See What's in Store for the New Rep's 2013-14 Season

New Repertory Theatre's 2013-14 season includes Tony Award winning plays, a black comedy and a play featuring a conversation with Bernie Madoff.

Shows will go on the stage of the Charles Mosesian Theater and the Black Box Theater at the Arsenal Center for the Arts.

The season features two Tony-winning plays: "The Elephant Man" and  "Camelot."

"Imagining Madoff" imagines a jail-cell conversation with ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, and "The Whipping Man" follows a Jewish Southern Civil War soldier and his former slaves.

Not all the productions take on such serious subjects. The season includes "Rancho Mirage," a black comedy, and a Victorian era fantasy tale - "On the Verge."

See details about New Rep's 2013-14 season below:

THE ELEPHANT MAN

September 7-29, 2013 

A Tony Award Winning Drama By Bernard Pomerance Directed by Jim Petosa 

Charles Mosesian Theater 

This Tony Award-winning drama offers an intense look into John Merrick’s tragic affliction and both his struggle to assimilate as a normal man—and society’s questionable interest in this grotesquely misshapen but intelligent and sensitive person. Whilst briefly becoming the “scientific celebrity” and toast of Victorian London, Merrick’s illness progresses, the more “normal” he becomes. With greater resonance for our time, this story asks us to consider societal responsibility, asking: what does it truly mean to be ‘our brother’s keeper’?  

“An enthralling and luminous play.”The New York Times 

RANCHO MIRAGE

October 12 – November 3, 2013 

A National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere Comedy By Steven Dietz 

Charles Mosesian Theater 

Acclaimed playwright Stephen Dietz’ black comedy looks at affluent suburban couples whose truths finally catch up with them. At an ill-fated dinner party, these long-time friends are awakened to the secrets of their past with hilarious and farcical results. Written by one of America’s most widely produced playwrights, this National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere comedy asks what remains between us when youth, dreams, and the last bottle of wine is gone?           

CAMELOT

November 23 - December 22, 2013 

Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner Music by Frederick Loewe Directed by Antonio Ocampo-Guzman Choreographed by Ilyse Robbins 

Charles Mosesian Theater  

This beloved 4-time Tony Award winning musical of chivalry and medieval finery weaves a tumultuous love triangle between King Arthur, his wife-to-be Guinevere, and Lancelot. Featuring beguiling melodies that defy time, CAMELOT’s stories and songs exude classic themes of duty,  honor, love, and betrayal. Coinciding with the 50-year anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy, this production will bring the Camelot dream to life for a new generation of audiences, who will experience the idealistic yearnings of a young king trying to create a better and new order, only to be dashed by the unexpected cruelties of human passion and need. 

“A lyrical simplicity with a lush romanticism.” The New York Times 

IMAGINING MADOFF 

January 4 - 26, 2014 

By Deborah Margolin 

Black Box Theater 

In Obie Award-winning playwright Deborah Margolin’s recently controversial play, we witness intriguing imagined jail-time conversations between Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff and Solomon Galkin, a poet and philosopher.

In high moral showdown, these two Jewish men banter about women, baseball, the Talmud, human decency, kindness, and the story of Abraham and Isaac. Through them, we learn how greed helped cause the Great Recession, marking the past half decade of American life. According to DC Theatre Scene, “we know the what already; in Imagining Madoff, we seek the why.” 

“Margolin takes chances and seeks unconventional connections.”  The Washington Post 

THE WHIPPING MAN 

January 25 – February  16, 2014 

A Contemporary Drama By Matthew Lopez Directed by Benny Sato Ambush 

Charles Mosesian Theater 

The most-produced play of 2012, this drama looks at post-Civil War freedom through the eyes of a southern Jewish soldier and his former slaves, who adopted the faith of their master. As the three men gather together to celebrate Passover, they realize their common suffrage from slavery and uncover long-buried secrets and hidden truths. Called “an atmospheric period drama,” by The New York Times, this story of self-definition, discrimination, and the pain of being an outsider asks these three what their futures hold in a new world of freedom. 

“Wonderfully satisfying…” The Village Voice   

ON THE VERGE 

May 3 - 25, 2014 

By Eric Overmyer Directed by Jim Petosa 

Charles Mosesian Theater 

In this hilarious and poignant time-travel fantasy, Victorian-era adventurers Fanny Cranberry, Alexandria Cafuffle, and Mary Baltimore warp into 1955 American pop culture, discovering a new world and themselves in all their possibilities. Along cliff edges and through swamps, these prefeminist heroines tell tales of their many varied travels, the characters they meet, and the challenges they face. With esoteric language Overmyer invites these plucky three to favor pants over petticoats.  

“For the linguistically inclined, this ardently alliterative and omnivorously onomatopoetic safari should be difficult to resist.” The New York Times