The Elite Theatre Company
2016 Main Stage Season
“Relative”
7th Annual One-Act Festival
Various Directors
January 15 - February 7
The plays will be a compilation of the winners of the 2015 One-Act Play Writing Competition chosen from nearly 100 submissions from North American playwrights.
Various Directors
January 15 - February 7
The plays will be a compilation of the winners of the 2015 One-Act Play Writing Competition chosen from nearly 100 submissions from North American playwrights.
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Musical Comedy Revue
Book and Lyrics by Joe DiPietro
Music by Jimmy Roberts
Directed by Erin Fagundes
February 26 - March 27
Musical Comedy Revue
Book and Lyrics by Joe DiPietro
Music by Jimmy Roberts
Directed by Erin Fagundes
February 26 - March 27
It is the second-longest running Off-Broadway musical. The musical was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award as Outstanding Off-Broadway musical in 1997. I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change is presented in the form of a series of vignettes connected by the central theme of love and relationships. The play's tagline is “Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit.” With few exceptions, the scenes stand independent of the others, but progress in a fashion designed to suggest an overall arc to relationships throughout the course of one's life. A first date, for example, comes before scenes dealing with marriage, and scenes dealing with marriage come before those dealing with child rearing.
Men of Tortuga
Black Comedy/Thriller by Jason Wells
Directed by Tom Eubanks
April 15 - May 15
Black Comedy/Thriller by Jason Wells
Directed by Tom Eubanks
April 15 - May 15
Four men conspire to defeat a despised opponent by firing a missile into a crowded conference room on the day of an important meeting. As the scheme spins wildly into complication, the plotters descend into suspicion, bloodlust, and raucous infighting. In addressing some serious contemporary issues, Wells tells a story of corporate greed, power, surveillance and the secrecy that increasingly pervades our daily lives. This is a play confirming everything you've ever wanted to believe about what goes on behind the frosted windows and code-locked doors of America's executive suites and carefully exposes the barbarism encoded in corporate bureaucracy. With a grand sense of humor about misinterpreted metaphors and think-tank buzz language, Tortuga gives us absurd savages in suits, drinking good bourbon and plotting destruction. Note: Adult Language
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The world's longest running play! A group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer. The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house, and the suspicions in their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage. Others are a spinster with a curious background, an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. He no sooner arrives, when the jurist is killed. Two down, and one to go. To get to the rationale of the murderer's pattern, the policeman probes the background of everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons. Another famous Agatha Christie switch finish! Chalk up another superb intrigue for the foremost mystery writer of her time.
In the Midst of All that is Good
World Premiere Dramatic Comedy by Tom Eubanks
Directed by Tom Eubanks
July 22 - August 21
In the foothills of a California desert camp site, the Haggard family confronts past betrayals, frauds and public humiliations. While on a week-long retreat camping with his 70-year-old father Lloyd, an expelled televangelist, 18-year-old son Carson and 16-year-old daughter Maddie in a remote camp site, Bob Haggard, impales his foot on a nail. Unable to reach his wife to pick them up, the family is marooned. Dennis Cavanaugh, a strange but comic intruder, inadvertently draws more trouble to the family’s plight, and the Haggard family’s retreat from all that is bad in their lives becomes a hideaway for their indwelling reality. Note: Some Adult Language
The Tempest
Drama by William Shakespeare
Directed by Bill Fisher
A co-production with California Shakespeare Company
September 3 - 25
Set on a remote island, Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to lure his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to the island. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio's lowly nature, the redemption of the King, and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso's son, Ferdinand.
(NOT INCLUDED IN OUR SEASON SUBSCRIPTION)
Drama by William Shakespeare
Directed by Bill Fisher
A co-production with California Shakespeare Company
September 3 - 25
Set on a remote island, Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to lure his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to the island. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio's lowly nature, the redemption of the King, and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso's son, Ferdinand.
(NOT INCLUDED IN OUR SEASON SUBSCRIPTION)
All My Sons
Classic Drama by Arthur Miller
Directed by Brian Robert Harris
October 14 - November 13
During the war Joe Keller and Steve Deever ran a machine shop which made airplane parts. Deever was sent to prison because the firm turned out defective parts, causing the deaths of many men. Keller went free and made a lot of money. The twin shadows of this catastrophe and the fact that the young Keller son was reported missing during the war dominate the action. The love affair of Chris Keller and Ann Deever, the bitterness of George Deever returned from the war to find his father in prison and his father's partner free, are all set in a structure of almost unbearable power. The climax showing the reaction of a son to his guilty father is fitting conclusion to a play electrifying in its intensity.
Classic Drama by Arthur Miller
Directed by Brian Robert Harris
October 14 - November 13
During the war Joe Keller and Steve Deever ran a machine shop which made airplane parts. Deever was sent to prison because the firm turned out defective parts, causing the deaths of many men. Keller went free and made a lot of money. The twin shadows of this catastrophe and the fact that the young Keller son was reported missing during the war dominate the action. The love affair of Chris Keller and Ann Deever, the bitterness of George Deever returned from the war to find his father in prison and his father's partner free, are all set in a structure of almost unbearable power. The climax showing the reaction of a son to his guilty father is fitting conclusion to a play electrifying in its intensity.
