Going After Cacciato

A play by Romulus Linney

from the novel by Tim O'Brien

Directed by Charles Ney

This is the world premiere of the stage adaptation by nationally known playwright Romulus Linney of Tim O'Brien's classic novel about Vietnam. It is a story of a soldier, Cacciato, who deserts, intending to walk to Paris, and his squad that follows to capture him. A mixture of reality and fantasy, the book won the 1979 National Book Award. "Simply put, [it's] the best novel written about the war. I do not know...any writer, journalist, or novelist who does not concede that position to O'Brien's Going After Cacciato" (Miami Herald). Linney has won two Obie Awards (one for sustained excellence in playwriting), two National Critics Awards, and three Drama-Logue Awards. This will be our entry into the American College Theare Festival. Both Romulus Linney and Tim O'Brien will participate in a talkback after the Ocotber 6 performance.

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Main Stage, Theatre Center

October 4-8 at 7:30 p.m.

October 9 at 2:00 p.m.

Texas State Black and Latino Playwrights Conference

Artistic Director Eugene Lee

Associate Artistic Director Luis Munoz

This is the third year we are presenting a staged-reading of an original script written by a black playwright, and the first year to present a staged reading of an original play by a latino playwright. The plays are rehearsed with the playwrights in residence, culminating in the staged-readings. This year's plays are For Acres by Robert Alexander and 69 Portraits of Che by Joe Luis Cedillo. All seats $3.

Studio Theatre, Theatre Center

Forty Acres- September 23 at 7:30 p.m. and September 24 at 2:00 p.m.

69 Portraits of Che- September 24 at 7:30 p.m. and September 25 at 2:00 p.m.

The Art of Dining

by Tina Howe

Directed by Richard Sodders

An absolutely hilarious depiction of a couple who are owners of a small intimate restraunt and their conflict over paying the bills and offering good food. He is preoccupied with packing in the customers, while she, the chef, is concerned with the food's quality and with stopping her husband from eating all the ingredients. Their diners are equally funny, from a couple who go into spasms of ecstasy just from reading the menu to the three career women: one a hearty eater, one a neurotic eater, and one a dieter. Finally, there's the shy, clumsy, neurotic writer who's dining with her prospective publisher. Her actions and conversation are unintentionally hilarious and a prime example of how not to act and what not to talk about while dining.

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Main Stage, Theatre Center

November 15-19 at 7:30pm

November 20 at 2:00pm

The Exonerated

by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen

Directed by Paige Bishop

Winner of the 2003 Outer Critics Award for Best Off-Broadway play, the Dramatist Guild Award, and The John Gassner Playwriting Award, the playwrights of this incredible play conducted interviews with more than forty exonerated death-row inmates across the nation. It is a dynamic character study of the effect of having one's freedom and future torn away from six of those wrongly accused. it examines how these innocent people survived and reclaimed what was left of their lives and spirit.

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Studio Theatre, Theatre Center

February 7-18 at 7:30pm

February 12,19 at 2:00pm

The Rover

by Aphra Behn

Directed by Michael Costello

A play of comic misadventures, sexual intrigues, and swashbuckling duels. The Rover takes place in a Spanish colony during carnival in the seventeenth-century. Abandoning their usual modest inhibitions for the celebrations, three Spanish sisters, masked and disguised as gypsies, become entangled in a complicated web of romance and deception with three English gentlemen, a lusty rover, aand a famous courtesan. Written by Aphra Behn, England's first professional female playwright, The Rover is one of  the most successful comedies of the Restoration period and has delighted audiences for over 300 years.  To capture the atmosphere of the Spanish carnival, this joyous play of love and laughter will be performed in our beautiful outdoor Glade Theatre.

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Glade Theatre

April 7-14 at 8:15pm

The Next Amendment

by Charles Pascoe

Directed by Jay Jennings

This family-oriented musical joyously relates the significance of the Bill of Rights. Bizarre and unlikely characters help relate the message that America, in spite of its shortcomings, is still a place where individuals of all backgrounds can live in freedom  with the hope of greater equality. Joined by his friends, the Red, White and Blue Jay escapes from a pirate ship and returns to America in time to see George Washington inaugurated in New York. The constitution has been ratified, but the Bill of Rights has not. Jay and friends refit the pirate ship to become the U.S.S. Footlights. They form a theatrical troupe called the Minstrels of America and cruise up and down the eastern seaboard stopping in every port to perform the Amendment Show in which the Bill of Rights is presented in the format of a minstrel show with George Washington as interlocutor.

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Main Stage, Theatre Center

April 25-29 at 7:30pm

April 30 at 2:00pm