2012/13 New Season!

Capital Rep is happy to announce the 2012-2013 season!

Featuring six must-see performances, this season includes three regional premieres, a Tony Award® winning play, talent direct from the Broadway stage and a soon-to-be-announced musical. Also premiering is the NEXT ACT! New Play Summit, focusing on new plays and musicals, as part of the collaboration between Capital Rep and Proctors. The ever-expanding repertoire of performances at Capital Rep had delighted audiences for over 30 years, and the 2012-2013 season is no exception.

Comedy, drama, romance, literature, music--it's all at Capital Rep!

Ella

Conceived By Rob Ruggiero and Dyke Garrison
Book by Jeffrey Hatcher
Starring Tina Fabrique
July 24-August 12, 2012
Previews start on Friday, July 20, 2012
It's 1966 and the first lady of song ELLA FITZGERALD, performed by the incomparable Broadway veteran Tina Fabrique, is preparing for one of the most important concerts of her career. Before the night is over she will jam with Louis Armstrong, reflect on her life and love of music and bring the house down with soulful song, swinging scat and scintillating hits like "A Tisket, A Tasket," "How High the Moon," "That Old Black Magic" and "They Can't Take That Away From Me". Come see the show that Variety calls A MUST SEE PERFORMANCE!

Pride @Prejudice

REGIONAL PREMIERE!
Adapted, edited and compiled by Daniel Elihu Kramer from
the novel by Jane Austen

Classics on Stage
October 2 – October 28, 2012
Previews start on Friday, September 28, 2012
Romance! True Love! And all of the twists and turns of Jane Austen’s most popular love story fill the stage in this delightful new adaptation.  Five acclaimed actors bring Elizabeth Bennett, Mr. Darcy and all of the characters of Jane Austen’s classic romance to life with the author’s actual words, but the fourth wall shatters when the cast Googles, Tweets and engages the audience. Jane Austen herself may pay a visit and patrons might get to ask her a question while falling in love all over again with the eligible young ladies of the Bennett household and their long line of suitors!  This play is will feature the critically acclaimed cast and director of The Chester Theatre Company's production of Summer 2010.  

Race

REGIONAL PREMIERE!
By David Mamet
January 15 – February 10, 2013
Previews on Friday, January 11, 2013
Sex, guilt and bold accusations permeate this provocative new tale from multiple Award-winning playwright David Mamet.  This gripping play tackles America’s most controversial topic with the brilliant language that only Mamet can bring to the stage. Two lawyers find themselves defending a wealthy white executive charged with raping a black woman and when a new legal assistant gets involved in the case, the opinions that boil beneath explode to the surface.  When David Mamet turns the spotlight on what we think but can’t say, dangerous truths are revealed and no punches are spared. Contains adult language.  “Race, like sex, is a subject on which it is near impossible to tell the truth.”  - David Mamet. 

TBA – This Will Be A Musical

March 5 – March 30, 2013  (no performance on Sunday, March 31 – Easter)
Previews start on Friday March 1, 2013
We want to leave room in the season for an exciting show – perfect for our audiences!  We are considering a variety of titles sure to cure the winter blues.
 
Stay Tuned!

Red

By John Logan
April 23 – May 19, 2013 
Previews start on Friday, April 19, 2013
Raw and electrifying, RED, John Logan’s sizzling play ignites the worlds of art and commerce.  Iconoclastic Mark Rothko, the misanthropic abstract-expressionist painter, confronts his decision to accept a lucrative commercial commission.  Extolling the virtues of his art as “expressing the big emotions – tragedy, ecstasy, and doom,” Rothko drills his new assistant about the dangers of selling out and as they work together, the roles of student and teacher reverse, forcing Rothko to face his own demons about reality and his ultimate place in the pantheon of great artists.  Winner of Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play and 6 Tony Awards®, including Best Play 2010.

Save the date!

  • On Monday, February 6, subscription renewals for the 2012-2013 season are available. Those renewing will be able to purchase tickets for This Wonderful Life before it goes on sale to the general public.
  • Early Bird Renewal Special February 6-19: Renew your subscription for Capital Rep and receive a ticket to Julius Caesar at Proctors on March 27th for only $10. Order forms must be postmarked by February 19th to receive this discount.
  • On Monday, March 19, subscriptions will be available for sale to the general public
  • On Thursday, May 10, single tickets to Ella will go on sale to the general public.

OFF SUBSCRIPTION: BUT SUBSCRIBERS CAN BUY TICKETS WITH THEIR RENEWAL!

This Wonderful Life

REGIONAL PREMIERE!
Adapted by Steve Murray (and Mark Setlock)
November 27 – December 16
Previews start Friday, November 23, 2012
All the pleasure of Frank Capra’s classic movie – in only 70 minutes!  Based on the film, here’s the story of George Bailey, the good guy who comes to see himself as others do while confronting terrible hardship at the hand of Mr. Potter.  You’ll meet the whole gang – Jimmy Stewart’s George Bailey, Donna Reed's Mary Hatch, town floozy Violet Bick and of course, Clarence, the endearing angel who needs wings. "It's A Wonderful Life" is an annual tradition, so bring the whole family to experience the iconic residents of Bedford Falls portrayed in a creative, tour de force performance!

CAPITAL REP AND PROCTORS COLLABORATION!

NEXT ACT! New Play Summit 

November 2, 3, 4
Subscribers get first chance to reserve limited tickets! This project represents the first true collaboration between Proctors & Capital Rep (acting together as producers?) as “producers.” Harnessing the strengths of both organizations, patrons will get the first look at what may become future productions! 
 
NEXT ACT features three play readings – two plays and one musical -- each affording opportunities to meet the artists. A great chance to be a real insider, meet the creative sources behind the curtain and to become part of the process by weighing in with your responses. NEXT ACT performances will take place at both Capital Rep and in the GE Theatre at Proctors. Subscribers will get first dibs on the chance to buy tickets -- which will be limited. All events will be $15/each and all include refreshments. Play titles to be announced.