2022 Season
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Unless otherwise noted, performances for all
shows are Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m |
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Tuna Does Vegas
by Ed Howard, Joe Sears, & Jaston Williams Produced by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals Performance Dates:
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Tuna Does Vegas, the hilarious new installment from the legendary Greater Tuna creative team! Tuna Does Vegas re-unites the lovable and eccentric characters from the 'third smallest town in Texas' as they take a rambling romp in Sin City. The hilarity begins when oddball-conservative radio host Arles Struvie announces on air that he and his wife Bertha Bumiller are heading to Vegas to renew their wedding vows...but everyone in Tuna, Texas goes along for the ride! Written by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard, Tuna Does Vegas will feature the favorite characters from the award-winning Greater Tuna productions with some new characters too!Tuna Does Vegas balances as both an affectionate comment on small-town life and attitudes as well a hilarious satire of the same. The eclectic band of citizens that make up this town are portrayed by only two actors, making this send-up on life in rural America even more delightful as they depict all of the inhabitants of Tuna -- men, women, as well as Vegas showgirls, Elvis impersonators and more!
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Last Gas
by John Cariani Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. Performance Dates:
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Nat Paradis is a Red Sox-loving part-time dad who manages Paradis’ Last Convenient Store, the last convenient place to get gas—or anything—before the Canadian border to the north and the North Maine Woods to the west. When an old flame returns to town, Nat gets a chance to rekindle a romance he gave up on years ago. But sparks fly as he’s forced to choose between new love and old. LAST GAS takes a hilarious and heartbreakingly hard look at love lost and found, and at what it means to “get back to happy."
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Ten Days In a Madhouse
by Jade Emerson Winner of our 2021 playwriting competition Performance Dates:
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Nellie Bly’s story has been told before: the story of an insane asylum, of a madwoman, of screaming girls in white nightgowns with long, ratted hair. You’ve heard her story before in dozens of exaggerations, dilutions, and dramatizations, and yet I’m guessing very few people know or remember her name. And even fewer know the names of Anne Neville, Tillie Mayard, and the hundreds of women who were locked away without a say. Nellie was limited from Day 1 because of her social status and gender. When in the asylum, she was quite literally quarantined in a circumstance she was uncertain if she could ever escape. Her situation made her susceptible to a disease running rampant- insanity.
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Romeo & Juliet
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William Shakespeare's classic and well-loved tragedy about star-crossed lovers and their unfortunate fate.
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The Musical Comedy
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The creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious “Stage Door Slasher") assemble for a backer’s audition of their new show at the Westchester estate of a wealthy “angel.” The house is replete with sliding panels, secret passageways, and a German maid who is apparently four different people—all of which figure diabolically in the comic mayhem which follows when the infamous “Slasher” makes his reappearance and strikes again—and again. As the composer, lyricist, actors, and director prepare their performance, and a blizzard cuts off any possible retreat, bodies start to drop in plain sight, knives spring out of nowhere, masked figures drag their victims behind swiveling bookcases, and accusing fingers point in all directions. However, and with no thanks to the bumbling police inspector who snowshoes in to investigate, the mystery is solved in the nick of time and the “Slasher” unmasked—but not before the audience has been treated to a sidesplitting good time and a generous serving of the author’s biting, satiric, and refreshingly irreverent wit.
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The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales
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Though the characters may be familiar, each of your favorite storybook fables is uproariously derailed in this adaptation of Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith's quintessential children's book of fractured fairy tales. Everything from "Chicken Little" to "The Gingerbread Man" gets a complete makeover. Fun music and witty narration accompany the likes of ineloquent giants, sassy barnyard animals, colossal cow pies, and enough stinky cheese to go around.
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James and the Giant Peach
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Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach is now a musical for the whole family to enjoy! Featuring a wickedly tuneful score by the Tony Award-nominated team of Pasek and Paul (Dogfight and A Christmas Story the Musical) and a curiously quirky book by Timothy Allen McDonald (Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka, The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley), critics rave: James and the Giant Peach is a "masterpeach!" When James is sent by his conniving aunts to chop down their old fruit tree, he discovers a magic potion that results in a tremendous peach... and launches a journey of enormous proportions. Suddenly, James finds himself in the center of the gigantic peach, among human-sized insects with equally oversized personalities, but after it falls from the tree and rolls into the ocean, the group faces hunger, sharks and plenty of disagreements. Thanks to James' quick wit and creative thinking, the residents learn to live and work together as a family. The dangerous voyage is a success, but the adventure takes a whole new twist once they land on the Empire State Building. |
Summerland
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Summerland tells the mysterious tale of William H. Mumler, a spirit photographer with a talent for capturing haunting images of the dead from the world beyond the veil – Summerland. Based on true events that didn’t exactly happen this way, Summerland is set in Mumler’s New York studio in 1869 at the height of the American Spiritualist movement. Summerland opens at the peak of Mumler’s career, just as his wildly successful studio trade comes under indictment for fraud. Chief Marshal Joseph Tooker investigates Mumler’s past and his process, uncovering much more than he bargained for in his search for truth. Summerland is about the collision between the two men’s opposing beliefs about the afterlife. Is it a hoax, or is it real? Finding the answer to either question threatens to destroy them. Are we standing between two worlds, are there such things as spirits, or is it only Mrs. Mumler moving in the shadows? No evidence remains, only lingering questions: What happens to us when we die? Do our loved ones really await us in Summerland?
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Suite Surrender
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It's 1942, and two of Hollywood's biggest divas have descended upon the luxurious Palm Beach Royale Hotel -- assistants, luggage, and legendary feud with one another in tow. Everything seems to be in order for their wartime performance...that is, until they are somehow assigned to the same suite. Mistaken identities, overblown egos, double entendres, and a lap dog named Mr. Boodles round out this hilarious riot of a love note to the classic farces of the 30s and 40s.
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