OUR 2024-2025 SEASON
THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER
By BARBARA ROBINSON • Directed by KELLY DeGRACE & HANNAH ALI
In this hilarious Christmas classic, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids – probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won't believe the mayhem – and the fun – when the Herdmans collide head-on with the story of Christmas!
December 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 2024
ABSENT FRIENDS
By ALAN AYCKBOURN • Directed by ERIC ALMLEAF
Colin must be comforted in his grief over the death of his fiancee so his friends, who never met the girl, arrange a tea party for him. Understandably they are on edge wondering what to say, but there is more to their unease: Diane and Paul, John and Evelyn, and Marge and her husband is perpetually out of circulation with trivial illnesses are all kept together by a mixture of business and cross marital emotional ties. By the time Colin arrives for tea, their tenseness contrasts dramatically with his air of cheerful relaxation. He is the only happy one among them and his happiness and insensitive analyses of their troubles causes each of them to break down.
April 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 2025
ROMANTIC FOOLS
By RICH ORLOFF • Directed by DEBORAH MARTIN
12 two-character comedies examining love, lust, dating, and romance -- from a date with a caveman (Find Me a Primitive Man) to the joys of dull sex (One Man's Secret Desire) to the surprise frustrations of having a perfect mate (The Stepford Guy). With influences of Monty Python, Saturday Night Live, Jules Feiffer, the Marx Brothers, and classic vaudeville comedy, these sketches vary in style but all celebrate the inherent comedy of male-female relationships.
June 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 2025
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