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| | Noises Off
by Michael Frayn
Called "the funniest farce ever written," we invite you behind the scenes to witness the foibles and follies of this play within a play as a cast rehearses and performs a flop called Nothing's On. This look at the inner workings of theatre -- missed cues, flubbled lines, secret affairs, and doors that won't open -- will have you rolling in the aisles. Come along to see slapstick, slamming doors, falling trousers, and the unforgettable flying sardines.
Recommended for ages 10 and up.
Some mature language
October 5-20 | Buy tickets | |
| | Oklahoma
Music by Rochard Rodgers
Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Based on the play Green Grow the Lilacs by Lynn Riggs
Original Dances by Agnes de Mille
The Oklahoma Territory in 1906 is a frontier on the verge of becoming a state where the farmer and the cowman must learn to be friends and young lovers attend box socials in a surrey with a fringe on top. The original 1943 production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic ran for more than five years and remains an audience pleasing stable of the musical theatre cannon to this day!
Recommended for all ages
November 1-17 | Buy tickets | |
| | An O Henry Christmas
By Howard Burman
On Christmas Eve in the 1890's, a group of hobos on the outskirts of New York have an unwelcome visitor drop in on them. They agree to let him have some of their food and share their fire in exchange for some stories about acts of kindness from unlikely sources. The visitor even has the members of the group act out the stories. It turns out the visitor is an escaped convict, but before he runs off to avoid the police, he manages to touch the hearts of his "hosts" and to show then that Christmas is about more than the usual superficial things.
Recommended for ages 10 and up.
November 30 - December 15 | Buy tickets | |
| | Doubt, A Parable
By John Patrick Shanley
Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, this provocative and powerful drama examines the perils of moral certainty. Conservative Sister Aloysius suspects modern-minded and charismatic Father Flynn of inappropriate behavior in the school. Which of them is to be believed? See this story and decide your own certainty or doubt.
The winner of the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama was also the basis for the critically acclaimed 2008 film featuring Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, Amy Adams and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Recommended for ages 12 and up.
January 11-26 | Buy tickets | |
| | Next to Normal
Music by Tom Kitt
Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Original Broadway production produced by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo and Second Stage Theatre
Diana and her family aren't quite as normal as they may first appear -- but maybe something next to normal will be okay. Grief, medical ethics, and psycopharmacology are unlikely subjects for a musical, but Next to Normal has been called one of the best musicals of the 21st century because of its graceful handling of its dark, complex subject matter and its moving and brutally honest exploration into pain. Nominated for 11 Tony Awards (and winner of 3!), the show also received a Pulitzer Prize for best drama.
Recommended for ages 13 and up with parental guidance.
February 7-23 | Buy tickets | |
| | The Mousetrap
by Agatha Christie
This is the famous mystery play which opened in London in 1952, and is still running there today - record length of time! Several guests at Monkswell Manor Guest House are trapped by weather and cut off from the outside world as a murderer with a long-held grudge begins to take revenge. Everyone is a suspect, and nobody can be trusted. The trademark Agatha Christie switcheroo leaves the audience guessing right up to the last scene.
Recommended for ages 10 and up.
March 8- 23 | Buy tickets | |
| | Caught in the Net
by Ray Cooney
Teenagers, Gavin and Vicki, happen to meet surfing the internet. They are attracted to each other and yet are amazed by all the coincidences -- each having a father with the same name, same age, and same occupation.
Why? Find out in this uproarious farce as the reasons unfold and as boy and girl attempt to meet for a date. How will they be stopped?
Recommended for ages 12 and up.
April 5-20 | Buy tickets | |
| | Mamma Mia
Music and Lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus
And some songs with Stig Anderson
Book by Catherine Johnson
Originally Conceived by Judy Cramer
Music Published by Universal Music Publishing Group and EMI Grove Park Music Inc. and EMI Waterford Music Inc.
On a quest to find the identity of her father to walk her down the aisle, Sophie brings three men from her mother’s past back to the Mediterranean paradise they visited 20 years earlier. Whether you’re a Dancing Queen or a Super Trooper, the music of ABBA will have you dancing in the aisles and saying Thank You For The Music in this thoroughly entertaining musical tale of one wedding, three fathers, and too many classics of the disco era to count!
Recommended for all ages with parental guidance
May 2-18 | Buy tickets | |
| | Opening Night
by Norm Foster
For their anniversary, a middle-aged couple is going to the premiere of a new play. Rurh Tisdale is thrilled to be a part of the theatre scene, while husband Jack would rather just stay home and watch games 7 of the World Series. Rurh is so caught up with the excitement that she doesn't seem to realize that the play is just plain awful, and the actors are even worse. Great fun for fans of live theatre!
Recommended for ages 10 and up.
May 31 - June 15 | Buy tickets | |
| | The Ladies Foursome
by Norm Foster
A heart-warming and often hilarious sotry of friendship inspired by Norm Foster's popular play The Foursome. The day after their friend Catherine's funeral, Margo, Tate, and Connie gather for a round of golf in honour of their departed friends. They are joined by an old friend of Catherine's that they have never met. Secrets unravel as the women discuss love, sex, children, and friendship. Laugh-filled, with an extra dose of stirring affection, this hole-in-one is not to be missed.
Recommended for ages 14 and up --audult content and mature language.
June 28 - July 13 | Buy tickets | |