Kitchen Theatre Company
 

Announcing our 2008-2009 Season!

A note from the Artistic Director -

Each new season signals excitement at the Kitchen Theatre Company. Ideas have been bouncing around for months, and when it all comes together it’s like a wonderful dessert.

Our 6-Play Main Stage Season will run from mid-August 2008 to mid-July 2009. We are thrilled to note that four of the plays will be receiving their first full stagings. There are two additional productions happening during the 2008-09 season. First is a limited two-week run of THE SOUP COMES LAST in July 2008 before our official season starts. The second is an encore performance of the popular musical TONY & THE SOPRANO, just in time for the Thanksgiving and December holiday season. We are year-round with 170 performances on the Main Stage.

We hope you’ll join us again for more important conversations in our 18th Season.

Rachel Lampert

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Main Stage Series

August 20 to September 21
THE TWO OF YOU by Brian Dykstra
When a stranger comes to call, sparks fly and walls (including the fourth one) come falling down in this sophisticated and surprising love story.

October 8 to November 2
HAPPY DAYS by Samuel Beckett
Continuing our tradition of staging a classic play each season, we turn to Beckett. HAPPY DAYS is a dark allegory of the human condition peppered with Beckett’s biting humor.

January 14 to February 8
I BECOME A GUITAR by Francesca Sanders
What if your inner life were more fulfilling than reality - which would you choose, and how would you tell which is which? A magical, poetic exploration of what holds a family together and what tears it apart.

February 25 to March 22
A PLAY ON WORDS by Brian Dykstra
Two old friends scheme up something big. A comedic, relentlessly fanatical pursuit of what is said, what is intended, and what is truth from Brian Dykstra’s brilliant, visionary brain.

April 8 to May 10
ARCHEOLOGY by Rachel Axler
A quirky, off-kilter new play about a strategic earthquake and its effect on four twenty-somethings as they search for love, identity and purpose. From Emmy award winning writer Rachel Axler (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart).

June 10 to July 12
Gutenberg! THE MUSICAL! by Scott Brown & Anthony King
A zany, hilarious two man musical about the making of a musical about... what else? the inventor of the printing press! A wipe-the-tears-of-laughter-away play.

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November 19 to December 14
TONY & THE SOPRANO by Rachel Lampert & Larry Pressgrove
A special encore presentation of Lampert & Pressgrove’s love letter to Brooklyn, opera, Italian food, mothers, and romance.

Family Fare News

We are trying something new this season. We will have two guest artists for family audiences whose performances will be part of the Kitchen Counter Culture series. We are also producing two plays on the Main Stage appropriate for general audiences: TONY & THE SOPRANO and GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL! We hope that grandparents, parents and children will enjoy plays at the Kitchen together. Performances of TONY & THE SOPRANO will include special matinees and performances Thanksgiving weekend and into December – a great family event for the holiday season. A brochure will be available mid-May.

Kitchen Counter Culture News

The Kitchen Counter Culture series continues to bring five guest artists to the Kitchen for three performances each. Our focus remains on daring, cutting-edge work by artists of color. This season three of our Counter Culture guest artists’ productions will be work appropriate for adult audiences and two for family audiences. The Kitchen Counter Culture subscription brochure will be available mid-May.