Magic, mystery, laughter, and three New York premieres are the highlights of the 2013-2014 season at The Centenary Stage Company in their fourth year at the David and Carol Lackland Center. This year will feature eight diverse theatre events in the Lackland Center in addition to the New York premieres.
One of the most popular successes in Broadway history, a theatrical triumph with gasp-inducing thrills and spontaneous laughter, Deathtrap by Ira Levin, is a chilling murder-mystery running October 4- 20 in the Sitnik TheatrE. Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a dry spell which has resulted in a string of flops and a shortage of funds. Suddenly help seems to come from out of nowhere when he receives a script in the mail from a student in the seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college-a thriller Sidney recognizes as a potential Broadway hit. What happens next is the stuff of Deathtrap. Audiences will be held spellbound to the very end.This season three plays from CSC seasons will make their debuts in New York City. The captivating drama Breakfast with Mugabe, by British playwright Fraser Grace, which was produced at CSC in the opening season of the Lackland Center, will be performed at the Pershing Square Signature Center Theatre from August 11 - October 6, as a co-production between CSC and Two Planks Productions. A dramatic look at Zimbabwe's despotic President Robert Mugabe, the play has been called "a modern-day Macbeth... depicting the struggle of wills between the African ruler who is haunted by his blood-stained fears, and Dr. Andrew Peric, a white Zimbabwean psychiatrist summoned to the presidential palace." Director David Shookhoff will once again lead the talented cast -Michael Rogers, Rosalyn Coleman, Che Ayende, and Ezra Barnes - on the NY stage.Videos