Monday, June 10, 2019

Scottsdale Desert Stages Theatre's 2019-2020 Actor's Cafe shows!

Desert Stages is excited to announce their 2019-2020 Actor's Cafe Season!

Tickets will be on sale soon. Stay tuned for Youth/Teen Show and Main Stage Announcements!

Puffs
August 16 - September 29, 2019
Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2:00pm

By Matt Cox
Directed by Dan Ashlock Jr.

For seven years a certain boy wizard went to a certain Wizard School and conquered evil. This, however, is not his story. This is the story of the Puffs... who just happened to be there too. A tale for anyone who has never been destined to save the world.

Puffs is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC


Oleanna
October 11 - November 17, 2019
Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2:00pm

By David Mamet
Directed by Virginia Olivieri

A college student, Carol, drops by her professor's office in an effort to gain his help to do better in class. John, the professor, in the midst of buying a house to celebrate his nomination for tenure, at first seems distant. As the first meeting progresses the two discuss the nature of understanding and judgment in society, as well as their very own natures and places in our society. It seems as if a bond has been made. When next they meet we find that a report has been filed to the tenure committee. Carol has joined a "group" and has decided that John sexually harassed her during their first meeting. Their second meeting dissects the first; every word, every nuance of the first meeting has been twisted into something else. Or has it? John's unsuccessful attempts to convince Carol to retract her accusation escalates to a more dangerous level. The third meeting, one the court officers warned against, climaxes violently, leaving John and Carol both physically and emotionally devastated.

Oleanna is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.


A Christmas Story The Play
November 29 - December 22, 2019
Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2:00pm

By Philip Grecian. Based on the motion picture A Christmas Story, © 1983 Turner Entertainment Co., distributed by Warner Bros., written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; and on the book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd

Directed by Rick Davis

Humorist Jean Shepherd’s memoir of growing up in the midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself, at Higbee’s Department Store. The consistent response: “You’ll shoot your eye out!” All the elements from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family’s temperamental exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the school bully; the boys’ experiment with a wet tongue on a cold lamppost; the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin; Ralphie’s father winning a lamp shaped like a woman’s leg in a net stocking; Ralphie’s fantasy scenarios and more. A Christmas Story is destined to become a theatrical holiday perennial.


Murder on the Nile
January 10 - February 23, 2020
Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2:00pm

By Agatha Christie
Directed by Mark-Alan C. Clemente

Kay Ridgeway has led a charmed life. Blessed with beauty, enormous wealth, and a new husband, she embarks on a honeymoon voyage down the Nile. Fatal circumstances await when the idyllic surroundings are shattered by a shocking and brutal murder. Under scrutiny is a multitude of memorable passengers, all with a reason to kill. The tension and claustrophobia builds, as a shocking and audacious conspiracy is laid bare.

Murder of the Nile is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC


Jake’s Women
March 13 - April 26, 2020
Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2:00pm

By Neil Simon
Directed by Janis Webb

Jake, a novelist who is more successful with fiction that with life, faces a marital crisis by daydreaming about the women in his life. The wildly comic and sometimes moving flashbacks played in his mind are interrupted by visitations from actual females. Jake's women include a revered first wife who was killed years earlier in an accident, his daughter who is recalled as a child but is now a young woman, his boisterous and bossy sister, an opinionated analyst, his current wife who is leaving Jake for another man, and a prospective third wife. Jake and his women definitely deliver.

Jake’s Women is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC


Steel Magnolias
May 8 - June 14, 2020
Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2:00pm

By Robert Harling
Directed by KatiBelle Collins

The action is set in Truvy's beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are "anybody" come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle (who is not sure whether or not she is still married), the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to the town's rich curmudgeon, Ouiser, ("I'm not crazy, I've just been in a bad mood for forty years"); an eccentric millionaire, Miss Clairee, who has a raging sweet tooth; and the local social leader, M'Lynn, whose daughter, Shelby (the prettiest girl in town), is about to marry a "good ole boy." Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play moves toward tragedy when, in the second act, the spunky Shelby (who is a diabetic) risks pregnancy and forfeits her life. The sudden realization of their mortality affects the others, but also draws on the underlying strength—and love—which give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.

Steel Magnolias is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.


Bell, Book and Candle
June 26 - August 9, 2020
Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2:00pm

by John Van Druten
Directed by Rick Davis

Gillian Holroyd is one of the few modern people who can actually cast spells and perform feats of supernaturalism. She casts a spell over an unattached publisher, Shepherd Henderson, partly to keep him away from a rival and partly because she is attracted to him. He falls head over heels in love with her at once and wants to marry her. But witches, unfortunately, cannot fall in love, and this minute imperfection leads into a number of difficulties. Ultimately, the lady breaks off with her companions in witchery, preferring the normal and human love offered her by the attractive publisher. But before the happy conclusion of the romance, Gillian comes very near to losing him—but doesn't.

Bell, Book, and Candle is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC

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