2010-2011 Season

SONIA FLEW by Melinda Lopez
A Co-production with the Jewish Ensemble Theatre
MICHIGAN PREMIERE!
September 17 through October 17, 2010

"Sonia Flew is a play for our age" says the Boston Globe. When Sonia learns of her son's decision to enlist in the military and fight in Afghanistan following 9/11, memories of being forced to leave Cuba in 1959 overwhelm her. She must come to terms with her past, her lost parents and country - or risk losing her own children. Set between post-revolutionary Cuba and post-9/11 America, Sonia Flew telescopes the political forces of each historic moment and their impact on the lives of ordinary people.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar and music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison
A MUSICAL COMEDY! MICHIGAN PREMIERE!
November 11 through December 26, 2010

The big musical comedy returns with a tribute to the dazzling fantasy of the 1920s. We're guided by the narrator, a depressed musical theatre aficionado, who decides to cheer things up by playing a record. Soon we are transported to 1928 and The Drowsy Chaperone, a hilarious musical-within-a-play crammed full of every cliche, gag and gimmick from the golden age of Broadway. Winner of Tony Awards for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score, it's guaranteed to put a song in your heart!

THE WAR SINCE EVE by Kim Carney
WORLD PREMIERE!
January 13 through February 13, 2011

From the playwright who brought you Moonglow and The Home Team comes another knockout comedy. On the eve of receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, women's rights pioneer Roxie Firestone has a dilemma. As the mother of two grown daughters - Milty, her put-upon assistant and Tara, from whom she has been estranged for twenty years - she wouldn't win any Mother of the Year awards. When one daughter returns and the other threatens to jump ship, she must decide - which is more important, sisterhood or motherhood?

THE PIANO LESSON by August Wilson
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER FOR DRAMA! TONY AWARD FOR BEST PLAY! (Rights Pending)
March 3 through April 3, 2011

A powerful play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences. Set in Pittsburgh in 1936 in the home of an African American family from Mississippi, it centers around a piano that was once traded for two of their ancestors. Boy Willie wants to sell the piano and make a new future, while Berniece clings tightly to the memories of the past. Ghosts surface both literally and figuratively, as they struggle to escape their tormented history. In this American masterpiece, Wilson gives us a haunting and mythic tale of a family at war.

CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION by Annie Baker
OBIE WINNER FOR BEST PLAY!
April 21 through May 22, 2011

When four lost New Englanders enrolled in a community center drama class experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won. Fresh from its hugely successful New York run at Playwright's Horizons, this new comedy from Annie Baker is a beautifully crafted diorama in which we see, with hilarious detail, the lasting impact even strangers can have on our lives.

TBA - BUT WORTH THE WAIT!
June 2 through July 3, 2011

Everybody knows the early bird gets the worm, right? Wrong! At least when it comes to licensing hot plays straight from New York, sometimes waiting can have its rewards! As Michigan theatres select their seasons in May and earlier, a whole crop of plays that don't announce closing dates until after the Tonys goes untouched. Until now! PNT is proud to announce its TBA slot - a slot we'll reserve for the hottest show available from New York as of April 2011 - so we can bring you the very best properties as soon as they're available! Got a suggestion for a show you'd like us to try and get? Email david@performancenetwork.org.

MARIE ANTOINETTE: THE COLOR OF FLESH by Joel Gross
MICHIGAN PREMIERE!
July 28 through August 28, 2011

"A touching story of love." -NY Times. History gets a refreshingly sexy face in this detailed and sumptuous study of an imagined love triangle between Marie Antoinette; her portrait painter, Elisabeth Vigée le Brun; and a fictitious playboy-aristocrat, and lover to both, Count Alexis de Ligne. Spanning two politically explosive decades surrounding the French Revolution, this elegant boudoir drama weaves politics, history, romance and art.

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