Friday, February 20, 2026

Preview: Picnic
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ralph Zito, director

Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"I've always had the feeling, if I just had the chance, I could set the whole world on fire." As a small Kansas town prepares for the annual Labor Day picnic, handsome young drifter Hal stirs up long dormant feelings amongst a group of repressed women, including Madge, a beauty queen who yearns for another life whenever she hears the train whistle blow. Disappointments, resentments and rivalries simmer with the late summer swelter in William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the power of attraction and the perils of unfulfilled desire.

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