Our 2010 - 2011 Season
StageWorks has three mainstage shows scheduled for the 2010-2011 season...a musical that tells the story of a friendship between
one of America's legendary Country Music singers and her number one fan, a raw dramatization of real events at a Philadelphia
prison in 1937 and a whimsical and poignant story of trials and tribulations at a family wedding.
Check out the Special Events section for more entertainment opportunities.
September 17, 18, 24, and 25, 2010
written and originally directed
by Ted Swindley-based on a true story
"Always...Patsy Cline" is more than a tribute to the legendary country singer who died tragically at age 30 in a plane crash in 1963. The show is based on a true story about Cline's friendship with a fan from Houston named Louise Seger, who befriended the star in a Texas honky-tonk in l961, and continued a correspondence with Cline until her death.
The musical play, complete with down home country humor, true emotion and even some audience participation, includes many of Patsy's
unforgettable hits such as Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams and Waking After Midnight. The show's title was inspired
by Cline's letters to Seger, which were consistently signed "Love ALWAYS...Patsy Cline."
Not About Nightingales
January 21, 22, 28, and 29, 2011
by Tennessee Williams
Not About Nightingales is a compelling story of real events at a Philadelphia prison in 1937. Convicts who led a hunger strike to protest conditions were locked in a scalding cell where four of them died.
Remarkable both as a prison scandal which shocked the nation as well as the work of an unknown twenty-seven-year-old and as a first
play to carry the signature "Tennessee" Williams. It reveals the young Williams as a political writer in Depression America with
flashes of typical William' style in structure and dialogue of the great plays Williams was later to write.
Though the play was written in 1938, it was not produced for the stage until 1998 in London.
Impossible Marriage
May 20 and 21, 2011
by Beth Henley
The entire action of the play takes place in Kandall Kingsley's beautiful and mysterious garden. Kandall's youngest daughter,
Pandora, is to be wed to Edvard Lunt, a worldly artist twice her age. Kandall does not think the match to be at all suitable.
Twists and turns in the story keep the family members hopping and everyone seems to have issues or secrets. Throughout this
wildly funny and moving play the characters struggle heroically with the impossibility of finding an allegiance between their
civilized duties and primitive desires.
