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The Heidi Chroniclesby Wendy Wasserstein This Pulitzer Prize- winning play is the tale of a baby boomer’s long, hard road from 60’s confusion to 1990’s assured woman…or so she hopes.
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Private Lives by Noel Coward.
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The Heiressby Ruth and Augustus Goetz.Suggested by the Henry James novel Washington Square, our story is set in New York City in 1850 and centers on the painfully shy Catherine Sloper whose sudden suitor may or may not be after her fortune. An overbearing father shakes things up even further.
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Chavez Ravine Written and performed by Culture Clash. The controversial history of Chavez Ravine, the immigrant community that once existed on the site that is now Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, explored with humor, brutal honesty, and pulse-racing music by the nation’s premier Chicano/Latino theater troupe.
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Halycon Days by Steven Dietz. Senator Eddie Bowman cannot see the point of invading a miniscule Caribbean island to rescue a bunch of overly tanned medical students. But as the 1983 invasion of Grenada gets underway, the Senator finds himself at odds with a mysterious foreign-policy specialist who cultivates roses, the President’s sexy new speech-writer, … Continued
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The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial by Peter Goodchild Adapted from the original trial transcripts, this story is based on the Scopes Trial which debated the right to teach the theory of evolution in public schools, & reaffirmed the principle of intellectual freedom as codified in the Bill of Rights. The trial, in a small-town Tennessee … Continued
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Joads are a displaced family whose journey takes them from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the fertile, but futile, fields of California in the early 1930s. (Special 2 1/2 hour holiday broadcast)
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The Rose Tattoo A Sicilian widow rediscovers passion in the embrace of a lusty truck driver in Tennessee Williams’ funniest, most life-affirming play. Starring Mercedes Ruehl and Anthony Paglia.
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Round and Round the Garden by Alan Ayckbourn The third in the English comic Norman Conquests series on love, loss and surrender. www.latw.org
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A Fair Country A well-meaning American diplomat in South Africa tries to pacify his ferociously combative wife, and anti-apartheid activist son by being reassigned to The Hague. But peace is hard to come by, and at an elegant New Year’s Eve party, a harrowing betrayal is revealed. By Jon Robin Baitz.
