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H H H 51st ANNIVERSARY H H H

2016-2017Season

Beverly Hills’ Award-Winning Professional Theatre Company

2016-2017 FIFTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY Season

❆ One West Coast Premiere ❆ Two World Premieres ❆ One American Premiere ❆ Best Ticket Price In Town ❆ Free (Covered) Parking ❆ Wheelchair Accessibility

❆ Flexibility In Schedule ❆ Air-Conditioned Comfort

Dear Subscribers and Friends:

I am very excited about our 2016/2017 Season of plays at Theatre 40. It is our 51st Anniversary Season!

It has provocative dramas, hilarious comedies, charming romances and several premieres on our stage. All of our productions will, as always, include Sunday Matinees. Extraordinary special events are planned throughout the year! Your enjoyment is guaranteed especially as our air-conditioning is working beautifully and our brand new theater seats could not be more comfortable!

And — back by popular demand, in its 15th year — Theatre 40’s critically-acclaimed production of The Manor will be returning to Greystone Mansion. I am grateful to you, our subscribers and contrib-utors, for your unwavering support. You are the key to our continued survival and success.

I invite all of you to join with us to celebrate our exciting 51st Anniversary Season by subscribing to our very affordable season package — 6 plays for only $165 — we are still the best buy in town! I look forward to welcoming you at the theatre, where as a bonus, the on-site parking is always ample and FREE!

David Hunt Stafford Artistic & Managing Director, Theatre 40 of Beverly Hills

Our 2016-2017 Season2009 Beverly Hills Chamber of CommerceBusiness Excellence Award Winner: Entrepreneurial Category

2011 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle

WINNERBest Solo Performance

Nazi Hunter-Simon Wiesenthal

Los Angeles Drama Critics CircleRECIPIENT

“Margaret Harford Award” for Sustained Excellence

in the Theatre

2016-17 Board of Directors

James Jahant – ChairmanCharles Glenn

Dr. Robert KarnsLya Cordova Latta

Myra LurieRuth Flinkman-Marandy

Frederick Silny

David Hunt StaffordGloria StroockBonnie WebbMarion Zola

Theatre 40 of Beverly Hillsis supported, in part, by a grant from Breath of Spring

MORALIMPERATIVE

The Consul, The Tramp and

America’s Sweetheart

Late Company

April, May & JuneSeparate Tables

(bottom row: left to right) T40 Board member Myra Lurie - Former B.H. City Council person Dr. WIllie Brien T40 board member Gloria Stroock - B.H. City Council Member Dr. Julian Gold - B.H. City Council member Lili Bosse

T40 Board member Bonnie Webb - T40 Board member Lya Cordova Latta - B.H. City Council member Nancy KrasneB.H. Mayor John Mirisch

(top row: left to right) T40 Artistic Director David Hunt Stafford - T40 board member Charles Glenn T40 board chairman Jim Jahant - T40 treasurer Frederick Silny

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Play 1 Play 2 Play 3

join usfor our

51st seas0nPlay 1 — COMEDY

Breath of SpringJuly 21 - August 21, 2016

Play 2 — DRAMAMoral Imperative

September 22 - October 17, 2016

Play 3 — COMEDYThe Consul, The Tramp

and America’s SweetheartNovember 17 - December 18, 2016

Play 4 — DRAMALate Company

January 19 - February 19, 2017

Play 5 — COMEDY/DRAMAApril, May & June

March 16 - April 16, 2017

Play 6 — DRAMASeparate Tables

May 18 - June 18, 2017

All plays will performThursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00pm

Sunday Matinees at 2:00pm

All dates and times subject to change.

When Dame Beatrice is given a mink stole by her maid, she is reminded of the

maid’s shady past and immediately suspects that it was stolen from the next flat. A former army officer and other lodgers endeavour to return the stole. The plan is devised with care and all of them take such delight in the secretive scheme that they wonder why they don’t do this more often. They form a syndicate for stealing and returning furs.

Everything goes well until a loss is reported and the police come charging in. The maid agrees to employ her talents to bail the amateurs out of trouble if they agree to never touch another fur. She succeeds and life returns to its humdrum ways until someone remembers that it was only furs they had promised not to touch!

On the eve of World War II, the German consul to Hollywood tries to stop production on Charlie Chaplin’s first

talkie, The Great Dictator. The result is a wonderful and clever new comedy, based on a true story about the powers of art, politics, commerce, freedom of speech and what it means to be American.

by John MorogielloWhen is it justified to kill someone? One

man’s morality is another man’s blind ambition. Seth Colby has always dreamed of being president of the elite university he attended and taught at and where he is now vice-president. Bitter that he has been passed over, he feels compelled to take action. Academic politics and the philosophy of the “greater good” all come together in this thrilling World Premiere.

by Peter Coke

by Samuel Warren Joseph

WORLD PREMIERE!

WEST COAST PREMIERE!

by Peter Coke

Breath ofSpring MORAL

IMPERATIVE

The Consul, The Tramp and

America’s Sweetheart

Directed by Bruce Gray

Directed by Howard Storm

Directed by Jules Aaron

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Play 4 Play 6

These two plays are set in a shabby genteel hotel on England’s south coast. In Table by the Window, a down-at-the-heels journalist

is confronted by his ex-wife, a former model who provoked him to the violent act that sent him to

prison, destroying his future. Still in love, they nevertheless go through another terrible scene and it is the hotel manager, Miss Cooper, who

helps repair their broken lives.

In Table Number Seven, a ‘self-made’ army col-onel without any true background and

education to which he lays claim, finds solace with a spinster over the objections of her

ruthless, domineering mother. When a sordid scandal threatens to drive them apart,

Miss Cooper again comes to the rescue.

One year after the suicide of their teenage son Joel, Debora and Michael Shaun-Hastings sit down to dinner with their

son’s bully and his parents. Closure is on the menu, but accusations are the main course as everyone takes a turn in the hot seat for their real or imagined part in the tragedy. Blame shifts over the course of the evening from one person to the next, provoking introspection where there may be none, and raising questions no one is prepared to answer.

Play 5

How can three sisters, each born just a year apart, grow up under the same roof yet see things so differently? Well, that’s

what 40ish siblings April, May and June will wonder and debate as they convene at their childhood home to pack up the last of their late mother’s things.

Over the course of one funny, feisty and poignant afternoon, this disparate trio will come to terms with their past, present and each other as they uncover a startling surprise about the mother they thought they knew.

by Jordan Tannahill

by Gary Goldstein

by Terence Rattigan

WORLD Premiere!BREATH OF SPRING H H H H H

“Two hours of ... moments when I was helpless with laughter.” — London Daily Mirror

“Mod, madcap and a must see!” — The London Times

THE CONSUL, THE TRAMP ANDAMERICA’S SWEETHEART H H H H H

~ WINNER of the 2015 Julie Harris Playwright Award Competition.~ WINNER of The Dayton Playhouse FutureFest

LATE COMPANY H H H H H

“…excruciatingly good theatre” — Vancouver Courier

“Sorrow is spun to healing right before our eyes” — Prism International

SEPARATE TABLES H H H H H

“A triumph.” — New York Post

“To his skill as a craftsman, Mr. Rattigan has added understanding and forgiveness. The fi nest thing he’s written.” — The New York Times

H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H

about our premieres:MORAL IMPERATIVESamuel Warren Joseph has written movies, television, animation, stage musicals and plays including Window of Opportunity, which became a feature fi lm in 2015. The LA Weekly described it as a “dark comedy that hilariously skewers a take-no-prisoners corporate culture.”

APRIL, MAY & JUNEGary Goldstein is an award winning writer for fi lm, TV and the stage. He has written numerous fi lms for the Hallmark Channel and for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, as well as several indie features and TV pilots. On the L.A. stage, Gary has had numerous plays produced, very successfully which all enjoyed long and well-reviewed runs.

What the Critics Have Said:

Late Company

AMERICAN PREMIERE!

April, May & JuneSeparate Tables

Directed by Bruce Gray

Directed by Terri Hanauer

Directed by Jules Aaron

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