin Tichenor
Main Stage Production
July 11 – August 11
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Prepare ye the way for an irreverent roller coaster ride through the Good Book, from fig leaves to final judgment, as three cultural guerrillas tackle the great theological questions. No one is safe, especially the first row, and everything you thought you knew about the most widely read book in history will be turned upside down. Bolts of lightning are headed this way.
"There is no doubt about it, these three lads are in a league of their own when it comes to vivid originality... They have sublime moments of surreal theatricality. Sly minds are at work throughout." – The London Daily Mail |

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Thom Pain (based on nothing)
by Will Eno
Staged Reading
Sunday, September 22, 2 PM
Monday, September 23, 7 PM
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Dubbed "standup existentialism" by The New York Times, Thom Pain (based on nothing) is a one-man show, or an every-man show, something we can all relate to. He is trying to save his life and to save your life—in that order. In his quest for salvation, he'll stop at nothing, be distracted by nothing, except maybe a piece of lint, or the woman in the second row.
"It's one of those treasured nights in the theater - treasured nights anywhere, for that matter - that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and, depending on your sensitivity to meditations on the bleak and beautiful mysteries of human experience, in a puddle of tears. Also in stitches, here and there." – The New York Times |

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Death Tax
by Lucas Hnath
Main Stage Production
Regional Premiere
October 17 – November 10
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It's 2010. December. Infirm Maxine thinks her daughter is paying nurse Tina to gently nudge her into the grave before the new year. Maxine thinks her daughter is doing this so she doesn't have to pay hefty estate taxes, taxes that take effect on January 1. Nurse Tina claims she is doing no such thing, but when Maxine offers Tina a portion of her sizable estate on the condition that she lives until the 1st, Tina changes her tune. But of course, nothing goes according to plan. Death Tax is a darkly comic play about death and taxes and how we live with both.
"Hnath has created a fascinating, complex puzzle." - Backstage |

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After Ashley
by Gina Gionfriddo
Staged Reading
Sunday, December 8, 2 PM
Monday, December 9, 7 PM
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After Ashley is a blisteringly funny and deeply affecting story about a teenage boy navigating the joys and terrors of life—all through the distorting prism of a media firestorm. When a gruesome tragedy deals the Hammond family a dose of dubious celebrity, Justin finds himself paralyzed, unable to fully grieve or grow up. The only bright spot is a girl, but Justin can't decide if she's a saving angel or a self-interested groupie. In a world as weird as this one, she might just be both.
"Shrewd, dark comedy…absorbing and wholly unpredictable" – The New York Times |

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