Auburn Stage | April 27 to May 6, 2023

Edgar Beamish dies, leaving his corporate empire to his estranged son, Junior, who launches a charitable foundation with company assets. Disaster ensues, bankruptcy appears certain. But Junior has a fundraising inspiration, The Phoenix Lottery. It offers its winner instant fame and fortune. Junior has an ally in the lottery winner, but powerful enemies include a slippery Vatican envoy, the ghost of Junior’s father and a surprise spirit. An exploration of art, big business, untidy family relationships The Phoenix Lottery is a grand comedy told with outrageous wit and a keen eye for the masks with which society maintains the fiction of a moral world.