Deathtrap
by Ira Levin
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Oct. 25- 27, 2007 • 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 28, 2007 • 2 p.m.

One of the great popular successes of recent Broadway history, this ingeniously constructed play offers a rare and skillful blending of two priceless theatrical ingredients—gasp-inducing thrills and spontaneous laughter. Dealing with the devious machinations of a writer of thrillers whose recent offerings have been flops, and who is prepared to go to any lengths to improve his fortunes, it provides twists and turns and sudden shocks in such abundance that audiences will be held spellbound until the very last moment.

"The intricately fashioned plot contortions brought gasps, the comedy lines drew delighted chortles…" —The Hollywood Reporter.

"Two-thirds a thriller and one-third a devilishly clever comedy…Suspend your disbelief and be delighted. Scream a little. It's good for you." —Cue Magazine.

"If you care to assassinate yourself with laughter, try DEATHTRAP." —Time.

Baby With The Bathwater
by Christopher Durang
Directed by Joseph Schoenfelder

Patten-Wing Theatre
January 17-19, 2008 • 7:30 p.m.
January 20, 2008 • 2 p.m.

Bitingly satiric black comedy by one of our theatre's most provocative and inventive writers, which enjoyed widespread critical and popular acceptance in its long run at Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons. This time the author's target is parenthood, which he skewers with savagely gleeful wit and characteristically outrageous humor.

"…a typical example of his dangerous wit and anarchic sense of humor." —NY Post.

"…one of the funniest dramatists alive, and one of the most sharply satiric." —The New Yorker.

"Durang's outrageously satiric view of society should never be checked" —NY Daily News. "…he conquers bitterness and finds a way to turn rage into comedy that is redemptive as well as funny." —NY Times.

The Diary of Anne Frank
Newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman from the original stage play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

Performed at the Pepsi-Cola Theatre for the Performing Arts

Tickets can be purchased at the Antiques Mall in downtown Mitchell

March 27-29, 2008 • 7:30 p.m.
March 30, 2008 • 2 p.m.

NOTE: This play is also offered for area middle school and high school matinees during the week of March 25-28, 2008. Please contact DWU Theatre for more information. damiller@dwu.edu

In this transcendently powerful new adaptation by Wendy Kesselman, Anne Frank emerges from history a living, lyrical, intensely gifted young girl, who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of her time with astonishing honesty, wit and determination. An impassioned drama about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic, THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK captures the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence—their fear, their hope, their laughter, their grief. Each day of these two dark years, Anne's voice shines through: "When I write I shake off all my cares. But I want to achieve more than that. I want to be useful and bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death." This is a new adaptation for a new generation.

"An extraordinary theatrical adventure! Go and remember." —NY Post.

"Wendy Kesselman's finely textured new DIARY tells a deeper story. A sensitive, stirring and thoroughly engaging new adaptation." —NY Newsday.

"A powerful new version that moves the audience to gasp, then tears." —A.P.

"The new version presents Anne Frank's story with an unflinching view of the Holocaust and its aftermath. It must be seen." —Gannett.