Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play, Driving Miss Daisy is awarm-hearted, humorous and affecting study of the unlikely relationship between Daisy Wertham, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, and Hoke, a thoughtful, black man she must rely on as a chauffeur. Spanning twenty-five years, the two grow ever closer and more dependent on each other, despite their mutual differences, until they both realize they have more in common than they ever believed possible—and that times and circumstances would ever allow them to publicly admit. "The play is sweet without being mawkish, ameliorative, without being sanctimonious." —NY Times. "…a perfectly poised and shaped miniature on the odd-couple theme." —NY Post. "Driving Miss Daisy is a total delight." —NY Daily News.

 
Blithe Spirit
by Noel Coward
April 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20

In this smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, novelist Charles Condomine invites an eccentric, breezy lady medium into his placid home in order to learn the language of the occult. Little did he or his second wife, Ruth, know that the staged séance would summon back Charles' long-dead first wife, who appears to torment Charles by reminding him of their days and nights together. The spirit has a ghostly plot in mind: if she can get Charles into a fatal automobile accident, life in the spirit world will have more appeal. Mistakes occur, however, and it is not Charles who takes the fatal automobile ride! How Charles manages to extricate himself from his blithe spirits makes a hilarious conclusion to this very unusual farce. This is a comedy that is hilariously funny, brilliant, clever and about as cockeyed as any play can be.

Hello, Dolly!
Book by Michael Stewart, Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman
June 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22

"And what do you do for a living, Mrs. Levi?" asks Ambrose Kemper in the first scene of this most delightful of musical comedies."Some people paint, some sew...I meddle," replies Dolly, and we are off on a whirlwind race around New York at the turn of the twentieth century as we follow the adventures of America's most beloved matchmaker! The winner of 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Score, Book and Lyrics, and the winner of The New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Musical, Hello, Dolly! is full of memorable songs including Put On Your Sunday Clothes, Ribbons Down My Back, Before the Parade Passes By, Elegance, Hello, Dolly!, It Only Takes a Moment and So Long, Dearie. Based on Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker, this hilarious, fast paced farce is one of the great, grand musicals of the American stage.

Greater Tuna
by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard
August 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24

What do Arles Struvie, Thurston Wheelis, Aunt Pearl, Petey Fisk, Phineas Blye and Rev. Spikes have in common? They are among the upstanding citizens of Tuna, the third smallest town in Texas. In this hilarious send up of small town mores, each character on its own is a side-busting, hilarious masterpiece. But what makes the comedy so uproarious and memorable is that all of the characters – men, women and even dogs – in Tuna, Texas are played by only two actors! This Off-Broadway hit is a tour de farce of quick change artistry, both of costumes and of comic characterizations. Variety called it "howlingly funny" and the N.Y. Post said, "the audience ... all but exploded the theatre with laughter." Come see the show that always has everyone talking.

Once On This Island
Music by Stephen Flaherty, Book & Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
September 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, October 3, 4, 5

By the hugely popular writers of Ragtime and Seussical, this highly original adaptation of “The Little Mermaid” sings and dances the story of how four island Gods in the Antilles – Asaka, Mother of the Earth, Agwe, God of Water, Erzulie, Goddess of Love, and Papa Ge, Demon of Death – save the life of little Ti Moune by placing her in a tree above the flood that destroys her village. She is found and grows up happy and loved among the island’s peasants. Years later, after witnessing a terrible car crash, Ti Moune rescues, nurses and falls in love with Daniel, a young man from a wealthy family beyond the social divide. When Daniel is returned to his people, the Gods guide Ti Moune on a quest to test the strength of her love against the powerful forces of prejudice, hatred and death. But with an infectious, up-tempo and uplifting score, Once On This Island is relentlessly joyous in its celebration of life, love and of triumph over society’s restrictions. The New York Post called it “a rattling good time! A carnival of swirling rhythm. Delightful." "Explodes with music and motion! The best musical of the season," said the Associated Press and the New York Times announced it as "rousing, musical theatre! Everyone is likely to emerge from the theatre ready to dance down the street!"

Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
November 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23

Thornton Wilder’s great Pulitzer Prize winning play about life, love and loss in small town America in the early twentieth century remains as poignant and relevant today as it was 70 years ago. As seen through the eyes of the play’s “Stage Manager,” Wilder paints a portrait of the idyllic town Grover's Corners in such a way that we wish this is how our own town - rather, our own life - should be: quaint town centers, booming church steeples and townsfolk who are neighborly in the truest form. Wilder’s town serves as a mirror in which the key themes of life - the very experiences that draw us all together - are reflected for the audience in elegant simplicity. Nostalgic in tone, "Our Town" blends joy and sadness in a beautiful story of timeless appeal that has continued to endear its audiences throughout its long history as a standard of American life.  This is one of the most enduring plays of the Theatre.