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Last Summer at Bluefish Cove
(09/03/10 - 09/25/10)
Company: StageQ
Playwright: Jane Chambers
Location: Drury Stage
Director: Laurie Attea
Last Summer at Bluefish Cove is an engaging story about a tight knit group of women who reunite for the summer at a beachfront resort called Bluefish Cove for fun, rest, and relaxation: think Big Chill for lesbians. It's the summer of 1979 and the story revolves around eight women who are dealing with issues ranging from love, romance, monogamy to infidelity and family. A strong foundation of love and support is what will ultimately sustain them in the difficult times. It's this love that ultimately saves the weakest one in the group, and they learn from each other about strength and determination, and on the importance of being truthful with yourself and, most of all, about-facing your fears.
It's a funny, moving story of friendship, love, and loss-it's also a charming love story. Written by playwright Jane Chambers in 1980, this was the first lesbian-positive play on Broadway, a topic that, at that time, was considered taboo.
Performance Times:
Friday, Sept 3, 8:00 pm
Saturday, Sept 4, 8:00 pm
Thursday, Sept 9, 7:30 pm
Friday, Sept 10, 8:00 pm
Saturday, September 11, 8:00 pm
Thursday, September 16, 7:30 pm
Friday, September 17, 8:00pm
Saturday, September 18, 8:00 pm
Sunday, September 19, 2:00 pm
Thursday, September 23, 7:30 pm
Friday, September 24, 8:00 pm
Saturday, September 25, 8:00 pm
Ticket prices: $10 Thurs/Sun, $15 Fri/Sat
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84 Charing Cross Road
(09/09/10 - 10/02/10)
Company: Strollers Theatre
Playwright: Helene Hanff
Location: Evjue Stage
Director: Erin Baal
The story of a life-changing relationship that spans twenty years and two continents. Helene is a New York writer and an avid book lover who strikes up a meaningful friendship with an English bookstore owner. Their story begs the question...what is a true soulmate?
Ticket prices: $15 ($12 for seniors and those with valid student id)
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StageQ Season Tickets
(09/25/10 - 09/25/10)
Company: StageQ
Playwright:
Location: Bartell Theatre
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StageQ announces its 2010 - 11 season Season tickets available for only $50 for all 2010 - 11 shows!
Last Summer at Bluefish Cove: September 3 - 25, 2010 by Jane Chambers
The Dying Gaul: December 2 - 18, 2010 by Craig Lucas
Make Me a Song: March 11 - 26, 2011: Music by William Finn, conceived by Rob Ruggiero
Queer Shorts 6: May 27 - June 4, 2011: A festival of original one-act plays
Your support sustains StageQ and allows actors and designers a forum for creativity and artistic expression. Your season ticket provides:
• A wallet card that you may present at the box office and exchange for a ticket for each of our mainstage productions.
• Preferred seating when you make your reservations.
• If you forget to make a reservation, and wish to attend a sold-out performance, season ticket holders go to the top of the waiting list, ahead of other theater-goers.
Purchase a "ticket" now
Ticket prices: 50
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The Glass Menagerie
(10/01/10 - 10/16/10)
Company: Madison Theatre Guild
Playwright: Tennessee Williams
Location: Drury Stage
Director: Joan Brooks
This semi-autobiographical account of Tennessee Williams' early days in 1930s St. Louis is a heartbreaking yet often funny "memory play" told from the perspective of Tom Wingfield. The Glass Menagerie is the story of a family desperate to break free of the burdens of their past and their present. Each escapes into their own personal "glass menagerie" as a means of eluding the pain of their own - and each other's - existence.
Friday, October 1 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, October 2 at 7:30 pm
Thursday, October 7 at 7:30 pm
Friday, October 8 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, October 9 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, October 10 at 3:00 pm
Thursday, October 14 at 7:30 pm
Friday, October 15 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, October 16 at 7:30 pm
Ticket prices: TBA
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The Velvet Sky
(10/08/10 - 10/23/10)
Company: Mercury Players Theatre
Playwright: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Location: Evjue Stage
Director: Dana Pellebon and Pete Rydberg
Welcome to the nightmare of The Velvet Sky. Refusing to raise his 12-year-old son Andrew in a home steeped in paranoia and sleepless nights, Warren steals the boy away to the glowing lights of New York City. Mother Bethany is soon after them, but so is a menacing presence lurking in the shadows and behind closed doors. When Andrew runs away from his father, who will find him first - mother, father, or something else entirely?
Performances: October 8-23, 2010
Performance Times: TBA
Ticket prices: TBA
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(10/28/10 - 11/20/10)
Company: Strollers Theatre
Playwright: Jeffrey Hatcher
Location: Drury Stage
Director: Tony Trout
This play is a suspenseful and sexy thriller, which remains true to the classic Robert Louis Stevenson story, while also shining light on new and surprising twists in the tale and depths in the characters.
Performances: October 28 - November 20, 2010
Performance Times: Thursdays 7:30pm; Fridays 8pm; Saturdays 4pm & 8pm
Call 608-661-9696 x2 for reservations.
Ticket prices: Ticket Prices: $15 ($12 for seniors and those with valid student id)
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The Dying Gaul
(12/02/10 - 12/18/10)
Company: StageQ
Playwright: Craig Lucas
Location:
Director: Greg Harris
The Dying Gaul by Craig Lucas, directed by Greg Harris, is a modern American tragedy about a grieving screenwriter who compromises his ideals to make a small fortune that enables him to climb from invisible poverty into the rarefied seductions and surreal beauty of the Hollywood Hills. Robert's gay lover endured horrific and protracted suffering before Robert helped him to die. Robert's subsequent struggle to come to grips with his own incomprehensible survival and his deep need to find a place in the world that doesn't burn push him into a lush and intoxicating world of sexual ecstasy and intrigue, even as he privately delves into the techniques and teachings of Buddhism for some footing, no matter how tenuous. With breathtaking speed, Robert is caught in a love triangle with a powerful, ruthless and rapacious film producer and his fascinating but woefully under stimulated wife. The lies that Robert perpetrates become inextricably interwoven with theirs each person lying to themselves as much as to their partners and the ones they are betraying. Killingly funny and heart-stoppingly elegiac, this play is a thrilling dramatic experience.
Ticket prices: Tickets are $10 on Thursday and Sunday, and $15 on Friday and Saturday
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The Spitfire Grill
(12/03/10 - 12/18/10)
Company: Madison Theatre Guild
Playwright: Music and Book by James Valcq with Lyrics and book by Fred Alley
Location: Drury Stage
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In this Off-Broadway musical a feisty parolee (Percy) follows her dreams, based on a page from an old travel book, to a small town in Wisconsin and finds a place for herself working at Hannah's Spitfire Grill. It is for sale but there are no takers for the only eatery in the depressed town, so newcomer Percy suggests to Hannah that she raffle it off. Entry fees are one hundred dollars and the best essay on why you want the grill wins. Soon, mail is arriving by the wheelbarrow full and things are definitely cookin' at the Spitfire Grill.
In New York Magazine, John Simon wrote, “It is not often that material moves me to tears, but this was one of those occasions. The Spitfire Grill has the heart and soul that your Producers and Full Montys cannot begin to approach. What even in normal times would be a joy is, in these troubled ones, sheer nourishment.”
Friday, December 3 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, December 4 at 7:30 pm
Thursday, December 9 at 7:30 pm
Friday, December 10 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, December 11 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, December 12 at 3:00 pm
Thursday, December 16 at 7:30 pm
Friday, December 17 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, December 18 at 7:30 pm
Auditions will be held the week of September 19th. www.madisontheatreguild.org
Ticket prices: visit www.madisontheatreguild.org for tix
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A Christmas Carol: a radio play
(12/04/10 - 12/18/10)
Company: Madison Theatre Guild
Playwright: Charles Dickens
Location: Drury Stage
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Keeping a Madison tradition alive, Madison Theatre Guild brings A Christmas Carol to the Drury stage as a radio play in December. A novella by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol was published and released on December 19, 1943. Nearly a century later, it was first broadcast on the radio by Campbell Playhouse, starring Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater of the Air, on December 23, 1938.
December 4 at 3:00 pm
December 5 at 7:00 pm
December 11 at 3:00 pm
December 18 at 3:00 pm
www.madisontheatreguild.org for more.
Ticket prices: TBA
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The Norman Conquests: Table Manners, Living Together, Round and Round the Garden
(01/13/11 - 02/12/11)
Company: Strollers Theatre
Playwright: Alan Ayckbourn
Location: Drury Stage
Director: Jeff Knupp
This sidesplitting farce explodes with lust, hysterics, and exasperation as three couples share a weekend in search of love, sex, and the meaning of marriage. Winner of the Tony Award Best Revival of a Play and the Outer Critics Circle Outstanding Revival.
The Norman Conquests are three full-length plays, each revealing a different perspective of this wild weekend. You may see the entire series or enjoy just one or two of the plays.
Performance Times: Table Manners will be performed on Thursdays at 7:30pm with one Saturday matinee at 4pm on 1/22. Living Together will be performed at 8pm on Fridays with one Saturday matinee at 4pm on 1/29. Round & Round the Garden will be performed at 8pm on Saturday evenings with one Saturday matinee at 4pm on 2/5.
608-661-9696 x2 for reservations.
Ticket prices: Ticket Prices: $15 $12 for students with valid i.d. and seniors over 65
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The Last Supper
(01/28/11 - 02/12/11)
Company: Mercury Players Theatre
Playwright: Dan Rossen
Location:
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A dark comedy where politics, morals, self-righteousness and murder are served for dinner.
Jan. 28-Feb. 12, 2011
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Dinner with Friends
(02/18/11 - 03/05/11)
Company: Madison Theatre Guild
Playwright: Donald Margulies
Location: Evjue Stage
Director: TBA
Full of humor, warmth, insight and wisdom, Dinner With Friends is a funny yet bittersweet examination of the married lives of two couples who have been extremely close for years, and the impact felt by both couples when one relationship goes sour.
Friday, February 18 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, February 19 at 7:30 pm
Thursday, February 24 at 7:30 pm
Friday, February 25 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, February 26 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, February 27 at 3:00 pm
Thursday, March 3 at 7:30 pm
Friday, March 4 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 5 at 7:30 pm
Auditions will be held the week of December 5. The four roles available are Gabe, Karen, Tom, and Beth. Gabe and Karen are married, as are Tom and Beth. Both couples are ages 35-50.
Additional information, including how to sign up, will be posted in November 2010. www.madisontheatreguild.org for more.
Ticket prices: TBA
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Make Me a Song
(03/06/11 - 03/26/11)
Company: StageQ
Playwright: Music by William Finn, conceived by Rob Ruggiero
Location: Drury Stage
Director:
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The Seafarer
(03/31/11 - 04/23/11)
Company: Strollers Theatre
Playwright: Conor McPherson
Location: Evjue Stage
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Set in a coastal town north of Dublin on a cold Christmas Eve, a huddled gathering of drunken Irishmen welcome a dangerous new acquaintance for a high-stakes game of poker where deviltry and hellfire will determine the fate of a single soul.
Performance Times: Thursdays 7:30pm; Fridays 8pm; Saturdays 4pm & 8pm
608-661-9696 x2
Ticket prices: Ticket Prices: $15. $12 for students with valid i.d. and seniors over age 65.
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Dead Certain
(04/01/11 - 04/16/11)
Company: Mercury Players Theatre
Playwright: Marcus Lloyd
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This psychological thriller mystery will keep the audiences guessing as we whirlwind towards a gripping climax where truth and illusion square off in an unusual game of cat and mouse.
April 1-16, 2011
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Souvenir: A Fantasia on the life of Florence Foster Jenkins
(05/06/11 - 05/21/11)
Company: Madison Theatre Guild
Playwright: Stephen Temperley
Location: Evjue Stage
Director: Betty Diamond
Back by popular demand, Souvenir is a heartfelt, wickedly funny look at the limits of self-perception and the unpredictable nature of friendship. The story of real-life Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York socialite and tone-deaf diva who thought she was a great soprano. Unfortunately her great love of music was not matched by her own abilities. In truth, she squawked like a deranged rooster. Her brilliant, wry accompanist, Cosme McMoon, chronicles Florence's unlikely rise to cult status, which culminated in an infamous sold-out Carnegie Hall performance in October 1944.
Friday, May 6 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 7 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, May 8 at 3:00 pm
Thursday, May 12 at 7:30 pm
Friday, May 13 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 14 at 7:30 pm
Thursday, May 19 at 7:30 pm
Friday, May 20 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 21 at 7:30 pm
Visit www.madisontheatreguild.org for more.
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Queer Shorts 6
(05/26/11 - 06/04/11)
Company: StageQ
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Smackdown (Round 5) and XII Annual Blitz
(06/10/11 - 06/11/11)
Company: Mercury Players Theatre
Playwright: various
Location: Drury Stage
Director: Various
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2nd Annual Bartell Theatre Awards
(07/09/11 - 07/09/11)
Company: Bartell Theatre Foundation
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Location: Drury Stage
Director:
The second season of awards great and small!
More information TBA.
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