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Happy Week Before The Holidays! We have a new online calendar interface and online box office with OvationTix. Check it out to reserve your tickets for PURE’s 2009 holiday show, the modern classic It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, adapted by Joe Landry and directed by Mark Landis (The Seafarer, Man from Nebraska). The wholesome cast includes Rodney Lee Rogers, Paul Garbarini, Nat Jones, Susan Katwinkel, and Jan Gilbert. All shows at Upper Lance Hall, 150 Meeting Street.

November 27–December 20

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843.723.4444

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THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
by Joan Didion
based on her memoir
featuring Lucille Arrington Keller
directed by Sharon Graci

Joan Didion’s best-selling memoir recounts an almost unfathomable period in her life as she grappled with her husband’s sudden death and daughter’s illness. This stage adaptation captures the compassion, humor, and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman as her world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable. Filled with raw candor, this “unmissable theatre” (Variety) is a love letter to a child and a tribute to an extraordinary, unconventional marriage, all told by a brilliant storyteller with a gift for the absurd.

“Insistently hypnotic.” —The New York Times

August 28–September 19, 2009
Upper Lance Hall: 150 Meeting Street
$15–$30

Brown Paper Tickets
24-hour box office: 800.838.3006
Info: 843.723.4444

Pay-What-You-Can Preview August 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Performances August 28, 29, September 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18 & 19. All performances at 7:30 p.m. except Sunday September 6 at 2:00 p.m. (Bring Your Own Baby).

Wednesdays $20, Thursdays & Sundays $25, Fridays & Saturdays $30, Students $15

From John Stoehr’s UNSCRIPTED Charleston City Paper:

The Tragedian

Rodney Lee Rogers reprises the much-missed one-man-show, The Tragedian, about the life and embattled times of the one and only Edwin Booth. Yes, that Booth. The brother of that guy who shot the 16th President of the United States. This all-too-brief run begins tomorrow night and ends Saturday. Rogers debuted the show last year and performed it again during the 2008 Piccolo Spoleto Festival. We hoped it would appear for a second year at Piccolo, but Rogers has other plans with the premiere of another one-man-show. Something about a pirate. Anyway, if you are normally gun-shy about paying the big bucks to see theater but would like to see it if and only if the theater performance is of some quality, then you really need to set aside time to see this pay-what-you-can night. It’s touching, deep, and, um, tragic. For more, call (843) 723-4444 or visit www.puretheatre.org. —JS

Sharon Graci in Hogs

Jon Santiago of the City Paper wrote a thoughtful rave review of Hogs. Rather than us pork chopping it up into pull quotes, read the whole thing on the City Paper website. Then come on back here.