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| | Exit Laughing
Written by Paul Elliott
Director: Laurel K. Bryant
Performances: May 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 2025
THE STORY: When the biggest highlight in your life for the past 30 years has been your weekly bridge night out with the "girls," what do you do when one of your foursome inconveniently dies? If you're Connie, Leona and Millie, three southern ladies from Birmingham, you do the most daring thing you've ever done. You "borrow" the ashes from the funeral home for one last card game, and the wildest, most exciting night of your lives involves a police raid, a stripper and a whole new way of looking at all the fun you can have when you're truly living. A winner of the AACTNewPlayFest, Exit Laughing broke all records for a nonmusical in Springfield Little Theatre's 50-year history at its premiere.
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| | You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents' Divorce
Written by Anne Kauffman, Matthew Maher, Caitlin Miller, Jennifer R Morris, Janice Paran and Robbie Collier Sublett
Director: D. Keith Stiver
Performances: August 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 2025
THE STORY: Crafted from interviews between the cast and their own parents, YOU BETTER SIT DOWN is a heartbreaking and hilarious account of the parents’ marriages and their subsequent divorces. These delicate parent-child conversations have yielded unique insights into falling in love, falling out of love, and rebuilding a life after the complex experience of dividing a family. The show explores each couple’s first meeting, the ups and downs of their marriage, their split, and the surprising perspectives on life after divorce. This provocative show reveals the stories behind the statistics of one of the most prominent social phenomena of our time.
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| | Dead Man's Cell Phone
Written by Sarah Ruhl
Director: Marc C. Howard
Performances: October 31, November 1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 2025
THE STORY: An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl. A work about how we memorialize the dead – and how that remembering changes us – it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
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