2008 Season
June 18-29
Comedy by Thomas Lysaght Featuring David Howard (Visiting Mr. Green) as Yogi Berra
Red Sox Nation can relax. Yogi Berra may be a New York Yankees legend, but Nobody Don’t Like Yogi - the play about his life - covers more than just the time Berra spent in the dreaded pinstripes.
This play premiered in Belfast, Northern Ireland and was a runaway hit in London, where it won Best Comedy awards from The Evening Standard and the Olivier Award Committee. It opened to critical acclaim at the Golden Theatre in New York in 2001 and received three Tony nominations that year.
A classic comedy of bad manners, dry humor and quicksilver sparring that is both daringly hilarious and elegantly sexy, Private Lives is widely considered Coward’s greatest comedy.
Beneath the sparkle of Edwardian London Society lies an undercurrent of deception, instigated by Mrs Cheveley, the infamous scarlet woman. Living in this world is the pure-hearted Lady Chiltern and her ideal husband, a politician beyond reproach … if there is such a being.
James Whitmore will reprise his role as the Stage Manager in this classic.
“Truth tends to make a bad sermon...” says the accused priest in John Patrick Shanley’s achingly taut Doubt.
In the Tony Award-Winning The Belle of Amherst William Luce draws heavily on the poems, letters and first hand accounts of Emily Dickinson to sculpt a one-woman play that is an inspiring, poignant and truthful biography of one of America’s greatest literary women.
A Fairy Tale by Marjorie Sokoloff Who could resist a house made of candy? Hansel and Gretel take a bite (or two) in this reworked fairy tale, but a few fresh surprises are in store for the siblings. In what is now an annual tradition,the Second Company will bring this story to life and help create family memories that you will cherish for a lifetime. An updated musical story by Gus Kaikkonen and Kraig Swartz with music by Ellen Mandel by Mary ChaseJuly 2-13
Comedy by Marie Jones Featuring Jack Koenig (Return of the Prodigal, Laughing Stock) and Kraig Swartz
July 16-27
Comedy by Noel Coward Featuring Jon L. Egging, Dale Hodges, Jack Koenig (Return of the Prodigal, Laughing Stock)
July 30-August 10
Comedy by Oscar Wilde Featuring Karron Graves (Fallen Angels, Turn of the Screw), Dale Hodges, Jack Koenig, Sevanne Martin, Dee Nelson, Michael Page, and Kraig Swartz
August 13-31
Drama by Thornton Wilder Starring James Whitmore and James Whitmore, Jr. Featuring Jon L. Egging, Karron Graves (Fallen Angels, Return of the Screw), Kathy Manfre., Michael Page, Dee Nelson, and Kraig Swartz
September 3-14
A Drama by John Partick Shanley Starring Linda Kelsey Featuring Karron Graves and Kraig Swartz
September 17-28
A Drama by William Luce Starring Lindsay Crouse. Production Originally Presented at the Gloucester Stage Company
Second Company
June 27, 28, July 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 18, 19, 23, 25, 26
Aug. 22, 23, 26, 30 at 2pm, & Aug. 25
In this modern, musical retelling of the beloved story Cinderella, Cindy Reilly is a bespectacled CPA, surrounded by her chic step-sisters, a rockstar "formerly known as Prince Charming," and her evil stepmother, a Leona Helmsley-type hotel mogul.Thur. June 5 at 8 p.m, Fri. June 6 Sat. June 7 at 8 p.m, and Sun. June 8 at 2 p.m.
directed by Gus Kaikkonen
Featuring Professional Actors Jon L. Egging as Elwood P. Dowd, Kathy Manfre, and James M. O'Connell
