Season 24: Hope



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24th Season ~ Hope
Hope

Metropolitan is the Obie Award winning theater
"helping us see, theatrically, where we’ve been and where we are."

We devote the 24th Mainstage Season to plays about Hope--emotional, political, cultural.
If America is grand experiment, how're we doing?

4 Plays ~ The TranscendentalFest ~ The East Village Festival ~ Concerts and Special Events

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~ Fall 2015 ~

The Awful Truth
by Arthur Richman
(1921)

September 18 - October 18

The Triumph of Hope Over Experience...

Before she can remarry, New York socialite Lucy Warriner must stifle an ugly rumor:
that her first husband divorced her because she had an affair.
So whom does she enlist to assure her new fiancé of her innocence?
That very ex-husband, of course.

But he and she don't necessarily agree on the facts of the case,
and in disputing the details of history, they uncover just one obvious truth:
they are only more in love now than they were then.

With both wry wit and innocent warmth, a play that asks
what chance friendship, love, or marriage could ever have
if they depend on knowing
THE AWFUL TRUTH.

THE AWFUL TRUTH September 18 - October 18, 2015
Sun	Mon	Tues	Weds	Thurs	Fri	Sat
					18 7:30	19 7:30
20 3:00	21 7:30			24 7:30	25 7:30	26 7:30
27 3:00				1 7:30	4 7:30	3 7:30
4 3:00			7 3:00	8 7:30	9 7:30	10 3:00 7:30
11 3:00			14 3:00	15 7:30	16 7:30	17 3:00 7:30
18 3:00

A Stage Struck
Sampler
Guest performance
by The Society for the Preservation of Theatrical History

Four legendary women share their personal stories--the triumphs and struggles of their lives on stage.
Clara Morris, Alla Nazimova
Katharine Hepburn, Eartha Kitt

One night only

Tuesday, October 13
7:30 pm

Alison's House
by Susan Glaspell
Winner of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize

In honor of the 100th anniversary
of the founding of
The Provincetown Players

November 13 - December 13, 2015

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the founding of
The Provincetown Playhouse

"Hope is the thing with feathers..."

Inspired by the life and reputation of Emily Dickinson, Susan Glaspell's play of a family struggling with how to celebrate and protect the legacy of a famous but famously reclusive ancestor won the Pulitzer Prize in 1931.

When the home of late poet Alison Stanhope is to be sold, some of her heirs will risk the house and those within it to keep secrets it holds from being discovered. Is the life of the poet also part of her work? Does a poet's voice belong to her family or to the world?

The hopes of the living, the hopes of the departed, and the life of hope itself are all contained in ALISON'S HOUSE.

ALISON'S HOUSE November 13 - December 13, 2015
Sun	Mon	Tues	Weds	Thurs	Fri	Sat
					13 7:30	14 7:30
15 3:00	16 7:30			19 7:30	20 7:30	21 7:30
22 3:00					27 7:30	28 3:00 7:30
29 3:00			2 3:00	3 7:30	4 7:30	5 3:00 7:30
6 3:00			9 3:00	10 7:30	11 7:30	12 3:00 7:30
13 3:00

~ January 2016 ~

TranscendentalFest

(Pass holders receive 20% off admission to these events.)

A festival of Guest Companies,
celebrating the most hopeful of American writers and thinkers:
The Transcendentalists

Submissions currently being accepted;
Schedule to be determined

Time to get MetroPhysical

TranscendentalFest - Living Literature January 2016
Sun	Mon	Tues	Weds	Thurs	Fri	Sat
	11 7:30	12 7:30	13 7:30	14 7:30	15 7:30 9:30	16 1:00 4:00 7:30
17 1:00 4:00 7:30	18 7:30	19 7:30	20 7:30	21 7:30	22 7:30 9:30	23 1:00 4:00 7:30
24 1:00 4:00 7:30

~ Spring 2016 ~

Walk Hard
by Abram Hill
(1939)

February 19 - March 20, 2016

What's worth the fight?

A bright young man with quick fists is given the shot to be a champion boxer... if he is willing to accept the racist rules that govern America of the 1930's.

A play from the founder of the
American Negro Theater.

Walk Hard February 19 - March 20, 2016
Sun	Mon	Tues	Weds	Thurs	Fri	Sat
					19 7:30	20 7:30
21 3:00	22 7:30			25 7:30	26 7:30	27 7:30
28 3:00				3 7:30	4 7:30	5 7:30
6 3:00			9 3:00	10 7:30	11 7:30	12 3:00 7:30
13 3:00			16 3:00	17 7:30	18 7:30	19 3:00 7:30
20 3:00

7th Annual
East Village Theater Festival

East Side Stories
April 11 - May 1, 2016

(Pass holders receive 20% off admission to these events.)

4 evenings of ALL NEW one-act plays inspired by the life and lore of the Lower East Side.

EAST SIDE STORIES return April 11 - May 1, 2015
Sun	Mon	Tues	Weds	Thurs	Fri	Sat
	11	12 7:00	13 7:00	14 7:00	15 7:00	16 1:00 4:00 7:00
17 1:00 4:00 7:00	18 7:00	19 7:00	20 7:00	21 7:00	22 7:30	23 1:00 4:00 7:00
24 1:00 4:00 7:00	25 7:00	26 7:00	27 7:00	28 7:00	29 7:30	30 1:00 4:00 7:00
1 1:00 4:00 7:00

O'NEILL (Unexpected)
2 early plays by Eugene O'Neill

June 3 - 26, 2016

Surprise.

"Recklessness"

-a dark tale of sweet revenge

"Now I Ask You"

-a light comedy of social folly

O'NEILL (Unexpected) June 3 - 26, 2016
Sun	Mon	Tues	Weds	Thurs	Fri	Sat
					3 7:30	4 7:30
5 3:00	6 7:30			9 7:30	10 7:30	11 3:00 7:30
12 3:00			15 3:00	16 7:30	17 7:30	18 3:00 7:30
19 3:00			22 3:00	23 7:30	24 7:30	25 3:00 7:30
26 3:00

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