NEWS RELEASE

Park University's Department of Theatre will open its spring 2010 performance season with a production of Love Letters, Thursday, Feb. 11, through Saturday, Feb. 13. Show times are at 8 p.m. each night, in the Studio Theatre inside Alumni Hall (second floor above the main stage David Theatre), located on the University's Parkville Campus.

Love Letters, written by A.R. Gurney, and directed by Park junior English literature major Lora Hawkins, follows a story via letters exchanged over a lifetime between two people who had known each other since childhood.

The production is a charity fundraiser by the Park University Theatre Club, with all tickets a minimum $1 donation. Proceeds will be donated to the Eduardo Loredo Transplant Fund.

The Park University Theatre Department's spring season will continue with Enchanted April, March 19-21, and March 26-27. Enchanted April, by Matthew Barber, is taken from Elizabeth von Arnim's novel and won the 2003 John Gassner Award for Outstanding New American Play. Also a 2003 Tony Award Nominee for Best Play, Enchanted April is a funny but poignant journey of discovery by the characters in a gloomy winter. Set a few years after World War I, two frustrated British housewives and their recruited housemates need the sunshine and wisteria of Italy to bloom again and to rediscover what is really important in life.

Tickets for the March production are $10 for the general public, $5 for Park faculty and staff, and free for Park students with a valid Park ID. Tickets can be reserved by calling (816) 584-6451 or at the box office beginning one hour before each performance.

For more information, contact adjunct theatre instructor Andrea Southard at (816) 584-6450 or andrea.southard@park.edu.