Adult
Teatro delle Muse presents
Evening Star Rising
Written by Lon Rogers
Directed by Jamey Jamison
Kevin Landis, age 19, sits on death row for a murder he did not commit. Or did he? Laura Enders, a graduate student in psychology is writing her doctorate dissertation on the characteristics of the young criminal mind. Her objective is to find behavioral markers for the early detection of criminality—a litmus test for sociopathy. She obtains permission from the prison warden to study Kevin. In an attempt to formulate an extensive psychological profile, she interviews Kevin in depth and over an extended period of time. She also takes statements from his girlfriend, his priest, his family, and his best friend. The story takes a ominous turn when Laura loses all professional objectivity and bonds emotionally with Kevin. Convinced of Kevin's innocence, Laura sets out to win a new trial for him, and to write a book hoping to sway public opinion against the death penalty.
Evening Star Rising avoids the hackneyed arguments pro and con of this politically sensitive issue. Instead, this story puts a human face on the condemned. The viewers are invited to draw their own conclusions about Kevin, whose proof of guilt, as Laura discovers, falls short of the legal standard for conviction: guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Performances will be February 12 – 28
Friday and Saturday Evenings at 8:00 PM
Sunday Matinee at 3:00
Held Over for an Encore Performance! We are adding a Matinee on Sunday the February 28 at 3:00.
Performances April 9 – 24
Book by Thomas Meehan
Music by Charles Strouse
Lyrics by Martin Charnin
Based on the Tribune Media Service Comic Strip, :Little Orphan Annie
Leapin' Lizards! The popular comic strip heroine takes centerstage in one of the world's best-loved musicals.
"Annie" is a spunky Depression-era orphan determined to find her parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan's evil machinations, befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and finds a new family and home in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell and a lovable mutt named Sandy.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest is a comic play by Oscar Wilde. Set in England during the late Victorian era, the play's humour derives in part from characters maintaining fictitious identities to escape unwelcome social obligations. The play opens in the fashionable London residence of Algernon Moncrieff. His friend Jack (who goes by the name “Earnest”) Worthing arrives, revealing his intention to propose matrimony to Algernon’s cousin Gwendolen Fairfax. Jack admits that he is the ward to a young woman, Cecily Cardew. Also, he admits to leading a double life, stating that his “name is Earnest in town and Jack in the country.” In the country, he pretends to have a brother in London named Earnest whose wicked ways necessitate frequent trips to the city to rescue him. Lady Augusta Bracknell arrives with his cousin Gwendolen Fairfax. Jack — claiming his name is Earnest — confesses his love for Gwendolen and proposes marriage. Lady Bracknell forbids the marriage and chaos ensues as both pairs plot on their own and with servants, maids, manservants and anyone else that they can pull into their web of insanity. In the end Jack, turns out to be Lady Bracknell’s lost nephew and Algernon’s older brother … what do they do next? You will have to come and see.
The importance of being Earnest runs April 30 – May 8 with halfprice shows on May 5 and 6th at 8:00 Friday and Saturday shows at 8:00; Saturday and Sunday shows at 3:00.
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Performances July 18-July 3
Special benefit production on June 24 at 8:00
Proceeds to benefit the victims of the November Fort Hood Masacre
Adult Production
In the days leading up to July 4, 1776, Continental Congressmen John Adams and Benjamin Franklin coerce Thomas Jefferson into writing the declaration of Independence as a delaying tactic as they try to persuade the American colonies to support a resolution on independence. As George Washington sends depressing messages describing one military disaster after another, the businessmen, landowners and slave holders in Congress all stand in the way of the Declaration, and a single "nay" vote will forever end the question of independence. Large portions of spoken and sung dialog are taken directly from the letters and memoirs of the actual participants.
Performances July 9 – 25
Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser.
The 25th Annual Putnam county Spelling Bee is a hilarious take of overachievers' angst chronicling the exprience of six adolescent outsiders vying for teh spelling championship of a lifetime.
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August 12-21. 2010
A matchmaker named Dolly Levi takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder. While there, she convinces him, his two stock clerks and his niece and her beau to go to New York City. In New York, she fixes Vandergelder's clerks up with the woman Vandergelder had been courting, and her shop assistant. Meanwhile, Dolly has designs of her own on Mr. Vandergelder.
Friday & Saturday 8:00
Saturday & Sunday 3:00
Special Performance on:
Thursday Aug. 12
Benefit the Make a Wish Foundation
Alice in Wonderland
August 27 – September 11, 2010
Alice follows the rabbit down the hole and finds herself in a place that gets curiouser and curiouser. The Caterpillar sitting on a mushroom. The Pigeonconvinced that Alice is a serpent, the Duchess; the Duchess and the Cook, the Cheshire cat, March Hare's, the mad Hatter, the Dormouse. and let's not forget the Queen of Hearts. They are all here and waiting for you. Fantastic costumes, unbelievably fantastic story telling and high energy singing and dancing jump off the stage and thrill adults and children alike.
Sept. 1 and 2 7:00 show
(We will be dark the week of Sept. 3-5 for Labor Day)
Friday and Saturday nights 7:00
Saturday and Sundays at 3:00
Thursday Sept. 9 8:00 special Performance to benefit the Collin County Child Advocacy Center
September 17- October 3, 2010
Twain's timeless classic sweeps us down the mighty Mississippi as the irrepressible Huck Finn helps his friend Jim, a slave, escape to freedom at the mouth of the Ohio River. Their adventures along the way are hilarious, suspenseful and heartwarming, bringing to life your favorite characters from the novel: the Widow Douglas and her stern sister, Miss Watson; the uproarious King and Duke, who may or may not be as harmless as they seem; Huck's partner in crime, Tom Sawyer, and their rowdy gang of pals; Huck's drunken father, the sinister Pap Finn; the lovely Mary Jane Wilkes and her trusting family. Propelled by an award winning score from Roger Miller, the king of country music, this jaunty journey provides a brilliantly theatrical celebration of pure Americana.
Friday and Saturday 8:00
Saturday and Sunday 3:00
Special performance Thursday Sept. 23
proceeds to establish scholarship program for children of special populations and needs
Tartuff
Performances October 9-17
Produced by Sibling Revelry Productions
First, a disclaimer: The comedyTartuffe by Moliere was scandalous back in the day, and there's a reason why. It deals the idea of religious hypocrisy. This issue was hard to tackle back then and, well, it remains hard to tackle now.
Tartuffe the Imposter, pretending to be a pious cleric, deceives a well-to-do arrogant gentleman named Orgon and his pompous mother. Tartuffe proceeds to convince Orgon to promise him his wealth, position, and his young daughter.
The play revolves around the attempts by the family, friends, and household of Orgon (his wife Elmire, his brother-in-law Cléante, his son Damis, his daughter Mariane, Mariane's fiancé Valère, and the maidservant Dorine) to expose Tartuffe for the fraud he is.
Originally performed in 1664 France, shunned, performed, shunned then finally performed and received with huge success, the Art Center Theater brings you Tartuffe…set in modern day Santa Fe, New Mexico. Religious hypocrisy, timeless.
Rocky Horror Show
Performances October 22-November 6, 2010
Best Christmas Pagent Ever
