DEATHTRAP
By Ira Levin

Sidney Bruhl, once a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, hasn't had a hit in 18 years. So when a would-be playwright sends him a script for a thriller that reads like a surefire hit, and asks for his opinion, Bruhl is more than tempted to steal the script and claim it as his own. To that end, he lures the young man to his remote Connecticut home on the pretext of working on the script, and kills him. Or does he? With a plot more twisted than a corkscrew, Deathtrap keeps its audience off-balance from opening scene to final curtain, as we try to figure out what's really happening!

FEBRUARY 13-15 & FEBRUARY 20-22 • 8:00 p.m.
FEBRUARY 16 • 2:00 pm

OCTETTE BRIDGE CLUB
by P. J. Barry

JUNE 19-21 & JUNE 26-28 • 8:00 p.m.
JUNE 22 • 2:00 p.m.

Once described as a "sentimental group portrait" and "as nostalgic as a Saturday Evening Post cover," The Octette Bridge Club is a delightful and funny look back at American life in a bygone era. Set in Rhode Island from 1934 to 1944, it focuses on the domestic intrigues of the Donavans, eight very different Irish-Catholic sisters who meet every other Friday night for bridge, home-baked pie, and gossip. P. J. Barry's autobiographical comedy is also a moving glimpse at the bright and dark aspects of family relationships, especially those things that hold us together and those that push us apart.

 

ON GOLDEN POND
by Ernest Thompson

SEPTEMBER 20-21 & SEPTEMBER 25-27 • 8:00 p.m.

"This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the 44th year." So begins the publishers' description of On Golden Pond, and we couldn't have said it any better! Ernest Thompson's 1979 play is an affectionate and honest portrait of an American family coping with advancing age, father-daughter estrangement, and "life" during one summer at a lakeside cabin in Maine. A work of rare simplicity and beauty, On Golden Pond is a rich, funny, and uplifting play.

 

BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE
by John Van Druten

NOVEMBER 27-30 & DECEMBER 4-6 • 8:00 p.m.

It's Christmas Eve, and Gillian Holroyd, an alluring and talented witch living in Manhattan, meets her new upstairs neighbor, Shepherd Henderson. She falls for the handsome Shep, casts a love spell on him, and thus begins one of the most enchanting classics of the American stage! By the author of I Remember Mama, The Voice of the Turtle, and I Am a Camera, Bell, Book and Candle is a caldron-full of laughs, sweetness, and supernatural fun

For more information please call:
734-483-7345

All shows are presented at:
The Riverside Arts Center
76 North Huron, Ypsilanti, Michigan