The Peterborough Players 2008 summer season announced

The Peterborough Players announced its 75th Anniversary season of plays to be produced at its historic theatre on Hadley Road. Season highlights include the return of James Whitmore Senior and Junior, two Pulitzer Prize winners, a legendary catcher, 3 British comedies, a timeless poet and, for the second year, a seventh show in the mainstage season. There will also be two shows for young audiences that will be produced and performed by the Players Second Company of interns and apprentices. There are also a number of 75th Anniversary events throughout the summer including: A Family/Children’s day July 12th, Players Alumni Weekend August 1 – 3, and a kickoff Cabaret with Lucie Arnaz on May 17th.

NOBODY DON'T LIKE YOGI (June 18-19)
One-man show by Thomas Lysaght.

STONES IN HIS POCKETS (July 2-13)
A comedy written by Marie Jones. Set in a small village in rural Ireland where a major Hollywood studio is making a mega-hit film, the play centers on two down and out Irishmen, happy to be making 40 pounds a day as extras.

PRIVATE LIVES (July 16-27)
A classic Noel Coward comedy of bad manners, dry humor and quicksilver sparring that is both daringly hilarious and elegantly sexy.

AN IDEAL HUSBAND (July 30-August 10)
This show is a dazzling blend of comedy and morality, sex and politics, which explores human frailty and social hypocrisy and uses Oscar Wilde’s signature wit and style to provide all the sumptuous elegance you come to expect.

OUR TOWN (August 13-31)
James Whitmore (The Shawshank Redemption, The Majestic, Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma!),will reprise his role as the Stage Manager that dazzled Players audiences in 2000. Written by Thornton Wilder and inspired by his frequent stays in Peterborough as a MacDowell Colonist, this Pulitzer-Prize winning play has become an American stage treasure and is Wilder’s (not to mention the Players’) most renowned and frequently performed play.

DOUBT: A PARABLE (September 3-14)
This drama by John Patrick Shanley, is set at a Bronx Catholic School, and tells the story of a strong-minded nun who wrestles with her conscience in the face of concerns about one of the priests.

THE BELLE OF AMHERST (September 17-28)
In this Tony Award-winning one-woman show, William Luce draws heavily on the poems, letters and first hand accounts of Emily Dickinson to create a play that is an inspiring, poignant and truthful biography of one of America’s greatest literary women. Academy Award nominee, Lindsay Crouse, brings this production to Peterborough prior to a New York run.

The Peterborough Players is sponsored in part by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation – Monadnock Region, New England Foundation for the Arts, the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, and the A. Erland and Hazel N. Goyette Memorial Fund.

Season subscriptions are now on sale at the Players Box Office. For reservations and further information, call (603) 924-7585, or visit the Peterborough Players web site at www.peterboroughplayers.org.