Belmont Abbey College

THE REVIEWS: Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award. "All the elements come invigoratingly together like clockwork in John Patrick Shanley's provocative new play, DOUBT, a gripping story of suspicion cast on a priest's behavior that is less about scandal than about fascinatingly nuanced questions of moral certainty. Something rare for this season: a laudable new American play." —Variety. "#1 show of the year. How splendid it feels to be trusted with such passionate, exquisite ambiguity unlike anything we have seen from this prolific playwright so far. Blunt yet subtle, manipulative but full of empathy for all sides, the play is set in 1964 but could not be more timely. In just ninety fast-moving minutes, Shanley creates four blazingly individual people. DOUBT is a lean, potent drama…passionate, exquisite, important and engrossing." —NY Newsday. "A beautifully balanced drama. Shanley is a writer working at the top of his craft, making the most of a muted but evocative palette in the pursuit of truth's shadows. Here, for the first time in a long time, is a play that is about something." —Chicago Tribune. "An eloquent and provocative investigation of truth and consequences. A gripping mystery, tightly written." —Time Out.

Oscar Wilde's classic is a delight from the first cucumber sandwich, as Jack's double life catches up with him. The problems are resolved in an extremely charming and quite unexpected way as Jack and Algernon discover the importance of being earnest while answering to the name Earnest.

It is reported that Queen Elizabeth I specifically asked Shakespeare for another play that featured his immortal comic creation Sir John Falstaff; the result was The Merry Wives of Windsor, the 2009-2010 Shakespeare Series production. Falstaff embarks upon a quest to seduce Mistress Ford and Mistress Page, the "merry wives" of the title, and the two women turn the tables upon him and their husbands!

Two drifters, George and his friend Lennie, with delusions of living off the "fat of the land," have just arrived at a ranch to work for enough money to buy their own place. Lennie is a man-child, a little boy in the body of a dangerously powerful man. It's Lennie's obsessions with things soft and cuddly, that have made George cautious about who the gentle giant, with his brute strength, associates with. His promise to allow Lennie to "tend to the rabbits" on their future land keeps Lennie calm, amidst distractions, as the overgrown child needs constant reassurance. But when a ranch boss' promiscuous wife is found dead in the barn with a broken neck, it's obvious that Lennie, albeit accidentally, killed her. George, now worried about his own safety, knows exactly where Lennie has gone to hide, and he meets him there. Realizing they can't run away anymore, George is faced with a moral question: how should he deal with Lennie before the ranchers find him and take matters into their own hands.

Book by  Peter Stone
Music by  Sherman Edwards
Lyrics by  Sherman Edwards
Based on a concept by Sherman Edwards

ASSASSINS a musical By Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and John Weidman (book) is a critically acclaimed look at the men and women who have shot the presidents of the United States, both those who succeeded and those who did not. ASSASSINS is alternately funny and horrifying as it examines the dark side of the American Dream, and recently completed a successful Broadway revival. Join us for the season finale with this compelling, disturbing show!