On Sale to FLEX – July 24, 2023
On Sale to the Public – July 31, 2023

Misery Loves Company.

Successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued from a car crash by his ‘Number One Fan,’ Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive in her secluded home. While Paul is convalescing, Annie reads the manuscript to his newest novel and becomes enraged when she discovers the author has killed off her favorite character, Misery Chastain. Annie forces Paul to write a new ‘Misery’ novel, and he quickly realizes Annie has no intention of letting him go anywhere.The irate Annie has Paul writing as if his life depends on it, and it does.

Opens: Thursday, August 17, 2023
Closes: Sunday, August 20, 2023
Location: Marjorie Lyons Playhouse,
on the campus of Centenary College

By | WILLIAM GOLDMAN
Based on the novel by STEPHEN KING

Schedule:
THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY | AUGUST 17, 18, 19 | 7:30PM
SUNDAY | AUGUST 20 | 2:00PM

Tickets: On Sale to the Public – July 31, 2023
$25. Adults | $22. Seniors/Military | $20. Students

“There are no lulls in famed screenwriter William Goldman’s 90-minute stage adaptation of the Stephen King story, which Goldman himself translated into the 1990 film…Exposition that took a dozen pages in paperback and at least several minutes on screen plays out…faster than snow piling up in a Colorado blizzard.” —NBC New York

MISERY CAST

Paul Sheldon BLAYNE WEAVER*
Annie Wilkes HEATHER PEAK HOOPER
Buster TBD

*Mr. Weaver appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union for Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

SUPPORTED IN PART BY A GRANT FROM THE SHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL WITH FUNDS FROM THE CITY OF SHREVEPORT