Buffalo Theatre Ensemble will begin 2017-18 season with 'The 39 Steps'
Buffalo Theatre Ensemble, in the second year of its second life at the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, will lead off its 2017-18 season with the comic whodunit “The 39 Steps.”
Based on John Buchan's novel and Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 thriller, the show opens Sept. 7 and kicks off a season centered on couples whose romances are in flux.
Ensemble member Kurt Naebig directs Patrick Barlow's zany four-hander about a mild-mannered Londoner whose tryst with a foreign spy leads to romance, murder and international espionage.
That's followed by “Time Stands Still” (Feb. 1-March 4, 2018), a contemporary drama by Donald Margulies about a pair of war correspondents who begin to question their relationship and their careers. Artistic director Connie Canady Howard directs.
The season concludes with “Outside Mullingar” (May 3-June 3, 2018), John Patrick Shanley's romantic comedy set in rural Ireland. Goodman Theatre artistic associate Steve Scott directs the play, which centers on a pair of lovelorn farmers struggling to overcome a long-standing family feud and their own fears about romance.
Buffalo Theater Ensemble returned to the College of DuPage in 2016 after supporters presented petitions bearing more than 1,000 signatures to the COD board. The college had severed relations with the theater group in 2014.
Performances take place at the McAninch Arts Center, College of Dupage, 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn. Season subscriptions are available. Individual tickets go on sale Aug. 6, at the box office, by phone (630) 942-4000 or online at atthemac.org.