WINDING ROAD THEATER ENSEMBLE
ANNOUNCES 2024-25 SEASON
ANNOUNCES 2024-25 SEASON
Four Mainstage productions highlight the Company's 16th Year of great theatre.
Winding Road Theater Ensemble has announced the show line-up for its 2024-25 season, continuing its commitment to serving Tucson audiences with an eclectic mix of live theatre productions.
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
By Selina Fillinger The first of four Mainstage Productions, POTUS is coming in September, 2024. One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble. Hailed as a cross between “Saturday Night Live” sketch comedy and HBO/MAX’s “Veep”, Selina Fillinger's brilliant, all-female farce took Broadway by storm in a star-studded production that earned three 2022 Tony nominations. --
Tales of Terror!
Devised and adapted by the Winding Road Artistic Directing Team In October, 2024, Winding Road will be getting into the Halloween spirit with “Tales of Terror!”. This production features tales of the macabre by some of the world’s greatest writers of scary stories, including Edgar Allan Poe, H.P Lovecraft, Washington Irving, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and more, nestled within a frame story crafted by the Ensemble. Come for the spine tingling spookiness, but be prepared to ask yourself, “Am I afraid of the dark?” --
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This Bitter Earth
By Harrison David Rivers In February, 2025, the Company presents This Bitter Earth. At the Million Hoodie March in 2012, Jesse, a young black man, encounters Neil, a young white man who has unwittingly found himself at the front of the crowd with a megaphone in his hand. Flash forward several weeks, and Jesse and Neil have begun dating. But as the months pass and Neill works his way further into the world of activism, Jesse never enters it. Over the years, Jesse and Neil negotiate the complex “firsts” of their relationship against a backdrop of political demonstrations and discord. With history unfolding around them every day, Jesse and Neil must contend with the fact that, no matter their response to social turmoil, they cannot remain untouched by it. --
Admissions
by Joshua Harmon The final show of the season, scheduled for March, 2025, finds Sherri Rosen-Mason head of the admissions department at a New England prep school, fighting to diversify the student body. Alongside her husband, the school’s headmaster, they’ve largely succeeded in bringing a stodgy institution into the twenty-first century. But when their only son sets his sights on an Ivy League university, personal ambition collides with progressive values with convulsive results. Admissions is a no-holds-barred look at privilege, power, and the perils of hypocrisy that explodes the ideals and contradictions of liberal white America. --
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Performance dates and venues will be announced soon.