P.T.D PRODUCTION'S 8TH SEASON

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
BY JOSEPH KESSELRING

FEBRUARY 7-9 & FEBRUARY 14-16 • 8:00 pm
FEBRUARY 10 • 2:00 pm

For New York drama critic Mortimer Brewster, it was supposed to be just another routine visit to the family home in Brooklyn, But he soon has more than he can handle with one brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, another who looks like Boris Karloff, and two maiden aunts whose charities include helping lonely old men find everlasting peace! One of the stage's most enduring, and endearing, comedies, Arsenic and Old Lace premiered on Broadway in 1941 and has been delighting audiences ever since.

THE TWILIGHT OF THE GOLDS
by JONATHAN TOLINS

APRIL 18- 21 & APRIL 25-27

When art is at its most outrageous, when it cannot be easily believed, that is when it most resembles life.

Genetic science and opera serve as bockdrops for this modern morality tale about the Golds, a middle-class Jewish family, seemingly close-knit and happy. But their family bond is put to the test when daughter Suzanne considers an abortion, and son David, an aspiring set designer, fervent Bagner fan, and gay man, is forced to question his family's true feelings about his sexuality. Resting somewhere between science fiction and next month's headlines. The Twilight of the Golds combines sensitivity and humor in this penetrating look at a family's and society's, beliefs.

 

THE CEMETERY CLUB
BY IVAN MENCHELL

SEPTEMBER 19-22 & SEPTEMBER 26-28

This is the story of three Jewish widows from Queens: Doris, who clings to the memory of her husband; Lucille, a would-be vamp espousing the virtues of "playing the field"; and Ida, who is beginning to realize that she still has a life to lead. When their monthly cemetery vigil is disrupted by the addition of a widower in their midst, their life-long friendships are threatened as their true feellings come to the surface. Ivan Menchell's hilarious and heartwarming comedy reminds us that although memoories may be long, life is short, and meant to be lived to the fullest.

BLITHE SPIRIT
BY NOEL COWARD

NOVEMBER 14-17 & NOVEMBER 21-23

Tables rise, vases fly, and doors bang in this comic masterpiece where the spirit world collides with the English drawing room. when a seance at his home goes awry, novelist Charles condomine discovers that living with two wives-one of them a spiteful ghost -is no picnic! Brimming with Coawrd's celebrated repartee, Blithe Spirit opened in London in 1941 and
had a record-setting run of 1,997 performances. Sixty-one years later, it's still a stylish and spooky treat.

For more information please call: 734-483-7345

The Riverside Arts Center
76 North Huron
Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197