Upcoming WorkShop Shows

Below lists upcoming performances in our Main Stage and Jewel Box theaters, including our free weekend staged readings, Plays In Process (PIPs) - longer, more fully produced runs of works further along in our development process, and our Main Stage Season offerings.

Miss Lulu Bett

By:  Zona Gale
Directed By:  Kathleen Brant+

Opens:  Thursday, March 18, 2010

In Celebration of Women's History Month

Spinsterhood seems to be Lulu's destiny, until an enthusiastic visitor proposes! Miss Lulu Bett is the first play written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The WorkShop Theater Company first presented Miss Lulu Bett in late February of 2008 as part of Voices, Pertinent and Timeless a reading series, conceived by company artist Lori Faiella, featuring the first three Pulitzer Prize-winning plays by women. In January of 2009, the WorkShop Theater Company produced a staged reading of the play, directed by Debra Whitfield. Miss Lulu Bett's depiction of a woman discovering her independence was ground-breaking in 1921. Its world premiere took place on a temporary stage constructed at Sing Sing prison, after which it played on Broadway at the Belmont Theatre, produced by Brock Pemberton. In 1921, Zona Gale was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, becoming the first female writer to win the coveted prize. Miss Lulu Bett was then made into a silent film directed by William C. de Mille. Miss Gale also took an active part in the creation of the Wisconsin Equal Rights Law prohibiting discrimination against women.

Closes:  04/03/2010

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Tarragona

By:  Gary Giovannetti
Directed By:  Elysa Marden

Opens:  Thursday, March 25, 2010

To change our lives we each need to follow our own map.
In this new comedy, one man’s map leads him to Tarragona.

Closes:  03/27/2010

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Orange Alert

By:  Stephen Girasuolo
Directed By: 

Opens:  Thursday, April 8, 2010

Nearly a decade after 9/11, eight people must choose between pursuing their desires or giving into the uncertainty that follows them everywhere as they live and work in the shadow of Ground Zero.

Closes:  04/10/2010

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