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Mccarter theatre center is the foremost institution in this country that is both a professional producing theater and a major presenter of the performing arts. As one of the most active performing arts centers in the nation, McCarter annually offers more than 300 performances for nearly 185,000 students and adults from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York in our 1,100-seat Matthews Theatre and our 360-seat Berlind Theatre

McCarter’s history spans nearly 80 years. Opening in 1930 to provide a permanent home for Princeton’s University’s Triangle Club, McCarter has evolved over the years to become a nationally significant producing theater and a major presenter of the performing arts. From the world premiere of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in 1938 to Artistic Director Emily Mann’s Having Our Say in 1994 to Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I in 2008, McCarter has earned a national reputation for producing new work that has a profound effect on American theater. McCarter remains committed to developing and nurturing new work by both

well-established and emerging writers whose voice and insight have the power to transform theater and to add to the cultural heritage of our nation.

McCarter seeks to give our audiences the very best in theater as well as in all other performances providing our community with an unparalleled variety of bold, stimulating, diverse, and provocative programming across disciplines. McCarter was recently praised as “one of America’s top drama companies” by the Wall Street Journal, received the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater in 1994, and is designated as a Major Arts Institution by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts due to a solid history of artistic excellence, substantial productions, and broad public service.

McCarter’s approach to play development is an active, hands-on, artist-driven process, overseen by Artistic Director Emily Mann, who is also a skilled and accomplished playwright. During our 2009-2010 season, McCarter will celebrate Emily Mann’s 20 years as Artistic Director of the theater with an exciting Theater Series epitomizing Mann’s dynamic artistic vision of producing innovative new work for the stage and reinvestigating classics. Special Programming Director William W. Lockwood, Jr., celebrating his 50th anniversary at McCarter this season, is responsible for bringing an incredible array of internationally recognized artists to the theater each season, including Lyle Lovett, Lang Lang, Wynton Marsalis, Arlo Guthrie, Dave Brubeck, David Sedaris, Soweto Gospel Choir, and Barbara Cook, to mention just a few.

The production of provocative new works, classic plays, and modern masterpieces, and the reflection on our stage and in our audience of the increasing diversity in our society, have guided us over these last years and remain a vital part of our future growth. As we look to the future, McCarter will continue as a home for artistic excellence and innovation, as a community gathering place, and as an indispensable source of enrichment and inspiration for our audiences.

For more information on McCarter Theatre, please visit our website at www.mccarter.org, call 609.258.arts (2787), or stop by 91 University Place, Princeton, NJ 08540.

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Twenty Years of Imagination, Diversity, Inspiration, Innovation and Excellence

The 2009-2010 season marks an important milestone for McCarter Theatre: Emily Mann’s 20th season as Artistic Director. During this special anniversary year, McCarter will celebrate Ms. Mann’s accomplishments over the last two decades as well as reaffirm the theater’s vision for the future as a vibrant center for the performing arts.

During Ms. Mann’s tenure, McCarter has seen extraordinary growth in programming, artistic leadership, and community involvement and support, and it continues to produce and premiere ambitious new plays and significant adaptations of classics, many of which have gone on to be some of the most frequently produced plays in the American theater. Ms. Mann has earned a national reputation as an outstanding director and playwright and is lauded for her efforts in promoting women and minority playwrights, actors, and directors. As a result, McCarter has emerged as a theater committed to developing and nurturing new work and new points of view by both well-established and emerging writers whose voices and insights have the power to transform theater and thus enhance the experience for our audiences.

Ms. Mann has overseen nearly 100 productions during the past 20 years. Among her many directing credits are the world premieres of Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I, Christopher Durang’s Miss Witherspoon, Steven Dietz’s Last of the Boys, Ms. Mann’s own adaptation of The Seagull, and Nilo Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics, which premiered at McCarter before moving on to Broadway and receiving two Tony Award nominations and the 2003 Pulitzer Prize.

Ms. Mann, who has built an international reputation in documentary theater, also wrote and directed one of McCarter Theatre’s audience favorites, Having Our Say. Adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth, the play was subsequently produced on Broadway, receiving three 1995 Tony nominations, including Best Play and Best Director. McCarter is thrilled to revive this beloved play in September 2009 as part of Ms. Mann’s 20th Anniversary Season.

Ms. Mann’s continuous efforts to introduce the work of African-American artists to McCarter audiences include significant productions such as Regina Taylor’s Crowns, August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, Lydia Diamond’s Stick Fly, and Tarell Alvin McCraney’s landmark trilogy The Brother/Sister Plays, among others. As part of next year’s celebratory season, McCarter will premiere Fetch Clay, Make Man, written by acclaimed playwright, actor, and educator Will Power, in January 2010, reinforcing our commitments to producing new work as well as the work of African-American playwrights.

The anniversary season also includes She Stoops to Conquer, a classic 18th-century comedy of manners by Oliver Goldsmith, as well as

David Mamet’s volcanic and groundbreaking 1975 play American Buffalo. Closing the season is the highly anticipated American premiere of Take Flight, a new musical by David Shire, Richard Maltby, Jr., and John Weidman that celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit of America as seen through the birth of flight.

As McCarter looks to the future, we will continue to offer a variety of new plays and classics that tell compelling stories that often give voice to the voiceless. We will continue as a premier home for artistic excellence and innovation by nurturing and bringing the most extraordinary artists in the country to our stages. We invite you to join us on this incredible journey as we celebrate the 20th year of Emily Mann’s distinguished tenure at McCarter.

“Working with Emily Mann is not ‘working’ but engaging in a dialogue–ever creative, unpredictable, illuminating-–with the most magical sort of person...” — Joyce Carol Oates

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Mccarter theatre is a vital educational resource for the community and a leader in advancing and advocating arts education in New Jersey schools. McCarter brings high-impact programming to students in grades K–12 throughout the state of New Jersey. Through Student Matinees, After-School Classes, Touring Productions, Workshops, and Residencies, McCarter’s arts education activities reach thousands of students each year, with programming designed to meet core curriculum standards set by the New Jersey Department of Education.

McCarter has a long history of using arts education experiences to help empower underprivileged and under-served students. Each year, McCarter opens

its doors to thousands of students regardless of their socio-economic status, introducing them to powerful world literature and sharing with them top-tier arts experiences through our Arts for All Program. The program provides subsidized programming for lower income families so that underprivileged students have direct access to superior quality arts education activities. In an effort to reach more underprivileged youth, McCarter has established a unique relationship with the following organizations: Trenton Central High School, Mercer County’s HomeFront program, and Trenton After-School Program (TASP).

This year, McCarter introduced our YouthInk! High School Playwriting Residency Program to students from Trenton Central High School, North Clinton Campus, with eighteen students receiving a full subsidy to participate in the program. The YouthInk! Program is an in-school intensive playwriting residency which aims to empower participating students as young playwrights. During the residency, McCarter teaching artists work with students to help each student develop a ten-minute play. Selected scripts are professionally produced at the YouthInk! Festival in June at McCarter Theatre.

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McCarter also offers free-of-cost classes in conjunction with HomeFront, which serves homeless children in Mercer County. Each month, between 15 and 20 homeless children from our area meet for theater-based workshops at the Arts Council of Princeton or at McCarter with seasoned McCarter teaching artists. As an important part of our program, the HomeFront workshops offer a safe place for students to gather, collaborate, and learn together.

In connection with the Trenton After-School Program, McCarter runs a Satellite First Stage Company that meets once a week at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Trenton. The First Stage Company is a series of after-school drama classes for students from grades K–10, offering topics such as musical theater, Shakespeare, ensemble theater, and acting comedy. Through the Arts for All program, First Stage scholarships are given to students with financial need.

McCarter’s Arts Education Programs give students the opportunity to experience the arts, stretch their imaginations, and participate as part of a team with other students. Now more than ever we need your support to maintain our commitment to provide transformational arts experiences to youth in our region.

“It is extremely gratifying to see the students work together, support each other, and create together in the Trenton After-School Program

drama workshops.” —Jim Murtha, McCarter Education Programs Manager

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their best behavior and participation. What is most helpful to me is taking

the four aspects of acting and applying it to their writing. The teachers have also commented on how the level of participation increases as the class

progresses. I can’t thank you enough for providing our students with this

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and are extremely impressed with the program.” —Janet Jarrett,

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Mccarter would like to thank our wonderful Gala coMMittee for their time, hard work, and determination in helping to make McCarter’s 31st Annual Gala Benefit a success. The committee provided valuable leadership from developing the initial event concept to assisting with the invitations to recruiting attendees. The proceeds from McCarter’s Gala support the theater’s extensive arts education and artistic programs. Now more than ever the support of our volunteers is critical to sustain these programs. We couldn’t have done it without you!

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Play Development at McCarterthe Mccarter lab, McCarter’s research and development wing, is one of the finest play development programs in the country, consistently premiering work that is produced not only on our own stages but also at theaters around the world. The McCarter Lab continues to flourish with the recent success of the third annual IN-Festival in February 2009, an exciting celebration of significant new work consisting of one fully staged production plus readings of extraordinary new work we hope to produce in the future or introduce to the field at large. From the important Artists’ Retreat to our commissions for playwrights to our

readings, workshops, and mainstage productions of new works, the McCarter Lab provides a full range of play development and artistic activities.

McCarter’s play development program encompasses our work on new plays as well as adaptations and reinvestigations of classic work. Each project is uniquely supported, furthering our aim to produce the plays that we develop. From commissions to residencies, we strive to create an artistic home for a group of writers who are able to turn to McCarter for everything from readings and workshops to casual feedback at any stage in their creative process. We hope that the writers we nurture will use McCarter as a safe and supportive environment in which to produce their most exciting, innovative, and world-changing work.

Since 1990, McCarter has premiered over 40 new theatrical works, including 80% of the plays we have commissioned. Major productions that began at McCarter include Nilo Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics, which won a Pulitzer Prize in Drama and transferred to Broadway; Regina Taylor’s Crowns, a McCarter commission which went on to wide acclaim and productions across the country; Christopher Durang’s Miss Witherspoon, which went on to an off-Broadway production at Playwrights Horizons; and the premiere of Having Our Say, which later transferred to Broadway.

Productions originating at McCarter have received ten Tony nominations and include a Pulitzer Prize winner and two Pulitzer finalists. Perhaps most significantly, new plays and adaptations produced or premiered at McCarter have gone on to appear twelve times since 1996 on the American Theatre magazine list of the most produced plays of the season, demonstrating their lasting and wide-ranging influence on the shape of American theater.

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2009-2010 TheaTer SerieSAn Audience Favorite!

Having Our SayThe Delany Sisters’ First 100 YearsWritten and directed by Emily Mann, adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill HearthSeptember 11 - OctOber 18, 2009In celebration of Emily Mann’s 20th anniversary season, we’re reviving one of our most-loved plays, which charmed McCarter audiences in 1995 before transferring to an award-winning Broadway run. Now, it’s more powerful and healing than ever. Join us once again for a visit with Sadie and Bessie, the indomitable Delany sisters whose poignant and irreverent outlook on a transforming American landscape offers a life-affirming testament to legacy and hope.

A Comic Gem!She Stoops to ConquerBy Oliver GoldsmithOctOber 13 - nOvember 1, 2009 This boisterous comedy of mistaken identities has delighted audiences for over two centuries with its gorgeous language, elegant costumes, and outright hilarity. Sparks fly when young urbanite Charles Marlow arrives at a country estate to court Kate Hardcastle, only to take her father for an innkeeper and her for a saucy barmaid! Good-natured hijinks and grand pretensions abound in this frothy romp that pits town against country and parent against child.

An Explosive Drama

Fetch Clay, Make ManBy Will Powerjanuary 8 - february 14, 2010In the days before one of the most controversial fights in boxing history, 23-year-old heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali formed an improbable bond with disgraced former Hollywood star Stepin Fetchit. Set in the heady times of the mid-1960s, Fetch Clay, Make Man explores the true story of two wildly different men, each struggling to create and shape his image and legacy. Will Power’s absorbing tale is a rhythmic, expressive, and innovative exploration of one of the missing pages in America’s history book.

A Thrilling Ride

AmericAn BuffAloBy David Mamet • Directed by Amy Mortonmarch 9 - march 28, 2010In a penetrating battle of friendship versus business, loyalty is tested as three small-time crooks plot the midnight robbery of a buffalo nickel. The Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Wag the Dog, State and Main, Hannibal, Heist, and The Spanish Prisoner, Mamet pens a biting critique of inflated valuation in this menacing, humorous, and philosophical masterpiece.

A Glorious New Musical

Take FlighTBook by John WeidmanMusic by David Shire • Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr.Directed by Sam Buntrockapril 30 - june 6, 2010Lift your spirits with this stirring new musical that takes flying, creativity, and American invention to new heights. Take Flight melds fact and fiction to tell the interweaving stories of three pioneers of aeronautics: the Wright Brothers, Charles Lindbergh, and Amelia Earhart. As their dreams become reality, these aviators discover the real costs of their sky-high ambitions. With style and panache, this lush musical delves to the core of the American experience.

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Garden Club of Metuchen, Mrs. Jeanne Giarratano.

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