Galileo
by Bertolt Brecht –The Belmont Theatre Company and People’s Branch Theatre–The Troutt TheaterConsidered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, Galileo explores the question of a scientist's social and ethical responsibility, as the brilliant Galileo must choose between his life and his life's work when confronted with the demands of the Inquisition. Through the dramatic characterization of the famous physicist, Brecht examines the issues of scientific morality and the difficult relationship between the intellectual and authority. "The play which most strongly stamped on my mind a sense of Brecht's great stature as an artist of the modern theatre was Galileo." - Harold Clurman; "Thoughtful and profoundly sensitive." - Newsweek.
Friday, September 18th at 7:30
Saturday, September 19th at 7:30
Sunday, September 20th at 2:00
Wednesday, September 23rd at 7:30
Thursday, September 24th at 7:30
Friday, September 25th at 7:30
Saturday, September 26th at 7:30
Sunday, September 27th at 2:00
Thursday, October 1st at 7:30
Friday, October 2nd at 7:30
Saturday, October 3rd at 7:30
Sunday, October 4th at 2:00
Wait Until Dark
by Frederick Knott– The Belmont Theatre Company – The Black Box TheaterA sinister con man, Roat, and two ex-convicts, Mike and Carlino, are about to meet their match. They have traced the location of a mysterious doll, which they are much interested in, to the Greenwich Village apartment of Sam Hendrix and his blind wife, Susy. Sam had apparently been persuaded by a strange woman to transport the doll across the Canadian border, not knowing that sewn inside were several grams of heroin. When the woman is murdered the situation becomes more urgent. The con man and his ex-convicts, through a cleverly constructed deception, convince Susy that the police have implicated Sam in the woman's murder, and the doll, which she believes is the key to his innocence, is evidence. She refuses to reveal its location, and with the help of a young neighbor, figures out she is the victim of a bizarre charade. But when Roat kills his associates, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues between the two. Susy knows the only way to play fair is by her rules, so when darkness falls she turns off all the lights leaving both of them to maneuver in the dark until the game ends.
Thursday, October 22nd at 8:00
Friday, October 23rd at 8:00
Saturday, October 24th at 8:00
Sunday, October 25th at 2:00
Thursday, October 29th at 8:00
Friday, October 30th at 8:00
Saturday, October 31st at 8:00
Sunday, November 1st at 2:00
bobrauschenbergamerica
by Charles Mee – The Belmont Theatre Company - The Black BoxA wild road trip through our American landscape—in a play made as one of America's greatest artists, Robert Rauschenberg, might have conceived it if he had been a playwright instead of a painter: a collage of people and places and music and dancing, of love stories and picnics and business schemes and shootings and chicken jokes and golfing, and of the sheer exhilaration of living in a country where people make up their lives as they go.
Thursday, November 12th at 8:00
Friday, November 13th at 8:00
Saturday, November 14th at 8:00
Sunday, November 15th at 2:00
Wednesday, November 18th at 8:00
Friday, November 20th at 8:00
Saturday, November 21st at 8:00
Sunday, November 22nd at 2:00
All My Sons
by Arthur Miller - The Belmont Theatre Company and Actors Bridge Ensemble– The Troutt TheaterThe three-act play, first performed shortly after World War II, focuses on the Kellers, a family in Middle America. The father (Joe Keller) and his business partner (Herbert Deever) manufactured plane parts during the war and his partner was convicted and imprisoned for shipping out faulty parts which caused the deaths of military pilots. Shortly after that conviction, Joe Keller's oldest son, Larry, was reported missing in action. The play opens three years later as the mother, Kate, continues to hold onto the belief that her eldest son is still alive. She so strongly believes this that she wants to stand in the way of Larry's fiancé and Herbert Deever's daughter, Ann Deever, from marrying Kate's younger son, Chris. As the play progresses, you learn the Keller parents are still keeping some intense secrets from everyone, including Chris who worships and respects his father. Ann's brother George is the catalyst for many of these secrets being revealed and forever changing the family.
Thursday, February 18th at 7:30
Friday, February 19th at 7:30
Saturday, February 20th at 7:30
Sunday, February 21st at 2:00
Wednesday, February 24th at 7:30
Friday, February 26th at 7:30
Saturday, February 27th at 2:00
Sunday, February 28th at 2:00
The Butterfly
by Bijan Mofid -Belmont Theatre Company – The Black Box TheatreThe Butterfly is a modern masterpiece of children's theatre by Iran's best-loved playwright, Bijan Mofid, Dramatized by Bijan Mofid from the original story SHAPARAK KHANUM by Farideh Fardjam and translated from Persian by Don Laffoon. This bilingual production mixes Farsi and English to unlock the charm of the original play for American audiences. The story can be easily understood by a child who speaks no Farsi at all, but magical doors are opened to the direct experience of another culture. With fantasy and humor woven into the web of a profound moral dilemma, exquisite dance and traditional music performed live, the performance is a delight for audiences of all ages.
A beautiful Butterfly is trapped in a barn and falls into the clutches of a Spider who threatens to eat her, but agrees to let her go if she will bring him other insects to satisfy his hunger. In her travels about the barn, she finds other insects who will follow her, but learns that each is performing a useful function and instead of luring them to their death, she gives each one something of herself, stripping her beautiful raiment until she is quite bedraggled. Returning at last to offer herself to the Spider, he releases her, and shows her the way out. But as she flies off into the sun, the Honeybee, who loves her, hears the song of the Spider, and is left to begin his own journey, his own test.
Thursday, April 15th at 8:00
Friday, April 16th at 8:00
Saturday, April 17th at 2:00
Sunday, April 18th at 2:00
Thursday, April 22nd at 8:00
Friday, April 23rd at 8:00
Saturday, April 24th at 8:00
Sunday, April 25th at 2:00
Mixed Bill VI
The Troutt TheatreThe annual Dance Production will offer a dance style for everyone including, ballet, modern, tap, jazz as well as cameos from the professional dance community. The Dance Performance will fill the Troutt Stage with students performing original work and showcasing new technique.
Performance Dates:
Thursday, April 9th at 7:30
Friday, April 10th at 7:30
Saturday, April 11th at 7:30
