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Masterpiece Theater Series




The Diviners
by Jim Leonard Jr. 
Tuesday - Saturday, Sept. 29-Oct. 3, 2009, 8 p.m.
Latimer-Shaeffer Theatre

Mired in the Great Depression, the residents of a tiny, mythical southern Indiana town need the most simple of things.  Mostly, they need water for their draught-parched crops and a preacher to tend to their spiritual needs.  Enter the traumatized yet gentle 15-year-old Buddy Layman and his gift for divining the precious resource, and the charismatic C.C. Showers, a disillusioned ex-preacher.  They meet, are drawn to each other and find each other's essential goodness.  The locals view Buddy as their slightly dangerous hydrophobic village idiot and they pin the moniker of 'spiritual savior' on Showers.  Outcasts both, Buddy and Showers deal with overwhelming loss in this heartrending allegorical gem where water that sustains
life can also take it away.  Photo by Richard Finkelstein

Tickets: Reserved seating, $10 General public / $8 Senior Citizens, students, JAC card holders. 

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
by Steve Martin
Tuesday - Saturday, Nov. 3-7, 2009, 8 p.m.
Latimer-Shaeffer Theatre

Actor and writer Steve Martin's intelligent comedy - Picasso at the Lapin Agile - explores a fictitious meeting of a few of the most brilliant minds of the 20th Century. What if an unpublished, twenty-five-year-old Albert Einstein walked into a bar - the Lapin Agile - on October 8, 1904? What if an up-and-coming twenty-three-year-old Pablo Picasso happened by the same bar on the same night?  Would there be an abstract meeting of minds or two bits of matter on a collision course with destiny?  Throw in a supporting cast of an art dealer, an inventor and a philosopher and the night is rich with possibility.  Which player's genius and talent will truly shape the new world and who is doomed to obscurity?  Join us for a hilarious romp through the imagination of Steve Martin with Picasso at the Lapin Agile.

Tickets: Reserved seating, $10 General public / $8 Senior Citizens, students, JAC card holders

Oklahoma!

Book By Oscar Hammerstein II
Based upon the play Green Grow the Lilacs by Lynn Riggs
Music By Richard Rodgers
Lyrics By Oscar Hammerstein II

Tuesday - Saturday, Feb. 23-27, 2010, 8 p.m.
Sunday, February 28, 2010, 2 p.m.

Latimer-Shaeffer Theatre

Rodgers' and Hammerstein's popular musical, Oklahoma! will delight Latimer-Shaeffer Theatre audiences as they find themselves humming its many memorable tunes, including "Oh What A Beautiful Morning", "People Will Say We're In Love", and the rousing "Oklahoma!"  When it opened on Broadway in 1943, it became a box-office smash hit.  Running for an unprecedented 2,212 performances, Oklahoma! tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain who is in love with farm girl Laurey Williams.  Other familiar characters include the irrepressible Ado Annie, Will Parker, Aunt Eller, and the sinister Jud Fry.  Oklahoma! has enjoyed award-winning revivals, national tours, foreign productions and an Academy Award-winning 1955 film adaptation.  Photo by Angel Elza ('10)

Tickets: Reserved seating, $12 General public / $8 Senior Citizens, students, JAC card holders 

bobrauschenbergamerica
by Charles L. Mee
Tuesday - Saturday, April 27- May 1, 2010, 8 p.m.
Latimer-Shaeffer Theatre

 

The childhood home of Bob Rauschenberg, a bathtub, a human martini, and love, rejection, and the world's worst chicken jokes collide in this collage of Americana and American ideals.  Charles L. Mee's vision of what 'growing up Rauschenberg' might have been like presents an assemblage of core American values expressed in a most unusual way.  Mixing up the elements, Mee creates a world where art and life intersect freely, showing us how the two are inextricably, exuberantly intertwined.  bobrauschenbergamerica concludes the Theatre Series.  Recommended for mature audiences.

Tickets: Reserved seating, $10 General public / $8 Senior Citizens, students, JAC card holders