PACIFIC RESIDENT THEATRE

The PRT 2009 Season starts May 2009 with Wild Boy, a developmental production of a new play by Oliver Goldstick. This limited run is available to PRT SUBSCRIBERS AND INVITED GUESTS ONLY! This brightly funny and insightful play takes a simultaneous look at raising a special child in today's times and at raising a wild child in the court of George I in the 1700's!

If you have any further questions about how our Subscription works, please call our Box Office at 310-822-8392.

We are currently considering 4 plays on our list for our 2009 season. In order to ensure the quality of our shows and to present the best season possible, we pick each show as the season progresses. Our shows runs a minimum of 8 --12 weeks. When a show is ready to open Subscribers receive notification approx 3 weeks in advance (via postcard and email). Subscribers know they then have at least 8 weeks to make a reservation to see the production.

The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan: Rattigan's 1949 masterpiece about a schoolmaster who has to give up his 18 year post at an English public school is "one of the most beautiful plays ever written." The Guardian

The Judas Kiss LA Premiere! by David Hare: Last seen on Broadway, this vivid account of Oscar Wilde's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, lays bare what may have happened behind closed doors between these two famous lovers.

Paradise Lost by Clifford Odets: One of Odets' greatest plays. It traces a Jewish American Family through the Great Depression. "Odets' most bril-iant writing, it gushes with joy and aches with melancholy." Harold Clurman

Liliom by Ferenc Molnar: Molnar's great play about a handsome, bully's redemption. The play that inspired the musical Carousel.

A Steinbeck Surprise!: A new adaptation of one of Steinbeck's most beloved novels. Rights are pending so we can't print the title, but this Nobel Prize winner contains Steinbeck's greatest theme - that humanity and love make goodness and happiness possible.

The Waltz of the Toreadors by Jean Anouilh: One of Anouilh's great works. A hilarious comedy with sparkling husband and wife tug-of-wars, elusive truths and spiritual candor.

Uncle Vanya/The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov: We are looking at doing one of these two great Chekhov plays or doing both in repertory.

Seascape by Edward Albee: This Pulitzer Prize winning play wonders whether we are an evolving species or perhaps a devolving one. Brilliant and funny.

A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller: The tale of Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman who has never recognized his true feelings about his life and his own heart. An intensely powerful, psychosexual tragedy.

Memory House LA Premiere by Kathleen Tolan: A mother bakes a pie as her daughter tries to finish her college essay. A beautifully moving play about the hard work that goes into good mothering.

Diana of Dobson's by Cicely Hamilton: A rare find! A Shavian comedy about a young woman who works for slave wages in a drapery factory. When she comes into a small inheritance she decides to spend it all on one month of really living!

PRT Playwrights Premiere: We are developing another World Premiere in our PRT writer's unit!!

The Enchanted by Jean Giraudoux: A masterfully comic examination of heavenly and and earthly love with an original musical score.

The Voysey Inheritance by Harley Granville Barker: In this highly enjoyable play, a son's highly principled world is turned upside down when his father reveals that he has been illegally specu-lating with clients' money. Unbelievably timely!

Plays in consideration for Readings / Productions: The Homecoming by Harold Pinter, The Daughter-in-Law by D.H. Lawrence, Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman, The Old Lady Shows Her Medals by J.M. Barrie, Home by David Story, Ballad of the Sad Café by Edward Albee, Major Barbara by G.B. Shaw, and A New Musical based on one of the most remarkable classic novels of all time!