SEASON 12-13

THE GOAT

WHO IS SYLVIA?

Edward Albee

AN INSPECTOR CALLS

AT THE HISTORIC BRISTOL COURTHOUSE!

JB Priestley

LOST IN YONKERS

Neil Simon

AMADEUS

Peter Shaffer

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST

dale wasserman

SUMMER 2012

A FEW GOOD MEN

Aaron Sorkin

REBECCA

Daphne du Maurier

SABRINA FAIR

Samuel Taylor

SEASON 11-12

COMMUNICATING DOORS

Alan Ayckbourn

SPECIAL HOLIDAY EVENT: LITTLE WOMEN

Louisa May Alcott - Adapt. by Bob Colonna

THE SUITORS

Jean Racine - trans. by Richard Wilbur

TAKE ME OUT

Richard Greenberg

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

Tracy Letts

THE DIVINE SISTER

CHARLES BUSCH

Summer 2011

SPEECH & DEBATE

stephen karam

MASTER CLASS

terrence mcnally

2010 - 2011

A YEAR OF COMEDY

Summer's all done so it just stands to reason,
Ed Shea should announce 2nd Story's new season.
Five comedies (more than a nudge and a wink),
They'll lead you to laugh while they leave you to think.

KIMBERLY AKIMBO

David Lindsay-Abaire

Kimberly's cute, effervescent, a pixie.
She's only 16, but she looks like she's 60.
She chatters, she worries, a typical teen:
Cute boyfriend, dysfunctional family scene.
She'll charm you, disarm you, perhaps bring a tear.
A lively first step to a lovely new year.

SCHOOL FOR WIVES

MoliÈre - trans. Richard Wilbur

In love and in war, they say, everything's fair,
L'amour is a battle of wits to Molière:
The dimwits, the prim wits, young lovers, old goats,
Deft rhyming, great timing, and pure comic notes.
So transfer your credits once autumn arrives:
Semester begins for Molière's School for Wives

BECKY SHAW

Gina Gionfriddo

A tale set in Providence, told with great skill:
A blind date, a hedge fund, a mother, a will.
A smart play with startling je ne sais quoi —
Compelling! We're telling you: see Becky Shaw.
Its dark sense of humor, its rapier wit —
The mark of a major league, megawatt hit.

THE GOOD DOCTOR

NEIL SIMON

From Ireland to Russia, a mid-season trade:
The Playboy is out; The Good Doctor gets played.
It's Chekhov, a heck of a writer, it's true;
Neil Simon's concocted this comic ragout.
So make way for laughter and maybe a tear,
With Chekhov and Simon and Shea in high gear.

IN THE NEXT ROOM

OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY

Sarah Ruhl

Just when you think you know what's coming next,
Along comes Ed Shea to announce a new text:
Victorian characters, modernist vibe,
Intellectual, sexual, hard to describe.
The title of this gives its premise away:
In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play.

SPECIAL EVENT: NUTS

Tom Topor - at the Historic Bristol Statehouse

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A teen who looks 60. A rhyming French boor.
Distraught 30-somethings. A Slav raconteur.
Victorian lady who unlocks her id.
Come see them all or you'll wish that you did.

- Poem by Tom Roberts