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Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, named “Best Theater” in the Dallas Observer’s 2007 “Best of Dallas” issue, has chosen six plays for the 2009-20010 season, the company’s eighth.
Season Tickets go on sale June 26th - Call 214.828.0094 and order yours today!
Rabbit Hole
By David Lindsay - Abaire
Directed by: Cynthia Hestand
October 16- November 8, 2009
Contemporary Theatre of Dallas is proud to present the Regional Premiere of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire. Rabbit Hole is a beautifully crafted, moving, funny and honest play about a couple’s search for comfort in the face of genuine darkness. This modern day masterpiece is an honest and poignant study in the day-to-day aches of bereavement, and a brilliant work that shifts beautifully from hilarity to grief.
*Holiday optional show:
The Santaland Diaries
By David Sedaris
Adapted by Joe Mantello
Director: Coy Covington
November 27- December 20, 2009
A hilarious, sardonic comedy written by NPR humorist and best-selling author David Sedaris, chronicles his true-life experience as an out of work slacker taking a job as Crumpet the Elf at the SantaLand display in Macy’s Manhattan. The play recounts outrageous tales of encounters with frenzied holiday shoppers during the height of the holiday crunch. This priceless one-man show has become a national cult-classic and will star Dallas’ own Nye Cooper in the lead role. You’ll want to leave the kids at home for this one – we give SantaLand Diaries an “R” rating.
The Sisters Rosensweig
By Wendy Wasserstein
Director: Marianne Galloway
February 12 - March 7, 2010
This Tony Award nominated comedy from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wendy Wasserstein, tells the story of three Jewish-American sisters from Brooklyn who gather in London to celebrate the birthday of the oldest sister, Sara. During the lively weekend, the sisters along with Sara's daughter Tess and several male friends throw a party which Sara isn’t exactly too excited about. Unexpected romance, suspected partings, recriminations, reconciliations and, above all, newfound love and acceptance result in a wonderful comedy by one of America’s best playwrights.
"The laughter is all but continuous." —The New Yorker
Steel Magnolias
By Robert Harling
Director: Cynthia Hestand
April 16 - May 9, 2010
CTD presents the five-year old revival of its extremely successful and critically acclaimed production with many of CTD’s original cast, including Stephanie Young-Brem, Tippi Hunter, Sue Loncar, Sandra Looney, and Ouida White. The show is a hilarious and touching story of a group of gossipy southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor in Chinquapin, Louisiana. Helped by her eager new assistant, the wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoo and free advice to the town’s rich curmudgeon, an eccentric millionaire, the local social leader, and the prettiest girl in town.
“Steel Magnolias may turn out to be the most endearing of the southern comedies… At Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, certainly, it looks like a genuine classic.”
-Lawson Taitte, Dallas Morning News
Brighton Beach Memoirs
By Neil Simon
Director: Bruce Coleman
June 11 - July 3, 2010
Part one of Neil Simon’s critically acclaimed autobiographical trilogy, this rich and delightful comedy paints a portrait of the writer as a young teen living with his family in a crowded, lower middle-class walk up in Brooklyn. Eugene Jerome, the character standing in for Simon, dreams of baseball and girls, and must cope with the mundane existence of his eclectic family. This outstanding and hilarious memoir captures the life of a struggling household where, as his father states “if you didn’t have a problem, you wouldn’t be living here.” CTD favorites Andrews Cope and Cindee Mayfield will return to our stage for this hilarious production.
The Blue Moon Dancing
By Ed Graczyk
Director: Cheryl Denson
August 20 - September 12, 2010
CTD is excited to present the premiere of a brand new comedy drama from the author of Come Back To The 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. The story takes place in the aging Blue Moon Dance Hall outside the West Texas city of McCarthy. The play is a mosaic of a day in the Moon and the lives of some of its idiosyncratic regulars and passers through, including the wedding of two regulars that takes place on the dance floor where they first found each other, the longing for Dallas, Elvis, and the face of Jesus in a water stain on the ceiling.
Ticket Prices: Season Ticket
packages vary in price from $88 to $154 (different pricing for floor & balcony).
Single tickets vary in price from $22 - $32 (different pricing for floor & balcony).
Location: 5601 Sears St. ,
Dallas, TX 75206 (one block west of lower Greenville behind
the Arcadia Theatre). Click for directions.
Contemporary Theatre of Dallas is a nonprofit
organization.
For information, photos or interviews, please
contact managing director Russell Dyer at 214-828-0094 or
email him at russell@contemporarytheatreofdallas.com.
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