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  • Romeo & Juliet (poster pdf)
    Written by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE | Directed by ARIEL ELIZBETH BARNHART
    February 11, 12, 13 @ 8 PM | February 14 @ 3 PM

    Celebrate the Valentine season with Shakespeare's immortal portrait of true love. Perhaps the Bard's most-widely known work, "Romeo and Juliet" follows its star-crossed lovers as they hurtle from their first shy glances to their last heartrending kiss. Caught between their feuding families, Romeo and Juliet desperately struggle to build a world insulated from the violence, but their love races toward a final confrontation with fate.

  • Earth Within and Without 2010 (poster pdf)
    A multi-cultural dance celebration by TADASHI PROJECT
    Saturday, February 20 @ 8 p.m.


    A theatrical night of dance and music that addresses the concern about the environmental destruction and prayer for its healing. Come and enjoy a hypnotic night of middle-eastern dance & music, Indian dance, Japanese sword dance, Celtic harp, Appalachian banjo, gospel singing, and physical acting, as you revisit your inner-connection to the mother earth.
    A portion the proceeds will benefit the Sierra Club.
    Family friendly.

  • Dirty Spelling Bee Fundraiser (poster pdf)
    Saturday, March 20
    Doors Open at 7 p.m. Spelling Bee starts at 8 p.m.
    Tickets: $15 General Public, $10 Students (Must be 18 years of age.)

    An adult spelling bee like only M. T. Pockets Theatre could bring you.
    A sexy fund raiser event to break up the winter blues! Participants are challenged on their x-rated spelling ability with words
    pertaining to anatomy, bedroom behavior, sexual expression & sexy slang.

    Raffles, silent auctions, and many opportunities to win will also be available.

  • Home is Where Your Your Hat Is*
    An original choreography* featuring Alchemy Dance Project and Red Stone Dance Initiative
    Interim Artistic Director KARA LAWSON
    March 11, 12, 13 @ 8 p.m. | March 14 @ 3 p.m.


  • Betty's Summer Vacation
    Written by CHRISTOPHER DURANG | Directed by PATRICK COLE
    March 25, 26, 27; April 1, 2, 3 @ 8 p.m.

    Betty, needing a little rest and time by herself, is looking forward to her summer share by the ocean. But her luck turns to delicious lunacy when this sensible woman is drawn into the chaotic world of some very unsavory housemates-her friend
    Trudy who chatters incessantly; the lewd, semi-naked Buck who tries to have sex with everyone; the sweet, withdrawn Keith who hides in his room with a shovel, a mysterious hatbox and just may be a serial killer. Then the emotionally anarchic landlady, Mrs. Siezmagraff, moves in too; and she invites a crazy derelict to dinner. With sand between her toes, walking a thin line between sanity and survival, poor Betty may leave her summer vacation more terrorized than tan.

  • New Works Festival*
    Featuring readings from the work of members of M. T. Pockets' Playwright Gro
    up

    Saturday, April 24 @ 8 p.m.

  • HATS! The Musical
    A musical comedy inspired by the experiences, philosophies and mission of the Red Hat Society.
    Written by ANTHONY DODGE & MARCIA MILGROM DODGE
    Directed by CATHARINE THIEME | Musical Director ROBERT THIEME
    Friday, May 7 @ 8 p. m | Saturday, May 8 @ 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. | Sunday, May 9 @ 3 p.m.

    HATS! is a new, critically acclaimed musical comedy that takes a hilarious look at one woman's struggle with her impending 50th birthday. This original musical comedy will make you laugh, cry and cheer as you see how six women handle the trials and good times that occur in the journey of life. These women find that there is a spirit of sisterhood and an innate ability to a celebrate life, regardless of the circumstances, when they have friends with whom they can share these experiences. Featuring hilarious and provocative new songs by a team of Grammy, Golden Globe, and Tony award winning songwriters, HATS! is a fabulous musical celebration for women and the men who love them.

  • Title Pending*
    Written by SEVEN McELROY
    May 20, 21, 22 @ 8 p.m.

  • Camp Uni*
    Written by DONALD C. FIDLER
    July 15, 16, 17 @ 8 p.m.

    Young Josh and Tiff are finishing up a two-week camping trip in the wilds of New Zealand and run into a few unusual people in this science fiction comedy. I mean science fiction thriller. I mean comedy. I mean thriller. Well ... it depends if you are male or female. Uh-oh. That sounds sexist. I wonder if aliens invading New Zealand would be sexist? Hm. How confusing. How politically incorrect. Well ... I mean politically incorrect on the planet earth. Hm. Let's just say Josh and Tiff go camping in New Zealand and leave it at that for now. But just for now.

  • Infidel
    Written by ROBERT LEONHARD | Directed by SHEA THOMPSON
    August 26, 27, 28 @ 8 p.m.

    An interactive, multi-media, theatre piece integrating film, international television, sound collage, and stage performance.
    Set in Iraq during the war, the play explores the relationships of the protagonist, Baker, with his men, his nation, his enemies and ultimately, himself.

  • The Sugar Bean Sisters
    Written by NATHAN SANDERS| Directed by LEE BLAIR
    September 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25 @ 8 p.m.

    Stuck in a Florida swamp near Disney World, the Nettles sisters are determined to escape spinsterhood by hopping the next spaceship out of town, and they're not going to let the arrival of a snake charmer, a handsome Mormon Bishop and a mysterious bird woman stand in their way. This is the night they will make contact!

  • Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
    Written by ED GRACZYK | Directed by CHRISTIAN COX
    October 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23 @ 8 p.m.

    In a small town dime store in West Texas, the "Disciples of James Dean" gather for their twentieth reunion. Now middle-aged women, they were teenagers when Dean filmed Giant two decades ago in nearby Marfa. One of them, an extra in the film, has a child whom she says was conceived with Dean during the shoot. The ladies' congenial reminiscences mingle with flash backs to their youth; then the arrival of a stunning but familiar stranger sets off a series of confrontations that smash their delusions and expose bitter disappointments.

  • Dreams from a Shady Glen*
    Written by WILLIAM FRENCH | Directed by TONI MORRIS
    November - Dates To Be Announced | 8 p.m. Curtain
    Metropolitan Theatre

    Dreams from a Shady Glen is built on scenes based on events from the history of Morgantown and West Virginia University. Presented in conjunction with WVU’s Mountaineer Week, the show features scenes from history that reveal the essence of the region, its people, and the university. Some of the scenes draw upon events from pioneer days, such as the fate of the Decker family, Civil War days in Morgantown, events in Morgantown during the 20th Century. Special focus is on WVU, with scenes depicting its early history, its first football team, and the university during the challenging 1960s.

    The story will be told by music, with musical selections chosen from all the periods of Morgantown history, from old ballads to Bob Dylan.

    Sponsored by the City of Morgantown, through BOPARC under the direction of Mark Wise. With acknowledgement to Former Mayor Ron Justice, who has been instrumental in seeing the project come to fulfillment.

  • A Tuna Christmas
    Written by JASTON WILLIAMS, JOE SEARS & ED HOWARD| Directed by PATRICK COLE
    December 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 @ 8 p.m.

    In this hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna, it's 24 hours before Christmas and all comic hell is about to break loose in the third smallest town in Texas. Radio station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie report on various Yuletide activities as the town's delightfully eccentric characters attempt to cope with seasonal traumas such as a disaster prone little theatre production of A Christmas Carol, and a yard decorating contest that is being sabotaged by a mysterious Christmas phantom!

    *Denotes a new work or work in progress.

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