
It Runs in the Family
September 9 - 25, 2011
General Audiences / Comedy / Farce
Directed by Patricia Blossom
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The Woman in Black
October 14 - 30, 2011
General Audiences / Thriller
Directed by Grant Olson
Synopsis:
Arthur Kipps, a middle-aged solicitor, hires a theatre and the services of a professional actor to help him reenact, and thereby hopefully exorcise, a ghostly event which befell him many years previously with horrifyingly tragic results. From the cluttered stage, Kripps begins to read his story: painfully, self-consciously and hesitantly at first, but, coached by an actor and aided by theatrical artifice, he grows in confidence and ability as he assumes a variety of roles and the play moves from narration to enactment. The actor portrays the young Kipps, sent north by his London firm to settle the estate of an elderly recluse, the late Mrs. Drablow, in whose isolated marshland house Kipps encounters the Woman in Black. This spectre, seeking vengeance for the death of her young child, attaches herself to Kipps and unleashes a macabre sequence of events which culminate in a truly chilling twist in the play’s final moments.
A Christmas Carol
November 18 - December 18, 2011
Family / Christmas
Directed by Jack Foster
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God's Favorite
January 6 - 22, 2012
General Audiences / Comedy
Directed by Julie McCartney
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Twelve Angry Jurors
February 10 - 26, 2012
General Audiences / Drama
Directed by Wendy Golter
Synopsis:
A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. "He doesn't stand a chance," mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut case—until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts. "This is a remarkable thing about democracy," says the foreign-born juror, "that we are notified by mail to come down to this place—and decide on the guilt or innocence of a man; of a man we have not known before. We have nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a personal thing." But personal it does become, with each juror revealing his or her own character as the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-enacted and a new murder threat is born before their eyes! Tempers get short, arguments grow heated, and the jurors become 12 angry jurors. The jurors' final verdict and how they reach it will electrify you and keep you on the edge of your seat.
Performances: Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM; Sundays at 2PM
Tickets: Adults $17 Students/Seniors $15
The Wizard of Oz
March 23 - April 29, 2012
Family / Musical
Directed by Larry Bottjen
Synopsis:
The story you’ve grown up with and the characters that you’ve loved for years both come to life on the Valley Performing Arts’ stage. Dorothy and Toto along with their ever faithful guardians, the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion, are joined by the good witch, Glinda, the mysterious Wizard, the evil Wicked Witch, along with the Munchkins, flying monkeys, and Winkie guards. You will truly believe that there is “no place like home” as you travel over the rainbow and back again.
Performances: Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM; Sundays at 2PM
Tickets: Adults $25 Students/Seniors $23
The Trip to Bountiful
May 11 - 27, 2012
General Audiences / Drama
Directed by Elizabeth Hanson
Synopsis:
This is the poignant story of Mrs. Watts, an aging widow living with her son and daughter-in-law in a three-room flat in Houston, Texas. Fearing that her presence may be an imposition on others, and chafing under the watchful eye of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Watts imagines that if she can get away and return to her old home in the town of Bountiful, she is sure to regain her strength, dignity and peace of mind. Only too soon she learns that the friends of her youth have all died or scattered, and her home is no longer the spacious mansion of her memories but a crumbling wreck. But she has the supreme satisfaction of plunging her hands into the strength-giving earth, and this leaves her with a sense of that strength and dignity that will give her the courage to survive.
Performances: Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM; Sundays at 2PM
Tickets: Adults $17 Students/Seniors $15