Dates: September 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27 @ 7:30pm September 21 @ 3:00pm
Location: Edwards Theater
Playwright: Bert V. Royal

In this "unauthorized parody," set approximately 10 years after the events in the 50-year-running comic Peanuts, CB's beloved beagle has terminal rabies, and his world is inhabited by a comic strip parade of misfits: a missing pen pal, an abused pianist, a pyromaniac ex-girlfriend, two drunk cheerleaders, a homophobic quarterback, a burnt-out Buddhist and a drama-queen sister. Together, these factors all contribute -- Good grief! -- to this modern tale of teenage angst.

Always trying to understand life's darker meanings and still plagued with his endless identity crisis, CB turns to his gang of friends to find answers to his many life questions. Bert V. Royal's play earned top honors at the 2004 Fringe Festival and GLAAD's Media Award for best off-off-Broadway production that same year.

Adult themes and language may not be suitable for children.

Dates: October 30, 31, Nov. 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 at 7:30pm, Nov. 2 @ 3:00pm
Location: Wheelwright Auditiorium
A New Musical
Book and Lyrics by Daryl Lisa Fazio, Music by Aaron McAllister

18-year old Kitty Katz be from the suburbs, but she’s no carbon copy. She klutzes and cringes her way through high school, hiding out, painting her bedroom walls over and over again, knowing there must be something bleeping special outside her gated community. So the day she gets accepted into the Ghetto Art School, she doesn’t hesitate, grabbing her sketchbook, hopping on the A-train, and leaving her nutty parents behind for what she hopes will be a lifetime.

We’re off to see the wizard when young, impressionable, and slightly batty Kitty and her new-found friends step into art class in this irreverent and campy original musical (written by CCU faculty Daryl Fazio and Aaron McAllister). Kitty’s suburbia-to-ghetto-to-SHoHo story will allow us glimpses of acceptance, genius, insanity, and plenty of the stuff called art.

Second Stage Season
Dates: December 3, 4, 5, 6 @ 7:30pm
Location: Edwards Theatre

The Pitch: You get one million dollars to spend over the next seven days. A camera crew follows your every move and broadcasts your adventures on national television. The Hook: At the end of the week…you die. The Best Part: The viewing audience gets to vote on the method of your death! For hard-luck Eldon Phelps, the deal is irresistible. But is America ready for this much reality? What would you do if you had one week until you became…"The Dead Guy"? Stay tuned…

Adult Themes may not be suitable for children.

Dates: January29, 30, 31, February 4, 5, 6, 7 @ 7:30pm and February 1 @ 3:00pm
Location: Edwards Black Box Theater
Written by August Strindberg

Written in Denmark in 1888, Miss Julie tells the story of a count’s daughter who has been raised with conflicting ideas about gender and class. Brought up by a proto-feminist mother and a traditionalist father, Julie does not fit in the aristocratic world in which she lives. On Midsummer’s Eve she dares enter forbidden territory and finds herself engaged in an epic struggle with her father's valet, Jean.  Miss Julie remains one of the foremost naturalistic dramas of all time.  It was a groundbreaking work that heralded a new era in modern theater, as Strindberg advocated a lack of intermissions, the use of real props and natural light.  Today, over 100 years later, the play still has major relevance and emotional impact. Bruce Weber of The New York Times has called it "an amazing play that still terrifies with its insoluble equation of sex, class and death."

(Second Stage Season)
Dates: February 25, 26, 27, 28 @ 7:30pm March 1 @ 3:00pm
Location: Wheelwright Auditorium
Written by A Musical Comedy in two acts. Book by George Furth. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

Sondheim collaborated with George Furth (book) and Harold Prince (director) to create Company, the first of the Sondheim/Prince shows that were to lay the foundation for the post-Golden Age Broadway musicals. Company was the first non-linear, "concept," musical.

Set firmly in, and often about, New York, Company follows five married, once married, or soon to be married couples and their mutual friend, Robert, a 35 year old bachelor who has been unable to connect in a long-term relationship. The relationships are presented in a series of vignettes, primarily through Bobby's eyes, so that we see the less than ideal aspects of commitment. However, it is obvious to the audience that the committed are happy. Eventually, Bobby learns that while relationships aren't perfect, they are a necessary part of "Being Alive."

Dates: April 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25 @ 7:30pm and April 19 @ 3:00pm
Location: Edwards Theater
Written by Moira Buffini

Welcome to the table for the dinner from hell …

Paige has a reputation among friends for her excellent dinner parties. Her husband, Lars, has just published another book of pretentious nonsense, which offers new words for old, and redundant ideas. What has Paige done with her life? How can she hope to make her mark? How will she ever become more than a housewife? Her husband's ego needs constant feeding, and he has never dreamed that she is probably his intellectual better--the idea would not be part of his world. He accepts her dinner parties as a tribute to his success.

This time Paige will give him a dinner and an entertainment he will never forget; but there are surprises for her too.