Stray Cat Theatre Announces 2010-11 'Ninth Life' Season

Stray Cat Theatre unleashes their 2010-2011 Season

Season Nine
For 2010-2011,
Stray Cat will continue to be resident at the
Tempe Performing Arts Center - 132 E 6th Street in Downtown Tempe

reasons to be pretty
By Neil LaBute
September 24 - October 9, 2010
Directed by April Miller
Does this play make me look fat?
The Southwest premiere of the latest from provocateur Neil LaBute. A love story about the near impossibility of love, REASONS TO BE PRETTY introduces us to Greg, who really, truly adores his girlfriend, Steph. Unfortunately, he also thinks she has a few physical imperfections, and when he casually mentions them, all hell breaks loose. A hopelessly romantic drama about the hopelessness of romance, REASONS TO BE PRETTY has been celebrated as "...some of the freshest and most illuminating American dialogue to be heard anywhere these days...a fresh take on the eternal matter of achieving adulthood."

Learn to be Latina
By Enrique Urueta
December 3 - 18, 2010
Directed by Ron May
We're experiencing ethnical difficulties.
Hanan is a promising young pop singer, and she has a record label dying to record her...well...until they find out she's Lebanese. Not to worry, they say: Hanan can still be a star-as long as she learns to be Latina! In this fiercely funny comedy, cultural identities and the music business are poked with some very, very sharp sticks. Critics call it "Screamingly funny!" and claim "Latina delivers a serious message about racial stereotyping in the pop music industry through zany, stylized theatrics." Don't miss what is sure to be one of the most blistering, outrageous comedies to play the Valley this season...if not...ever.

Octopus
By Steve Yockey
March 25 - April 9, 2011
Directed by Ron May
Eight arms...one insatiable appetite.
After young couple Kevin and Blake engage in an adventurous and hastily planned night of group sex with the older, more "experienced" Max and Andy, they are left trying to salvage their relationship from a pummeling mix of jealousy, betrayal, telegrams from a soaking wet delivery boy and a ravenous sea monster from the ocean floor. This universal love story rendered through a post-modern gay lens slips from domestic comedy into a darkly fantastic fable examining the role and depth of commitment in relationships and what it really means to say the words "I love you." "A fiercely imaginative and finely tuned new voice... [Octopus'] tentacles tickle the funny bone, awake the mind and tug on the heart." - San Francisco Chronicle

Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party
By Aaron Loeb
May 20 - June 11, 2011
Directed by Ron May
You're so invited.
Hailed BEST OF THEATRE 2009 by Backstage, a huge critical and audience hit at the NY Fringe Festival and in San Francisco, and enjoying an Off-Broadway run this fall, Stray Cat proudly brings this razor-sharp satirical smash to the Valley. In this new comedy of politics and political values, Honest Abe's hometown puts a teacher on trial for asking "Was Lincoln gay?" Told in three acts - with the audience selecting the order - (no, we're not kidding) - we see the events surrounding the "Trial of the Century" through the eyes of the prosecution, the defense and the big city reporter. "One of the most provocative and interesting plays of the year." - Talkin Broadway

Regular Price Tickets $20 for adults in advance, $23 at the door.
$15 for students and seniors in advance, $18 at the door.
Thursdays are always $10 Student Night (w/valid ID) (in advance or at the door).
Sundays are always $12 for Everyone in advance, $15 at the door.
Tickets at www.straycattheatre.org
Or call 480.820.8022

Addict Admit Flex-Pass 4-Packs available for only $45 (students and seniors) and $60 (adults) online at www.straycattheatre.org.

Performance Schedule:
Thursdays 8pm
Fridays 8pm
Saturdays 8pm
Sundays 2pm

...wait ‘til you see what we drag in...to TEMPE!
For more information, visit www.straycattheatre.org

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