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    • 2014-2015 First Season
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2015 – 2016 Season

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directed by Topher Alan Payne

Sept 18 -Oct 3, 2015

In this compelling Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play, three characters are facing death with the support (more or less) of their family and friends. A beautiful, moving and often funny look at what makes up a life.

 

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directed by Topher Alan Payne

Nov 6-21, 2015

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man—with a lot of loose ends. Answering a dead man’s cell phone sends Jean on a comedic odyssey which forces her to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.

 

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directed by Krista Schafer Ewbank

Jan 22-Feb 6

Famed painter Rudolf Bauer sketched on scraps while in a Nazi prison, was saved by his lover, Guggenheim curator Hilla Rebay, and had an NYC museum built to house his art… until an incredible act of betrayal stopped him from painting. A shocking and moving story of powerful art and powerful passion.

 

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by Aaron Posner, adapted from stories by Kurt Vonnegut

directed by Topher Alan Payne

March 4-19, 2016

Michigan Premiere. The subject is love, pure and complicated. Three early comic masterpieces by Kurt Vonnegut (Long Walk to Forever, Who am I This Time? and Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son) are sewn together in the story of a small town in this smart, delightful comedy for the whole family.

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Calypso’s Corner by Emily Rosenbaum

directed by Angie Kane Ferrante

May 6-21, 2016

World Premiere.  Weaving together the past and present this story of two sisters’ estrangement  examines the legacy of violence through multiple generations and the healing power of sharing our stories.

 

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1621 West Road
Trenton, MI 48183

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Our work is supported in part by an award from the MICHIGAN ARTS AND CULTURE COUNCIL and the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS.

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