Theatre--Performance: Season Schedule

CITÉ DES ARTS ANNOUNCES THEIR 2008 THEATRE SEASON
First off, we would like to announce the return of Duncan Thistlethwaite as the Artistic Director at Cité. Many of you know Duncan and have worked with him in the past.

February 21 – March 8 (Thursday – Saturday): DRIVING MISS DAISY, starring Jenny Felder, A.D. Dugar and Duncan Thistlethwaite. DRIVING MISS DAISYis a 1987 play by Alfred Uhry about the relationship that an elderly Southern Jewish lady shares with her African-American chauffeur, Hoke Colburn, over the span of several decades.

May 22 – June 7 (Thursday – Saturday): PROOF is a play by David Auburn. It won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play. The story concerns Catherine, the daughter of Robert, a recently deceased mathematical genius and professor at the University of Chicago, and her struggle with mathematical genius and mental illness. Catherine had cared for her father through a lengthy mental illness. Upon Robert's death, his ex-graduate student Hal discovers a paradigm-shifting proof about prime numbers in Robert's office. The title refers both to that proof and to the play's central question: Can Catherine prove the proof's authorship? Along with proving the proof, the daughter also finds herself in a relationship with 28-year-old Hal. Throughout, the play explores Catherine's fear of following in her father's footsteps, both mathematically and mentally.

September 4 – 20 (Thursday – Saturday): GREEZY SPOON
GREEZY SPOON is an original play written by local playwright, historian and musician, Austin Sonnier, Jr. This piece is a comedy set at the “Greezy Spoon”, a local diner and funeral parlor and introduces us to the characters that pass through those doors.

September/October
Beginning the end of September and alternating with Discoprodutions production of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW, through Halloween,Cité presents HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, a rock musical about a fictional rock and roll band fronted by an East German transgender singer. The text is by John Cameron Mitchell, and the music and lyrics are by Stephen Trask. The musical has been performed throughout the world in hundreds of stage productions and has slowly gathered a devoted cult following similar to that of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW.