Since we don’t have a playhouse of our own, here’s this season’s offerings from the Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre (44 College Street, Mars Hill ).  Tickets start at $25 for single shows, or they have season passes starting at $130. The box office phone number is 689-1239.  More info and ticket information available on their website:

FUNNY GIRL
June 3 – 14
produced by Weaverville Eye Associates
Tony-Award Winning Musical
Semi-biographical musical based on the life and career of Broadway and film star and comedienne Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein.

BIG CRIMINALS
June 17 – June 28
A new comedy by Steve Wisniewski
A World Premiere production and Winner of SART’s 27th annual ScriptFEST playwright’s festival of October 2008.
Three desperate men plan a kidnapping, never realizing that their jobs as school crossing guards haven’t quite prepared them for a life of crime.

DEATH OF A SALESMAN
July 1 – 12
Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning masterpiece

BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS
July 15 – 26
Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy
Part One of the “Eugene Trilogy” which includes Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound

HOME AGAIN
July 29 – August 9
a World Premiere by William Gregg and Perry Deane Young
A SART Heritage Series production about Thomas Wolfe from the time he wrote Look Homeward Angel until his untimely death at the age of 37.

THE FOREIGNER
August 12 – 23
produced by Asheville Savings Bank
A Southern Comedy of Manners by Larry Shue
At a fishing lodge in rural Georgia, things are not what they seem to be in this hilarious farce of absurd situations and homespun American characters!

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