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the american planLegendary composer and lyricist Stephen

Sondheim’s nostalgic music fills the June air in

this sweet, sardonic ode to the foolish abandon

of romance. For Madame Armfeldt’s guests,

love can never come too soon—or too late.

There are lovers hidden in every corner of

her country manse: her daughter, Desirée, the

actress; Desirée’s former beau, Fredrik, and his

new young wife, Anne; Desirée’s current lover,

Carl-Magnus and his wife, Charlotte; and still

others, it seems, making a racket in the stables.

Lovers are swapped, lives intersect, and as the

night smiles on the young, the old, and the foolish,

everything somehow falls beautifully into place.

Bernard, an American playboy running wild

in 1960s Paris, appears to have it all: a perfect

apartment, a staunchly loyal housekeeper, and

three devoted flight attendant fiancées. He has

juggled these French, German, and American

beauties with precision, and each woman thinks

she is Bernard’s one true love. But when an

unexpected scheduling glitch brings all

three fiancées to Paris—and to Bernard’s

apartment—he and his friend Robert

must scramble to keep his duplicity under

wraps. Hilarity ensues as this flirtatious

French farce shows how the glamorous

panache of 1960s air travel can have its caveats.

Patrick Hamilton’s Gaslight, one of

Britain’s finest psychological thrillers, takes

audiences on a nail-biting journey through

one couple’s slow descent into chaos. Is Mrs.

Manningham truly going mad, or is her illness

merely an illusion created by her husband?

And where does Mr. Manningham disappear to

every night, while mysterious noises sound

from the Manningham attic? Can any-

one be trusted? Originally presented in

America as Angel Street, and immortalized in the

1944 film with Ingrid Bergman and Charles

Boyer, this gripping play will keep audiences

on the edge of their seats from start to finish.

Love is in the air in Richard Greenberg’s

wistful modern masterpiece, The American Plan.

For Lili Adler and her mother, Eva, every

summer in the Catskills is the same…

until the summer of 1960, when Lili meets the

charming Nick Lockeridge. He seems

perfect to Lili, but Eva harbors private

suspicions. When secrets begin to come to

light, Lili’s trust in those she loves most is

tested. Greenberg looks back to a time when

expectation, family, desire, love, need,

loneliness and fear all prove inescapable

ties that drag us inexorably back to shore,

even when we most wish to drift out to sea.

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Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler

by Marc Camoletti

by Patrick Hamilton

by Richard Greenberg

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July 19-22, 26-29

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