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Cabaret
September 21 - October 22, 2017
TouchTones
October 19 - December 3, 2017
A Doll's House
January 11 - February 25, 2018
Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye JUST ANNOUNCED! Fun Home Every Brilliant Thing
3-Show: $93 - $135
March 1 - April 1, 2018 May 17 - June 24, 2018
November 9 - December 3, 2017
5-Show: $140 - $200
4-Show: $112 - $160 6-Show: $168 - $240
Clifford Bradshaw travels to Berlin in search of inspiration and pleasure, finding both in the Kit Kat Club and its headliner Sally Bowles. Yet, the Nazis' looming rise to power threatens to shatter their decadent lifestyle. Cabaret kicks off the Arden’s 30th anniversary season by transforming the theater into the seedy and sinful Kit Kat Club.
Toni Morrison’s
The Bluest Eye Adapted by Lydia R. Diamond Directed by Raelle Myrick-Hodges
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl growing up in the 1940’s, prays for Shirley Temple’s blue eyes, believing their beauty is the only thing standing between her and the happiness of the white girls at school. This powerful adaptation explores the destructive power of racism and the strength of a community attempting to embrace an era of change.
A new musical comedy about love, sex, and the fantasy at the other end of the line…
Story by Michael Hollinger & Robert Maggio Book & lyrics by Michael Hollinger Music by Robert Maggio
Directed by Emmanuelle Delpech
Music by Jeanine Tesori Book and Lyrics by Lisa Kron Based on the Graphic Novel by Alison Bechdel
Hailed as one of Broadway’s most original musicals and winner of 5 Tony Awards, Fun Home is a groundbreaking story inspired by Alison Bechdel’s best-selling graphic memoir. After the death of her father, Alison plunges into her past to uncover the many mysteries of her childhood growing up at the family funeral home in Central Pennsylvania. Featuring a brilliant score by Jeanine Tesori (Caroline, or Change), Fun Home is a refreshingly honest, moving new musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes.
r Gree t t o c ing S r u t a Fe
1. Ice cream, 2. Water fights, 3. Things with stripes, 4. Christopher Walken’s voice, 5. Rollercoasters…. So begins a moving and hilarious one-person play about a boy creating a list of brilliant things to ease his mother’s pain. Arden favorite Scott Greer leads audiences through a remarkable journey that examines what makes life worth living – and the power of theatre to bring people together. Join us for the Philadelphia premiere of this Off-Broadway hit, the inaugural production in the Arden’s intimate Selma M. & Robert J. Horan Studio Theatre.
JUST ANNOUNCED!
FUN HOME
CABARET TOUCHTONES A WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL
Cover: Caroline Dooner as Louise in Arden Theatre Company’s production of Gypsy. Photo by Mark Garvin Inside: Cindy De La Cruz as Nina in Arden Theatre Company’s production of Stupid F**king Bird. Photo by Mark Garvin Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel. Copyright © 2006 by Alison Bechdel. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. Back cover: Photo by Ashley Smith LaBonde, Wide Eyed Studios