Photo Gallery: 2018/2019 Season

The 1950s are out, and change is in the air in this Tony Award-winning family-friendly musical, piled bouffant-high with laughter, romance and deliriously tuneful songs! It’s 1962 in Baltimore, and lovable plus-size teen Tracy Turnblad has only one desire — to dance on the popular “Corny Collins Show.” When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star, but she must use her newfound power to dethrone the reigning Teen Queen, win the affections of heartthrob Link Larkin, and integrate a TV network … all without denting her ‘do!

Sail off on a fantastic musical excursion when a band of comical pirates lands at North Beach looking for an expert digger to join their crew. Braid Beard and his mates enlist young Jeremy Jacob, as they try to find the perfect spot to bury their treasure. Jeremy finds that adventuring can be lots of fun, but also learns that love and home are treasures you can’t find on any map! The whole family will love this delightful swashbuckling musical adventure!

Dig out your fishnet stockings and sharpen your stilettos … that sweet transvestite and his motley crew are back for the seventh year! On the way to visit an old college professor, two clean-cut young people, Brad Majors and his fiancee Janet Weiss, run into trouble and seek help at the freaky Frankenstein mansion, where Dr. Frank N. Furter is in the midst of one of his maniacal experiments. With Richard O’Brien’s cult favorite, prepare to do the “Time Warp” like you have never done it before!

Women striking for peace using the most powerful weapons in the feminine arsenal are at the core of Aristophanes’ ancient comedy. Toward the end of the Peloponnesian War, a group of soldiers’ wives led by Lysistrata join together in a strike against the men of Greece, denying them sex until they’ve agreed to put down their arms and end the disastrous wars between Athens and Sparta. However, Lysistrata’s strategy effectively creates even more war than before as a comedic battle of the sexes ensues!

Single mother Doris Walker doesn’t want her six-year-old Susan’s head filled with romantic notions. When their neighbor, Fred Gailey, tries to woo Doris by charming Susan and taking her to see Santa Claus at Macy’s, where Doris works, Doris is not impressed. But when it turns out that Macy’s Santa may, in fact, be the real Kris Kringle, a wave of love spreads across New York City that melts even the most cynical hearts in Meredith Willson’s holiday classic based on the movie of the same name.

Named “the best American children’s book of the past two hundred years” by the Children’s Literature Association, E.B. White’s classic tale of a remarkable pig, a young girl, a spider and the friendship that binds them together comes to life upon the stage. All the enchanting characters are here: Wilbur, the irresistible young pig who desperately wants to avoid the butcher; Fern, a girl who understands what animals say to each other; Templeton, the gluttonous rat who can occasionally be talked into a good deed; the Zuckerman family; the Arables; and, most of all, the extraordinary spider, Charlotte, who shows the true meaning of a friend by setting out on a mission to save Wilbur’s life, even if it means the end of her own.

Swing’s the thing in this delightful romp through the dance and music of the 1930s and ’40s! Filled with jazz, blues, bebop and American songbook standards and weaving together the work of legendary songwriters such as Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser, Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Cab Calloway and the Gershwins, this classy, sassy musical revue moves through the Depression, World War II and the post-war boom to highlight a slick slice of yesteryear and capture a beloved American era.

It’s 1935, and racial tensions are high in Maycomb, Alabama. Nonetheless, young Scout manages to live a rather carefree, privileged existence, insulated from issues of race. All that changes when she watches her father, Atticus Finch, defend an innocent man, Tom Robinson, against a potential death sentence, which looms threateningly against him because of prejudice due to race. With the the help of Atticus, and her older brother Jem, Scout learns that “growing up” often means doing what is right, even when it comes at great cost, in Harper Lee’s American masterpiece.

How’s a queen to keep her head in the middle of a revolution? Marie Antoinette delights and inspires her French subjects with her three-foot tall wigs and extravagant haute couture. But times change and even the most fashionable queens go out of style. From the light and breezy banter at the palace to the surging chants of “Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite!” in the streets, David Adjmi’s humorous and haunting contemporary take on the doomed young queen of France holds a mirror up to our contemporary society that might just be entertaining itself to death.

Travel down the rabbit hole and join Lewis Carroll’s beloved literary heroine in her madcap adventures! In this fast-paced take on the classic tale, featuring updated songs from Disney’s thrilling animated film, the ever-curious Alice’s journey begins innocently enough as she chases the White Rabbit. Her adventures become increasingly more strange as she races the Dodo Bird, gets tied up with Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, raps with a bubble-blowing Caterpillar and beats the Queen of Hearts at her own game!

Join the tribe of the Age of Aquarius and celebrate the sixties counterculture in all its barefoot, long-haired, bell-bottomed, beaded and fringed glory! In the first rock musical to hit the Great White Way, a group of hippie youth search for meaning amidst the Civil Rights movement, protests against the Vietnam War, drug experimentation and the sexual revolution — all set to the infectiously energetic rock beat of such songs as “Aquarius,” “Good Morning, Starshine,” “Hair,” “I Got Life,” and “Let The Sun Shine.” Exploring ideas of identity, community, global responsibility and peace, this groundbreaking 1968 tribal love rock musical remains relevant as ever as it examines what it means to be a young person in a changing world.

Ann

An intimate, no-holds-barred portrait of Ann Richards, the legendary late Governor of Texas, this inspiring and hilarious play brings us face-to-face with a complex, colorful and captivating character bigger than the state from which she hailed. Written and originally performed by Emmy Award-winner Holland Taylor, this one-woman show takes a revealing look at the impassioned woman who enriched the lives of her followers, friends and family.

Jack Chesney loves Kitty Verdun, and Charley loves Miss Amy Spettigue. They invite the ladies to lunch to meet Charley’s wealthy aunt from Brazil, but when she cancels her visit at the last minute, the millionaire aunt sends the boys into cataclysmic confusion. What do they do now? The problem is solved by drafting their feckless Oxford undergrad pal into a black satin skirt, bloomers and wig to impersonate Charley’s aunt — setting off a hilarious chain of classic comic confusion!

In this Tony Award-winning home-run hit based on the novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant by Douglass Wallop, middle-aged baseball fanatic Joe Boyd trades his soul to the Devil, and his sexy associate Lola, for a chance to lead his favorite team to victory in the pennant race against the New York Yankees. As young baseball sensation Joe Hardy, he transforms the hapless Washington Senators into a winning team — only to realize the true worth of the life that he’s left behind.