2008-2009 Season

Women's Minyan

Fall Drama
By Naomi Ragen
Saturdays, Nov. 1, 8, 15 @ 8 p.m.
Sundays, Nov. 2, 9, 16 @ 2:30 p.m.
Thursdays, Nov. 6 and 13 @ 7:30 p.m.

Women's Minyan is based on a true story about how a mother of 12 from the Orthodox Jewish community in Israel flees her abusive husband and, for the transgression of leaving her family, is banned by a court of men from ever seeing her children again. In the play, the woman meets with an all female "minyan" to confront the issue. Hearing for the first time what led to her divorce, they explore the boundaries between religion and social convention, truth and falsehood and a woman's true place in the religious world.

Joseph and Koza

Children's Holiday Show
Adapted by Sean Hartley
Based on a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Saturdays, Dec. 13, 20 @ 7:30 p.m.
Sundays, Dec. 14, 21 @ 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 18 @ 7:30 p.m.

Joseph and Koza takes place in the wild and superstitious kingdom of Mazovia in ancient Poland. Like other royal maidens, Princess Koza faces danger - she's to be sacrificed to a river demon - but her rescuer isn't the usual sort. Instead of a Prince Charming, he's a nice young Jewish goldsmith. Joseph, the goldsmith, wanders into Mazovia, whose backward inhabitants fear Zla, an evit witch. When she chooses Koza for the sacrifice, even the king, Wilk, feels powerless. But Joseph convinces him and the rest of the townspeople that they are in control of their own demons, if only they will believe in themselves.

— Directed by Laurie Alexander

Parade

Winter Musical
Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Written by Alfred Uhry and co-conceived by Harold Prince
Saturdays, Feb. 28 and March 7, 14 @ 8 p.m.
Sundays, March 1, 8, 15 @ 2:30 p.m.
Thursdays, March 5, 12 @ 7:30 p.m.

Parade is the tragic true story of the trial and lynching of a man wrongly accused of murder. In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-born Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employ. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher and a janitor's false testimony seal Leo's fate. His only defenders are a governor with a conscience, and, eventually, his assimilated Southern wife who finds the strength and love to become his greatest champion.

The Tale of the Allergist's Wife

Spring Drama
Written by Charles Busch
Saturdays, May 9, 16, 23 @ 8 p.m.
Sundays, May 10, 17, 24 @ 2:30 p.m.
Thursdays, May 14, 21 @ 7:30 p.m.

The Tale of the Allergist's Wife is the story of how one woman deals with her own mid-life crisis. Marjorie Taub, who lives comfortably with her doctor husband, Ira, in an expensively furnished condo near Zabar's, spends her days and evenings pursuing culture at various museums and the theatre. Unexpectedly invading her depression is flamboyant childhood friend, Lee, who becomes entrenched in the Taub household as a seemingly permanent guest, not only drawing Marjorie out of her dark mood, but impacting her marriage as well.