LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE
CALENDAR LISTINGS
December 2007 – April 2008
Through December 16
Moulton Theatre Main Stage
Off-Broadway Hit Musical
Hank Williams: Lost Highway
Written by Randal Myler and Mark Harelik
Performances:
Tuesday – Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m.
Sunday evening December 9: 7:00 p.m.
Country and Western music icon Hank Williams touched the hearts of millions of people during his short career. Now, his unique magic as a performer and the simple spell of his yearning songs return to life in this unforgettable musical tribute. Packed with familiar melodies – including “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” and “Your Cheatin’ Heart” – the show recounts Williams’ often lonely journey from obscurity to super-stardom at the Grand Ole Opry. Though his life ended tragically, Williams’ legend lives on through songs that celebrate the tenderness of the heart and the hopefulness of the human spirit.
December 17– 23
Moulton Theatre Special Engagement
Back by Popular Demand
Sister’s Christmas Catechism
Written by Maripat Donovan with Marc Silvia and Jane Morris
Directed by Marc Silvia
December 17-23
Monday – Sunday evenings at 7:30 p.m.
hursday, Saturday & Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m.
Think CSI: BETHLEHEM as Sister tackles the question that has been puzzling historians throughout the ages: What ever happened to the Magi's gold? Sister engages her audience to help solve the mystery through a forensic examination of the nativity scene. Sister hunts under the manger and over camel humps in her quest for clues.
January 1 – February 3
Moulton Theatre Main Stage
World Premiere
TRANCED
Written by Bob Clyman
Previews:
January 1 - 4
Regular Run:
January 6 – February 3, 2008
Tuesday – Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m.
Thursday matinees January 3 & 17: 2:00 p.m.
Sunday evening, January 27: 7:00 p.m.
In this fast-paced, suspense-filled thriller by the author of The Laguna Playhouse hit drama, The Secret Order, an African graduate student comes to Dr. Philip Malaad, a respected psychiatrist and renowned specialist in clinical hypnosis, seeking relief from her panic attacks which began shortly after she observed a violent incident in her native country. After ‘trancing’ her, Dr. Malaad begins to suspect whatever she believes she witnessed may actually be concealing a repressed memory, one with profound consequences for many thousands of people unless someone quickly intervenes. Caught between his professional ethics and this large moral obligation, Malaad is soon pulled into a vortex of high-level political intrigue, forced to examine as never before the slippery nature of truth.
February 12 – March 16
Moulton Theatre Main Stage
Southern California Premiere
Red Herring
Written by Michael Hollinger
Previews:
February 12 - 15
Regular Run:
February 17 – March 16, 2008
Tuesday – Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m.
Thursday matinees February 14 & 28: 2:00 p.m.
Sunday evening, March 9: 7:00 p.m.
Take three pairs of lovers, add an unsolved murder, several pinches of espionage, and pickle everything in a brine of early Cold War paranoia, and you have the ingredients for a side-splitting black comedy enmeshed in tangled romance. Why is Senator Joseph McCarthy’s daughter dating a would-be traitor? And what’s that supposedly dead Russian fisherman doing pretending to be feisty landlady Mrs. Kravitz’ deaf husband? Did we mention the pair of dogged gumshoes? And how does I Love Lucy and the H-Bomb fit into the plot? This spoof Red Scare drama will keep you reeling with laughter.
March 25 – April 27
Moulton Theatre Main Stage
World Premiere
BROWNSTONE
Written by Catherine Butterfield
Previews:
March 25 – 28
Regular Run:
March 30 – April 27, 2008
Tuesday – Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m.
Thursday matinees March 27 & April 10: 2:00 p.m.
Sunday evening, April 20: 7:00 p.m.
As the saying goes, “if only these walls could talk,” and in Catherine Butterfield’s imaginative new play they do! Set in a Manhattan brownstone, this play spans three contrasting eras and plays host to three very different sets of occupants. There’s the pampered rich young couple of the 1930s, eager for adventure in Paris. There are the starry-eyed aspiring actresses of the 1970s and the chillingly self-absorbed “power couple” of the new millennium. They all have dreams, but as events unfold they must learn to ride the shifting waves of fortune. These walls have stories – funny, tragic and mysteriously linked. From the author of The Playhouse’s hit comedy The Sleeper
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TICKET INFORMATION
949-497-2787 ext. 1 (group tickets ext. 229)
www.lagunaplayhouse.com
606 Laguna Canyon Rd., Laguna Beach, 92651
