Woody Guthrie’s American Song
Songs and Writings by Woody Guthrie
Conceived and Adapted by Peter Glazer
February 8 – March 23
“The high beauty and earthy humor of Guthrie’s love affair
with America.” - New York Times
“This land is your land.” – Woody Guthrie
Stage 3 swings into our 2008 Season with the foot-stompin’, roof-raisin’,
toe-tappin’ heart-breakin’, soul-soarin’ musical journey
of Woody Guthrie down highways, rail lines and back roads straight into
the heart of America. An exuberant musical celebration of America, “Woody
Guthrie's American Song” tells the life of the rambling folk singer
through his words and music. From the dust storms of Texas to the promised
land of California to the streets of New York City, Guthrie spins the tale
of the land that ‘was made for you and me’.
“This Land is your Land”, “Bound for Glory” and “Hard
Travelin” are a few of the more than 2 dozen songs performed by 10
of our region’s finest actors, singers and musicians, This evening
of homespun wisdom, gentle humor and majestic music will have you leaving
the theater with not only a song in your heart, but refreshed and invigorated
with Guthrie’s own sense of tolerance and optimism. |
Steel Magnolias
by Robert Harling
April 18 – May 18
“Harling has given his women sharp, funny dialogue…The
play builds to a conclusion that is deeply moving.” —NY
Daily News.
“A skillfully crafted, lovingly evoked picture of eccentricity
in the small-town South” —Drama-Logue.
“Suffused with humor and tinged with tragedy.” —NY
Post.
Both wisecracking and wise, this group of ladies in a small-town beauty
parlor take Stage 3 by storm in a play that is alternately hilarious and
touching—and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness
which underlies the banter of its characters.
In Truvy's beauty salon, all the ladies who are "anybody" come
to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle (who
is not sure whether or not she is still married), the outspoken, wise-cracking
Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to a p-a passel of the town's
most delightfully colorful characters. When one of them risks a dangerous
pregnancy, the sudden realization of their mortality affects the others,
but also draws on the underlying strength—and love—which give
the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching,
funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad. Don’t
Miss it! |
Doubt: A Parable
by John Patrick Stanley
June 20 – July 20
“Superb new drama…tight and absorbing.” —New
York Times
“Roles that crackle with intelligence and rhythm…a superbly
told yarn.” —New Yorker
“#1 show of the year.” —Time Magazine
“A breathtaking work of immense proportion. Positively brilliant.” —Entertainment
Weekly
There is no ‘Doubt’ about this important work’s credentials.
It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Obie and Tony Awards and was voted
Best Play by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. From the author
of ‘Moonstruck’, this quiet and deceptively simple story of
two nuns and a priest gathers a dramatic force that has audiences gasping.
"What do you do when you're not sure?" Father Flynn asks the
audience in the opening line of this play, setting the stage for a story
of suspicion and moral certainty. The year is 1964 and Flynn is under a
vague suspicion of ‘interfering’ with one of the boys at St.
Nicholas school. What follows is a verbal and psychological cat and mouse
game involving Sister Aloysius and Sister James, one tough, wily and unyielding
and one eager to believe in the basic goodness and honesty of human beings.
These three lead us through a labyrinth of evidence and innuendo worthy
of the greatest courtroom dramas. A surprise visit by a fourth party arrives
with knowledge that casts doubt on the beliefs all three. Join us for this
superb intellectual and emotional chess match and see what all the ‘Doubt’ is
about.
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Driving Miss Daisy
by Alfred Uhry
September 12 – October 12
“A total delight.” —New York daily News
“Gives off a warm glow of humane affirmation.” —Variety
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best
Off-Broadway Play. Stage 3 presents this lovely tale of acceptance, tolerance
and respect.
The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights
movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Wertham, must rely
on the services of a chauffeur, an unemployed black man, Hoke, whom Miss
Daisy immediately regards with disdain and who, in turn, is not impressed
with his employer's patronizing tone and, he believes, her latent prejudice.
But, in a series of absorbing scenes spanning twenty-five years, the two,
despite their mutual differences, grow ever closer to, and more dependent
on, each other, until, eventually, they become almost a couple. They both
come to realize they have more in common than they ever believed possible—and
that times and circumstances would ever allow them to publicly admit. |
A Thousand Clowns
by Herb Gardner
November 21 – December 21
“Filled with laughter and warmth and sweetness and inspired
daffiness.” — N.Y. Daily News
“An extraordinarily funny play.” — N.Y. Post
Merely the best comedy of the season.” — Journal-American
Give yourself the gift of “A Thousand Clowns”.
An offbeat comedy about love, family and hope featuring one of the funniest
non-conformists of the stage. Murray Burns is an unemployed children’s
TV writer who has found himself raising his sister’s son when she
went out for a pack of cigarettes and never returned. This unlikely arrangement
has worked for the last 7 years until Social Services finally decides to
pay a call. What happens next threatens to destroy the only home the child
has known and break up the happy home. “A Thousand Clowns” is
a delightfully warm screwball comedy certain to cheer up everyone’s
holiday season. |
Theatre Information
INDIVIDUAL TICKETS
Thursday nights: $15
Friday - Sunday: $18
SENIOR TICKETS:
Sunday: $15
ALL STUDENT TICKETS: $12
SEASON TICKETS: 5 Productions - $75
Thursday night curtain at 7pm
Friday and Saturday night curtain at 8pm
Sunday matinee at 2pm.
Stage 3 accepts Visa and MasterCard.
RESERVATIONS: (209) 536-1778
E -MAIL: info@stage3.org
Stage 3 Theatre Company
208 S. Green St.
Sonora, CA 95370
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