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WHITE PEOPLE
By J.T. Rogers
Directed by ensemble member Michael Patrick Thornton
Assistant directed by ensemble member Daniel J. Ahlfeld
Featuring ensemble members John Kelly Connolly and Paul D’Addario, with Anna Carini

Runs: January 3 – March 1, 2008

Three characters wrestle with racism--America’s and theirs--in a series of searing confessional monologues. Winner of the L.A. Drama Critics Circle and Barrymore Award nominee for best play of the year.

 

THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT
By Steven Adly Guirgis
Directed by Kevin Fox
Feauturing ensemble members Daniel J. Ahlfeld, John Kelly Connolly, Paul D’Addario, Kenny Mihlfried, and Michael Patrick Thornton

Runs: March 20 – May 4, 2008

Jesus’ infamous betrayer is on trial in Hope, a small section of Purgatory, in this wild, brilliant, and beautiful farce in which Satan takes the stand and everyone’s to blame.

 

W;T
By Margaret Edson
Directed by ensemble member John Gawlik

Runs: May 29 – July 27, 2008

Dr. Vivian Bearing is a professor of literature, single, and dying from cancer in this gorgeous 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning meditation on life, death, and the beyond.

 

T.B.A
Directed by Gift ensemble member Sheldon Patinkin

Runs: August 2008

The final production of The Gift’s 2008 season will be announced soon.

 

 
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