Our 31st Season 2009-2010

FSP / L&N Depot Interactive Murder Mystery at the Historic Railpark Museum and L&N Depot. Brand new mystery! A prize for the correct solution. Come dressed in 1948-50's period. Two season tickets to the winners. $50/person. Cost includes "heavy hors d'oeuvres," wine and beer. Limited to 70 people.

For Reservations: Call 270-745-7314

Auditions: September 21, from 8:30 – 10:00 PM at Dance Images.

Best new Australian Play. Timothy Timmony is the elderly, cultured proprietor of a bookshop in a Sydney area that is being redeveloped. The bookstore is in the last building still standing. Simon Matthews, an uncultured but not insensitive adventurer, comes to the shop in pursuit of a particular volume at closing time. Just as Simon discovers that the book has been sold to his archenemy, the landlord locks he and Timmony in the building for the night. It soon becomes obvious that the book contains a code, which identifies the whereabouts of an invaluable artifact. Through the night the two combatants maneuver for position.

Pulitzer Prize nominee. Drama-Logue Theater Award winner for Playwriting. "A beautifully courageous play." Lorraine Hansberry, award-winning author. The journey begins in Greenwood, Mississippi - the Delta. "In my Delta town, some black girls aspired to become the woman. Others could make it by going to the cotton fields, working from sun to sun, for just about three dollars a day, "It is those and other dreadful experiences that inspire her to dream far beyond the funny-paper walls in her drafty shotgun house in Dixie Lane Alley. On her 11th birthday, Phelia's childhood is brutally stolen from her by a white man. She attempts to join a minstrel show as an exotic dancer. At 14 she has quit school and spent time in jail, and by 16, she is an unwed mother. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee comes to town, and Phelia is swept into the momentum of the civil rights movement. Phelia goes of to meet her destiny in the North. The journey ends, 20 20 years later as Phelia "buck-dances" across the stage at the University of Minnesota to accept her Ph.D.

Five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB focuses on four of these weekends, and spans a period of thirty-three years. As their lives unfold and the years pass, these women increasingly rely on one another, through advice and raucous repartee, to get through the challenges (men, sex, marriage, parenting, divorce, aging) that life flings at them. THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB is the story of these five unforgettable women - a hilarious and touching comedy about friendships that last forever...

Writers Guild of America - Best written American Musical. Oscar for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical. LUSTY, MIRTHFUL GIRL-STEALING MUSICAL!...with seven Great Songs! Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does she discover he has six brothers - all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then after reading about the Roman capture of the Sabine women, Adam develops an inspired solution to his brothers' loneliness. The show is fun, fast-paced, sometimes raucuous, sometimes sweet, always entertaining.