Grant Park Music Festival 2014: Book 9 - page 79

2014-2015 Season
DeathTrap
By Ira Lewin
September 5 - October 5, 2014
The longest running comedy thriller in Broadway history, Ira Lewin’s Deathtrap is, in it’s
own words, can’t miss theater. Sidney Bruhl is a playwright desperately in need of a hit—
and just in time, a former student sends him the manuscript of his first play, a murder mys-
tery called Deathtrap. Sidney smells a hit—but Sidney has never been that fond of sharing
credit. It turns out the laughs are on him.
A Christmas Memory & The Gift of The Magi
By Truman Capote & O. Henry, adapted by Jessica Puller
November 21 - December 21, 2014
Ring in the holiday season with a pair of one act plays that perfectly capture the ethos of
the season of giving. Jessica Puller’s world premiere adaptations of Truman Capote’s A
Christmas Memory and O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi will be sure to warm your heart and
soul through the start of another Chicago winter.
Other Desert Cities
By Jon Robin Baitz
February 13 - March 15, 2015
It’s Christmas Eve in Palm Springs when Brooke presents her Reagan-adjacent parents
with a tell-all confessional novel that turbo-charges the holidays and the Wyeth family
dynamic with ever-shifting alliances and politics. Pulitzer Prize-finalist Jon Robin Baitz’s
smart new play of high drama, serious laughter and repartee that dazzles and decimates
was one of the hottest tickets on Broadway last season
Don’t Dress for Dinner
By Marc Camoletti, translated by Robin Hawdon
April 24 - May 24, 2015
Bernard’s plans for a romantic rendezvous with his mistress are complete with a gourmet
caterer and an alibi courtesy of his friend, Robert. But when Bernard’s wife learns that
Robert will be visiting for the weekend, she decides to stay in town for a surprise tryst of
her own… setting the stage for a collision course of assumed identities and infidelities.
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