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| | Holmes/Poirot
Written by Jeffrey Hatcher and Steve Hendrickson
Directed by Eric Seale
Lee Street is excited to bring this Regional Premiere production to our stage! Sherlock Holmes has a hunch: John Watson is in love with Lily Berenger, a woman who wants the duo to protect her and her husband. But when Holmes and Watson's case turns from protection to investigation, the intoxicating effects of love cloud the minds of both the inquisitors and the suspects, leading to an impasse between the two friends over the murderer's true identity—and an unsolved mystery. Decades later, the esteemed inspector Hercule Poirot receives a similar request for protection from a client and brings along his best friend, Arthur Hastings, to help. History repeats itself, and Poirot and Hastings end up investigating a murder after their client turns up dead. The more Poirot works on the case, the more the particulars of this murder remind him of an unsolved case that Holmes set out to solve years earlier—and now it seems it might take two of the most famous detectives to unravel the mystery! | Buy Tickets |
| | Young Frankenstein
Book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks
Directed by Andy Rassler
Music Directed by Matthew Primm
From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation, The Producers, comes this monster new musical comedy. The comedy genius, Mel Brooks, adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation – Young Frankenstein!
Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (that's "Fronk-en-steen!") inherits his family's estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick, Igor, and a leggy lab assistant, Inga, Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors. "It's alive!" he exclaims as he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather's. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity continuously abounds. With such memorable tunes as "The Transylvania Mania," "He Vas My Boyfriend" and "Puttin' on the Ritz," Young Frankenstein is scientifically proven, monstrously good entertainment. | Buy Tickets |
| | The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of A Christmas Carol
Writen by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin, Jr.
Loosely based on Charles Dickens' ‘A Christmas Carol’
Co-Directed by Shelby Mays and Kiera Whittemore
In a festive mood, the ladies of the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society mount an assault on the Dickens classic with their stage version of A Christmas Carol. They enthusiastically portray a dizzy array of characters from the Dickensian favorite (and a few which aren't), engineer some novel audience participation while bravely contending with an intrusive PA system and a real Farndale first rap their vocal cords and feet around two original, show stopping songs. What could go wrong? | Buy Tickets |
| | RENT
Books, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson
Directed by Rod Oden
Music Directed by Vicki Harvell
Set in the East Village of New York City, Rent is about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Rent has become a pop cultural phenomenon. with songs that rock and a story that resonates with audiences of all ages.
Based loosely on Puccini's La Boheme, Jonathan Larson's Rent follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. The physical and emotional complications of the disease pervade the lives of Roger, Mimi, Tom and Angel. Maureen deals with her chronic infidelity through performance art; her partner, Joanne, wonders if their relationship is worth the trouble. Benny has sold out his Bohemian ideals in exchange for a hefty income and is on the outs with his former friends. Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, feels like an outsider to life in general.
Lee Street is excited to bring this cultural-phenomenon to life in THE FULL ROUND, so you can be immersed in the powerful story and performances! | Buy Tickets |
| | School for Scandal
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Directed by Robert Sharkey
1770s London, where the aristocracy’s morals have plunged lower than the necklines on the women’s gowns. The vicious Lady Sneerwell enjoys ruining reputations for pleasure, and her latest target is the young bachelor Charles Surface — why should this pretentious little rake inherit his uncle’s fortune? Together with Charles’ conniving brother Joseph, Sneerwell orchestrates an elaborate scheme of intrigue and infidelity that’s sure to ruffle all the right feathers — hopefully.
After Shakespeare but long before Bridgerton, there was The School for Scandal, Sheridan’s brilliantly biting comedy of manners in five acts. Our new production — styled to the nines with period flair — promises an exuberant couture feast of big wigs and even bigger laughs. | Buy Tickets |
| | The Crucible
Written by Arthur Miller
Directed by Rod Oden
Consumed by paranoia, superstition and a ruthless sense of justice, a climate of fear and mass hysteria sweeps through the town of Salem, Massachusetts when rumours grow that a group of girls are practicing witchcraft. What lies are the townspeople prepared to tell themselves in order to survive? Presented in a visceral and gripping environmental fashion, revolutionary, award-winning American playwright Arthur Miller’s seminal, political history play about Salem in 1692 will have the audience witnessing the hysteria for themselves. | Buy Tickets |
| | A Raisin in the Sun
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by Sidney Horton
Set on Chicago’s South Side, Lorraine Hansberry's celebrated play concerns the divergent dreams and conflicts in three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis, and matriarch Lena. When her deceased husband’s insurance money comes through, Mama Lena dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans: buying a liquor store and being his own man. Beneatha dreams of medical school. Hansberry's portrait of one family’s struggle to retain dignity in a harsh and changing world is a searing and timeless document of hope and inspiration. | Buy Tickets |
| | SHREK
The Musical
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Book and Lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Hilary Powell
Music Directed by Vicki Harvl
“Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek….” Thus begins the tale of an unlikely hero who finds himself on a life-changing journey alongside a wisecracking Donkey and a feisty princess who resists her rescue. This production shows us a joyful, colorful Shrek that leans into the humanity in all of us and celebrates our differences. Lee Street is excited to focus on the beauty of the diversity this show celebrates, as well as the emphasis of the importance of loving ourselves and one another. | Buy Tickets |