The Stories
EVERYBODY LOVES A TRAIN WRECK (UNLESS YOU’RE ON THE TRAIN), January 15 & 16
This program has been created in collaboration with the Art Students League of Denver which used these stories as inspiration for original works of art created by League members. An exhibit of the art will show at the Art Students League (200 Grant St., Denver) from January 9 to February 25.
Dairyland by Jody Romero, read by Jonathan Nichols
ROMAN FEVER by Edith Wharton, read by Gabriella Cavallero
IRON CLAD RULES by Etgar Keret, read by Jonathan Nichols & Adriana Sevan
UNDER THE RADAR by Richard Ford, read by Jonathan Nichols & Adriana Sevan
PERSONAL TESTIMONIES, February 22
WHY I LIKE COUNTRY MUSIC by James Alan McPherson, read by Tyrees Allen
Remembering when all the world's joy could be held in a single dance.
RULES OF THE GAME by Amy Tan, read by Gwendolyn Yeo
A young chess champion learns to check-mate her domineering Mom.
THE MANAGEMENT OF GRIEF by Bharati Mukherjee, read by Mahira Kakkar
Learning to find meaning in life and a place to belong after a terrible loss.
THE VIADUCT SCENE from the Marx Brothers 1929 film, The Cocoanuts, read by Kathleen Brady and Randy Moore
A few delicious moments of total nonsense.
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC, March 8 & 15 (at the Buntport Theater)
Last season audiences loved the collaboration between Stories on Stage and Buntport Theater Company, so we bring you another creative collaboration.
THE NOSE by Nikolai Gogol
When your own nose walks out on you, well, it's just plain humiliating.
THE RED FOX FUR COAT by Teolinda Gersão
Slipping into a new identity is as easy as wrapping yourself in a new coat.
THE KUGELMASS EPISODE by Woody Allen
Being adored by someone really, really famous can be pretty stressful.
THE OTHER by Jorge Luis Borges
If you encountered your very own self, but much older, would you like you?
GREAT EXPECTATIONS, April 19
NAWABDIN ELECTRICIAN by Daniyal Mueenuddin, read by Shishir Kurup
A little bit of success is sometimes a very dangerous thing.
SELLING THE GENERAL by Jennifer Egan
The film star, the dictator and the publicist play a dangerous tabloid game.
There will be two more stories, including another comic gem read by Kathleen Brady and Randy Moore.
WE ARE PHAMALy, June 7
For a very special season finale, Stories on Stage presents remarkable stories about remarkable people with disabilities, as performed by members of PHAMALy, Denver’s award-winning acting company of disabled actors.
ETERNAL LOVE by Karen Bender
Joy and love break through the harshest barriers.
FACE by Alice Munro
Disability like beauty is sometimes in the eye of the beholder.
CATHEDRAL by Raymond Carver
Blind people can teach us to see.
Earlier in the Season...
HEROES & WANNABES, September 7, 2008
CHIVALRY by Neil Gaiman, read by Deanna Dunagan
An old fashioned hero faces new fangled trials and a most unusual Virtuous Maiden.
THE HECTOR QUESADILLA STORY by T.C. Boyle, read by Jonathan Nichols
Baseball’s heroes are as colorful as they are mighty.
TELEPHONE by Mike Nichols and Elaine May, read by Kathleen Brady and Randy Moore
Clark Kent is not the only one to find a hero in a phone booth.
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by Tim O’Brien, read by Mat Hostetler, Laurence Curry and Jonathan Nichols
One of the most famous stories to come out of the Vietnam war, The Things They Carried brings us into intimate contact with some of the heroic soldiers who serve for us at home in every generation.
THE SKY’S THE LIMIT, October 19
THE HOUSE BEHIND A WEEPING CHERRY by Ha Jin, read by Ping Wu
For some of us, it is hard to even imagine freedom, and so much harder to dare to reach for it.
THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY by James Thurber, read by Malachy McCourt
When the only freedom you can have is inside your mind, it helps to have a great imagination.
SOME OF US HAVE BEEN THREATENING OUR FRIEND COLBY by Donald Barthleme, read by John Hutton
How to turn even the most challenging event into a world-class party.
THE VELDT by Ray Bradbury, read by Candy Brown. When the imaginary meets the real, everything goes.
Melissa James accompanied by Nick Busheff will sing Over The Rainbow by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg.
CHAOS THEORY MEETS DUMB LUCK, November 16
Why do some people have all the luck while others are just plain unlucky every single time? Sam Gregory, Kathleen Brady and Randy Moore will join gifted students from the third-year class of Denver Center’s renowned National Theatre Conservatory for a program of stories about the ways in which Chance plays with our lives.
TITS-UP IN A DITCH by Annie Proulx
Sometimes the luck gods are just not on our side.
FATSO by Etgar Keret
Really lucky guys actually get the girlfriend of their dreams.
YOUR TABLE IS READY by John Kenney
Once upon a time in a land far, far away, people had extra cash to go to exclusive restaurants.
BARK by Julian Barnes
Lucky in life, heartbroken in death.
This performance is a benefit for the third year class at the National Theatre Conservatory (NTC). Half of all ticket proceeds go to the NTC.
MAKING MERRY, December 14
The Loudest Voice by Grace Paley, read by Tovah Feldshuh
Shirley Abramawitz is a Jewish star in the firmament of the school Christmas play.
DUEL IN THE SNOW by Jean Shepherd, read by Jamie Horton
A holiday memory of unending happiness.
A VERY SPECIAL PET by Nicholasa Mohr, read by Adriana Gaviria
A struggling family has an unexpected twist to their Christmas feast.
WILLIE AND THE CHRISTMAS SPRUCES by Larry Bograd, read by John Benjamin Hickey
A new holiday tale by Colorado writer Larry Bograd.
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS read by the entire cast
There are now many delightful versions of this classic that incorporate elements of some of the many cultures that make up our community.