2008-09 Season

Tickets and passes are available through the Kenan Auditorium Box Office at 910.962.3500. Will call and impromptu ticket purchase at Cultural Arts Box Office one hour prior to each performance.

September 25-28, 2008
The Miss Firecracker Contest by Beth Henley
Directed by Ed Wagenseller
(SRO Theatre - limited seating)
Additional matinee Saturday September 27th at 2:00 pm

A masterpiece of Southern Gothic comedy, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley. Miss Firecracker brings memorable and eccentric characters together as they search for identity and acceptance of self.

November 13-16, 2008
King John by William Shakespeare
Directed by Renée Vincent
(Mainstage Theatre)

A seldom seen yet striking play about the legitimacy and effect of power, Shakespeare's history play offers stunning counterpoint to our own election season.

February 19-23, 2009
We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! by Dario Fo
Directed by Guest Artists: Rick Hamilton and Fredi Oster
(Mainstage Theatre)
Additional performance Monday February 23rd at 8:00 pm

High food and gas prices getting the best of you? Not Dario Fo! The Nobel Prize-winning master of satire and farce sends up on a bizarre journey; in a comedy more relevant now than ever.

April 16-20, 2009
Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor
Directed by Terry Theodore
(Mainstage Theatre)
Additional performance Monday April 20th at 8:00 pm

Best known as the play that President Lincoln attended when he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, Our American Cousin is a 19th century classic comic melodrama, which will feature costumes and sets in period style, augmentd by popular songs of the era.

Performances
Evenings                   8:00 p.m.
Matinees                   2:00 p.m.