by Arthur Miller
Theresa May directs: Hope Theatre
For ages 12+

March 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17

THE CRUCIBLE engages Puritan history around the Salem Witch Trials as a reflection on current trends, exploring the kind of paranoia and extreme fear of difference ultimately expressed in violence and censorship that worked like a virus in the anti-communist years as well as our present historical moment when extremist political groups propose violence through slander and secretive fear-mongering. THE CRUCIBLE is a powerful and richly written classic you won’t want to miss.

Awake and Sing!

By Clifford Odets
Damond Morris directs: Hope Theatre
Appropriate for all ages

Jan 26, 27, 28, 29, Feb 2, 3, 4

Set during the trying times of the Great Depression, the classic American drama Awake and Sing! looks at a working-class Jewish family and their struggle to carve out a slice of the American Dream. Odets calls for a revolution; for the audience to look past money and greed and to discover the treasure of family, freedom, and our place in the future. The questions raised by Odets are as relevant in the current economic downturn as they were during the Great Depression, as we, like the Berger’s, make decisions between what society stands for and what we can afford.