Pandora Productions Stages Stephen Sondheim's PASSION, Beginning Tonight

Pandora Productions announces a new programming initiative with the opening of her 2015-2016 Season. Pandora has been presenting plays and musicals that speak to the LGBTQ community for over 20 years but in the 2015-2016 season she will step outside the comfortable 'box' to present a Tony award winning musical by a gay composer but without the usual LBGTQ themes. Stephen Sondheim's PASSION opens the season tonight, September 17th, for a two-week run and is the first in what will be a series of plays and musicals to step outside the box.

A remote military outpost in 1863 Italy becomes a wondrously rich and complex metaphor for the landscape of the human heart in Sondheim's PASSION. A handsome army captain, separated from his beautiful - but married - mistress, is forced to re-evaluate his beliefs about love when he becomes the object of the obsessive, unrelenting passions of Fosca, his Colonel's plain, sickly cousin. The sweeping, romantic score of this haunting and powerful chamber opera is intimate, raw, erotic and dark exploring universal yet often unspoken truths.

Passion is directed by the company's Artistic Director with Musical Direction by Doug Jones and will feature a 7 piece orchestra. The production will run September 17, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 26 at 7:30 p and September 20 and 27 at 5:30 p with the only matinee set for September 26 at 2:00 p. This production will also see Pandora's first Monday evening performance on the 21st.

Pandora Productions will once again return to the historic Henry Clay Theatre for the entire 2015-2016 season. The theatre is located at 604 South Third Street, 3rd Floor, Downtown Louisville.

Subscriptions for the entire season are available through the run of Passion and Subscribers can save 30% for season at $80 each for a regular subscription and $70 for Seniors and Students. Single tickets are available for $20 in advance and $22 day of show for all productions this season and are available online at www.PandoraProds.org, or via phone at 502.216.5502.