Frankie & Johnnie in the Clair de Lune, by Terrance McNally

January 20- February 5, 2012

Winner of the Dramatists Guild Hull Warriner Award. A critical and popular success, this bittersweet comedy combines poignancy and laughter as it traces the unlikely romance that begins to develop between two middle-aged "losers." DAE revives this touching and often hilarious comedy by one of America's leading playwrights.

Steel Magnolias, by Robert Harling

March 2-March 17, 2012

This critically acclaimed play is alternately hilarious and touching—and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the antic banter of its characters.

The Gin Game, by D.L. Coburn

April 27-May 12, 2012

DAE revives this Pulitzer Prize winning play which concerns two aging inhabitants of a nursing home who play gin and reveal to one another the intimate and shocking details of their lives.