Current Season

The Philadelphia Story runs November 8-10 and 15-17 at 8PM and Sundays November 11 and 18 at 2:30 PM at the Hartmann Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are $17 for adults, $14 for Bradley faculty and staff as well as seniors, and $9 for students. For tickets call 677-2650, or book online at http://theatre.bradley.edu

Bradley University Theatre’s 2012-2013 Season continues with The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry. Some say true love comes along just once in a lifetime. What about second chances when you blow it the first time?  This Broadway hit originally starred Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord (as did the 1940 film with Spencer Tracy and James Cagney).  The Philadelphia Story by Phillip Barry lures us into the rarified social world of the Philadelphia Lords.  The very particular socialite divorcee Tracy Lord is about to marry her successful young second chance, when her mother and sister, a tabloid reporter, and her ex-husband bring about a series of events that makes Tracy examine herself and her choice.

CAST:

Three generations are pressed together in one apartment.   Times are tight and getting tighter.  Lorraine Hansberry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play takes its title from the poem "A Dream Deferred" by Langstron Hughes, and draws us into the Younger family's crossroads moment in Chicago's largely African-American Woodlawn neighborhood around 1960.  The hearts and minds of the Youngers are full to bursting with different ideas of and yearnings for what it will take to improve their situation.   Dreams are on the verge of festering.   A long-awaited insurance check is on its way and could change everything.  Will it bring real change?  Raisin eloquently explores the dynamics of family, parenthood, socio-economics, pride, love, ethnicity, and race.   Guest Artist, Bradley alumnus, local theatre artist and television personality Garry Moore directs.