Two Tickets on One fo the fllowing Regularly Scheduled Season Performances

Unicorn Theatre’s 2009-2010 Season  

My First Time

Written by Ken Davenport and Real People Just Like You

September 23-October 18, 2009

Directed by Cynthia Levin

On The Mainstage

Was your first time in your wedding bed or the Burger King bathroom?  First sexual experiences are one of the few things that almost every single person on the planet has in common, yet we rarely talk about them…until now.  Over 40,000 people anonymously posted their true first time stories to a website.  Those stories and the characters in them now take stage. My First Time will have you laughing and reminiscing about your own first time . . . and thinking about your next one. 

Farragut North

By Beau Willimon

November 11-December 13, 2009

Directed by John Rensenhouse

On The Mainstage

Produced with UMKC Theatre

Stephen is a 25-year-old hotshot press secretary who has built a career that men twice his age envy.  During a tight presidential primary race, however, Stephen’s meteoric rise falls prey to the backroom politics of more seasoned operatives.  Even his one night stand with a teenage staffer proves to be more complicated than casual.  More than a glimpse into the world of politics, Farragut North is an intriguing story of loyalty, obsessive lust for power and the costs one will endure to succeed.

Miss Witherspoon

By Christopher Durang

December 2, 2009-January 3, 2010

Directed by Cynthia Levin and Steven Eubank

On The Jerome Stage

Produced with UMKC Theatre

Veronica is plagued by the fear that Skylab will almost certainly drop from the sky and crush her.  Finding the world too frightening a place to endure, she decides to leave it behind.  Her plans for eternal peace are interrupted when she finds herself in the Bardo (Tibetan Buddhist netherworld) with an overly cheery spirit guide who forces her to reincarnate.  A stubborn Veronica is sent back in a dizzying array of roles from infant in a bug and drug ridden trailer park to playful golden retriever.  There are lessons to learn if she is to save her soul . . . and maybe even the world.

Grey Gardens

Book by Doug Wright

Music by Scott Frankel

Lyrics by Michael Korie

January 27-February 28, 2010

Directed and Choreographed by Nedra Dixon

Musical direction by Anthony T. Edwards

Featuring Cathy Barnett

On The Mainstage

This 2007 Tony Nominated musical is based on the 1975 documentary about Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.  Grey Gardens is the Bouviers' real mansion in the East Hamptons.  The story tracks the deterioration of these women’s lives and their home as they fall from rich, socially polished aristocrats to an isolated existence in a house overridden by cats and decay.  Through crumbling walls and broken windows, the tangled dynamics of this notorious mother/daughter relationship are finally exposed.

Green Whales

The World Premiere by Lia Romeo

March 3-March 28, 2010

Directed by Cynthia Levin

On The Jerome Stage

Produced with UMKC Theatre

Karen is a 38-year-old woman who, due to a condition that halts her aging, appears to be a young teen.  Her bigger problem, however, is that she can’t find a date.  Her wacky sister Joanna comes up with the ‘perfect’ plan to find love for Karen.   Joanna, not surprisingly, has her own relationship issues.  The sisters search for love and must learn to settle for their ‘perfect’ mates.  Green Whales was read in Unicorn’s 2008-2009 In-Progress New Play Reading Series.

And Her Hair Went With Her

By Zina Camblin

April 28-May 23, 2010

Directed by Jacqee Gafford

On The Mainstage

Wigs, weaves, and pop culture! The beauty shop gets a makeover in this hilarious celebration of African-American sisterhood and identity. Two hair stylists, middle-aged Jasmine and radical Angie, dish the dirt on a salon of eccentric clients and discover how self-image affects us all. Get ready for a wild range of women, personalities, hairstyles, and trends in this funny and poignant blow out.  And Her Hair Went With Her