Crumbs from the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage

"Imagine a pairing…between Tennessee Williams and Lorraine Hansberry, a memory play about a black family, a glass menagerie in the sun… “Crumbs From the Table of Joy” [is] a small window into the past, and this almost voyeuristic glimpse is worth attention. —NY Post. …a complex, thought-provoking play…" - Chicago Sun Times.

Lynn Nottage, the award-winning author of such plays as 'Intimate Apparel' and 'Fabulation,' continues her tradition of thoughtful, touching and funny plays with 'Crumbs from the Table of Joy.' It's 1950 and Godfrey Crump has just lost his wife. Finding solace in Father Divine and the Peace Mission Movement, he pulls up stakes and moves his teenage daughters to Brooklyn. Told through the eyes of his 17-year-old daughter Ernestine, 'Crumbs from the Table of Joy' aims straight at the heart in a story that deals with boundaries of race, gender, and society.

Performances are September 21–September 28, 2010
Preview performance on September 20
(Dark on Sunday)
Leggett Theater, 7:30 p.m.

Into the Hands of Evil
Halloween Horror Stories

PCT Benefit—One Night Only!

Frightful and sinful stories of devilish delight read by Dr. Kenny Gannon, Dr. Wade Newhouse, Dr. Eliza Laskowski and Flynt Burton.

Thursday, October 28, 2010
Leggett Theater, 7:30 p.m.

A Shayna Maidel
written and directed by Barbara Lebow

"A powerful, haunting and deeply affecting portrait of a family, which conveys the aftermath of the Holocaust through a poignant, imaginatively conceived examination of one divided family's experience. Widely produced by America's leading regional theatres, the play went on to become a long-run Off-Broadway success... a tribute to the sustaining power of family and to man's indomitability." —NY Times.

"It's an emotional powerhouse of almost overwhelming proportions." —Hartford Journal Inquirer. "

"…anyone who sees it will not soon forget it." - Atlanta Constitution.

"In A Shayna Maidel, two sisters - one a survivor of Nazi concentration camps, the other brought up as an American -meet in 1946 after a separation of almost 20 years, and in the course of a heart-rending evening, they achieve an intimacy that transcends the theatrical event. Barbara Lebow's play is about the horrors of the Holocaust; it is also a deeply personalized study of sisterhood, family and a crisis of faith." - Mel Gussow, New York Times.

Performances are November 9–16, 2010
Preview performance on November 8
(Dark on Sunday)
Leggett Theater, 7:30 p.m.

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

"So musical a Discord, such sweet thunder."

On the occasion of his marriage, Theseus, Duke of Athens, entertains a plea from an angry Egeus about his disobedient daughter.  Hermia wants to marry Lysander but Egeus wants her to marry Demetrius.  On pain of death, the Duke orders Hermia to obey her father.   Rather than marry Demetrius, Hermia defies the Duke’s decree and with Lysander flees into the forest, into the night, into the world of magic potions and enchantment, and into the world of dreams.  Thus begins Shakespeare’s beloved “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”  Yet this is indeed just the beginning.    There in the night; humans and fairies, rustics and royalty, lovers and children, ancient myth and legend, all converge and collide in the service and pursuit of true love.   When morning comes, we wake to find the dream has transformed us into lovers all.

Performances are February 23 - March 1, 2011
Preview performance on February 22
(Dark on Sunday)
Leggett Theater, 7:30 p.m.

Raleigh's Village Idiots

Performances are March 24 - 26, 2011
Leggett Theater, 7:30 pm.

Student One Acts

Performances are April 7 - 9, 2011
Leggett Theater, 7:30 p.m.