Fall Dinner Theatre: “Expecting Isabel”

Show times will be at 8 p.m. Nov. 12-14 and 19-21, with dinner served at 7 p.m. A matinee performance is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15, with lunch served at 1 p.m. Tickets are $12.50 for ASU students and ASU activity card holders, $15 for non-ASU students and Arts at ASU subscribers, and $20 general admission. The Modular Theatre is located in the Carr Education-Fine Arts Building, 2602 Dena Drive.

Written by Lisa Loomer, “Expecting Isabel” is a comedy about the adventures of a Manhattan couple trying to have a baby – by any means necessary – as they negotiate the fertility trade, the adoption industry and their own families. Loomer, who is also a screenwriter, actress and stand-up comic, uses humor to soothe the ache of infertility in “Expecting Isabel,” which won the 1999 American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg New Play Award after premiering in Washington, D.C., in 1998. Loomer also won the Steinberg award for “The Waiting Room” (1994). Her work has been recognized with the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award.

Tickets are on sale in the ASU box office, which is open 2-6 p.m. weekdays.