The Glass Menagerie
Directed by Arden Miller, The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams) follows Amanda Wingfield, a faded remnant of Southern gentility, who now lives in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and her daughter, Laura, who has a physical handicap and debilitating shyness. The father has left home; Tom supports his mother and sister with a shoe-factory job he finds unbearable. When Amanda convinces Tom to bring home from his workplace a “gentleman caller” for Laura, the illusions that Tom, Amanda, and Laura have each created in order to make life bearable collapse about them.
Peter and the Starcatcher
Based on the best-selling novels, Peter and the Starcatcher is the “absurdly funny, fantastical story” (Entertainment Weekly) that upends the century-old tale of how a miserable orphan boy becomes the legendary Peter Pan. In this 5 time Tony®-winning play, a dozen brilliant actors play more than 100 unforgettable characters using their enormous talent, ingenious stagecraft and the limitless possibilities of imagination. This swashbuckling grownup prequel to Peter Pan will have you hooked from the moment you let your imagination take flight.
Yeltsin in Texas!
In 1989, then-Soviet leader Boris Yeltsin visited the United States. He was shown The United Nations, Trump Tower, The Johnson Space Center — all of which left him unimpressed. An unscheduled stop at a grocery store outside Houston changed the course of history. Gobsmacked by the bounty of an average American supermarket, Boris Yeltsin resolved to return to the USSR to end Communism in his homeland.
The One-Act Play That Goes Wrong
You all know the classic murder mystery story. There has been an untimely death at a country manor, everyone is a suspect, and an inspector is set on the case to find who the culprit is. However, when this play is performed by the accident-prone thespians of The Cornley Drama Society, everything that can go wrong…does! The actors and crew battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! From Mischief, the creators of the West End smash Peter Pan Goes Wrong, critically acclaimed TV series The Goes Wrong Show, and the Tony-winning Broadway hit The Play That Goes Wrong, this is the original one-act play which started everything going wrong. Over the course of an hour, expect a plethora of disasters from missed lines to falling props. Do you ever find out who murdered Charles Haversham? You’ll have to see for yourself! Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields and directed by Pia Wyatt.
Wait Until Dark
Forty-seven years after WAIT UNTIL DARK premiered on Broadway, Jeffrey Hatcher has adapted Frederick Knott's 1966 original, giving it a new setting. Directed by Logan Sledge, Wait Until Dark is set in 1944 Greenwich Village. Susan Hendrix, a blind yet capable woman, is imperiled by a trio of men in her own apartment. As the climax builds, Susan discovers that her blindness just might be the key to her escape, but she and her tormentors must wait until dark to play out this classic thriller's chilling conclusion. Thursday September 30th through Saturday October 2nd at 7:30 PM and Sunday October 3rd at 2:00 PM.
Matilda
Based on the beloved novel by the brilliantly batty Roald Dahl, MATILDA is an extraordinary girl who, armed with a sharp mind and vivid imagination dares to take a stand and change her destiny. She is a genius who is born into a… less brilliant family. Her dad is a car salesman with a few scruples loose. Her mum is an amateur ballroom dancer who values looks over books… not a great match for a girl who reads Dostoevsky in the original Russian. Things only get worse when Matilda’s parents send her to school at the ghastly Crunchem Hall. There she meets the tyrannical head mistress, Miss Trunchbull. Faced with these ridiculously rotten circumstances Matilda bravely decides to take action. With the help of her friends, and her kind-hearted teacher, Miss Honey this miraculous girl inspires a little revolution, proving that everyone has the power to change their story.
Incendiary
Firefighting and fire starting get the noir-camp treatment in Adam Szymkowicz’s INCENDIARY, which tackles the whimsical dilemma of star-crossed lovers in the arsonist and arson-investigator fields … this nutty love triangle of boy, girl and inferno is charmingly original and genuinely suspenseful. Performances from November 5th-7th at 7:30 PM and November 8th at 2 PM. Directed by Pia Wyatt.
6 Feet Apart
In a family dinner that is at times uncomfortable, unexpected, and revolting in terms of race issues, the son Johnathon Frank, requests that his friend from college, DeShawn Smith, stay at his family’s house for the entirety of their college’s winter break. Written by Harrison Starrett and directed by Charlie Roppolo.