2012-2013 Main Stage Season
Sly Fox
written by: Larry Gelbart
directed by: Søren Oliver
September 27 - October 20, 2012
Ah! Gold! "God" with an "L"!
Søren Oliver (Art, Twelfth Night) starts us off with the hilarious Sly Fox by Larry Gelbart (M*A*S*H, Tootsie). Fiendishly clever Foxwell J. Sly sets out to fleece the richest men in San Francisco's Barbary Coast by using their own greed against them.
It's a Wonderful Life
from the film by Frank Capra
adapted for the stage by James W. Rodgers
directed by: Lisa Anne Porter
November 29 - December 16, 2012
Remember, no man is a failure when he has friends.
Lisa Anne Porter (Proof, Picasso at the Lapin Agile) returns to direct the stage adaptation of Frank Capra's timeless classic It's a Wonderful Life. George Bailey, his life and finances in ruin, decides the world will be better off without him -- until he is paid an unexpected visit.
The Farnsworth Invention
written by: Aaron Sorkin
directed by: Joel Roster
February 7 - March 2, 2013
I don't think I stole television -- if I did, I did it fair and square.
Joel Roster, Town Hall's Director of Education, takes on The Farnsworth Invention by Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, The Social Network) which tells the story of Philo Farnsworth and his race to develop the most influential technological innovation of the 20th Century: Television.
Measure for Measure
written by: William Shakespeare
directed by: Chris Hayes
May 23 - June 15, 2013
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Chris Hayes, Town Hall's Technical Director, brings us to Shakespeare's Vienna in Measure for Measure. Here, the local government, feeling the populace has descended into moral decay and depravity, introduces a host of laws to control the behavior of its citizenry, with mixed results.