Greetings

By Tom Dudzick

Directed by Roxane Ashe

November 21 - December 13, 2008

Bring your entire family to this warm and witty holiday comedy! From the playwright and director that brought us Over the Tavern, this charming holiday treat is about a young man who brings his fiancée home for Christmas. Combined with the inevitable family drama unfolding in the Gorski's living room comes a Miraculous event that ignites into a wild exploration of family, love, religion, and truth. "Hilarious!" — The New Yorker;
"A loving holiday wonder....Deserves a shelf life long after Christmas." — New York Post

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The 17th Annual Talent Show

January 9 - 11, 2009

Your host: Michael Lederman

Over forty Coastside performers delight audiences for the 17th consecutive year. Talent includes youth and adult bands, dancers, singers, storytellers, magicians, jugglers, acrobats, animal acts, and clowns. Bring the entire family, your neighbors, friends, and anyone you meet on the street. This is worth it!

PLEASE NOTE: The Talent Show is not included in the season subscription. Order tickets online, by phone, or at the box office.

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The Miracle Worker

By William Gibson

Directed by Michael Sellers

February 6 - February 28, 2009

This amazing Tony award winning play explores the true story of Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller, and how their friendship changed the very world they lived in. This epic tale of the indomitable spirit of two amazing people as they struggle to overcome insurmountable odds, and in the process become more than they ever could have on their own, has captured the hearts of people for over 50 years, is a true classic of the American theatre, and is most aptly and simply described by the N.Y. Daily Mirror: "Magnificent Theatre."

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True West

By Sam Shepard

Directed by Tim Longo

March 27 - April 18, 2009

The story of two brothers whose lives collide in a role reversal with lasting reverberations, this play has been heralded by the New York Post as "Shepard's masterwork.... It tells us a truth, as glimpsed by a 37 year old genius." When the up and coming Austin offers to house-sit for his mother so he can write his latest screenplay in peace and quiet, he has no idea his alcoholic, thieving brother will soon erupt on the scene. Echoing the mythic tale of Cain and Abel, True West tells us the story of two very different men trapped in a timeless struggle for power. "It's clear, funny, naturalistic. It's also opaque, terrifying, surrealistic. If that sounds contradictory, you're on to one aspect of Shepard's winning genius; the ability to make you think you're watching one thing while at the same time he's presenting another." — San Francisco Chronicle

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Childrens' Production - Once Upon a Mattress

Join us for a hilarious spin on the Princess and the Pea fairy tale that will leave you laughing, clapping, and cheering for the unlikely courtship of Prince Dauntless and the moat-swimming princess of his dreams, Winnifred. This production promises to be a celebration of youth theatre and talent the coast will treasure for years to come, as Coastal Theatre Conservatory celebrates its 15th birthday on the coastside -- and its first production as a part of Coastal Rep -- with pomp, pageantry, and a royal good time with a cantankerous queen and a pea...

Performances on May 1,2 3, 8, 9 and 10.
Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30pm; Saturday and Sunday matinees at 1:00pm.

Coastal Theatre Conservatory Youth Production

May 1 - 10, 2009

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Biloxi Blues

By Neil Simon

Directed by Barbara Williams

June 5 - June 27, 2009

Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical, Tony Award winning comedy follows Eugene Morris Jerome, a young man from Brooklyn, as he copes with boot camp, new comrades, and an eccentric drill sergeant at basic training. A glorious burst of Americana set in Mississippi during WWII, this play is about love, war, and friendship, and so much more. "A fine comedy and another step in the process of making Simon neither so simple, nor so simplistic" — New York Post. "Joyous, and unexpectedly rewarding" — New York Times. "A play that rings with a newer, deeper, sweeter truth." — New York Magazine.

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Tommy

Written by Pete Townshend & Des McAnuff

Music and Lyrics by Pete Townshend

Directed by Michael Lederman

July 24 - August 22, 2009

This award-winning, ground breaking musical by Pete Townsend gave birth to a new genre, the rock opera. The play follows the coming of age of young Tommy, who becomes catatonic after witnessing his father’s murder by his mother’s lover. Join us for the major event that forever changed the face of musical theatre, ’cause this deaf, dumb and blind kid, sure plays a mean pinball! "The first musical in years to feel completely alive in its own moment. No wonder that for two hours it makes the world seem young" — New York Times.

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The Glass Menagerie

By Tennessee Williams

Directed by Michael Lederman

September 18 - October 10, 2009

A major American theatrical classic, a winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1945, and his first major play, this beautiful drama thrust Tennessee Williams into fame. Loosely autobiographical, the play explores the fragility of the human condition. From the overbearing Amanda, who the original ’45 review describes as "a bit of a scold, a bit of a snob", to the fragile Laura, holding out hopes of love, to Tom, trapped within himself, this play resonates with failed expectations and the delicacy of dreams that are easily shattered. "The Glass Menagerie, like Spring, is a pleasure to have in the neighborhood" — New York Times.