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Onstage at Theatre Three: Crimes of the Heart

(Dallas, Texas) Theatre Three’s Mainstage Season of the 2007 – 2008 season continues with the comedy, Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley. Theatre Three’s forty-seventh season features plays and musicals celebrating the making of movies, plays that became famous movies, and plays that re-examine fascinating screen ideas with the techniques of live performance -- a cavalcade of entertaining mysteries, comedies, dramas, and musicals – and all in 3-D on Theatre Three’s famous theatre-in-the-round stage. Crimes of the Heart begins previews on Thursday, February 14, 2008 and will close on Sunday, March 16, 2008. “Because it’s a human need. To talk about our lives. It’s an important human need.”– Meg MaGrath in Crimes of the Heart. It’s October 23, 1974 and Lenny MaGrath is celebrating her big thirtieth birthday with one candle in a crumbling cookie. Her life and the lives of her sisters, Meg and Babe, seem to be crumbling faster than Lenny’s birthday cookie. Lenny is the lonely caretaker of her Old Granddaddy, a dominating grandfather who has convinced his eldest granddaughter that no man will ever love her because of her deformed ovary. Meg MaGrath left home to pursue her singing career in Hollywood, but suffered a nervous breakdown. Meg has returned home to help her sister, Babe, who has just shot her powerful husband after years of abuse. All three girls struggle with ghosts from the past, but together, they discover renewed strength and the healing power of laughter. About The Playwright: Beth Henley was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play for her play Crimes of the Heart. Crimes ran on Broadway at the Golden Theatre. A second play, The Wake of Jamey Foster, ran on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. Off-Broadway productions include: Am I Blue, The Miss Firecracker Contest, The Lucky Spot, The Debutante Ball, Abundance; Impossible Marriage, and Family Week. Other plays include Control Freaks, The L-Play, Revelers, Signature, and Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. Ms. Henley's work has been produced internationally and translated into over ten languages. Smith and Kraus recently published a two volume collection of her plays. Her newest play, Ridiculous Fraud, was produced at McCarter Theatre and subsequently at South Coast Repertory. Ms. Henley wrote the screenplay for the acclaimed film version of Crimes of the Heart for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. The film was directed by Bruce Beresford and starred Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek and Sam Shepard. She also wrote the screenplay for Miss Firecracker starring Holly Hunter and Tim Robbins. She wrote the screenplay for Nobody's Fool which starred Rosanna Arquette and Eric Roberts, and co-wrote David Byrne's True Stories. Her television credits include Surviving Love a film for CBS and starring Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen as well as a teleplay for the PBS series, Trying Times, directed by Jonathan Demme. Presently Ms. Henley is writing a pilot for an HBO comedy, “Buckhead Bettyzz”.

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