Main Stage Productions
A Tuna Christmas
by Ed Howard, Joe Sears and Jason Williams Comedy
Director John Pope
Dates: December 1,2,3,8,9,10,15,16
 In this hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna, it’s Christmas in the third smallest town in Texas. Radio station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie report on various Yuletide activities, including hot competition in the annual lawn display contest. In other news, voracious Joe Bob Lipsey’s production of A Christmas Carol is jeopardized by unpaid electric bills. Many colorful Tuna denizens, some you will recognize from Greater Tuna and some appearing here for the first time, join in the holiday fun.
“A hoot.” N.Y. Times. “So funny it could make a racoon laugh affectionately at Davy Crockett.... It’s far too good for just Christmas.” N.Y. Post. “The hilarity ... never lets up.” Village Voice.
All the Way Home
by Tad Mosel Drama
Director George Ballis
Dates:
February 9,10,11,16,17,18,23,24 2007
 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Critics’ Circle Best Play Award, this is a portrait of early twentieth century family life and the crushing intrusion of sudden death. A young father sets off with his pregnant wife, son, mother, and his brother’s family to visit Aunt Saidy and Grandma. The husband leaves to check on his dying father and is killed en route.
“A striking drama about death.... A somber and beautiful play.” N.Y. Post . “A quiet compassion that one will remember long after some of the theatre’s flashier sensations.” N.Y. Times .
As Bees in Honey Drown
by Douglas Carter Beane Comedy
Director TBA
Dates:
April 13,14,15,20,21,22,27,28 2007
Evan Wyler has just finished a photo session with his shirt off. No, he’s not a supermodel; he’s a twenty-something New York writer savoring the success of his debut novel. Defined by the media as the “hot-young” thing-of-the-moment, Evan captures the attention of Alexa Vere de Vere, a black-clad woman of mystery who’s made the world of celebrity her home. In fact, it’s her religion. Maybe she’s a record producer, maybe she’s a film agent; what is clear is that she wants Evan to write the screenplay of her life story.
“A delicious soufflé of a satire[an] extremely entertaining fable for an age that always chooses image over substance.” —NY Times. “In AS BEES IN HONEY DROWN, Douglas Carter Beane…gives a witty assessment of one of the most active and relentless industries in a consumer society, the creation of…’hot’ young things, which the media have learned to mass produce with efficiency and zeal.” —NY Daily News.
A Grand Night for Singing
by Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical revue
Director Lee Hamby June 1,2,3,7,8,9,10,14,15,16 2007
Conceived by Waiter Bobbie. Music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Musical Arrangements by Fred Wells. Originally produced by Roundabout Theatre Company at the Criterion Center Stage Right, New York; 17 November, 1993 (52 perfs) Over three decades after the duo’s final collaboration, The Sound Of Music, took the world by storm, it was this new R&H musical that opened the 1994 Broadway season, gaining wildly enthusiastic reviews. Rodgers & Hammerstein probably never imagined “Shall We Dance?” as a comic pas de deux for a towering beauty and her diminutive admirer, nor did they suspect that one day a lovelorn young lad might pose the musical question, “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?” but with innovative musical arrangements including a sultry Andrew Sisters-esque “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Out-a My Hair”, A swingin’ “Honeybun” and a jazzy “Kansas City” this exhilarating revue leaves no question about how terrifically up-to-date the remarkable songs of R&H remain.
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