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Top Girls - © Eric Woolsey

By Caryl Churchill

Sept 28-Oct 2 and Oct 5-Oct 9

7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2:00 p.m.

Emerson Studio Theatre

Marlene is a successful businesswoman with an unsuccessful personal life. She has left her poor life behind to enjoy success. Top Girls opens in a restaurant where Marlene is hosting a dinner party for five friends – the five guests are all women that are either long-dead or are fictional characters from literature or paintings. In much the same way Tony Kushner incorporates dreamlike sequences to explore issues of AIDS in Angels in America, Top Girls explores issues of feminism in the shadow of Margaret Thatcher’s policies in Great Britain.

The Receptionist - © Eric Woolsey

The Receptionist

By Adam Bock

Apr 1-3

At the start of a typical day in the Northeast Office, Beverly deals effortlessly with ringing phones and her colleague’s romantic troubles. But the appearance of a charming rep from the Central Office disrupts the friendly routine. And as the true nature of the company’s business becomes apparent, The Receptionist raises disquieting, provocative questions about the consequences of complicity with evil.

A Year With Frog and Toad - Webster University ©Eric Woolsey

A Year with Frog and Toad

Book and Lyrics by  Willie Reale

Music by  Robert Reale

Based on the books by  Arnold Lobel

Mar 25-27

Arnold Lobel’s well-loved characters hop from the page to the stage in Robert and Willie Reale’s musical A Year With Frog And Toad. Conceived by Mr. Lobel’s daughter, Adrianne Lobel, A Year With Frog And Toad remains true to the spirit of the original stories as it follows two great friends, the cheerful and popular Frog and the rather grumpy Toad through four fun-filled seasons. Waking from hibernation in the spring, they proceed to plant gardens, swim, rake leaves and go sledding, learning life lessons along the way, including a most important one about friendship and rejoicing in the attributes that make each of us different and special.

The Wonderful World of Dissocia - Webster University ©Eric Woolsey

The Wonderful World of Dissocia

By Anthony Neilson

Mar 18-20

Lisa is about to embark on a mission. A mission that will take her into another world. A perilous, bizarre but alluring world: The Wonderful World of Dissocia. It’s all because of an hour. A missing hour. Lost on the plane between New York and London. Ever since that trip Lisa’s life has been diabolical. Now she’s being given the opportunity to recover the hour and restore equilibrium to her life. All she has to do is make her way through Dissocia…On the way she’ll meet a bumbling pair of (in)security guards, a (scape)goat with a penchant for committing horrible crimes and a trashy hot dog vendor named Britney. But the trouble these guys cause is nothing compared with Lisa’s most terrifying adversary: the Black Dog King.

Exhilaration and frenetic adventuring aside, there is something very dark and very real lurking beneath this world. All is not as it seems.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Webster University ©Eric Woolsey

Directed by: Quin Gresham
Music Directed by: Larry Pry
Choreographed by: Kristen Lake Nordstrom

The Cast:

The Spellers: (in order of appearance)
Chip Tolentino: John Kinney
Loggaine Schartzandgrubenierre: Nyssa Duchow
Leaf Coneybear: Nate McClure
William Barfeé: Jonathan Foster
Marcy Park: Christina Ramirez
Olive Ostrovsky: Alexis Kinney

The Adults:
Rona Lisa Paretti: Audrey Rae McHale
Douglas Panch: Tyler Beveridge
Mitch Mahoney: Jerome Lowe

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The Threepenny Opera - Webster University ©Eric Woolsey

Director: Tim Ocel
Musical Director: Neal Richardson
Stage Manager: Lauren Smith
Assistant Director: Ariel Kline
Lighting Designer: Maura Reinhart
Set Designer Nathan Scheuer
Costume Designer: Sarah Swafford
Choreographer: Cara Myler
Assistant Stage Managers: Danielle Kimball and David Salmo

Cast:
Macheath: Aaron Sitrick
J.J. Peachum: Conor E.K. Dagenfield
Tiger Brown: Michael Curtin
Polly Peachum: Katie Hamilton-Meier
Celia Peachum: Ellen Bryan
Low-Dive Jenny: Sarah Cline
Lucy Brown: Jamey Powell
Smith: Jake Golliher
Ready-Money Matt: Lincoln Ward
Crooked-Fingers Jake: Michael Fariss
Sawtooth Bob/ Constable #1: Jared Lotz
Ned/ Constable #2: Jacob Lacopo
Walt Dreary/ Constable #3: Kurt Hellerich
Jimmy Junior/Beggar: Scott Joy
Charles Filch/ Constable #4: Greg Fink
Ballad Singer: Jordan Parente
Beggar #1: Scott James Smith
Dolly: Cara Myler
Betty: Emily Fisher
Vixen: Sara Gonzales
Molly: Charlotte Byrd
Whores/Ensemble:
Becca Andrews
Mary Rinderspacher
Shaina Schrooten
Carlee Avery
Beggar: Blair Wooten

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A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival - Washington University ©Eric Woolsey

A Hundred Pines by Selena Lane – October 1, 7:00 pm

Before Jumping In by Eli Keehn – October 2, 2:00 pm

The Stroke Scriptures by Chris Kammerer – October 2, 7:00 pm

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The Insect Play - Webster University ©Eric Woolsey

Directed by Jef Awada
Assistant Directed by Ann Kreitman

Traveller: Kyle Acheson
Professor/Larva/2nd Engineer: Kelly Nienaltowski
Iris/Ant/Slug: Allison Newman
Clythie, Ant/ Mayfly: Lexie Tompkins
Felix/Parasite/Ant/Slug: Scears Lee IV
Victor/3rd Dung Beetle/Ant: Kevin Mimms
Otakar/First Engineer: Jonathan Foster
Chrysalis: Lauren Motil
Mr. Dung Beetle/Ant: Tyler Beveridge
Mrs. Dung Beetle/Ant: Rachel Pallante
Mr. Ichneumon-Fly/Blind Fly: Borris York
Mr. Cricket/Ant- Colton Pometta
Mrs. Cricket/Ant/Mayfly: Mckenna Liesman
Ant/Mayfly: Ally Young-Price

Set Designer: Katie Stepanek
Lighting Designer: Nathan Scheuer
Costume Designer: Aryna Petrashenko
Makeup and Wig Designer: Caity Hawksley
Sound Designer: Amanda Werre

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