Amadeus                   

By Peter Shaffer

Freede         Sept. 14-Oct. 7, 2007

Winner of a Tony Award for Best Play, an Ocsar for Best Movie, and triumphant in recent revivals in the West End and on Broadway, this provocative work weaves a confrontation between mediocrity and genius into a tale of breathtaking dramatic power.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

A new adaptation by Doug Van Liew

October 19-Nov. 4, 2007  Freede Theatre

   Dr. Henry Jekyll is a brilliant scientist frustrated by dull "respectable" life in 1888 Victorian London. He creates a formula to unleash his inner bestial nature, transforming him into the brutish but oddly compassionate Edward Hyde. Hyde lives the high life while Jekyll's middle-aged normalcy continues -- until Hyde's passions begin to turn up a body count. 

 

Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol         

by Tom Mula      Freede Theatre        Dec. 7-22, 2007

Marley was dead, to begin with..dead as a door-nail. Thus begins Charles Dickens’ classic story, A Christmas Carol, the source of countless adaptations and productions for stage and screen. But, suppose Marley is stuck between Heaven and Hell with one last chance for redemption. Words and luminous dialogue, both dramatic and comic, are at the center of this invigorating production.

Macbeth

by Shakespeare

CitySpace        Feb. 8-March 2, 2008 

Having slaughtered the King's enemies in battle, Macbeth is lauded as a hero and bestowed with rank and power by a grateful monarch. But when this seemingly loyal and courageous man is tempted by the prospect of even greater power, he abandons himself to ambition, murdering the King and seizing the crown.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?             

By Edward Albee

Freede Theatre     April 4-27, 2008

Winner of the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play. The Broadway production of this play was a shattering and memorable experience and proclaimed the author as a major American playwright. "This is a Big One." —NY Journal-American. "…a scorching, scalding, revealing and completely engrossing drama." —Women's Wear Daily. "…a brilliant piece of writing." —NY Herald-Tribune. 

I Am My Own Wife           

By Doug Wright

CitySpace            June 6-29, 2008 

Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and the 2004 Tony Award. “I AM MY OWN WIFE is the most stirring new work to appear on Broadway this fall…both moving and intellectually absorbing.” —NY Times.
Based on a true story, and inspired by interviews conducted by the playwright over several years, I AM MY OWN WIFE tells the fascinating tale of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a real-life German transvestite who managed to survive both the Nazi onslaught and the repressive East German Communist regime.