2025-2026 mainstage season
Join us to celebrate our 50th season!
It's our GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY, so we want to celebrate with
these four fantastic productions!
Fall 2025
On Golden Pond
By Earnest Thompson
Directed by James J. Malouf
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Production Dates:
September 25 & 26 at 7:00PM
September 27 at 2 :00PM
October 2 & 3 at 7:00PM
October 4 at 2:00PM
THANK YOU to everyone who supported this wonderful production.
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James J. Malouf
Director
This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant, and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together.
The boy quickly becomes the “grandchild” the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness—and slang—in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.
Holiday 2025
A Christmas Story
By Phillip Grecian
Directed by Christine Sullivan
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Production Dates:
December 4 & 5 at 7:00PM
December 6 at 2 :00PM
December 11 & 12 at 7:00PM
December 13 at 2:00PM
Based on the Play/Book/Film
"A Christmas Story"
3 men, 2 women,
5 boys (9-12), 2 girls (9-12),
2-4 extra youth (9-12)
Humorist Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in the Midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself at Higbee's Department Store. The consistent response: "You'll shoot your eye out!"
All the elements from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family's temperamental exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the school bully; the boys' experiment with a wet tongue on a cold lamppost; the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin; Ralphie's father winning a lamp shaped like a woman's leg in a net stocking; Ralphie's fantasy scenarios and more. A Christmas Story is destined to become a theatrical holiday perennial.
Christine Sullivan
Director
Winter 2026
Four Old Broads
By Leslie Kimbell
Directed by Linda Garski
Audition Dates:
December 16 & 17
6:00PM
Production Dates:
February 26 & 27 at 7:00PM
February 28 at 2 :00PM
March 5 & 6 at 7:00PM
March 7 at 2:00PM
A Comedy (Think of The Golden Girls!)
1 man, 6 women, several non-speaking extras
Retired burlesque queen Beatrice Shelton desperately needs a vacation – and NOT another trip up to Helen, Georgia to see that “precious little German village for the umpteenth time.” A Sassy Seniors Cruise through the Caribbean may be just the ticket if she can just convince her best friend, Eaddy Mae Clayton, to stop praying and go with her. Unfortunately, things have not been very pleasant at Magnolia Place Assisted Living since Nurse Pat Jones began working there. The newest resident, Imogene Fletcher, is suddenly losing her memory.
Linda Ott Garski
Director
Maude Jenkins is obsessed with her favorite soap opera and planning her own funeral. Sam Smith, retired Elvis impersonator, keeps trying to bed every woman in the building. A mystery unfolds with laughter as the gals try to outsmart the evil Nurse Pat Jones and figure out why so many residents have been moved to “the dark side,” what exactly IS that mysterious pill, and what happened to Doctor Head? Hilarity ensues as Imogene goes undercover and Maude enters the Miss Magnolia Senior Citizen Pageant to throw Pat off their trail.
Spring 2026
Father of the Bride
By Caroline Francke
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Audition Dates:
March 9 & 10
6:00PM
Production Dates:
April 30 & May 1 at 7:00PM
May 2 at 2:00PM
May 7 & 8 at 7:00PM
May 9 at 2:00 PM
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A Classic Wedding Comedy
10 men 6 women, and 3 or 4 extras
Mr. Banks learns that one of the young men he has seen occasionally about the house is about to become his son-in-law. Daughter Kay announces the engagement out of nowhere. Mrs. Banks and her sons are happy, but Mr. Banks is in a dither. The groom-to-be, Buckley Dunstan, appears on the scene and Mr. Banks realizes that the engagement is serious. Buckley and Kay don’t want a “big” wedding — just a simple affair with a few friends! We soon learn, however, that the “few” friends’ idea is out. Then trouble really begins.
John Young
Director
The guest list grows larger each day, a caterer is called in, florists, furniture movers and dressmakers take over, and the Banks household is soon caught in turmoil — not to mention growing debt. When Kay, in a fit of temper, calls off the wedding, everyone’s patience snaps. But all is set right, and the wedding (despite more last-minute crises) comes off beautifully. In the end, the father of the bride is a happy, proud man, glad that the wedding is over, but knowing too that it was worth all the money and aggravation to start his daughter off so handsomely on the road to married life.