AMERICAN STAGE
THEATRE COMPANY
727-823-PLAY
163 3rd St. N.
St. Petersburg, FL
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Announcing Our 2008-2009 Season!
American Stage Theatre Company has a busy 2008-2009 season ahead of them. Tampa Bay’s longest running professional theatre will be celebrating its 30th anniversary and moving in 2009 into its brand new, state-of-the-art theater in the heart of downtown St. Petersburg, FL. It has also announced that it will be the first regional theatre in America to dedicate the next nine years to producing all ten of August Wilson’s plays, each of which chronicles characters in each decade of the 20th century.
“After how well received Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean was last season, we decided that it was important for a theatre company to produce every one of this modern master’s works so that the public can experience the full genius of this great African-American playwright,” said Todd Olson, American Stage’s producing artistic director. “We are very excited about being able to provide this first of its kind opportunity for the enjoyment of not only Tampa Bay audiences, but for lovers of great theatre everywhere.”
This season American Stage will be performing the regional premiere of Wilson’s King Hedley II, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Robert Schenkkan’s By the Waters of Babylon, the holiday cult classic A Tuna Christmas, a world premiere adaptation of Aristophanes classic Greek comedy Lysistrata, the hilarious musical Altar Boyz at American Stage in the Park, Jeffrey Hatcher’s touching play based on the phenomenal bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie and the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning drama Doubt.
The Florida Premiere!
BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON
by Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Schenkkan
September 19-October 12, 2008
“Sometimes, if we're lucky, love finds us when we least expect it and lifts us to places we never expected to see. Schenkkan's play does both.”
-Ashland Daily Tidings
A passionate love story about a recluse with a past, and her gardener poet from Cuba who has come to rescue her neglected garden. As they drink, dance and tell their stories, they try to banish the ghosts that haunt them both.
A Holiday Cult Classic!
A TUNA CHRISTMAS
by Ed Howard, Joe Sears and Jaston Williams
Nov. 14-Dec. 28, 2008
"The hilarity never lets up."
-Village Voice
With quick-change artistry and quicksilver dialogue, two consummate actors portray over 20 characters, and create an irreverent holiday comedy about the third smallest town in Texas. A ten-gallon evening of laughs and holiday cheer!
Regional Premiere of American Stage’s Next Chapter in our “Wilson Cycle” Festival
KING HEDLEY II
by Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson
January 23-February 15, 2009
“Gem of the Ocean is so fine, that it virtually demands American Stage return to the other plays of Wilson's cycle in seasons to come…Wilson was an American playwright to rank with Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller.” -St. Petersburg Times
The death of Aunt Ester, a gamble to peddle refrigerators, a garden of seeds and a final act of retribution are the threads that make up the tapestry of Wilson’s 1980s installment in the author's renowned cycle of plays.
World Premiere Adaptation!
LYSISTRATA
by Aristophanes, adapted by Todd Olson and T. Scott Wooten
March 13-April 5, 2009
"No sex, please, we’re Greek!" The Peloponnesian War has been raging for two decades and the women are tired of it. So one brave lady – Lysistrata – has a plan. She gathers all of the women of Greece together to agree to a naughty pact to end the war for good. Contains adult themes.
American Stage in the Park
ALTAR BOYZ
April 17-May 10, 2009
“TOTALLY HILARIOUS! It keeps you laughing all evening long. If laughter is a form of salvation, my soul is clean!” -New York Daily News
The hilarious off-Broadway phenomenon about a Christian boy band in crisis. Matthew, Mark, Luke, Juan and Abraham (the unsure, Jewish member) hit the road from their home in Ohio to New York (with a stop in St. Petersburg) as part of their climactic concert tour.
Bay Area Premiere!
TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
by Jeffrey Hatcher after Mitch Albom
June 5-28, 2009
"A touching, life-affirming, deeply emotional drama with a generous dose of humor." -New York Daily News
One of the Top-10 most-produced plays in America this season, Tuesday's with Morrie is Jeffrey Hatcher’s comic and moving dramatization of the novel that was on The N.Y. Times Bestseller List for more than four years.
The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award Winner!
DOUBT
July 24-August 16, 2009
“The great American play certain to stand the test of time." -The Star Ledger
The most lauded play of this century and winner of the Tony Award for "Best Play" and Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Doubt tells the story of a Bronx Catholic school in turmoil during the fall of 1964. Sister Aloysius is an old-school nun who insists that the young and popular Farther Flynn is having an inappropriate relationship with Donald Muller, the school's first black student. Flynn vehemently denies the allegations, but who is telling the truth? This powerhouse drama will keep audiences guessing until the final curtain.
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