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| | Cocktails & Comedy with Candace
A Fundraiser for the Mass Arts Center
Saturday, May 30, 5:30 pm
Performance to follow cocktails and food at 7 pm
You’re invited to an unforgettable evening supporting the arts in our community.
The night begins under the tent with a lively pre-show gathering featuring cocktails and delicious food — an opportunity to gather, connect and celebrate the impact of the Mass Arts Center. We’ll then move into the theater for a one-woman comedy performance by our own Candace Sallale, bringing laughter to a night with purpose.
Your presence — and your support — help sustain the performances, programs, and creative opportunities that make the Mass Arts Center such a vibrant part of our community. | Buy Tickets |
| | Damn Yankees
Sept 18-Oct 4, 2026
Musical
NOTE: All evening shows for Damn Yankees will be at 8:00 PM to avoid conflicts with Xfinity traffic.
Please note that performance dates (Sept. 18 – Oct. 4, 2026) overlap with Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur; please check your calendar carefully as all sales are final. Only subscribers and members may exchange tickets up to 48 hours before a show, subject to availability.
Directed by Adam Joy
Music Directed by Tal Taylor
Based on the novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant by Douglass Wallop, Damn Yankees the Broadway mega-hit and winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, hits it out of the park! The winning score by Adler and Ross and a devilish book by George Abbot have made this sporty musical comedy a true American classic.
Middle-aged baseball fanatic Joe Boyd, trades his soul to the Devil, also known as Mr. Applegate, for a chance to lead his favorite team to victory in the pennant race against the New York Yankees. As young baseball sensation, Joe Hardy, he transforms the hapless Washington Senators into a winning team, only to realize the true worth of the life that he's left behind. Joe ultimately outsmarts Applegate, returns to his former self and shepherds the Senators to the World Series.
Light, fast-paced and devilishly clever, Damn Yankees is a homerun hit, featuring all-American subject matter and an irreverent sense of humor. The perfect choice for a high school's spring musical or community theatre production, Damn Yankees is a wicked, romantic comedy, sure to please. | Buy Tickets |
| | Twelfth Night
Nov. 5-15, 2026
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Steve Dooner
Evening shows are at 7:30 PM
William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is a brilliant exploration of the masks we wear and the people we choose to love. The story begins with a literal and metaphorical upheaval: a shipwreck that strands the resourceful Viola on a foreign shore. Believing her twin brother lost to the sea, she adopts a male disguise for protection, inadvertently setting off a chain reaction of romantic chaos.
The play thrives on a "merry war" of social classes and temperaments. While the noble characters languish in the poetic agonies of unrequited love, the household staff and hangers-on engage in a riotous subplot of pranks and revelry. Shakespeare masterfully balances these two worlds — one sophisticated and sighing, the other crude and vengeful — to show that folly is a universal human trait regardless of rank.
What makes Twelfth Night endure is its bittersweet edge. It is a world where identity is fluid, gender is a costume, and the line between a joke and cruelty is razor-thin. It invites the audience to laugh at the absurdity of the human heart while acknowledging that, even in a comedy, "the rain it raineth every day." | Buy Tickets |
| | A Christmas Carol
Dec. 10-20, 2026
By Charles Dickens
Directed by Steve Dooner
Evening shows are at 7:30 PM
Published in 1843, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol remains the definitive narrative of the holiday season, credited with shaping the very way we celebrate "Christmas charity" today. Set against the chilly, industrial backdrop of Victorian London, the novella serves as both a chilling ghost story and a scathing social critique. It centers on the archetypal miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, a man whose coldness of heart is so profound it seems to physically lower the temperature of the rooms he enters.
The brilliance of the story lies in its atmosphere. Dickens masterfully contrasts the grim, fog-choked streets of the city with the warmth of the domestic hearth. Through a series of supernatural encounters, the narrative explores the heavy "chains" we forge in life—links made of apathy, greed, and missed opportunities. It is a profound meditation on the elasticity of time, forcing the reader to look backward at what was lost and forward at what might be avoided.
Ultimately, A Christmas Carol is a psychological study of transformation. It asks whether a person’s character is fixed or if the "shadows of the things that will be" can truly be altered. It remains a timeless reminder that it is never too late to reconnect with the human family. | Buy Tickets |
| | A Little Night Music
Musical
Jan 22-Feb 7, 2027
Directed by William Deschenes
Evening shows are at 7:30 PM
Stephen Sondheim creates a stunning tour de force when he takes Ingmar Bergman's comedy of manners, Smiles of a Summer Night, and turns it into a musical of masterful execution and elegance. Winner of four Tony Awards, this is a musical work that has forever entranced the world of theatre.
Set in 1900 Sweden, A Little Night Music explores the tangled web of affairs centered around actress, Desirée Armfeldt, and the men who love her: a lawyer by the name of Fredrik Egerman and the Count Carl-Magnus Malcom. When the traveling actress performs in Fredrik's town, the estranged lovers' passion rekindles. This strikes a flurry of jealousy and suspicion between Desirée; Fredrik; Fredrick's wife, Anne; Desirée's current lover, the Count; and the Count's wife, Charlotte. Both men – as well as their jealous wives – agree to join Desirée and her family for a weekend in the country at Desirée's mother's estate. With everyone in one place, infinite possibilities of new romances and second chances bring endless surprises.
A Little Night Music is full of hilariously witty and heartbreakingly moving moments of adoration, regret and desire. This dramatic musical celebration of love is perfect to showcase your highly trained singers with its harmonically advanced score and masterful orchestrations, and contains Sondheim's popular song, the haunting "Send in the Clowns." | Buy Tickets |
| | A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Musical
Mar 19-Apr 4, 2027
Directed by Vincent Ratsavong
Musical Direction by Derrick Lacasse
Evening shows are at 7:30 PM
Please note: There will be a 2 PM matinee on Easter Sunday, March 28, 2027. All Ticket Sales are final.
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder is the knock-'em-dead, uproarious hit and the most-nominated show of the 2014 season. With ten Tony nominations and four wins, including Best Musical, Book, Direction and Costumes, it also earned seven Drama Desk Awards (including Best Musical), four Outer Critics Circle Awards (including Best Musical) and one Drama League Award (Best Musical).
When the low-born Monty Navarro finds out that he's eighth in line for an earldom in the lofty D'Ysquith family, he figures his chances of outliving his predecessors are slight and sets off down a far more ghoulish path. Can he knock off his unsuspecting relatives without being caught and become the ninth Earl of Highhurst? And what of love? Because murder isn't the only thing on Monty's mind....
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder is a murderous romp filled with unforgettable music, non-stop laughs and a scene-stealing role for one actor playing all eight of the doomed heirs who meet their ends in the most creative and side-splitting ways. This is a must-produce for any theatre looking for a truly original and fresh new comedy that will delight audiences and leave them begging for more.
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