November 22 at 8:00 pm
KATE MULGREW in
MARY STUART
By Friedrich Schiller
Translated by Michael Feingold
Directed by Erica Schmidt
Schiller’s ultimate catfight as two queens go head to head for England ’s crown. One loses her life, the other her soul. You decide who the ultimate victor is in this masterpiece on the perils of power.
December 6 at 8:00 pm
MICHAEL CUMPSTY & F. MURRAY ABRAHAM in
URFAUST
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Translated by Dan Farrelly
Directed by Michael Sexton
Wayward scholar gets wealth, fame, sex – there’s just one little catch…Experience Goethe’s very first draft, penned in his early twenties, raw and unrepentant.
December 13, 2004 @ 8:00pm
RON LEIBMAN & MANDY PATINKIN in
NATHAN THE WISE
By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Translated by Edward Kemp
Directed by Brian Kulick
Set in the Holy Land at the time of the Crusades, this timeless classic explores the fractious relations between the Islamic, Jewish and Christian worlds as they hurtle toward destruction. Written some two hundred years ago, this play feels as immediate as this morning’s front-page news.