WRP’s $5 Play Reading Series continues with a “a funny, sweet, touching and marvelously written and contrived love poem for an apple and an orange.” (New York Post) The winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Talley’s Folly is set in the ornate, deserted Victorian boathouse on the Talley place, just outside Lebanon, Missouri. The year is 1944, and Matt Friedman, an accountant from St. Louis, has arrived to plead his love to SallyTalley, but first he must overcome her doubts and fears about the all-too uncertain future.

Complementing our Mainstage production of Titus Andronicus, our $5 Play Series continues with another masterpiece from the Bard. Once again, Rome is the scene for a powerful drama of politics and revenge. The assassination of Julius Caesar triggers a brutal power struggle when his killers, led by Brutus (once Caesar’s dear friend) and Cassius, and Mark Antony (Caesar’s former right-hand man) and Octavius (Caesars’ heir).

While Jane Martin’s Anton in Show Business is gracing our Main Stage, we invite you to enjoy a reading of the Chekhov masterpiece that inspired it. The daughters of the late General Prozorov are trapped in the backwater of a remote garrison town, dreaming of returning to their beloved Moscow, a city they barely remember from their childhood. In this, “the most moving of dramas,” a tragedy unfolds, revealing how “life is both nourished and poisoned by the act of hope itself.” (the Daily Telegraph)

Is it a nativity play? Is it a comic romp? It’s both! Adapted from the 15th century original authored by the anonymous Wakefield Master, The Second Shepherd’s Pageant is an enchanting concoction of humor and piety that celebrates the first Christmas Eve, when “…shepherds watched their flocks by night.” Join us for a one-of-kind holiday entertainment @ WRP, because where else are you going to see a medieval miracle play this Christmas?