THE 2008-2009 SEASON

From turn-of-the-century New York to the lush gardens of Europe to the Kaiser's Germany, our 2007-2008 season will take you on journeys of mind and imagination. We welcome you to our 74th season! To purchase tickets, click the appropriate link below. Theatre Members, LTA Council Members, and those seeking Opening Night Party tickets should contact the LTA Box Office directly during regular business hours (703) 683-0496
The Underpants
June 7 – 28, 2008
Written by: Carl Sternheim
Adapted by: Steve Martin
Directed by: Eddie Schwartz
Produced by: Marian Holmes and Russell Wyland


    Theodore Maske has an unusual problem: his wife's underpants won't stay up! When they accidentally fall down in front of the Kaiser, Theo swears to keep his bride at home until the incident is forgotten. Amid this chaos, he’s trying to rent a room in their flat, but is the room the only thing the prospective lodgers have in mind?
1776
July 26 – August 23, 2008

Book by: Peter Stone
Music and Lyrics by Sherman Edwards


    Take a front-row seat to history-making theater as LTA launches its 75th Season with our signature show, the 1969 Tony Award-winning musical 1776. Often humorous, frequently touching, and always entertaining, the public events and personal struggles that lead the Continental Congress to forge a new nation are recreated, making you a witness to history. A perfect start for our Diamond Jubilee Season!
Picnic
September 20 – October 11, 2008

By William Inge


    What starts as another ordinary Labor Day picnic to celebrate the end of another ordinary summer turns into a life-changing event for a group of women in a small, mid-western town as Madge, the local beauty, must decide between two men: Allen, who offers wealth and security, or Hal, who offers love and uncertainty. This powerful summer romance won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Scrooge! The Musical
November 22 – December 21, 2008

Book, Music, and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse

    Ebenezer Scrooge and the entire Cratchit family are recast in this fanciful musical retelling of Dickens’s classic. This musical transports the audience to Victorian England for Christmas Eve visits by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future who transform the miserly, heartless Scrooge. No longer just for children, LTA is pleased to offer this holiday treat to kids of all ages.
NOTE:
Please note this is a 7:30PM performance, Wednesday to Saturday, and a 3:00PM perfomance on Sundays.
Greater Tuna
January 10 – 31, 2009

By Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard

    Welcome to Greater Tuna, the third smallest town in Texas, where the Lion's Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies. In this hilarious send up of small town life, two actors create the entire population of Tuna in a "tour de farce" of quick changes and of comic characterizations. There’s nothing like a serving of "tuna" to cure those January blues!
Leading Ladies
February 21 – March 14, 2009

By Ken Ludwig

    Jack and Leo, two down-on-their-luck, classically trained Shakespearean actors, are reduced to playing Moose Lodges in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. Things look up for the pair when a local heiress dies leaving all her money to two “distant” English relatives. The two thespians plan to deceive the estate and play the long-lost heirs, but to get the money, Jack and Leo must give the performances of a lifetime! Another hilarious offering from local playwright, Ken Ludwig.
Gross Indecency:
The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
April 18 – May 9, 2009

By Moises Kaufman

    Within three short months, Oscar Wilde went from being the toast of Victorian Society to the defendant in the crime of the century. What events can lead from a life of fame and fortune to hard labor in prison, and ultimately to an early death? What hubris can be so strong? What love, so unspeakable? A "totally engrossing…edge-of-the-seat legal thriller" based on the actual trials of Oscar Wilde.
It Runs in the Family
June 6 – 27, 2009

By Ray Cooney

    As the staff of a London hospital prepare for the annual Christmas show, Dr. Mortimore prepares a lecture that is sure to guarantee him knighthood and much needed funds. All goes well until a nurse, with whom the doctor had an affair over eighteen years ago, shows up with a present of her own! Crashing wheelchairs, squirting seltzer bottles, doctors in drag, and window-ledge wrestling matches ensue. The perfect thank you gift to our audience as LTA concludes its 75th Season.
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Box Office: 703-683-0496
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