2025/2026 Main Stage Productions
Leon Tolchinsky is ecstatic. He’s landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet. When he arrives, he finds people sweeping dust from the stoops back into their houses and people milking upside down to get more cream. The town has been cursed with Chronic Stupidity for two hundred years, and Leon’s job is to break the curse. No one tells him that if he stays over twenty-four hours and fails to break the curse, he too becomes stupid. But he has fallen in love with a girl so stupid, she has only recently learned how to sit down.
~ Courtesy Concord Theatricals
Imagine you are an actor on opening night trying to perform on a set that isn't completed. Then one actor doesn't show up, a man from the audience uses your stage phone to argue with his wife, the props either don't work or are missing, the lighting and sound cues are off and two silly, incompetent stagehands do their worst. That's only the beginning of this award-winning show which actually caused a woman in one audience to fall from her chair in laughter. This delightful play is filled with surprises and zany characters and is ideal for competition, fund-raising and pure entertainment.
~ Courtesy Dramatic Publishing
Seventeen-year-old Susan, who has attempted suicide, lies in a coma. Her doctor says, "Whether she lives or dies now is a matter of her own will." What goes on in Susan's mind is the play, which invites the audience to deduce Susan's decision regarding life or death. Thoroughly researched, this play is both an enthralling theatrical event and the basis for a useful exploration of a tragic problem.
~ Courtesy Dramatic Publishing
Professor Alan Crow is a firm believer in the supernatural and is determined to prove to his colleague Professor Hope Caulfield and the world that his beliefs are correct. In his zeal, crow accidentally initiates a zombie apocalypse. It is now up to Crow and Caufield to stop the zombie horde and save the campus and the world. This is a love letter to science fiction television shows of the 1990s.
Leon Tolchinsky is ecstatic. He’s landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet. When he arrives, he finds people sweeping dust from the stoops back into their houses and people milking upside down to get more cream. The town has been cursed with Chronic Stupidity for two hundred years, and Leon’s job is to break the curse. No one tells him that if he stays over twenty-four hours and fails to break the curse, he too becomes stupid. But he has fallen in love with a girl so stupid, she has only recently learned how to sit down.
~ Courtesy Concord Theatricals
All is copacetic in the fall of the new school year as junior Leo Borlock settles in to produce his moderately popular school TV show, The Hot Seat, and keep himself safely behind the camera and out of anybody's line of fire. His safe existence implodes with the arrival of the weirdly fabulous Stargirl, whose impetuous enthusiasm for all-things-Leo forces him to choose between his own secure conformity and the glories offered by the girl from the stars.
~ Courtesy Dramatic Publishing
On a dare from her fellow street urchins, 14-year-old Wiggins tries to pickpocket a strange old man. Not only is Wiggins unsuccessful, but the old man, who is actually Sherlock Holmes in disguise, manages to take the gold ring that was in Wiggins’ pocket and leave behind a note directing her where to go to get it back. When Wiggins goes to 221B Baker Street to retrieve the ring, she is shocked to find out how much Holmes knows about her based on a quick observation. After Wiggins sees Holmes use the ring to solve a case, Wiggins proposes to work as his assistant. Intrigued by her potential, Holmes agrees to begin training Wiggins on a trial basis, so long as she helps Mrs. Hudson with the chores. Wiggins and Holmes must learn to trust each other as Wiggins and her group of street urchins help him solve two dangerous mysteries: The Red Headed League and The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.
~ Courtesy Dramatic Publishing
2025/2026 Experimental Stage Productions
Prospero uses magic to conjure a storm and torment the survivors of a shipwreck, including the King of Naples and Prospero’s treacherous brother, Antonio. Prospero’s slave, Caliban, plots to rid himself of his master, but is thwarted by Prospero’s spirit-servant Ariel. The King’s young son Ferdinand, thought to be dead, falls in love with Prospero’s daughter Miranda.
Their celebrations are cut short when Prospero confronts his brother and reveals his identity as the usurped Duke of Milan. The families are reunited and all conflict is resolved. Prospero grants Ariel his freedom and prepares to leave the island.
This is our annual holiday celebration, the format of which is still under development.
Last season we did three 1930s/1940s radio shows. This year it could be a holiday variety show, a holiday sketch comedy show, or it could be an homage to vintage holiday specials like The Judy Garland Christmas Special (1963).
The options are limitless and the director of this show could have a great deal of leeway to really make it their own.
The 48 Hour Play Festival is a multi-group collaborative event that will serve to engage the community with the works and talents of multiple performing arts organizations simultaneously.
Each organization will create and perform a twenty (20) to thirty (30) minute original work under specific limitations to demonstrate the talents and capabilities of our community while simultaneously strengthening our interpersonal bonds.
Lovesong is the story of one couple, told from two different points in their lives – as young lovers in their 20s and as worldly companions looking back on their relationship. Their past and present selves collide in this haunting and beautiful tale of togetherness. All relationships have their ups and downs; the optimism of youth becomes the wisdom of experience. Love is a leap of faith.
~ Courtesy Google Books
2025/2026 Outreach Projects
Join us on our second year performing at a number of fairs and festivals around Franklin County.
This year we are putting together an improv theatre troupe. If you enjoy improv or are interested in learning how it is done, consider joining us for some fun this summer.
Throughout this production, members of the team will take short stories submitted by local children and turn them into "Saturday Night Live" style skits. The resulting show will then be performed for the community at a number of area libraries.
The Staged Reading Festival is a celebration of the works of local playwrights. Throughout the staged readings of these works in progress, the public will be exposed to the works of local artists and those playwrights will receive valuable feedback on the state of their work.
This is our first improv festival, the format of which is still under development.