Rose State College 2009-2010 Theatre Season

I Hate Hamlet   by Paul Rudnick
October 8-10, 2009  at 7:30 pm Atkinson Theatre
Sunday Oct. 11 at 2pm

A young and successful television actor relocates to New York, where he rents a marvelous, gothic apartment. With his television career in limbo, the actor is offered the opportunity to play Hamlet onstage, but there's one problem: He hates Hamlet. His dilemma deepens with the entrance of John Barrymore's ghost, who arrives intoxicated and in full costume to the apartment that once was his. The contrast between the two actors, the towering, dissipated Barrymore whose Hamlet was the greatest of his time, and Andrew Rally, hot young television star, leads to a wildly funny duel over women, art, success, duty, television, and yes, the apartment. "…fast-mouthed and funny…It has the old-fashioned Broadway virtues of brightness without pretensions and sentimentality without morals." —Village Voice. "…unapologetically silly and at times hilarious…affectionately amusing about the theatre…" —NY Times.

Rated PG-13

Fiddler on the Roof
RSC Performing Arts Theatre  November 13,14 at 7:30pm  2009
Sunday Nov. 15 at 2pm

Book by  Joseph Stein
Music by  Jerry Bock
Lyrics by  Sheldon Harnick
Based on Sholom Aleichem's stories by special permission of Arnold Perl


In the little village of Anatevka, Tevye, a poor dairyman, tries to instill in his five daughters the traditions of his tight-knit Jewish community in the face of changing social mores and the growing anti-Semitism of Czarist Russia.

Rich in historical and ethnic detail, “Fiddler On The Roof” has touched audiences around the world with its humor, warmth and honesty. It's universal theme of tradition cuts across barriers of race, class, nationality and religion, leaving audiences crying tears of laughter, joy and sadness.

For all audiences

A Midsummer Night’s Dream       by William Shakespeare
February 11-13 and 19 and 20 at 7:30 pm  (School Matinee at 10:00 am, Friday Feb. 19)
Sunday the 14th and 21st at 2pm.   Atkinson Theatre
Occasionally referred to as Shakespeare's perfect play, A Midsummer Night's Dream delights audiences with some of The Bard's most memorable and engaging characters–Puck and Bottom–as well as royal fairies, desperate young lovers, “rude mechanicals” and attending fairies with quaint names of Mustardseed, Peaseblossom, Cobweb and Moth.
At the outset of the play, quarrels among the mortals in Athens' court and between the forest's Fairy King Oberon and his Queen Titania are causing havoc. Young lovers flee the Court in order to seek happiness together, and find their love strangely twisted by Puck's fairy madness.
For all audiences

Short and Sweet: A Ten-Minute Play Festival
April 22-24 at 7:30 pm, 2010  Atkinson Theatre
Sunday April. 25 at 2pm

An evening of ten-minute plays.  Some comedy, some drama, something for all!  Directed and performed by RSC students,  faculty and staff. 

For Mature Audiences

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Please contact rnelson@rose.edu
Rick Nelson, Professor of Theatre
6420 SE 15th Street
Midwest City, OK 73110
(405) 736-0364

For information and reservations for Dinner Theatre, please contact the Office of Special Events at 736-0313, or by email to Lisa Price at lprice@rose.edu.