The Good Body
By Eve Ensler
Directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg
(September 6 - 28, 2008)

From the acclaimed author of The Vagina Monologues comes a startlingly funny and deeply moving new play about women and their bodies. Inspired by interviews with women from 40 countries, this provocative journey from body obsession to enlightenment is a personal wake-up call from Ensler to love “the good bodies" we inhabit. (click here for more info)

Water & Power
By Richard Montoya, Featuring Herbert Siguenza of Culture Clash
Directed by Sam Woodhouse
(October 21 - November 16, 2008)

Members of America’s premier Latino theater troupe star in a funny, tough-minded and penetrating look at Southern California power politics. The twin brothers—Water, a rising star State Senator, and Power, a cop who breaks all the rules—are caught in a life-or-death scandal that threatens to destroy their lives and dreams. A gripping and explosive piece of California noir fiction. (click here for more info)
 

The PrIncess and the Black-Eyed Pea
Book and Lyrics by Karole Foreman, Music & Lyrics by Andrew Chukerman
Directed by Stafford Arima
(November 23 - December 21, 2008)

Recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award

Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Princess and the Pea” is transformed into a soulful musical comedy set in two exotic African kingdoms. This intimate story speaks directly to the parent and the child in all of us. With a charming sense of fun and play, the authors spin a compelling tug of war between destiny, and the destiny-changing power of the individual spirit. Winner of the Richard Rodgers Award for Most Promising New Musical, this Princess is ready and eager for its world premier. (click here for more info)

Doubt: A Parable
By John Patrick Shanley
Directed by Todd Salovey
(January 10 - February 8, 2009)

One of the most lauded American drama in years and winner of all the major awards, including The Pulitzer Prize, four Tony awards, and the NY Drama Critics Award for Best Play. Doubt is all about “our culture of extreme advocacy, of confrontation, of judgment and of verdict.” The audience is invited to examine the available evidence — to deduce what is known, what is unknown, what is likely. And finally to decide who is telling the truth? But what is the TRUTH? (click here for
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The Threepenny Opera
Book & Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht, Music by Kurt Weill
Directed by Sam Woodhouse
(February 28 - March 29, 2009)

This radical re-imagining of The Beggars Opera in 1928 was an immediate, scandalous hit, and is now universally-acclaimed as a musical theater masterpiece of the 20th century. Brecht, one of the most controversial and influential revolutionaries of his time, weaves a cunning and glorious story of love, greed, deception and capitalism run wild. Weill creates the perfect match with a legendary score that is jazzy, gusty and as colorful as a Berlin cabaret. (click here for more info)