By John Patrick Shanley
September 18 – October 7, 2007
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for best new play of 2005, Doubt is a passionate take on trust and faith in the Catholic church. When accusations of a priest’s wrongdoing come to light, a Bronx parochial school must wrestle with concepts of faith and justice. Sister Aloysius, a traditionalist nun and the school’s principal, has to decide whether to openly accuse Father Flynn of alleged indiscretions or bury her suspicions and forever live with her doubts. The final showdown is a riveting power struggle that calls into question our most basic beliefs and makes Doubt an electrifying night of theater.
By Dale Wasserman, Mitch Lee, and Joe Darion
October 23 – November 11, 2007
In a dank dungeon at the height of the Inquisition, the great Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes anxiously awaits his trial. With only his imagination to protect him, he weaves a tale of the world’s greatest hero, Don Quixote, who comes galloping out of the darkness fighting windmills, wooing women, and standing against all adversity. Adapted from the world’s most popular novel of all time and featuring a breathtaking score that includes “The Impossible Dream”, Man of La Mancha is a testament to the human spirit and the potential in us all.
By August Wilson
January 15 – February 3, 2008
The late August Wilson was one of the premier dramatists of the American stage and The Piano Lesson is the most beautiful and richly drawn of all his plays. A Pulitzer Prize winner, it is the highlight of Wilson’s ten-play cycle chronicling the African-American experience in the twentieth century. With the Great Depression for a backdrop, a brother and sister struggle over a precious family heirloom, a piano with images of their African ancestors carved by their enslaved grandfather.
By Deborah Brevoort
February 26 – March 16, 2008
A teaching job in Copenhagen for an American university professor skids hilariously off-course when she unexpectedly falls for a charming Kurdish pizza-maker who speaks his heart to her through his culinary creations. In this comic and touching new play, the unlikely courtship of two romantics from very different cultures arouses the passions of everyone around them. A comedy of errors of the culinary kind.
By Randal Myler and Mark Harelik
April 1 – 20, 2008
The original country music outlaw, Hank Williams’ meteoric rise and fall are the stuff of music legend. His contributions to popular music in the twentieth century cannot be measured. Follow Williams’ from his humble roots singing gospel music on the Louisiana Hayride, to the storied Grand Ole Opry, and to his eventual self-destruction at age twenty-nine. Full of foot stompin’, barn burnin’ classics like “Move It on Over”, “Jambalaya,” “Your Cheatin’ Heart” and “Hey, Good Lookin’”, played by Hank and his band onstage, Hank Williams: Lost Highway will have you cheering for more!
By Charles Dickens
December 5-22, 2007
The holiday classic is back by popular demand! Dickens’ timeless story of Ebenezer Scrooge and his encounters with the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future has entertained and enlightened thousands of our patrons, teaching us the true meaning of the holiday season.
By Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson
April 25-27, 2008
Weill’s final Broadway score is a passionate voice to this powerful, uncompromising social indictment of apartheid South Africa. Based on Alan Paton’s novel, Cry, the Beloved Country, the stirring story is of two aging men – a black, country parson and a white, British planter – drawn into friendship by shared grief.
| 
Thanks for inviting us...CORE loves pot lucks! Happy Thanksgiving!
