2024-2025 mainstage season
You love the Saturday Matinees, so next season we are giving you TWO SATURDAY MATINEES for each production!
We are also looking for DIRECTORS for next season. Please see the Direct with WRCT page tolearn more and fill out an online application.
Fall 2024
Drinking Habits
by Tom Smith
Audition Dates:
August 12 & 13
Production Dates:
September 26 & 27 at 7 PM;
September 28 at 2 PM;
October 3 & 4 at 7 PM;
October 5 at 2 PM
Farce
3 men, 5 women
Accusations, mistaken identities, and romances run wild in this traditional, laugh-out-loud farce. Two nuns at the Sisters of Perpetual Sewing have been secretly making wine to keep the convent's doors open, but Paul and Sally, reporters and former fiancees, are hot on their trail. They go undercover as a nun and priest, but their presence, combined with the addition of a new nun, spurs paranoia throughout the convent that spies have been sent from Rome to shut them down. Wine and secrets are inevitably spilled as everyone tries to preserve the convent and reconnect with lost loves.
Holiday 2024
White Christmas
by Irving Berlin, David Ives and Paul Blake
Audition Dates:
October 7 & 8
Production Dates:
December 5 & 6 at 7 PM;
December 7 at 2 PM;
December 12 & 13 at 7 PM;
December 14 at 2 PM
Christmas Musical
4 men, 6 women, ensemble
Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II. With romance in mind, the two follow a duo of beautiful singing sisters en route to their Christmas show at a Vermont lodge, which just happens to be owned by Bob and Phil's former army commander. With a dazzling score featuring well-known standards including “Blue Skies,” “I Love A Piano,” “How Deep Is the Ocean” and the perennial title song, White Christmas is an uplifting, wholesome musical that will delight audiences of all ages.
Winter 2025
Arsenic and Old Lace
By Joseph Kesselring
Audition Dates:
December 16 & 17
Production Dates:
February 27 & 28 at 7 PM;
March 1 at 2 PM;
March 6 & 7 at 7 PM;
March 8 at 2 PM
Comedy
11 men, 3 women (of the 11 men, some are smaller parts)
Drama critic Mortimer Brewster’s engagement announcement is upended when he discovers a corpse in his elderly aunts’ window seat. Mortimer rushes to tell Abby and Martha before they stumble upon the body themselves, only to learn that the two old women aren’t just aware of the dead man in their parlor, they killed him! Between his aunts’ penchant for poisoning wine, a brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, and another brother using plastic surgery to hide from the police—not to mention Mortimer’s own hesitancy about marriage—it’ll be a miracle if Mortimer makes it to his wedding. Arsenic and Old Lace is a classic black comedy about the only thing more deadly than poison: family.
Spring 2025
Noises Off
By Michael Frayn
Audition Dates:
March 10 & 11
Production Dates:
May 1 & 2 at 7 PM;
May 3 at 2 PM;
May 8 & 9 at 7 PM;
May 10 at 2 PM
Comedy
5 men, 4 women
Michael Frayn's Noises Off takes a fond look at the follies of theatre folk, whose susceptibility to out-of-control egos, memory loss, and passionate affairs turn every performance into a high-risk adventure. This play-within-a-play captures a touring theatre troupe’s production of Nothing On in three stages: dress rehearsal, the opening performance, and a performance towards the end of a debilitating run. Frayne gives us a window into the inner workings of theatre behind the scenes, progressing from flubbed lines and missed cues in the dress rehearsal to mounting friction between cast members in the final performance. Brimming with slapstick comedy, Noises Off is a delightful backstage farce, complete with slamming doors, falling trousers, and—of course— flying sardines!
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