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| | RENT
Books, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson
Directed by Rod Oden
Music Directed by Vicki Harvell
Choreography by Rachel Peterson
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 Harvell
“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 |