2025
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Season Tickets Package. Only productions highlighted in pale yellow are part of the Season Tickets Package. |
Off-the-Hill. Visiting productions from Playhouse in the Park's touring Off-the-Hill Productions are in light purple. |
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Deathtrap
By Ira Levin Producer – Evan Smith Director – Michael Schumacher Feb. 28-Mar. 2 & Mar. 7-9 In Ira Levin’s classic comedic thriller, Deathtrap, a washed-up playwright finds a chance to rise to the top once more, a shot he’d be willing to kill for. Sidney Bruhl hasn’t written a hit play for 18 years when he receives a script from a former student, Clifford Anderson, that’s a guaranteed success. His wife, Myra, suggests the two men could collaborate; Sidney jokes that it’d be just as easy to murder the young man and steal the script for his own. When Clifford arrives later that evening, no one--not even the visiting psychic--could predict where the dark events of the night will go. Who is innocent? Who only seems that way? Deathtrap is a sharply funny play full of twists and turns that keep an audience on the edge of their seats. Is anyone really safe when a man sees a clean shot at success? |
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The Miss Firecracker Contest
by Beth Henley Producer – Director – Abby Kinnebrew Smith May 2-4 & 9-11 The place is the small Mississippi town of Brookhaven, the time a few days before the Fourth of July. Carnelle Scott (known locally as “Miss Hot Tamale") is rehearsing furiously for the Miss Firecracker Contest—hoping that a victory will salvage her tarnished reputation and allow her to leave town in a blaze of glory. The unexpected arrival of her cousin Elain, a former Miss Firecracker winner, (who has walked out on her rich but boring husband and her two small children) complicates matters a bit, as does the repeated threat of Elain’s eccentric brother, Delmount, (recently released from a mental institution) to sell the family homestead and decamp for New Orleans. But, aided by a touchingly awkward seamstress named Popeye (who is hopelessly smitten by Delmount) and several other cheerfully nutty characters, Carnelle perseveres—leading to a denouement of unparalleled hilarity, compassion and moving lyricism as all concerned finally escape their unhappy pasts and turn hopefully toward what must surely be a better future. |
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Conceived by Rebecca Feldman; Additional Material byJay Reiss; Music and Lyrics by William Finn; Book by Rachel Sheinkin Producer – Director – Rachel Brown July 25-27 & Aug. 1-3 An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box. |
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Em's Story
by Becca Shelley Producer – Evan Smith Director – Becca Shelley Sept. 26-28 & Oct. 3-5 Em’s Story follows a girl who is smart, active, and engaged in her community as she develops a disability and her life changes both slowly and all at once. This peice abstracts both time and space, compelling the audience to experience the story as Em does while grappling with chronic pain, brain fog, fatigue, and other symptoms while finding her own identity.
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Original Forever Plaid vocal and musical arrangements by James RAITT
Vocal and Musical Arrangements by James Raitt Brad Ellis Raymond Berg David Snyder Musical Continuity and Supervision By David Snyder Original Direction and Musical Staging By Stuart Ross |
Plaid Tidings
Holiday Edition of Forever Plaid Book by Stuart Ross Producer – Director – Wayne Dunn Nov. 14-16 & Nov. 21-23 Once upon a time, there were four guys (Sparky, Smudge, Jinx and Frankie) who discovered that they shared a love for music and then got together to become their idols – The Four Freshman, The Hi-Lo's and The Crew Cuts. Rehearsing in the basement of Smudge's family's plumbing supply company, they became "Forever Plaid". On the way to their first big gig, the "Plaids" are broadsided by a school bus and killed instantly. It is at the moment when their careers and lives end that the story of Forever Plaid begins and leads to posthumous performance. A short time after Francis, Jinx, Smudge and Sparky aren't sure why they've returned to Earth for another posthumous performance. However, a phone call from the heavenly Rosemary Clooney lets them know that they're needed to put a little harmony into a discordant world. Sprinkled among the Christmas offerings are audience favorites, like their riotous three-minute-and-eleven-second version of The Ed Sullivan Show – this time, featuring the Rockettes, the Chipmunks and The Vienna Boys Choir, as well as a Plaid Caribbean Christmas that puts the "Day-O" in Excelsis! |
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Season is subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances.
Season is subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances.
