Delaware
Theatre Company Announces 2006-2007 Season
50%
Off Friday Night Subscriptions for First-Time Subscribers
WILMINGTON,
DE – June 13, 2006 – Buckle
your seatbelts…Producing Director Anne Marie
Cammarato has announced Delaware Theatre Company’s 2006-2007
season, its 28th, and it promises to be a one of twists and turns. "Our
2006–2007
season line-up will thrill, excite, and challenge our audiences. There
are a few old favorites, a world
premiere musical, classic characters, and plays filled with imagination
and
heart. As we make our way through from
beginning to end, it truly is a season of twists and turns. I
hope everyone will join us.”
2006-2007
SEASON
THE
TURN OF THE SCREW
By
Jeffrey Hatcher, from
the story by Henry James
Directed
by Anne Marie Cammarato
October 18
– November 5, 2006
Previews:
October
18 – 20, 2006
Opening
Night: October
21, 2006
Get an extra dose of
Halloween chills with a Henry James classic.
A young governess is
caring for two rather odd
children on an isolated English estate when she begins seeing
apparitions. Are the phantoms real? Or
a product of an
overheated imagination?
A jump-out-of-your-seat thriller, seamlessly
adapted by
Jeffrey Hatcher (Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays With Morrie).
WORLD
PREMIERE!
SAM
COOKE: FOREVER MR. SOUL
Written
and directed by
Kevin Ramsey
December 6 – 24, 2006
Previews:
December
6 – 8, 2006
Opening
Night: December
9, 2006
Filled
with immortal Sam Cooke hits – including “You Send
Me,” “Chain Gang,”
“Cupid,”
and “Twisting the Night Away” – this
world-premiere musical about the life of a
legend is a sure-fire hit. Beginning with the gospel music that formed
the
foundation of Sam Cooke’s career, and spanning his success as
a pop star, it’s
pure magic from start to finish.
THE RETREAT
FROM MOSCOW
By
William Nicholson
Directed
by
David Stradley
January 24 – February 11, 2007
Previews:
January
24 – 26, 2007
Opening
Night: January
27, 2007
A
30-year-old son navigates the emotions of his parents’
separation after 33
years of marriage, creating
a spellbinding family portrait that
resonates long after the play is over. Nominated for the 2004 Tony Award®
for Best Play.
DRIVING
MISS DAISY
By
Alfred
Uhry
Directed
by Meredith McDonough
March 7 – 18, 2007
Previews:
March
7 – 9, 2007
Opening
Night: March
10, 2007
In
the racially-divided deep South, two proud people – a Jewish
widow and her
African-American driver – come to realize they have more in
common than the
times and circumstances would allow them to admit. A
humorous and heart-warming Pulitzer Prize-winning play that
became an Oscar-winning movie.
SHAKEPEARE'S
R & J
By
Joe
Calarco
Directed
by
Sanford Robbins
April 18 – May 6, 2007
Previews: April 18
– 20, 2007
Opening
Night: April
21, 2007
A
provocative twist restores the original elements of danger and intrigue
to the
Bard’s immortal classic. At a strict Catholic boys’
school, four students
stumble across a banned copy of Romeo
and
Juliet and secretly act
out the forbidden text.
In it, they discover a
world of beauty and excitement and unleash
a tidal wave of emotion for which they’re ill-prepared.
NEW
SUBSCRIPTION
PACKAGES!
Subscriptions to the 2006-2007 season are
currently
available and can be ordered by contacting the DTC Box Office at
302.594.1100
or online at www.delawaretheatre.org.
New packages available
this season include
an Introductory Subscription, Culture Vulture, and Girls Night Out. The
Introductory Subscription is a
deal of a lifetime: first-time subscribers can purchase a subscription
to any
Friday night series at 50%
off.
The Culture Vulture package offers a chance to experience a
selection of Wilmington’s cultural offerings, including three
DTC Flex Passes
(good toward any show), and one ticket to each of the following:
Delaware Art
Museum, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (DCCA), and Theatre
N,
Wilmington’s independent film cinema.
The Girls’ Night Out package allows girlfriends to get together
for drink specials and hors d’oeuvres at a local restaurant
and then head off
to DTC to enjoy a show.
Girls’ Night
Out subscribers are eligible to win one of four gift certificates to a
local
salon, as well as a grand prize drawing for a
“Girls’ Night Out on the Town”
package (one drawing per show).
SUBSCRIPTION
INFORMATION
| Subscription
packages: | $85.50
– $216 (on
sale now)
| | Single
tickets: | $28 –
$48
(on sale beginning July 3)
| | Group
sales: | Groups
10 or larger
receive discounts up to 40% off single tickets. Call
(302) 594-1104, ext. 202 for information on group sales.
| | Box
office: | Delaware
Theatre Company
200
Water Street
Wilmington,
DE 19801
(302)
594-1100
| | Online
orders: | www.delawaretheatre.org | | Credit
cards accepted: | American
Express, Visa, Mastercard, Discover
|
For
more information or to purchase tickets, contact the DTC Box Office at
(302)
594-1100 or visit our website: www.delawaretheatre.org Delaware Theatre
Company’s 2006-2007 season is sponsored by
JPMorgan Chase. Artist transportation provided by Amtrak. Programs are
made
possible, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts
and the
Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency committed to promoting
and
supporting the arts in Delaware. The
Delaware Division of the Arts provides technical and financial
assistance to
artists and arts programs and serves as a clearinghouse for information
on the
arts.
Delaware Theatre Company,
Delaware's
premier professional theatre, is located at 200 Water Street, on
Wilmington’s exciting Riverfront.
Delaware Theatre Company is a member of the League of Resident
Theatres,
Theatre Communications Group, the Arts Consortium of Delaware, the
Theatre
Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, the Greater Philadelphia Cultural
Alliance,
the Arts & Business Council of Greater Philadelphia, the New
Castle County
Chamber of Commerce, and the Wilmington Convention & Visitors
Bureau. #
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