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Thursday, August 18, 2011

WOMEN’S THEATER COMPANY ANNOUNCES 2011-2012 SEASON

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Shows run Fridays and Saturdays @ 8 PM, Sundays @ 3 PM
WHERE:
Parsippany Playhouse, 1130 Knoll Road, Parsippany; Click HERE for directions
TICKETS: $20 regular and $18 senior
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Subscription Rates for 4 SHOWS: Standard $72 (Single show price $20); Seniors $64 (Single show price $18)
Box Office: 973.316.3033 ext. 1

ROMANCE, ROMANCE
A musical with book & lyrics by Barry Harman and music by Keith Herrmann. Tony nominated 1988 Best Musical
WHEN: September 23 - October 9, 2011
The show is comprised of two acts linked by the common theme of love!

CRIMES OF THE HEART
By Beth Henley
A comedy and Pulitzer Prize Winner 1981
WHEN: November 18 - December 4, 2011
At the core of the comedy are the three Magrath sisters, who reunite at old Granddaddy's home in Mississippi after the youngest shoots her abusive husband.

THE LAST FIVE YEARS
By Jason Robert Brown
WHEN: March 2 - March 18, 2012
A one-act musical that explores a five-year relationship between Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist, and Cathy Hyatt, a struggling actress.

SOUTHERN COMFORTS
By Kathleen Clark (the same playwright who wrote Secrets of a Soccer Mom)WHEN: May 4 - May 20, 2012
Few couples on the verge of cohabitation can avoid the fraught moving-van negotiation: how much & precisely whose stuff will fill it. Pondering whether 2 retirement-age newlyweds can live in peace.

And an additional special world premiere event:

THE ANTHRAX CASE
By Jewel Seahaus Fisher
A new play from the author of Fanny & Walt and My Sister Underground
WHEN: June 8 - June 23, 2012
Charlotte Hauser, a professor of cell biology, is reluctantly pulled into cooperation with the FBI when her closest friend and former mentor, Harry Rabin, has been named a "Person of Interest" in the mailing of the anthrax letters that killed half a dozen people and injured many more. This play is based on historical evidence.