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Songs and Writings by Woody Guthrie
Conceived and Adapted by Peter Glazer

Stage 3 swings into our 2008 Season with the foot-stompin', roof-raisin', toe-tappin' heart-breakin', soul-soarin' musical journey of Woody Guthrie down highways, rail lines and back roads straight into the heart of America. An exuberant musical celebration of America, "Woody Guthrie's American Song" tells the life of the rambling folk singer through his words and music. From the dust storms of Texas to the promised land of California to the streets of New York City, Guthrie spins the tale of the land that 'was made for you and me'.

This evening of homespun wisdom, gentle humor and majestic music will have you leaving the theater with not only a song in your heart, but refreshed and invigorated with Guthrie's own sense of tolerance and optimism.

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by Robert Harling

Both wisecracking and wise, this group of ladies in a small-town beauty parlor take Stage 3 by storm in a play that is alternately hilarious and touching–and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the banter of its characters.

In Truvy's beauty salon, 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 a p-a passel of the town's most delightfully colorful characters. When one of them risks a dangerous pregnancy, 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. Don't Miss it!

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by John Patrick Stanley

This important work won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Obie and Tony Awards and was voted Best Play by the New York Drama Critics' Circle. From the author of 'Moonstruck', this quiet and deceptively simple story of two nuns and a priest gathers a dramatic force that has audiences gasping.

"What do you do when you're not sure?" Father Flynn asks the audience in the opening line of this play, setting the stage for a story of suspicion and moral certainty. The year is 1964 and Flynn is under a vague suspicion of 'interfering' with one of the boys at St. Nicholas school. What follows is a verbal and psychological cat and mouse game involving Sister Aloysius and Sister James, one tough, wily and unyielding and one eager to believe in the basic goodness and honesty of human beings. These three lead us through a labyrinth of evidence and innuendo worthy of the greatest courtroom dramas Join us for this superb intellectual and emotional chess match and see what all the 'Doubt' is about.

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by Alfred Uhry

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play. Stage 3 presents this lovely tale of acceptance, tolerance and respect.

The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Wertham, must rely on the services of a chauffeur, an unemployed black man, Hoke, whom Miss Daisy immediately regards with disdain and who, in turn, is not impressed with his employer's patronizing tone and, he believes, her latent prejudice. But, in a series of absorbing scenes spanning twenty-five years, the two, despite their mutual differences, grow ever closer to, and more dependent on, each other, until, eventually, they become almost a couple. They both come to realize they have more in common than they ever believed possible–and that times and circumstances would ever allow them to publicly admit.

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by Herb Gardner

An offbeat comedy about love, family and hope featuring one of the funniest non-conformists of the stage. Murray Burns is an unemployed children's TV writer who has found himself raising his sister's son when she went out for a pack of cigarettes and never returned. This unlikely arrangement has worked for the last 7 years until Social Services finally decides to pay a call. What happens next threatens to destroy the only home the child has known and break up the happy home. "A Thousand Clowns" is a delightfully warm screwball comedy certain to cheer up everyone's holiday season.