THE 2009-2010 SEASON

Our 2009-2010 season will transport you across time and place on our journey.

To purchase tickets, click the link below. Theater members, LTA Council Members, and those seeking Opening Night Party Tickets should contact the LTA Box Office directly during business hours 703-683-0496.
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.
UPCOMING 2009 - 2010 SEASON
GYPSY
July 25 – August 15, 2009

By: Arthur Laurents
Music and Lyrics by: Stephen Sondheim and Jule Styne
Directed by: Joanna Henry
Produced by: Margaret Evans-Joyce, Rance Willis, and Sharon Field

    This backstage tale of vaudeville entertainer-turned-stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and her overbearing mother Rose is a classic. Join Rose, June and Louise in their trip across the United States during the 1920's. Gypsy is a gripping roadmap of the obsessions that draw people into show business and keep them there. Jule Styne's music and Stephen Sondheim's lyrics include "Let Me Entertain You," "Everything’s Coming Up Roses,"Small World," and "You'll Never Get Away from Me.”
THE FOREIGNER
September 12 – October 3, 2009

By: Larry Shue
Directed by: Frank Pasqualino
Produced by: Rachel Alberts and Michele Bell



    Meet Charlie, a tremendously shy Englishman who has a pathological fear of speaking to strangers. When his friend invites him to a fishing lodge for a getaway, Charlie pretends to be a foreigner who cannot understand English in order to keep him from facing his fear of strangers. Taking advantage of the fact that he won't understand, those at the lodge confide in him. Charlie discovers not all is what is seems and he must find a way to save the day without blowing his cover. In this hilarious farce.
ART OF MURDER
October 31 – November 21, 2009

By: Joe DiPietro
Directed by: C. Evans Kirk
Produced by: Kevin O'Dowd and Robin Parker



    "Everyone who's ever met Jack has thought about killing him." Peek into the New York art world where greed and vengeance play with the sanity and lives of everyone involved. Meet Jack, the eccentric painter, Vincent, his art dealer, and Anne, the reluctant wife. Plot twists and turns will have you guessing who is to be murdered and who is the murderer. Winner of the 2000 Edgar Award Winner for Best Mystery Play. Join us for this suspenseful thriller gone awry.
PLAID TIDINGS
December 3 – 20, 2009

Directed by: Melissa Mock
Produced by: Mary Beth Smith-Toomey



    The Ghosts of Crooners Past are back! Frankie, Sparky, Jinx, and Smudge – the charming plaid-clad quartet from Forever Plaid – are transported back from the cosmos to stage a nostalgic holiday party for world-weary Earth mortals. As ordered by a heavenly phone call from Rosemary Clooney, the boys blend their tight harmonic renditions of '50s and '60s musical hits.
 NOTE:
Please note this is a 7:30PM performance, Wednesday to Saturday, and a 3:00PM perfomance on Sundays.
DOG SEES GOD
November 27 – December, 19, 2009

Directed by: William D. Parker
Produced by: Jennifer Lyman



    Have you ever wondered what happened to Charlie Brown and the gang? Take a look at LTA's latest late-night offering - a dark parody about the beloved Peanuts characters that places them 10 years in the future, smack dab in the middle of high school, with all its issues and perils.


NOTE:
Please note this is a 10:00PM performance. This show contains references to drug use, sex, and other sensitive topics. It is not recommended for children.
SCAPINO!
January 16 – February 6, 2010

By: Frank Dunlop and Jim Dale
Directed by: Rick Hayes
Produced by: Carol Strachan



    Two young men are left by their miserly fathers in the care of two not-so-attentive servants fall in love, with disastrous results. Upon the fathers' return, all hopes, eyes, and gratuitous culinary items are directed toward Scapino to sort out the mess. Scapino! has everything you want in a comedy: wily servants outsmarting their masters; young lovers kept apart by their parents; misers who do anything to hold on to their money; gypsies; chase scenes; mistaken identities; and more!
CHICAGO
February 27 – March 20, 2010

Music by: John Kander
Lyrics and book by: Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse
Directed by: Susan Devine
Produced by: Marian Holmes and Eddie Page


...pending availability
(Tickets onsale TBD)
    Follow the story of two women – Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly – who are engaged in a continual game of one-upsmanship as they try to plan their futures – from behind bars! They plot and scheme, they sing and dance, they use their considerable charms to sway public opinion in their favor. Based on the 1926 play by a reporter about actual criminals and crimes. See the musical that holds the record for Broadway's longest-running revival and inspired the Academy Award-winning movie!
LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN
April 24 – May 15, 2010

By: Oscar Wilde
Directed by: Steven Scott Mazzola
Produced by: Dick Schwab and Donna Reynolds



    Oscar Wilde's play about infidelity, misunderstandings, and deception and honor centers around the arrival of a mysterious woman hoping to break into London's society. Lady Windermere learns from a friend that Lord Windermere is spending a great deal of time with a Mrs. Erlynne, and, fearing that he is being unfaithful to her, Lady Windermere decides to escape their ruined marriage. Join us for Wilde's first great stage success, a biting satire on the morals and manners of Victorian England.
BOEING-BOEING
June 5 – June 26, 2010

By: Marc Camoletti
Directed by: Ellen Dempsey
Produced by: Jamie Blake


...pending availability
(Tickets onsale TBD)
    Bernard, a successful architect, has three fiancées. How? They are all flight attendants with different flight schedules! With his housekeeper's help, Bernard is able to ensure each lady that she is the only one. Unfortunately for Bernard, a new, faster Boeing jet has been introduced, altering his carefully planned timetable. Bernard's troubles begin in keeping up with his lies and schedules, and complications arise when the girls' behavior does not match Bernard's careful planning.
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