Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
The smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives offers up fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting “happy medium”, one Madame Arcati. As the (worldly and un-) personalities clash, Charles’ current wife Ruth is accidentally killed, “passes over”, joins Elvira and the two “blithe spirits” haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.
So Long, Shakespeare
A collection of Shakespearean scenes with the theme of goodbye. Includes six scenes from All’s Well That Ends Well, five scenes from Measure For Measure, one scene each from Julius Caesar, Henry IV part one, and Hamlet. The show also includes four of Ophelia’s songs.
Veronica’s Room by Ira Levin
Just in time for the Halloween season, this chilling mystery thriller by the author of Rosemary’s Baby explores the thin line between fantasy and reality, madness and murder. Students Susan and Larry find themselves as guests enticed to the Brabissant mansion by its dissolute caretakers, the lonely Mackeys. Struck by Susan’s strong resemblance to Veronica Brabissant, long-dead daughter of the family for whom they work, the older couple gradually induce her to impersonate Veronica briefly to solace the only living Brabissant, her addled sister who believes Veronica alive. Once dressed in Veronica’s clothes, Susan finds herself locked in the role — and locked in Veronica’s room. Or is she Veronica, in 1935, pretending to be an imaginary Susan?
This play contains adult language and mature content.