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2008-2009 Season
 

This Season's theme is "Life With Family." No matter where we are in our lives, family is at the heart of everything we are. Family is chosen as well as defined by blood.

This season, join us as each of our three productions focus on different aspects of family. Journey through life, death, relationships, good times, bad times, laughter and tears as each story shows us that family is what we make it.

   

Daughters
Daughters

by John Morgan Evans

Directed By
Dustin Milberg

September 12 -
October 4, 2008

CoHo Theatre

 

In this beautifully-written, heartfelt comedy, four generations of Italian-American women gather in the kitchen of the DiAngelo's Brooklyn home to deal with life, death, and cannelloni, while the dying family patriarch is in the bedroom listening to Italian opera. Warm and funny, Daughters is one of the best-written family plays of the last few years, with five incredibly rich and clever roles for women.

This comedy contains some adult language.

   

It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play

Adapted for the stage by Joe Landry

Directed By
Mary McDonald-Lewis

December 5 - 20, 2008

CoHo Theatre

 

This enchanting, time-honored tale of Christmas regret and redemption is told with a twist! This holiday season, Public Playhouse brings the captivating story of George Bailey to life as a live radio broadcast. Set in a run-down Portland, Oregon radio station in 1946, five actors take on all the roles of the holiday classic and bring a few dozen characters to the stage for a live studio audience (you!). Join us for an intimate evening of storytelling, music and live sound effects.

This family friendly classic is suitable for all ages.

   

The Illusion
The Illusion

An Adaptation of
Pierre Cornell's Classic

by Tony Kushner

Directed By
Ron Daum

March 6 - 28, 2009

CoHo Theatre

 

Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer-prize winning playwright of Angels in America, takes great liberties in his adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s 17th century comedy L'Illusion Comique. Reality and dream intersect in the cave of the magician Alcandre, where a lawyer has come on a quest in search of answers about his prodigal son. Alcandre conjures three visions to reveal the life of his son in exile. In each episode the names change, the alliances shift, and the stakes rise. What begins as a simple fairy tale evolves into a complex and elegant tale of the greatest Illusion of all—love.