ATLANTA - Oglethorpe University’s Theatre Department presents two one-act plays by Arthur Kopit: Sing To Me Through Open Windows and The Conquest of Everest. Performances, directed by Oglethorpe senior Jesse Hinson, will be February 10 and 11 at 8:00 p.m. and February 10 at midnight in the Conant Performing Arts Center on the Oglethorpe campus (4484 Peachtree Road NE, Atlanta 30319).

The darkly affecting Sing To Me Through Open Windows, first produced in 1959 at Harvard University, tells the story of Ottoman the magician, a boy named Andrew, Loveless the clown and a magical trunk. The Conquest of Everest, first produced by the New York Ensemble in 1964, features two tourists with a purse and sandwiches in hand.

The Harvard-educated Kopit was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in drama. His work Nine received the 1982 Tony Award for best musical. Kopit is known for his cultural satire. Don Shewey wrote in The New York Times that Kopit is “the serious American playwright who has survived on Broadway.”

Tickets are $5 per person, free with Oglethorpe ID. For more information on these one-acts, call Oglethorpe University’s box office at 404.504.1074.