PARADE - Boston Professional Premiere! - This 2000 Tony Award-winning musical (Best Book, Best Score) boasts a book by playwright Alfred Uhry ("Driving Miss Daisy") and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown ("Songs for a New World", "The Last Five Years").  Daring, innovative and bold, this compellng musical tells the tragic, true story of the trial of Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-born Jew living in Georgia, who was put on trial for the murder of a 13-year-old girl, a factory worker under his employ.

FAT PIG - New England Premiere! A smash during its Off-Broadway run, this sharply drawn comic drama by the ever controversial Neil La Bute, concerns  a young man forced to stand up and defend the plus-sized woman he loves when shallow friends call into question his new relationship.  The work not only critiques our slavish adherence to Hollywood ideals of beauty, but also boldly questions our own ability to change what we dislike about ourselves. 

ALMOST, MAINE - Boston-Area Premiere! This delightful romantic comedy  by Maine native John Cariani has been called "a charming midwinter's night's dream."  Through a series of vignettes that hilariously and heart-breakingly capture the joys and perils of romance, we meet the residents of the fictional town of Almost, Maine - a far northern Maine  town  where folks seem to be falling in and out of love at an alarming rate.

THE BUBBLY BLACK GIRL SHEDS HER CHAMELEON SKIN - New England Premiere! - Winner for Outstanding Music and Lyrics at the 2001 OBIE awards, and a Best Musical nominee for both the 2001 Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel awards, this humorous and pointed coming-of-age musical follows a young African-American woman thru three decades as she pursues her dream to become "the greatest dancing star in the world."  The book, music and lyrics are by Kirsten Childs, an alumna of NYU's Musical Theater Writing Program who has also written songs for jazz singer Dianne Reeves, co-starred with Chita Rivera in the musical Chicago, and performed on Broadway in Dancin', Jerry's Girls and Sweet Charity.

The fifth show will be announced once rights have been secured.

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