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Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory


Come with us and step into a world of pure imagination this holiday season! The mysterious Willy Wonka is opening the gates to his factory ...

Native Gardens
Native Gardens
1/17 - 1/26/2025


Comedy/Drama. Sometimes fences make for the best neighbors. In this hilarious and thought-provoking play, young couple Pablo and Tania are living the American dream when ...


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Past Shows

Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory


Come with us and step into a world of pure imagination this holiday season! The mysterious Willy Wonka is opening the gates to his factory ...

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
10/24 - 10/26/2024


A brilliantly innovative, genre-bending, fourth-wall-smashing rock musical sensation headlined by genderqueer and jilted rocker Hedwig as they recount their journey from East Germany to Kansas ...

Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein


It’s alive! Throw the switch and prepare for monstrous laughs in this high-energy adaptation of the Mel Brooks comedy classic. When the grandson of infamous ...

A Christmas Story (the musical)


Based on the Warner Brothers movie and the book by Jean Shepherd    The perennial Christmas favorite! Set in the 1940’s, the musical follows 9-year-old Ralphie ...

The Rocky Horror Show
The Rocky Horror Show
10/26 - 10/28/2023


Back by popular demand!  A sweet transvestite and his motley crew continue to do the time warp.  Complete with sass from the audience, this deliberately ...

Crowns
Crowns
9/22 - 10/1/2023


Adapted by Regina Taylor from a book of the same name A moving and celebratory musical play in which hats become a springboard for an ...

Something Rotten
Something Rotten
6/9 - 6/25/2023


Two brothers set out to write the world’s first musical in this hilarious mash-up of sixteenth-century Shakespeare and twenty-first-century Broadway. Welcome to the Renaissance and ...

Something Rotten!
6/9 - 6/25/2023


Welcome to the Renaissance and the outrageous, crowd-pleasing musical farce, Something Rotten. Created by Grammy Award-winning songwriter Wayne Kirkpatrick, and successful screenwriters Karey Kirkpatrick and ...

Silent Sky
Silent Sky
4/14 - 4/23/2023


In the early 1900’s women working at the Harvard Observatory weren’t allowed to touch a telescope and projects were calculated in “girl hours.” This beautiful ...

Silent Sky
Silent Sky
4/14 - 4/23/2023


In the early 1900’s women working at the Harvard Observatory weren’t allowed to touch a telescope and projects were calculated in “girl hours.” This beautiful ...

Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express


A Mystery by Agatha Christie | Adapted by Ken Ludwig Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express. By morning the luxurious train is ...

10-minute Musicals
3/2 - 3/2/2023


25 short musicals from Theatre Now New York, an artist service organization dedicated to the development of new works. The 25 musicals all began as part of Theatre Now’s ...

The Lifespan of a Fact
The Lifespan of a Fact
1/20 - 1/29/2023


A fresh-out-of-Harvard fact checker for a prominent, but sinking magazine, is assigned to check a transcendent essay about the suicide of a teenage boy—an essay ...

Cinderella
Cinderella
12/2 - 12/18/2022


The timeless enchantment of a magical fairy tale is reborn with the Rodgers & Hammerstein hallmarks of originality, charm and elegance. Studded with memorable music like ...

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert


Book, Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott Based on the Latent Image/Specific Films Motion PictureThis heartwarming, uplifting adventure in drag takes three friends to the Australian ...

Shrek The Musical Jr
7/15 - 7/16/2022


Beauty is in the eye of the ogre in Shrek The Musical JR., based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film and fantastic Broadway musical. It's ...

Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly!
6/10 - 6/26/2022


Book by Michael Stewart | Music and Lyrics by Jerry HermanThis blockbuster Broadway hit bursts with humor, romance, and some of the greatest songs in ...

And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None
3/4 - 3/13/2022


A Mystery by Agatha ChristieThe classic! Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island, all with wicked pasts they are unwilling to reveal and secrets ...

Collected Stories
Collected Stories
1/21 - 1/30/2022


Who owns your life story? An established author nurtures talent and friendship in a student until the students own writing publishes details about the authors ...

Elf: The Musical
Elf: The Musical
12/3 - 12/19/2021


Songs by Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin |Book by Thomas Meehan and Bob MartinBased on the cherished film, this beloved holiday comedy tells the hilarious ...

The Ballad of Black Jack
The Ballad of Black Jack
9/16 - 9/26/2021


A John Brown Experience! Celebrate our communitys history with beautiful music and a reminder of the local events that led up to the Civil War....

The Ballad of Black Jack
The Ballad of Black Jack
9/10 - 9/19/2021


A John Brown Experience! Celebrate our communitys history with beautiful music and a reminder of the local events that led up to the Civil War....

1940's Radio Hour
1940's Radio Hour
12/10 - 12/13/2020


"1940s Radio Hour" is a dynamic musical that captures the spirit of a bygone era when radio was king, the world was at war, and ...

Love, Loss and What I Wore
10/16 - 10/25/2020


Theatre Lawrence Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron, based on the book by Ilene Beckerman...

HELLO, DOLLY!
6/5 - 6/22/2020


Dolly Levi is a delightfully scheming busybody who makes her living as a matchmaker in glamorous New York City. She's out to make a match ...

Silent Sky
4/17 - 4/26/2020


When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. ...

Yours, Anne
2/28 - 3/8/2020


Holmes and Watson
4/12 - 4/21/2019


Sherlock Holmes is dead. Or so it is assumed. The world knows the great detective went over the falls at Reichenbach with his nemesis Professor ...

Quilters
Quilters
3/1 - 3/27/2019


A rich tale of a pioneer woman and her six daughters as they confront the rugged realities of frontier life; interwoven with music, vibrant patches ...

Quilters
3/1 - 3/10/2019


Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek; Music and Lyrics by Barbara Damashek Theatre Lawrence...

Annie
Annie
11/30 - 12/16/2018


Book and Score by Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse, and Martin Charnin Winner of 7 Tony Awards including Best Musical Leapin’ Lizards! With equal measures of ...

The Bridges of Madison County


Based on the best-selling novel about a forbidden love affair between a photographer and a housewife, this is a sweeping romance about the roads we ...

Camelot
Camelot
6/8 - 6/24/2018


Based on The Once and Future King by T. H. White Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lernerwith Music by Frederick Loewe Return to the ...

The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie
4/20 - 4/29/2018


A Classic by Tennessee Williams A poignant and poetic exploration of the human heart as a single mother strives to secure a future for her ...

Ring of Fire
Ring of Fire
3/2 - 3/11/2018


Created by Richard Maltby Jr., Conceived by Bill Meade From the iconic songbook of Johnny Cash comes this unique musical about love and faith, struggle ...

The Music Man
The Music Man
6/15 - 6/25/2017


The Music Man Book, Music and Lyrics by Meredith Willson. Wicked, funny, warm, romantic and touching, Meredith Willson's 6 time Tony Award winning musical follows ...

South Pacific
6/12 - 6/28/2015


The King and I
The King and I
6/13 - 6/29/2014


East versus West makes for a dramatic, richly textured and ultimately uplifting tale of enormous fascination. It is 1862 in Siam when an English widow, ...

Footloose
Footloose
9/19 - 10/6/2013


One of the most explosive movie musicals in recent memory bursts onto the live stage with exhilarating results. When Ren and his mother move from ...

The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music
11/30 - 12/16/2012


The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world's most beloved musical. When a postulant proves too high-spirited for the religious ...

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat


Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice The Biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors comes ...

Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias
4/13 - 4/29/2012


Steel Magnolias A Comedy/Drama by Steven Harling Welcome to Truvy’s beauty salon, where all the ladies who are “anybody” come to have their hair done. ...

Becky's New Car
Becky's New Car
2/24 - 3/4/2012


Becky’s New Car A Comedy by Steven Dietz Becky Foster is caught in middle age, middle management and in a middling marriage—with no prospects for ...

Bloody Murder
Bloody Murder
1/20 - 1/29/2012


Bloody Murder A Comedy by Ed Sala Characters in a British murder mystery rebel against their author in this comedic spoof of the classic Agatha ...

Forbidden Broadway
Forbidden Broadway
9/23 - 10/9/2011


Forbidden Broadway Created and written by Gerard Alessandrini In this long-running hit musical revue, Broadway’s greatest musical legends meet Broadway’s greatest satirist in a hilarious, ...

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