Tuesday, September 4, 2012

2012-2013 Theatre Season!

Tickets are now on sale for the 2012-2013 season! Just look at the varied menu of exciting plays that USM will present this year...Click for tickets


YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU

By George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart 
Directed by Wil Kilroy
October 12-21, 2012

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 fiancĂ© 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

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 and THE AMERICAN DREAM

By Edward Albee Directed by William Steele

February 1-10, 2013


The Studio Theatre at Portland Stage
Portland Performing Arts Center 
25A Forest Avenue, 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
A joint production with The USM School of Music
March 8-16, 2013


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

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 centuries without aging and — fantastically — transforms into a woman along the way. This play is like a dream — strange, beautiful, and not easily forgotten.


PLUS THESE SPECIAL EVENTS!

USM THEATRE OPEN HOUSE
Thursday, September 20 5:30 pm to 7:30 p.m. 
Free 
7 p.m.: free reception in the lobby 
Russell Hall, USM Gorham
Discover the magic behind the curtain! Find out everything you have always wanted to know about putting on a play — but never had the opportunity to ask. Learn the secrets of creating costumes, scenery, stage make- up and more, peek at rehearsals — then grab a cookie and a glass of cider for a fun hour of mingling with the actors, dancers and directors of our upcoming shows.


"8"
By Dustin Lance Black Staged Reading directed by Wil Kilroy
Friday, September 28 at 7:30pm 
Russell Hall, USM Gorham 
Admission is free
This new documentary play by Academy Award-winner Dustin Lance Black (Milk) is about the federal court challenge to Proposition 8, and seeks to uncover the truth about the same-sex marriage controversy. Using the actual court transcripts from the landmark federal trial of California’s Prop. 8
and first-hand interviews, “8” shows both sides of the debate in a moving 90-minute play.