THE CRUCIBLE & More Announced For Theatre Tulsa's 2009-2010 Season

Since 1922, Theatre Tulsa has been a part of the culture of Tulsa. Theatre Tulsa has entertained the community for 86 years thanks to patrons and sponsors like you. It is our supporters who saw us through the Depression, World War II and the disaster of two fires - making Theatre Tulsa the longest continuously running community Theatre West of the Mississippi River!

These supporters made possible hundreds of productions, including the first community theatre productions of Our Town, All My Sons, and, in 2003, I Love You, Your Perfect, Now Change. Theatre Tulsa is a member of TACTA, the Tulsa Area Community Theatre Alliance, which is made up of over twenty different Tulsa area theatres that come together to promote theatre in the Green Country area.

Theatre Tulsa and its supporters share a rich legacy of bringing music, laughter, and drama to the people of the Tulsa area and providing a venue for the many talents of the Tulsa area community.

Whether it be on stage or off, Theatre Tulsa is the place to be, so join us for another 86 years of entertainment.

We have lowered our season ticket prices for the 2009-2010 - only $60 for 5 shows ($12.00 per show).

Purchase your tickets before September 1, 2009 and you get an extra $10 discount off our regular adult price.

We still offer two great purchasing options of Flex Tickets (call Theatre Tulsa to reserve the night you want for each show) or Structured Seating (the same night & the same seat for each show), purchasing either option before September 1 saves you even more off the single ticket purchase price.

Below is our exciting 2009-2010 theatre season:

The Hot'l Baltimore by Lanford Wilson
Doenges Theatre
September 18th - 20th & 24th-26th 2009

The scene is the lobby of a rundown hotel so seedy that it has lost the "e" from its marquee. As the action unfolds, the residents, ranging from young to old, from the defiant to the resigned, meet and talk and interact with each other during the course of one day. The drama is of passing events in their lives, of everyday encounters and of the human comedy, with conversations often overlapping into a contrapuntal musical flow. In the resulting mosaic each character emerges clearly and perceptively defined, and the sum total of what they are-or wish they were-becomes a poignant, powerful call to America to recover lost values and to restore itself in its own and the world's eyes.

The Crucible - by Arthur Miller
Doenges Theatre
November 13th - 15th & 19th - 21st, 2009

Theatre Tulsa is excited to announce that this production is a collaberation between Clark Theatre and Theatre Tulsa

The story focuses upon a young farmer, his wife, and a young servant-girl who maliciously causes the wife's arrest for witchcraft. The Farmer brings the girl to court to admit the lie-and it is here that the monstrous course of bigotry and deceit is terrifyingly depicted. The Farmer, instead of saving his wife, finds himself also accused of witchcraft and ultimately condemned with a host of others.

What the Butler Saw - by Joe Orton
Doenges Theatre
January 8th - 10th & 14th - 16th 2010

The Prentices are not an ordinary couple. Dr. Prentice is a psychiatrist with his own hospital who believes that the best way to interview a girl for a job is to seduce her. Geraldine does her best to comply, but nothing is going to work smoothly in this nut house that includes Mrs. Prentice, a nymphomaniac who is seduced by a bellhop in a hotel, or maybe it's vice versa. Anyway, Mrs. Prentice brings home her reluctant bellhop, just as the state inspector decides to pay a visit to the hospital. What ensues is a wild melee of disappearances, disguises and discoveries as husband and wife try to hide their prizes from one another and from the state inspector. Even a wound up policeman gets giddy from the goings on. And the ending is one of those delights that Oscar Wilde might have dreamed up in a sequel to The Importance of Being Earnest.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - by Tennessee Williams
Doenges Theatre
March 19th - 21st & 25th - 27th, 2010

In a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desperate, clawing hopes for the future spar with one another as the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds. Maggie, Big Daddy's daughter-in-law, wants to give him the news that she's finally become pregnant by Big Daddy's favorite son, Brick, but Brick won't cooperate in Maggie's plans and prefers to stay in a mild alcoholic haze the entire length of his visit. Maggie has her own interests at heart in wanting to become pregnant, of course, but she also wants to make amends to Brick for an error in judgment that nearly cost her her marriage. Swarming around Maggie and Brick are their intrusive, conniving relatives, all eager to see Maggie put in her place and Brick tumbled from his position of most-beloved son. By evening's end, Maggie's
ingenuity, fortitude and passion will set things right, and Brick's love for his father, never before expressed, will retrieve him from his path of destruction and return him, helplessly, to Maggie's loving arms.

On Golden Pond - by Ernest Thompson
Williams Theatre
May 21st - 23rd & 27th-29th, 2010

This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory-but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness-and slang-in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer
together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.

Theatre Tulsa is a proud member of the Tulsa Area Community Theatre Alliance, the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and the Oklahoma Community Theatre Association.

These productions are made possible by grants from the Oklahoma Arts Council, Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, The George Kaiser Family Foundation, and all the proud sponsors of Theatre Tulsa.

For more information you can go to our website at www.theatretulsa.org

 

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