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Pardon My Dust
May 21- June 7, 2009

This world premiere of Annie Welsbachers’ PARDON MY DUST is a play about the legendary wit and wacky wisdom of Dorothy Parker. The show begins on the day of her death in 1967 at age 73, when her spirit is forced to come to grips with her enormous literary talent as told through her plays, poems, reviews, stories and unpublished scripts. Even Dorothy, her own worst critic, begins to understand that she was one of America’s most significant writers of theearly 20th century. Dr. Richard Welsbacher will be directing.

The Glider
June 26- August 9, 2009

After their mother's death from a lengthy illness, three sisters convene in their family's lakeside boathouse. Francesca, a successful photographer long-estranged from her mother, returns to discover family secrets and long-held sisterly resentments. While middle sister Estella ran away to marry and raise a family, youngest sister Chrissy has cared for her mother in this last illness. The sisters struggle to make sense of long held family secrets, and sisterly resentments. As the evening progresses, regrets are gradually aired and the healing begins. Joyce Cavarozzi will be directing.

Butler County
June 26- August 2, 2009

BUTLER COUNTY by Wichita native Dean Corrin, was written in 1984 for the Tony Award winning Victory Gardens Theatre. In a voice unique to Kansas playwrights, Corrin writes about growing up in a small town, and the struggle of a high school graduate to leave the town and her father to attend college and live a larger life. The show is about the passion for home and the struggle to leave it in pursuit of higher education. John Boldenow, Producer of the Irene Vickers Baker Theatre, will be directing this wonderful show.

Picnic
June 26- August 2, 2009

The waning days of summer should give way to the promise of autumn and a fresh new start. But it’s 1953 in this small Kansas town and options are few. This is especially true for the stunningly beautiful Madge and her independent younger sister, Millie, who yearn for more than the life of staid domesticity that awaits them. Enter Hal, a dangerously handsome drifter, who comes along and sets the whole town a-flutter. Hal and Madge strike instant sparks, but can she really reject all she’s been taught to want in exchange for unreliable hopes and a pounding heart? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, Kansas playwright William Inge depicts the pleasure—and the pain—of risking everything to choose your own path. Directed by Shaun-Michael Morse (The Tempest, Grapes of Wrath, Inventing Van Gogh).