Avenue Q

Avenue Q

Music and Lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, Book by Jeff Whitty

The list of phrases to describe Avenue Q is endless: Irreverent. Hilarious. Surprisingly sincere. Topical. Disarming. Tony Award-winning. A twisted love letter to “Sesame Street.” This fresh and funny musical chronicles the post-college adjustments young adults (and puppets) must make as they realize that growing up supremely special—as their parents, coaches, and teachers told them they were—might not result in being truly prepared for the real world. Overflowing with catchy tunes and mature situations, Avenue Q is sure to captivate audiences with its unique blend of heart and brazenness. Did we mention there are puppets?

Co-Produced with School of Music

Distracted

Distracted

By Lisa Loomer

Distracted asks a prescient question innumerable parents struggle to answer: where’s the line between “kids will be kids” and a diagnosis of ADHD? In a thoughtful, humorous, and humane contemporary comedy, one family navigates the worlds of psychiatry, homeopathy, and psychology in their quest to help their son behave better at school and at home. Distracted takes advantage of inventive staging, double and triple casting, and a gleeful overthrow of conventional theatrical rules to keep the audience on its toes. It provides a perfect reflection of how today’s incessant barrage of technology and media influences our every waking moment.

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches

Angels in America:

Millennium Approaches

By Tony Kushner
Set during the early days of the AIDS epidemic, two vastly different couples in New York City grapple with seemingly insurmountable forces, both internal and external. Angels in America provides thrilling juxtapositions of the intimate with the spectacular, the very public (politics) with the very private (love and sexuality), and rich humor with stark pathos. Societal and personal change are chronicled with deftness and empathy even for the drama’s most malicious characters. Full of passion, compassion, and big ideas, Tony Kushner’s epic Part One of Angels in America is no less than one of the most important plays of the late twentieth century.