PRODUCTIONS

Upcoming Productions - Buy Tickets Here! Lost in Yonkers Written by Neil Simon produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Cast: Jay :    Andrew Murphy Arty:    Henry Hamilton Eddie:    Kevin Murphy Bella :   Carrie Boatwright Grandma Kurnitz :   Mimi Smith Shaw Louie:    Devan McCoy Gert:    Gina Watson-Haley “Be Careful, It’s My Heart” Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin   Used by special arrangement with The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, on behalf of the Irving Berlin Music Company, 1065 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 2400, New Your, NY  10018-2506 Sep.10 th - Oct. 3 rd Touted as "The best play Simon ever wrote." by the New York Post, this Tony award winning play also garnered a Pulitzer for Mr. Simon. It’s summer, 1942, in Yonkers and Jay and Arty have found themselves deposited on their grandmother’s doorstep. Their father, Eddie, has run up a debt with some unsavory folk and is forced to travel to try and earn the money he owes. His only option is to leave the boys, aged 13 and 15 with his formidable German mother, Grandma Kurnitz and his mentally challenged sister, Bella. Their Uncle Louie drops by from time-to-time to share his street smarts with the boys. They soon find themselves in a family tug-of-war, each relative struggling to leave their stamp on the boys and impart their own particular brand of life wisdom. At times hilarious and others gripping, this play offers up a snapshot of family dynamics as seen through the lens of adolescence. Contains some adult themes and language. *This play will feature a Q & A session with the director and actors.   Rabbit Hole - "Staged Reading" Written by David Lindsay-Abaire Produced with special permission of Dramatists Play Service, Inc. Oct. 15 th & 16 th Presented as a staged reading only, this Pulitzer prize winning play by the author of Fuddy Meers and Wonder of the World, follows a couple through the loss of their child and the impending birth of their sister’s baby. The NewYork Times wrote of this play "A beautifully observed new play blessed with David Lindsay-Abaire's customary grace and wit………This anatomy of grief doesn't so much jerk tears as tap them, from a reservoir of feelings common to anyone who has experienced the landscape-shifting vacuum left by a death in the family." Contains adult themes and language. I Do! I Do! Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones - Music by Harvey Schmidt (Based on “The Fourposter” by Jan de Hartog) Originally Produced on Broadway by David Merrick Originally Directed by Gower Champion Oct. 22 nd - Nov. 21 st From the creators of The Fantastiks, comes a wonderful show about Agnes and Michael, young newlyweds in 1898, who navigate 50 years of marriage together. Their relationship, told through a lovely string of songs, travels through first blush, children, discontent, infidelity, forgiveness, and renewal. With such songs as “Nobody’s Perfect”, “Flaming Agnes” and “My Cup Runneth Over” you are certain to enjoy this tender and warm glimpse into marriage and may be surprised by how things have and have not changed since 1898. Bad Wolf - Batya Podos Jan.7 th - Jan. 23 rd Join us for the Premiere of this children’s show written by local playwright, Batya Podos. Due to the success of her last show, The Bird With the Golden Feathers, here at HART, we commissioned this work for the 2010-2011 season. A children’s show that takes a fresh look at the Big, Bad Wolf and the bad rap he receives throughout many Fairy Tales, we get a chance to see his side of how things went down with Little Red, Peter and The Three Pigs. A witty and delightful story that reminds us that there are two sides to every story and we all gain from being understood and embraced for who we really are.   STAGES’ Beauty and the Beast Jr. Feb. 18 th-March 6 th   Three Days of Rain - "Staged Reading" Written by Richard Greenberg Produced with special permission of Dramatists Play Service, Inc. March 11 th & 12 th The second of our staged readingseries, Greenberg’s play, nominated for a Pulitzer, opens with Walker and Nan Janeway, siblings trying to reconcile their childhood in the aftermath of their father’s passing. Enter their amiable childhood friend, Pip, son of their late father’s partner, to whom their father has willed his most famous architectural accomplishment. With their mother’s mental state steadily deteriorating, the only glimpse they have to their past is a journal discovered to be their father’s. Falling short of any real details they can only speculate as to what any of it means. In the second act we see them as their parents and the real story behind the mystery is fragmentally revealed. This humorous and intriguing show Contains adult themes and language.   Arsenic and Old Lace - Joseph Kesselring March 25 th - April 17 th One of the most beloved theatre comedies of all time, this play keeps the audience in stitches as Mortimer Brewster decides whether it’s wise to marry the girl of his dreams and bring her into a family of questionable repute. How will she ever tolerate his brother Teddy, who is convinced he is Theodore Roosevelt and spends his days digging locks in the basement? Or his two sweet aunts who fill those locks with the bodies of the unfortunate lonely old bachelors who’ve been invited for a sip of elderberry wine laced with their own special (lethal) solution? Come enjoy this smash hit that never disappoints audiences, young and old.     On Golden Pond Written by Ernest Thompson Produced with special permission of Dramatists Play Service, In. May 6 th - May 29 th Welcome to the cabin of Norman and Ethel Thayer. They have returned to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory- but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her fiance’, who then go to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the “grandchild” the elderly couple have longed for and shows Norman he still has a few things to learn. Join us on the Pond, to glimpse the sometimes choppy waters of facing one’s own Autumn beside those we love and still struggle to understand. Contains some adult language and themes. *This play will feature a Q & A session with the director and actors.   STAGES’ Henry and Ramona June 10 th - June 26 th HART is located at 185 SE Washington in downtown Hillsboro and is just a block away from the Max station. Tickets are $14 for Adults, $12 for Seniors, $10 for Students and $8 for Children 10 & under.

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