2022/2023 Season

In reopening, the theatre management pledges strict adherence to the most up-to-date Covid safety protocols in order to protect patrons, artists and staff.


 

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22/23 Subscription Season

WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL

How to Dance in Ohio 

Book and Lyrics by Rebekah Greer Melocik

Music by Jacob Yandura

Based on Alexandra Shiva’s documentary film How To Dance in Ohio

Directed by Sammi Cannold

Produced in association with Ben Holtzman, Sammy Lopez, and Fiona Howe Rudin

September 21 – October 9, 2022     

 

How to Dance in Ohio is a heart-filled new musical based on the Peabody Award-winning documentary of the same name that explores what it means to belong, the courage it takes to put yourself out in the world, and the universal need to connect. Set at a counseling center in Columbus, How to Dance in Ohio follows seven autistic young adults as they come of age and find their ways in the world.

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Cold Read Festival of New Plays

Curated by Melissa Crespo

Free for subscribers, tickets required, available through the Box Office

October 18 – 22, 2022     

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Disney’s The Little Mermaid 

Music by Alan Menken

Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater

Book by Doug Wright

Based on the Hans Christian Andersen story and the 

Disney film that was produced by Howard Ashman and John Musker 

and written and directed by John Musker and Ron Clements

Originally Produced by Disney Theatrical Productions

Directed by Melissa Rain Anderson

Music Direction by Brian Cimmet

Choreography by Adam Cates

Co-produced with the Syracuse University Department of Drama

November 25, 2022 – January 8, 2023

 

Dive into musical family fun with Ariel, Sebastian, and all the watery gang from this beloved tale. With spectacular aerial (what?) acrobatics provided by 2 Ring Circus (The Wizard of Oz, 2017), this production promises enough thrills and delights for landlubbers of all ages. Nothing fishy about this holiday treat.

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EAST COAST PREMIERE  

Clean/Espejos

By Christine Quintana

Spanish translation and adaptation by Paula Zelaya Cervantes

Directed by Melissa Crespo

February 15 – March 5, 2023

 

The lives of two women with vastly different life experiences intersect at a destination wedding in Cancún. Adriana is from a small town not far from the resort where she has worked her way up from maid to floor manager. Sarah, from Vancouver, is the sister of the bride and maid of honor and the self-acknowledged family screw up. A chance encounter during a torrential downpour leads each woman to confront her personal storm and to consider the possibility that, though isolated, she may not be as alone as she believes. Change is hard but possible and hope may be closer than it sometimes seems. An engaging and poignant bi-lingual theatrical experience, Clean/Espejos is performed in English and Spanish with supertitles in both languages.

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Our Town

By Thornton Wilder

Directed by Robert Hupp

March 29 – April 16, 2023 

 

“The life of a village against the life of the stars” is how Thornton Wilder described his heralded masterpiece Our Town. “It is an attempt,” he wrote, “to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life.” He succeeded with this graceful and poetic play—a heartfelt call to cherish every unimportant moment we’re together and to embrace the true wonder and brevity of being alive. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Whether in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, at the turn of the 20th century, or Syracuse, New York, in 2023, Wilder’s enduring classic asks us to stop and ponder what truly matters, and to consider that for a great many of us the answers will be the same. Bob Hupp directs one of his favorite plays.

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WORLD PREMIERE   

Tender Rain

By Kyle Bass

Directed by Rodney Hudson

May 3 - 21, 2023

 

"Rain is like sorrow. It exposes our roots." In this elegiac drama, playwright Kyle Bass introduces Milton Millard, a white banker who lives in a small Southern city with Delores, his wife whom he can hardly see anymore and who endures a vague but nagging trepidation. They are a late-middle-aged childless couple lost in a fog of what cannot be undone. Is there a way forward for either of them? Can Ruthie Mimms, the Black woman who raised and protected Milton in childhood and beyond, rescue him once more? The momentary escape Milton finds in the arms of a younger woman will not spare him the reckoning he must face. Set in the 1950s, Tender Rain explores the complexities of race relations and how an oppressive society's pain, violence, and suffering leaches insidiously into domestic lives and intimate relationships. A journey through a richly layered emotional landscape from the author of Possessing Harriet.

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Clue

Based on the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn

Written by Sandy Rustin

Additional Material by Hunter Foster and Eric Price

Based on the Paramount Pictures motion picture

Based on the Hasbro board game CLUE

Original Music by Michael Holland

Directed by Ben Hanna

June 7 - 25, 2023

 

Farce meets murder mystery in this hilarious theatrical adaptation of the famed board game and 1985 motion picture. In a remote mansion not far from Washington, D.C., a mysterious and familiar cast of characters—Colonel Mustard, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, Professor Plum, and Miss Scarlet—gather for a dinner party and an evening of murder. Does the sudden demise of their host, Mr. Boddy, have any connection to the ongoing hearings conducted by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee? It’s all fun and games until someone gets clobbered by a candlestick in the library. After that, it’s even more fun.