Stage Centre Productions 09/10 Season October 1, 2009

Stage Centre Productions announces its 2009/2010 season and 33 years of producing the classics

Dates: Thursday Oct 1st- Sunday May 23rd

Phone: 416.299.5557

Email: [email protected]

TICKETS: Adults $25, Senior $20, Students $15
Subscription packages are available from $60. You save up to 25%.

LOCATION: Fairview Public Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall Drive, North York, Ontario. M2J4S4

Steps away from the Don Mills Subway Station on the Sheppard Line. Lots of free parking. Wheelchair access and hearing devices available.

Website: http://www.stagecentreproductions.com

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PRODUCTION #1
PRIVATE LIVES
by Noël Coward
“…[Noël] Coward is most seriously good when he is funniest.” New York Times

October 1 – October 17, 2009

Amanda and Elyot can’t live together and they can’t live apart. When they discover they are honeymooning in the same hotel with their new spouses, they not only fall in love all over again, they learn to hate each other all over again. A comedy with a dark underside, fireworks fly as each character yearns desperately for love. Full of wit and razor sharp dialogue, Private Lives remains one of the most successful and popular comedies ever written.
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PRODUCTION #2
SUMMER AND SMOKE
by Tennessee Williams
"The innocent and the damned, the lonely and the frustrated, the hopeful and the hopeless . . . (Williams) brings them all into focus with an earthy, irreverently comic passion." Newsweek.

November 19 – December 5, 2009

One of Williams’ most highly regarded works! The play is a simple love story between a somewhat puritanical young Southern girl and an un-puritanical young doctor. However, they find themselves caught between the dictates of their environments, and the dictates of their hearts.
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PRODUCTION #3
PYGMALION
by George Bernard Shaw
“The most brilliant comedy of the century.” Times of London

January 14 - January 30, 2010

One of Shaw’s finest plays, and a source of theatre-audience delight for over a hundred years! It achieved further distinction when adapted into the stunning musical, My Fair Lady. Phonetics expert, Henry Higgins, wagers he can transform flower girl, Cockney Eliza Doolittle, into a lovely lady of high society.
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PRODUCTION #4
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
by Edward Albee
“Albee can...be placed high among the important dramatists of the contemporary world theatre.” New York Post

March 11 – March 27, 2010

Husband college faculty member George, and president’s daughter Martha have learned to survive within the world and within their relationship. A young faculty couple arrive as guests. They have yet come to terms with their existence, but in one evening George and Martha teach them all they know. Sparkling dialogue and emotional fireworks imbued with brilliant psychological and sociological insight. Absolutely riveting!
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PRODUCTION #5
THE THREEPENNY OPERA (musical)
by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill,
English adaptation by Marc Blitzstein

“The greatest musical of all time.” Newsweek

May 6 – May 23, 2010

Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum which displeases her father who controls the beggars of London, and he endeavours to have Mack hanged. His moves are hindered in that Tiger Brown, the chief of police, is Mack’s childhood friend. Exerting his influence he eventually gets Mack arrested and sentenced to hang. Moments before the execution a messenger from the “Queen” arrives with an unexpected message which gives rise to the question, “Who is the bigger criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one?”
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For further media information and artist interviews please contact Kim Blackwell at
416-346-4709, 416-686-0982 or [email protected]