RADIUM GIRLS
Written by D.W. Gregory
Directed by Marina Gradowitz
January 23, 24, 29, 31, & 31 @ 7:30pm
January 25 @ 2pm
In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees. As the case goes on, however, Grace finds herself battling not just with the U.S. Radium Corporation, but with her own family and friends, who fear that her campaign for justice will backfire. Called a "powerful" and "engrossing" drama by critics, Radium Girls offers a wry, unflinching look at the peculiarly American obsessions with health, wealth, and the commercialization of science.
Matilda the Musical
Book by Dennis Kelly
Music and Lyrics by Tim Minchin
Directed by Kristina Saldaña
Vocal Directed by Kelsey Morrow
Choreographed by Nick Ono
February 27, 28, March 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14 @ 7:30pm
March 1 & 8 @ 2pm
Inspired by the twisted genius of Roald Dahl, the Tony Award-winning Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical is the captivating masterpiece from the Royal Shakespeare Company that revels in the anarchy of childhood, the power of imagination and the inspiring story of a girl who dreams of a better life. With book by Dennis Kelly and original songs by Tim Minchin, Matilda has won 47 international awards and continues to thrill sold-out audiences of all ages around the world.
Matilda is a little girl with astonishing wit, intelligence and psychokinetic powers. She's unloved by her cruel parents but impresses her schoolteacher Miss Honey. During her first term at school, the two forge a bond as Miss Honey begins to recognize and appreciate Matilda's extraordinary personality. Matilda's school life isn't completely smooth sailing, however – the school's mean headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, hates children and just loves to punish those who don't abide by her rules. But Matilda has courage and cleverness in equal amounts, and could be the school pupils' saving grace!
3 Days In Space
Presented by Killer Kern Records
March 20, 21, & 22
The hit musical festival is back! Stay tuned for the full line up, plus more on tickets, 3-Day Passes, and more!
Julius Caeser
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Mendy McMasters
April 17, 18, 23, 24, 25 @ 7:30pm
April 19 @ 2pm
In 44 BCE the most famous Roman in history was murdered. Shakespeare’s version of this story focuses on the senators who murdered Julius Caesar and the consequences of their actions. Shakespeare was living in a time of political uncertainty. Queen Elizabeth was aging, there was no heir to the English throne, her political enemies were everywhere, and consequently, there were many attempts on her life. Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a cautionary tale about what happens when we use violence to solve our political problems. Brutus, Cassius, and the conspirators plan to kill the politically ambitious Caesar on the Ides of March. Caesar is repeatedly warned not to go to the capital, but he goes anyway and is assassinated by the conspirators; his friend Brutus delivers the final blow. This throws Rome into chaos and leads to civil war. Because we, like Shakespeare, live in a time of political uncertainty, this production will focus on the competing perceptions and the political questions that this play asks us to consider.
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
Directed & Choreographed by Nick Ono
May 22, 23, 29, 30, June 4, 5, & 6 @ 7:30pm
May 31 @ 2pm
The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world’s most beloved musical. Featuring a trove of cherished songs, including “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “My Favorite Things,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” and the title number, The Sound of Music won the hearts of audiences worldwide, earning five Tony Awards and five Oscars. The inspirational story, based on the memoir of Maria Augusta Trapp, follows an ebullient postulate who serves as governess to the seven children of the imperious Captain von Trapp, bringing music and joy to the household. But as the forces of Nazism take hold of Austria, Maria and the entire von Trapp family must make a moral decision.
TOPDOG/UNDERDOG
Written by Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Michael Hendrix
June 19 & 20 @ 7:30pm
June 21 @ 2pm
This darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks’ groundbreaking riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.
ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME
Based on the music performed and recorded by Britney Spears
Book by Jon Hartmere
Directed by Kristina Saldaña and Perrin Swanson
Vocal Directed by Caley Mayhall
Choreographed by Jennifer Skiby Plunkett
July 17, 18, 24, 25, 30, 31, August 1 @ 7:30pm
July 19 & 26 @ 2pm
Powered by the chart-topping hits of the undisputed Princess of Pop, Once Upon A One More Time turns our favorite fairytales upside down with a clever twist! When a fairy godmother goes rogue and plops copies of The Feminine Mystique in the laps of classic heroines, the damsels embark on a quest to rewrite their stories and redefine “happily ever after.”
Once Upon A One More Time weaves 23 of Britney Spears’ smash singles—like “Crazy,” “Oops!…I Did It Again,” “Circus,” “Lucky,” and “Toxic”—into “a big, modern, musical dance party, with Britney’s beating heart at its core.” (ABC News) License this jukebox fantasy come true!
I WANNA F*CK LIKE ROMEO AND JULIET
Written by Andrew Rincón
Directed by Kelsey Morrow
August 21, 22, 27, 28, 29 @ 7:30pm
August 23 @ 2pm
2024 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Drama!
Snow in July, comets falling from the sky… the world is thrown into chaos as Cupid (a Latine god) rips off her wings and gives up on love. But her old flame Saint Valentine has a plan to bring her spirits back up, and it involves reigniting the flame between Alejandro and Benny, two queer folk who are going through a breakup.
Moving from the heavens to Hackensack, I Wanna Fuck like Romeo and Juliet is a love story of epic proportions that captures the many flavors of queer love.
MACHINAL
Written by Sophie Treadwell
Directed by Ron Warren
September 18, 19, 24, 25, 26 @ 7:30pm
September 20 @ 2pm
A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.
Sophie Treadwell was a campaigning journalist in America between the wars. Among her assignments was the sensational murder involving Snyder, who with her lover, Judd Gray, had murdered her husband and gone to the electric chair.
DEAR EVAN HANSEN
Book by Steven Levenson
Music and Lyrics by Benj Pasek Justin Paul
Directed by Abby Votaw
Vocal Directed by Caley Mayhall
Choreographed by Jennifer Skiby Plunkett
October 23, 24, 30, + November 5, 6, 7 at 7:30pm
October 31 + November 1 at 2pm
Featuring a Tony Award-winning book by Steven Levenson (Fosse/Verdon), and a score by Grammy®, Tony®, Emmy® and Academy Award® winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (The Greatest Showman, La La Land, Dogfight, James and the Giant Peach), Dear Evan Hansen is a new classic, with a message that has resonated with audiences around the world: “You Will Be Found.”
Seventeen-year-old Evan Hansen has felt invisible his entire life. But when a tragedy shocks his community and thrusts him into the center of a rapidly evolving controversy, Evan is given the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to be somebody else. As his web of well-intentioned lies begins to unravel, though, Evan is forced to confront the fact that the price of belonging may be far steeper than he bargained for.
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Book by Peter Parnell
Directed by Perrin Swanson and Kristina Saldaña
Vocal Directed by Michael Crider
December 4, 5, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18 at 7:30pm
December 6, 13, 20 at 2pm
Based on the Victor Hugo novel and songs from the Disney animated feature, The Hunchback of Notre Dame showcases the film’s Academy Award-nominated score, as well as new songs by Menken and Schwartz. Peter Parnell’s new book embraces story theatre and features verbatim passages from Hugo’s gothic novel.
The musical begins as the bells of Notre Dame sound through the famed cathedral in fifteenth-century Paris. Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer who longs to be "Out There," observes all of Paris reveling in the Feast of Fools. Held captive by his devious caretaker, the archdeacon Dom Claude Frollo, he escapes for the day and joins the boisterous crowd, only to be treated cruelly by all but the beautiful Romani woman, Esmeralda. Quasimodo isn’t the only one captivated by her free spirit, though – the handsome Captain Phoebus and Frollo are equally enthralled. As the three vie for her attention, Frollo embarks on a mission to destroy the Roma – and it’s up to Quasimodo to save them all.
All shows subject to change.