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| | I Hate Hamlet
Written by Paul Rudnick
Directed by Monica DiBiasio
July 12 - 28, 2024
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2:00pm
Television star Andrew Rally is about to start rehearsals to play Hamlet—and he is terrified. Unsure of himself, worried about his career, Andrew doesn’t know what to do. In the midst of his confusion, he is visited by the ghost of legendary actor John Barrymore. Barrymore explains that all actors who take on the role are visited and mentored by their predecessors, and that he cannot leave Andrew until he takes the stage as Hamlet. Andrew’s girlfriend wants him to be a romantic hero of the stage, his friend wants him to accept a lucrative new TV gig, and Barrymore wants him to accept his own great theatrical mantle. As Andrew grows under Barrymore’s larger-than-life wing, he is forced to confront the ultimate question: who he wants to be, or not to be.
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| | The DYT JR Company and
DYT Company presents:
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Conceived and Adapted by Ernest Zulia
Music & Lyrics by David Caldwell
Based on Robert Fulghum's best-selling books, Kindergarten takes a funny, insightful, heartwarming look at what is profound in everyday life. The delightful stories feature colorful characters and stories that celebrate our very existence, from the whimsy of childhood to the wisdom of old age. | Buy Tickets |
| | Silent Sundays
with Swanson
Sunday, August 11th, 2:00 PM
SILENT MOVIE WESTERN!
Come enjoy a Sunday afternoon with silent film classics accompanied live by professional
pianist Adam Swanson!
For the summer show in August, we will screen a rarely-seen feature-length silent western entitled The Round Up (1920). An unusual movie starring comedian Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, it has been beautifully restored to like-new condition for the bigscreen. All films will be accompanied with original period music LIVE on the DAC’s beautiful
9-foot grand piano. These events will be family friendly, so bring your kids and enjoy this fun and unique opportunity.
The Round Up (Paramount-Artcraft, 1920)
Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle
Silent screen legend Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, master of short subject comedies, made his
debut as the star of feature length films in George Melford’s production of The Round Up. In
this action-packed drama, Arbuckle portrays Sheriff Slim Hoover, a “legitimate” role which not
only offers a perfect vehicle for Arbuckle’s clever brand of humor, but also reveals him to be a
dramatic actor of the first order! This first class western has everything, including silent film
mega-star Buster Keaton in an uncredited cameo as an Apache Indian!
Adam Swanson is one of the world’s foremost performers of vintage American popular music, including ragtime, early jazz, the Great American Songbook, and more. He holds a bachelor’s in classical piano and a master’s in musicology from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. Adam has been a featured performer and lecturer at ragtime and jazz festivals across the United States and abroad, and he is the only four-time winner of the World Championship
Old-Time Piano Playing Contest. He made his New York debut in Carnegie Hall at the age of nineteen, where he performed with Michael Feinstein. Adam has performed at the Cinecon Classic Film Festival in Hollywood and the Kennedy Center, as well as in Hungary, Switzerland, and Australia. He has worked with such musicians as Toronto’s John Arpin, former rock star Ian Whitcomb, and legendary 1950s recording artist Johnny Maddox, who was one of Adam’s greatest influences. He lives in Durango, Colorado, where he frequently performs in the Diamond Belle Saloon at the Historic Strater Hotel.
Visit Adam online: www.adamgswanson.com. | Buy Tickets |
| | The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Written by Rupert Holmes
Directed by Jenny Fitts Reynolds
August 16 - Sept. 1, 2024
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2:00pm
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a hilarious, interactive whodunit mystery musical that allows the audience to enter the action and become the ultimate detectives. The show is based on Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel of the same name. In the small town of Chesterham, England, the young and charming Edwin Drood has been mysteriously murdered. But by whom? His leering romantic rival, John Jasper? The infamous purveyor of opium and vice, Princess Puffer? The mysterious Landless twins, newly arrived from Ceylon? Or someone else even more dastardly and villainous? Dickens passed away before he was able to reveal the culprit. Rupert Holmes’ award-winning musical solves this predicament by asking the audience to choose which character is the killer by putting it to a vote. Staged in metatheatrical manner by the Music Hall Royale, a traveling Victorian theatre troupe full of just as many colorful characters as the roles they play, this charming and inventive musical is sure to intrigue and entertain any musical or mystery lover.
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| | Wait Until Dark
Written by Frederick Knotts
Directed by Michael Grais
September 13 - 29, 2024
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2:00pm
Frederick Knott's thriller is the story of Susy Hendrix, a recently blinded housewife who unwittingly possesses a doll filled with illicit drugs. Harry Roat, a brutal and sophisticated criminal, coerces two small-time thugs into helping him con Susy into giving up the doll. A battle of wits ensues as Susy and the young girl upstairs launch a counterplot against the thieves. The drama plays on the themes of darkness and light as Susy navigates through her sightless world, and the crooks signal each other with light through the Venetian blinds.
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| | The
Rocky Horror Show
Written by Richard O’Brien
Directed by Jenny Fitts Reynolds
October 25,26,31 and Nov. 1 and 2
Fridays at 7pm, Saturdays at 7pm AND 10pm
Sunday at 7pm
One fateful night, Brad Majors and his fiancée, Janet Weiss — a wholesome, well-behaved, utterly normal young couple in love — innocently set out to visit an old professor. Unfortunately for them, this night out is destined to be one they will never forget. A thunderstorm and a flat-tire force them to seek help at the castle of Dr. Frank ’N’ Furter, an alien, transvestite scientist with a manic genius and insatiable libido. Brad, Janet, and Frank’ N’ Furter’s cohorts are swept up into the scientist’s latest experiment. The night’s misadventures will cause Brad and Janet to question everything they’ve known about themselves, each other, love, and lust. A loving homage to the classic B sci-fi film and horror genres with an irresistible rock’n’roll score, The Rocky Horror Show is a hilarious, wild ride that no audience will soon forget…which is why we are so pleased to host it and shout out with you!
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| | The 4th Annual 24 hr Theatre!
November 15 and 16, 2024
Join us for the mayhem that IS 24hr Theatre! Writers will receive prompts, suggestions of set, characters, dialogue, on Friday evening at 7pm. By 7pm on Saturday those prompts have been turned into scripts, cast, rehearsed, and are ready to hit the stage for a night of One Night Only theatrical magic! From page to stage in 24 hours!
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