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2019 Season (Full Descriptions below)
Feb 8 – Mar 13 Agatha Christie’s Towards Zero
Mar 22 – Apr 7 Moonlight and Magnolias =-A Comedy by Ron Hutchinson
Apr 26 – May 9 Squabbles – A Comedy by Marshall Karp
Jun 14 – Jun 23 Arsenic and Old Lace – A Comedy by Joseph Kesselring (Student Production)
Aug 23 – Sept 8 Crimes of the Heart – A Comedy-drama by Beth Hensley
Nov 8 – Dec 1 God’s Favorite – A Comedy by near Simon
2019 Season- Full Descriptions
February 8 - March 3, 2019
Agatha Christie's Towards Zero
Directed by KC McCloskey
From the Mistress of Suspense!
When a house party gathers at Gull's Point, the seaside home of Lady Tressilian, Neville Strange finds himself caught between his old wife Audrey and his new flame Kay.
A nail-biting thriller, the play probes the psychology of jealousy in the shadow of a savage and brutal murder.
A carefully unpeeled investigation before our eyes brings the story to a pointed ending.
"An evening in which we do not smell a rat until too late.” - The Times
**Produced through special arrangement with Samuel French Library, Inc. New York, NY.
March 22 - April 7, 2019
Moonlight and Magnolias
A comedy by Ron Hutchinson
Directed by David W. Mitchell
1939 Hollywood is abuzz. Legendary producer David O. Selznick has shut down production of his new epic, Gone with the Wind, a film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's novel.
The screenplay, you see, just doesn't work. So what's an all-powerful movie mogul to do? While fending off the film's stars, gossip columnists and his own father-in-law, Selznick sends a car for famed screenwriter Ben Hecht and pulls formidable director Victor Fleming from the set of The Wizard of Oz.
Summoning both to his office, he locks the doors, closes the shades, and on a diet of bananas and peanuts, the three men labor over five days to fashion a screenplay that will become the blueprint for one of the most successful and beloved films of all time.
*Produced through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Services New York, NY.
April 26 - May 19, 2019
Squabbles
A Comedy by Marshall Karp
Directed by Chris Bucci
This hilarious play pits a father in law against a mother in a comedic succession of squabbles.
Jerry Sloan is a successful writer of advertising jingles married to an equally successful lawyer. Living with the happy couple is the not so happy Abe Dreyfus, Jerry's curmudgeon of a father in law.
Abe is a funny guy to the audience, not to Jerry. The situation is exacerbated when Jerry's mother Mildred looses her house in a fire and needs a place to stay.
Abe and Mildred can't stand each other. This play is one hilarious confrontation after another until the heart- warming finale in which the oldsters discover that, really, each is not so bad.
**Produced through special arrangement with Samuel French Library, Inc. New York, NY.
June 14 - June 23, 2019 (No show Father’s Day – Sunday June 16)
Our 7th Annual Student Production!
Arsenic and Old Lace
A Comedy by Joseph Kesselring
Directed by KC McCloskey
To further the acting experience of Erie’s talented youth, All An Act Theatre is pleased to partner with The Footlights Theatre Program to present our 7th Annual Student production.
Mortimer Brewster, is a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family including his two aunts, and cousin that thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt.
Despite his family’s antics, he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves,
Elaine Harper, who lives next door and is the daughter of the local minister.
*Produced through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Services New York, NY.
August 23 - Sept 8, 2019
Beth Henley's Comedy-Drama
Crimes of The Heart
Directed by J.D. Mizikowski
Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
The Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the hospital.
Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at thirty; with no marital prospects. Meg, the middle sister, is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach.
Their troubles, grave and yet, somehow, hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by the awkward young lawyer who tries to keep Babe out of jail while helpless not to
*Produced through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Services New York, NY.
September 27 - October 20, 2019
Charles Marowicz Comedy-Thriller
Sherlock's Last Case
Directed by David W. Mitchell
Winner of the Louis B. Mayer Award.
Picking up where the famous stories ended, the play centers on a death threat against Sherlock Holmes by the supposed son of his late nemesis, Professor Moriarty.
The plot twists and turns until Holmes finds himself imprisoned in a dank cellar. After Holmes' demise Watson comes into his own, until a number of impostors turn up claiming to be the real Sherlock Holmes.
In sorting all this out the play mixes humor and suspense in equal amounts, leading to a stunning final twist that will surely catch audiences by complete andbreath-stopping surprise.
*Produced through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Services New York, NY.
November 8 - December 1, 2019
Neil Simon's hilarious comedy
God's Favorite
Directed by KC McCloskey
*No show Black Friday Nov. 29th
Successful Long Island businessman Joe Benjamin is a modern-day ‘Job’ with a demanding wife, ungrateful children, and wise-cracking household employees.
Just when it seems things couldn’t get any worse, he is visited by Sidney Lipton, a.k.a. A Messenger from God (and compulsive film buff) with a mission: test Joe’s faith and report back to “the Boss.”
The jokes and Tests of Faith fly fast and furious as Neil Simon spins a contemporary morality tale like no other in this hilarious comedy.
**Produced through special arrangement with Samuel French Library, Inc. New York, NY.
