American Stage Presents HENRY AND RAMONA, LARAMIE PROJECT, et al.

American Stage Theatre Company's Susan R. Hough Cabaret and "After Hours" series in the Raymond James Theatre has amended its September schedule of events affecting HENRY AND RAMONA and THE LARAMIE PROJECT. 

HENRY AND RAMONA"After Hours" Series Family Show  October 2 and 16 at 11 a.m. (performance date and time change)

All tickets: "Pay-What-You-Can" at the door and $15 in advance.

The 25th annual American Stage School Tour brings the finest children's literature to the stage with this season's tour of HENRY AND RAMONA. Welcome to Klickitat Street, home of Henry Huggins, his faithful dog Ribsy, Ramona the Pest and her long suffering sister Beezus. Newbery-Award winning author Beverly Cleary's irrepressible heroes save the day in this lively adaptation of one of the best loved children's book series of all time. Filled with the insight and timeless spirit of Beverly Cleary's books, HENRY AND RAMONA, captures the everyday trials and triumphs of being a kid.
 
THE LARAMIE PROJECT
by Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project
"After Hours" Series staged reading October 11 at 7:30 p.m. (performance date change)

All tickets: "Pay-What-You-Can" at the door and $15 in advance.
 
As promised to everyone who wasn't able to purchase tickets to last year's sold out performance, American Stage is remounting its staged reading of THE LARAMIE PROJECT. In 1998 Matthew Shepard, a 21 year old student at the University of Wyoming, was brutally beaten, tied to a fence and left to die in the middle of the prairie outside of Laramie, Wyoming. His bruised and bloody body was not discovered until the next day and he died several days later in the hospital.  Matthew was the victim of this brutal assault because he was gay. Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half in the aftermath of the beating, from which they constructed this deeply moving play that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable. All profits go towards camp scholarships for underprivileged children.
 
Please call the American Stage Box Office at (727) 823-PLAY (7529) or go to www.americanstage.org for more information and to purchase tickets.
 
American Stage Theatre Company is located at the Raymond James Theatre, 163 3rd Street North in the heart of downtown St. Petersburg, Florida.
 
American Stage Theatre Company is a not-for-profit professional theatre founded in 1977. The company's mission is to create the most satisfying live theatre in the Tampa Bay area, accessible to all members of the community. Their vision is to preserve the greatest human stories from our past, while creating the most defining stories and storytelling of our time. American Stage presents its six play Mainstage Series in its brand new, 182-seat Raymond James Theatre each year. The very popular American Stage in the Park returns with RENT. The theatre's other programming includes: "After Hours" Series, Susan R. Hough Cabaret Series, School Tour and camps and classes for children and adults. The Hough Family Foundation is the Season Sponsor, Raymond James is the Mainstage Sponsor, Bank of America is the Education Partner and WEDU is the Television Sponsor of American Stage. "After Hours" series sponsor is ABC Bicycles.

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