SOU Theatre presents: Museum

SOU Theatre presents: Museum written by Tina Howe and directed by David Kelly. Performances run November 14- 24, 2024 on the SOU Main Stage Theatre. Tickets are available online at https://sou.universitytickets.com or by calling the OCA Box Office at 541-552-6348. Accommodations for wheelchair seating and assisted listening devices are available by request via email: boxoffice@sou.edu Museum takes place on the final day of a group show of three fictional contemporary American artists being exhibited in a major museum of modern art. Over the course of the day some forty people walk through the show: art lovers, skeptics, foreigners, students, lost souls, fellow artists, and of course, museum guards. The play is about the movement and yearning of these people.

Performances: Thursday, November 14 - 8:00pm (opening) Friday, November 15 - 8:00pm Saturday, November 16 - 8:00pm Thursday, November 21 - 8:00pm Friday, November 22 - 8:00pm Talk back w/ actors after the show - this is our "official campus theme" performance! Saturday, November 23 - 2:00pm (matinee 1) Saturday, November 23 - 8:00pm Sunday, November 24 - 2:00pm (closing matinee 2)

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: Tina Howe (1937-2023) was a prolific and influential American playwright. Her most produced plays include Birth and After Birth, Museum, The Art of Dining, Painting Churches, Coastal Disturbances, Approaching Zanzibar and Pride’s Crossing. These and other works premiered at the Public Theater, the Kennedy Center, Second Stage, The Old Globe Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Atlantic Theater Company and Primary Stages, as well as being translated and produced abroad. Among her many awards were an Obie for Distinguished Playwriting, a Tony Award nomination for Best Play, an Outer Circle Critics Award, a Rockefeller Grant, two N.E.A. Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the Sidney Kingsley Award, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, two honorary degrees, the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre, a Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement and, most recently, PEN’s Master American Playwright award in 2015. A two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Ms. Howe taught at NYU, Columbia, Carnegie Mellon and UCLA before becoming Visiting Professor at Hunter College in 1990, then going on to launch the Rita and Burton Goldberg MFA in Playwriting in 2010 as Playwright-in-Residence. Her works can be read in numerous anthologies as well as in Coastal Disturbances: Four Plays by Tina Howe and Birth and After Birth and Other Plays: A Marriage Cycle, published by Theatre Communications Group. Her other publications include her translations of Ionesco's The Bald Soprano and The Lesson (Grove Press) and Shrinking Violets and Towering Tiger Lilies: Seven Brief Plays about Women in Distress (Samuel French). She is also the subject of Howe in an Hour, edited by Judith Barlow, published by Smith and Kraus. Ms. Howe was proud to have served on the council of the Dramatists Guild from 1990 to 2023.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Currently starring in Oregon Shakespeare Festival's (OSF) 2024 production of Macbeth, Kelly is an acting company member at the OSF in his 29th season. He has also performed at the Berkeley Repertory Theater, South Coast Repertory, The Guthrie, La Jolla Playhouse, Center Theatre Group and other theaters, working extensively on classical plays, musicals and new works. "It has been an honor to work with playwrights on new work: Lauren Gunderson, Kate Hamill, Lisa Loomer, Mary Kathryn Nagle, Julie Marie Myatt, Tony Taccone, Bennett S. Cohen, Alison Carey, Robert Schenkken, Jeff Whitty, Oded Gross, Tracy Young, Lynn Nottage, Culture Clash, and others." "It is the work with these exciting contemporary playwrights that has been the most rewarding of my career. I want to support the creation of new works and the discovery of new voices especially stories that have been suppressed; histories that haven’t before been shared." - David Kelly