CLYBOURNE PARK, CABARET Included in Tennessee Rep's 2012-13 Season

The Tennessee Reperatory Theatre Announces its 2012-2013 Season Lineup, including CLYBOURNE PARK, DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, CABARET, TIME STANDS STILL, and A CHRISTMAS STORY.  Subscriptions start at $100. Subscription information is available at www.tennesseerep.org. Subscriptions available by internet and phone order beginning April 2, 2012.

CLYBOURNE PARK
by Bruce Norris
September 8 - 22, 2012 (previews September 6-7)

Riffing on the flip side of the story that Lorraine Hansberry told in A Raisin in the Sun, in Act One a white neighborhood in 1959 Chicago grapples with the news that a black family is about to move in. Fast-forward to 2009 for Act Two, and a white family wants to move into the same house which is now in a neighborhood of very different demographics. Jokes fly and hidden agendas unfold as two vastly different generations of characters tip-toe the delicate dance of social politics, pitting race against real estate at the crux of two seminal points in the history of a neighborhood.  These hilarious and horrifying neighbors pitch a battle over territory and legacy that reveals how far our ideas about race and gentrification have evolved… or have they?

DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the classic novella by Robert Louis Stevenson
October 13 – November 3, 2012 (previews October 11-12)

Sex, drugs, violence…  A psychological thriller that makes a familiar horror story scary again. On the fog-bound streets of Victorian-era London, Henry Jekyll experiments with exotic "powders and tinctures" have brought forth his other self—Edward Hyde, a sensualist and villain free to commit the sins Jekyll is too civilized to comprehend.  As Jekyll himself falls prey to Hyde's control, the audience is taken along for the moral questions that arise as sympathy for Hyde and contempt for Dr. Jekyll challenge the traditional roles of good and evil.

The timeless tale about the good doctor and his dark echo is brought to the stage in a fiercely theatrical adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher witha new and shocking version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of depravity, lust, love, and horror.   Peering into the hearts of men and seeing the evil that lurks there, this smart and suspenseful adaptation of the classic novella remains true to the original while eviscerating the sensuality and darkness in a way that only live theatre can.

CABARET
Book and Lyrics by Joe Masteroff and Fred Ebb, Music by John Kander
February 16 – March 9, 2013 (previews February 14-15) 

Willkommen to the Kit Kat Club. Take your seat at a bar table, order a little something from your fetching cocktail waitress, and immerse yourself in the musical theatre event of a lifetime. You’re not just at the show… you’re in the show as Tennessee Rep transforms Johnson Theater into 1930s Berlin. Inside the cabaret, Sally Bowles and the beguiling Emcee live in a seedy, sexy world of delicious decadence, while outside, the gathering storm of Nazi oppression grows. Filled with hit Broadway songs and a story that still speaks profoundly to us today, Cabaret is a knock-out, once-in-a-lifetime theatrical experience.

TIME STANDS STILL
by Donald Margulies
April 20 – May 4, 2013 (previews April 18-19)  

Adventurous couple Sarah and James–a photographer and a journalist–share a passion for reporting from the world’s deadliest war zone and documenting the realities of war.  That is, until Sarah is seriously wounded. Her recovery thrusts her into the safe, comfortable world of New York colleagues and couples–a world that could prove more dangerous than a battlefield. 

Time Stands Still offers layers of emotional tensions that are palpable from the start, crackling dialogue, and hidden kernels of conflict in this drama that The New York Times has praised as “the finest new Broadway play of the year.”

A CHRISTMAS STORY
by Phillip Grecian based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown, and Bob Clark
December 1 - 22, 2012 (previews November 29-30)

Humorist Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in the Midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his unflappable campaign to get Santa (or anyone else) to give him a Red Rider carbine-action, 200 shot range-model air rifle. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself, at Goldblatt's Department Store. 

Since 1985, Tennessee Repertory Theatre has been a critically acclaimed regional theatre, creating the highest quality professional productions and by serving as a prime cultural, educational, and economic resource within the Nashville and Middle Tennessee communities. Tennessee Rep produces work that is designed, built, and rehearsed in Nashville by highly skilled actors, designers, directors, and technicians. A non-profit organization, Tennessee Rep is committed to consistently delivering thought-provoking theatre each year. For more information on the Tennessee Repertory Theatre, please visit www.tennesseerep.org.

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