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| | A CHRISTMAS STORY
Dec 5-8, 12-15, and 19-22, 2024
By Philip Grecian. Based on the motion picture A Christmas Story, © 1983 Turner Entertainment Co., distributed by Warner Bros., written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; and on the book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd.
Humorist Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in the Midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself at Higbee's Department Store. The consistent response: "You'll shoot your eye out!" All the elements from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family's temperamental exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the school bully; the boys' experiment with a wet tongue on a cold lamppost; the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin; Ralphie's father winning a lamp shaped like a woman's leg in a net stocking; Ralphie's fantasy scenarios and more. | Buy Tickets |
| | N.I.T.W.I.T.S.: Roulette
January 10 and 11, 2025
Want to see the improviest improv to ever improv?
Come help us build a night of laughs by choosing what games our players will perform for you. That’s right, we won’t even know what games we are going to play!
You, the audience, will choose what type of game and we will find out together! Guessing games? Maybe! Musical games? It could happen! One liners? If that’s what y’all want!
Come enjoy a fast-paced night of improv in its purest form! | Buy Tickets |
| | Perfect Arrangement
By Topher Payne
February 6-9 and 13-16, 2025
It’s 1950, and new colors are being added to the Red Scare. Two U.S. State Department employees, Bob and Norma, have been tasked with identifying sexual deviants within their ranks. There’s just one problem: Both Bob and Norma are gay and have married each other’s partners as a carefully constructed cover. Inspired by the true story of the earliest stirrings of the American gay rights movement, madcap classic sitcom-style laughs give way to provocative drama as two “All-American” couples are forced to stare down the closet door. | Buy Tickets |
| | N.I.T.W.I.T.S.: Survival Island: Fourth to Adapt
February 28 and March 1, 2025
Three teams face off against each other in battles of wit, cunning, and acting prowess hoping to gain the audience’s favor to avoid elimination.
Not only must the players survive each other, but they must also survive the twists and turns that will… “fourth” them to adapt to some wacky situations!
Twelve start, but only one will stand victorious in N.I.T.W.I.T.S. Survival Island! | Buy Tickets |
| | Lend Me a Tenor
by Ken Ludwig
March 6-9 and 13-16, 2025
Winner of 3 Tony Awards and 4 Drama Desk Awards, Lend Me A Tenor is set in September 1934. Saunders, the general manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, is primed to welcome world-famous singer Tito Merelli, known as Il Stupendo, the greatest tenor of his generation, to appear for one night only as the star of the opera. Tito arrives late, and through a hilarious series of mishaps, he is given a double dose of tranquilizers and passes out. His pulse is so low that Saunders and his assistant Max believe he’s dead - and in a frantic attempt to salvage the evening, Saunders persuades Max to get into Merelli's costume and fool the audience into thinking he's Il Stupendo. Max succeeds and lives up to his idol, but Merelli regains consciousness and gets into the identical costume, ready to perform. Now two opera singers are running around in the same costume and two women are running around in lingerie, each thinking she is with Il Stupendo. A sensation on Broadway and in London's West End, this madcap, screwball comedy is guaranteed to leave audiences teary-eyed with laughter. | Buy Tickets |
| | N.I.T.W.I.T.S.: Idol
April 4 and 5, 2025
Not everybody can be a singing sensation, but they sure can try on N.I.T.W.I.T.S.: Idol!
Follow a ragtag group of improv players as they try to win the hearts and laughter of the infamous judges.
Will they take home the coveted N.I.T.W.I.T.S.: Idol statuette? Will their songs go viral over social media? Will they be ridiculed and scorned?
The competition will certainly be interesting, if not fierce, on the best singing show you’ve never seen before, N.I.T.W.I.T.S.: Idol!
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| | The Cemetery Club
by Ivan Menchell
April 17-20 and 24-27, 2025
Three Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husbands’ graves. Ida is sweet tempered and ready to begin a new life; Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to have fun; and Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam the butcher enters the scene. He meets the widows while visiting his wife’s grave. Doris and Lucille squash the budding romance between Sam and Ida. They are guilt-stricken when this nearly breaks Ida’s heart. | Buy Tickets |
| | SHREK the Musical
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Book and Lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire
Based on the DreamWorks Animation Motion Picture and the book by William Steig
May 8-11, 15-18, and 22-25, 2025
Based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film, Shrek The Musical is a Tony Award-winning fairy tale adventure.
"Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek...." And 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. Throw in a short-tempered bad guy, a cookie with an attitude and over a dozen other fairy tale misfits, and you've got the kind of mess that calls for a real hero. Luckily, there's one on hand... and his name is Shrek.
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| | N.I.T.W.I.T.S.: Mandatory Funny
May 30 and 31, 2025
Join us for Newnan Theatre Company’s second ever night of original sketch comedy!
Buckle up as your favorite local stooges take on pop culture and current events in a fashion totally befitting a bunch of N.I.T.W.I.T.S. | Buy Tickets |