Prospect Theater Project

The Life of Galileo Galilei

Monday, April 12th, 2010 | Current Season, Season 09-10 | No Comments

The Life of Galileo Galilei
by Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Founding Artistic Director Jack Souza
April 23 – May 16, 2010
Brecht’s masterpiece about the scientist and the dilemma between ethics and authority Prospect is excited to be tackling such a seminal piece of 20th Century theater. Considered by many to be Brecht’s finest work, it is a play that explores huge, world transforming events in their most human and intimate form.

Beyond Therapy

Saturday, January 9th, 2010 | Current Season, Season 09-10 | No Comments

Christopher Durang, Beyond Therapy (1981)
Directed by Ron Lane
February 5-28, 2010
Fri, Sat, 8 pm, Sun 2 pm

Bruce wants to meet someone and so does Prudence. But their Mate Wanted ads haven’t prepared them for what they find when they meet. Bruce has a male lover, Bob, but thinks he’d like to try a woman again. Besides, he wants a child and that’s one thing Bob can’t give him. Prudence doesn‘t know what she wants but it certainly isn’t a bi-sexual whose first comment to her is that she has lovely breasts and five minutes later he’s sobbing into his handkerchief –in a restaurant, no less. They’re not a match made in heaven. Their therapists don’t help at all: Stuart seduces all his women clients and Charlotte talks to a Snoopy doll during sessions. And let’s not forget Bob. From this complicated mess, Obie-Award-winning Christopher Durang (The Marriage of Betty and Boo) has concocted a wild and wooly farce filled to overflowing with laughter.

Arms and the Man

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 | Current Season, Season 09-10 | No Comments

George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man

Directed by Heike Hambley (Bach at Leipzig, Copenhagen)
November 20 — December 13, 2009
(Thur-Sat 8 pm; Sun 2 pm)
Tickets $15

A young woman sits in her window, dreaming of her fiancée, a Bulgarian noble who is off to war. A middle-aged man, Captain Bluntschli, who is a soldier in the opposing Serbian army, climbs in her window. He seeks shelter after a devastating Serbian defeat. As they talk, his lack of idealism affronts her. Her fiancée, Sergius, led the cavalry charge against the Serbian machine guns and won. Sergius’s behavior confirms her picture of the true hero, and Bluntschli definitely doesn’t match up to it. › Continue reading

A Moon for the Misbegotten

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 | Current Season, Season 09-10 | No Comments

Eugene O’Neill’s

A Moon for the Misbegotten

Directed by David Barbaree
(The Constant Wife, Road to Mecca, The Beauty Queen of Leenane)

It’s 1923, rural Connecticut, the Hogan farm. Phil Hogan is as Irish as they come in all respects, including his disregard for the strict truth and his monumental drinking. His daughter Josie lives with him. Outsized in body, she’s reputed to be equally outsized in her taste for men. Rumor has it she’s had it on with most of the men in her neighborhood. But her one real love is the landlord, James Tyrone, who is the only man around who regularly drinks Phil into the ground. › Continue reading