The Season

A new play by Neil Labute kicks off the 2011-12 season. Fresh of a successful Broadway run, Reasons to be Pretty is the story of Greg and Steph, a young couple on a collision course with marriage. All is fine until Greg is overheard commenting on some of Steph's physical imperfections. What ensues is a sometimes comedic, sometimes painful look at the difficulty of young love. In typical Labute fashion, Reasons to be Pretty captures the natural rhythms and beauty of everyday speech, while laying bare some of the most unattractive elements of human nature.

REASONS TO BE PRETTY is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York

"Mr. LaBute is writing some of the freshest and most illuminating American dialogue to be heard anywhere these days." —NY Times. "No contemporary writer has more astutely captured the brutality in everyday conversation and behavior: That kind of insight requires sensitivity and soul-searching." —USA Today. "It is tight, tense and emotionally true, and it portrays characters who actually seem part of the world that the rest of us live in." —Time Magazine. "The playwright delivers the goods, in a work that's lively and compulsively watchable and that offers a fresh take on the eternal matter of achieving adulthood." —The Record.

THE STORY: A love story about the impossibility of love, REASONS TO BE PRETTY introduces us to Greg, who really, truly adores his girlfriend, Steph. Unfortunately, he also thinks she has a few physical imperfections, and when he casually mentions them, all hell breaks loose. A hopelessly romantic drama about the hopelessness of romance, REASONS TO BE PRETTY is a gorgeous play.

-From the Dramatists website -

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in the Lab Theatre.

$10 General Admission, $8 Randolph College Faculty/Staff/Alumni
$8 Adults over 60, $5 all students
(Donations accepted toward the Sock & Buskin scholarship fund.)

Spring Awakening is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).  All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY  10019. Phone: 212-541-4684. Fax: 212-397-4684. www.MTIShows.com.

Winner of 8 TONY Awards, including BEST MUSICAL, SPRING AWAKENING celebrates the unforgettable journey from youth to adulthood with a power, poignancy, and passion that you will never forget.

-From the MTI website -

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in Thoresen Theatre.

$13 General Admission, $10 Randolph College Faculty/Staff/Alumni,
$10 Adults over 60, $5 all students
(Donations accepted toward the Sock & Buskin scholarship fund.)

Shakespeare returns to Randolph with his timeless classic, A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Wildcat version will steams things up as we transport the story to Carnival in Brazil. You'll feel the heat as Oberon and Titania squabble, Puck plays his pranks, and the young lovers stumble and bumble their way to true love. The WildCat production will weave its spell of sensuality and evoke the rhythms of Carnival.

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in Thoresen Theatre.

$10 General Admission, $8 Randolph College Faculty/Staff/Alumni,
$8 Adults over 60, $5 all students
(Donations accepted toward the Sock & Buskin scholarship fund.)

A classic of modern theatre, Extremities by William Mastrosimone rounds out the Wildcat Theatre Season. Perhaps most remembered as a film starring Farrah Fawcett, although first staged in 1982 off-Broadway with Susan Sarandon in the leading role, Extremities is a volatile mix of power and dominance, justice and retribution. The play begins with an attempted rape, but quickly the tables turn and the victim becomes the aggressor. Extremities is a play that demands much of its audience and its performers, and we are delighted to end our season with such an insightful and honest piece of work.

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

The Associated Press described Extremities as "a searing play about rape". This incredibly gripping drama portrays the act and it's aftermath as the victim turns the tables on her attacker, reaching a climax of fever pitch suspense.

"A good, jolting evening."-N.Y. Daily News

"A white knuckle psychological thriller."-USA Today

-From the Samuel French website -

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in The Lab Theatre.

$10 General Admission, $8 Randolph College Faculty/Staff/Alumni,
$8 Adults over 60, $5 all students
(Donations accepted toward the Sock & Buskin scholarship fund.)