The 2019-2020 Season
SouthWest StageWorks continues to provide both its audiences and artists with a complex and entertaining mainstage season:
SouthWest StageWorks continues to provide both its audiences and artists with a complex and entertaining mainstage season:
November 2019:
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and murder
Music And Lyrics By: Steven Lutvak
Book And Lyrics By: Robert L. Freedman
Directed By: Jamie M. Miller
Book And Lyrics By: Robert L. Freedman
Directed By: Jamie M. Miller
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder is the knock-'em-dead, uproarious hit and the most-nominated show of the 2014 Broadway season. With ten Tony nominations and four wins, including Best Musical, Book, Direction and Costumes, it also earned seven Drama Desk Awards (including Best Musical), four Outer Critics Circle Awards (including Best Musical) and one Drama League Award (Best Musical).
When the low-born Monty Navarro finds out that he's eighth in line for an earldom in the lofty D'Ysquith family, he figures his chances of outliving his predecessors are slight and sets off down a far more ghoulish path. Can he knock off his unsuspecting relatives without being caught and become the ninth Earl of Highhurst? And what of love? Because murder isn't the only thing on Monty's mind....
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder is a murderous romp filled with unforgettable music and non-stop laughs.
(Runs November 7-16 and is appropriate for audiences Upper Elementary and Older for occasional coarse language and subject matter)
When the low-born Monty Navarro finds out that he's eighth in line for an earldom in the lofty D'Ysquith family, he figures his chances of outliving his predecessors are slight and sets off down a far more ghoulish path. Can he knock off his unsuspecting relatives without being caught and become the ninth Earl of Highhurst? And what of love? Because murder isn't the only thing on Monty's mind....
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder is a murderous romp filled with unforgettable music and non-stop laughs.
(Runs November 7-16 and is appropriate for audiences Upper Elementary and Older for occasional coarse language and subject matter)
FEBRUARY 2020:
Teen West Project: Year 8 - You Cannot Undo This Action
Written by: Conor Eifler
Directed by: Matthew B. Zrebski
Directed by: Matthew B. Zrebski
Set in our frenetic world of instant communication where things go viral and social capital rises and falls with each push of the “send” button, the students of Lafayette and Adams High Schools are plunged into mystery when a horrifying tragedy forces their communities to dangerously intersect. All are suspect. Revenge will be pursued. The truth must come out. Because someone decided to post something…and it cannot be undone.
Conor Eifler’s psychological thriller was inspired by conversations with the Wilson High School Community about social media and how it’s affecting the lives of adolescents – from the joys of wonderful connectedness, to the dangers of growing subcultures who lash out with hate. In exploring these issues head on, You Cannot Undo This Action aims to spark dialogue about our rapidly evolving digital world.
(Runs February 20-29 and, due to strong language and intense situations, is recommended for mature teens and older)
Conor Eifler’s psychological thriller was inspired by conversations with the Wilson High School Community about social media and how it’s affecting the lives of adolescents – from the joys of wonderful connectedness, to the dangers of growing subcultures who lash out with hate. In exploring these issues head on, You Cannot Undo This Action aims to spark dialogue about our rapidly evolving digital world.
(Runs February 20-29 and, due to strong language and intense situations, is recommended for mature teens and older)
SPRING 2020:
Revenge of the space pandas,
or, binky rudich and the two-speed clock
Written By: David Mamet
Directed By: Colleen Crabtree
Directed By: Colleen Crabtree
Binky Rudich, his friend Viv, and his almost human sheep Bob tinker with a two-speed clock with the idea that, as Binky says, "Time on Earth moves at the same speed all the time, but there is another speed, a slower speed, and if we could find it, everything would stand still on Earth and we would spin off." And they do! To Crestview, Fourth World in the Goolagong System, ruled by George Topax and guarded by the Great Space Pandas. The excitement really begins when the Supreme Ruler commands that Bob be brought to him, never again to leave Goolagong, and he steals the two-speed clock just to make sure. Only a very serious playwright could produce such an insane comedy!
(Runs May 7-16 and is appropriate for audiences ages Kindergarten and older)
(Runs May 7-16 and is appropriate for audiences ages Kindergarten and older)