Summoned to a convent, a court-appointed psychiatrist is charged with assessing the sanity of a young novitiate accused of murdering her newborn. Who killed the infant and who fathered the tiny victim? This award winning drama examines the meaning of faith & the power of love.
Explore the 1960s where loveable plus-size heroine, Tracy Turnblad, has a passion for dancing, and wins a spot on the local TV dance program. Overnight she finds herself transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. Can Tracy manage to vanquish the program’s reigning princess, integrate the television show, and find true love without mussing her hair?
Rent is a rock opera that tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
On Broadway, Rent gained critical acclaim and won a Tony Award for Best Musical, a Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. The success of the show led to several national tours and numerous foreign productions, and in 2005, it was also adapted into a motion picture.
Explore the humorous side to family life in 1930s small town America. Young Ralphie Parker desperately dreams of only one thing for Christmas – a genuine Red Ryder BB gun! Can Ralphie achieve his dream or will his mother’s protests of “You’ll shoot your eye out!” prevail? You’ll want to bring the whole family to this stage adaption of the beloved film.
Immerse yourselves in the bustling world of turn of the century city life with Esther, an unmarried African-American lingerie seamstress. While working, she hears the secrets of high society from the socialites and gets the lowdown on life from a piano-playing prostitute. Using threads of gender, racial, class and religious issues, this award winning play results in a rich drama, embroidered with romance. This production is suitable for older teens and up.
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