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 fiancé 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.
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