Deathtrap is a 1978 play by Ira Levin that involves many plot twists. Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play, it holds the record as the longest-running comedy-thriller on Broadway. Sidney Bruhl is a once-successful playwright whose last several productions have flopped at the box office. He then receives a script by a novice […]
Personals is a musical revue with a wonderful collection of songs about people who place lonely hearts ads (ie. lonely people looking for that certain someone). Songs included “Nothing to Do with Love,” “Mama’s Boys,” “I Think You Should Know,” “Picking Up The Pieces,” and “Some Things Don’t End." PERFORMANCE DATES: December 4-21, 2003 CAST: […]
I Hate Hamlet is a dramatic comedy written in 1991 by Paul Rudnick. Set in John Barrymore's old apartment in New York City - at the time, the author's real-life home - the play follows successful television actor Andrew Rally as he struggles with taking on the dream role of Hamlet, dealing with a girlfriend […]
Not Now Darling by John Roy Chapman and Ray Cooney was a British farce about mistresses and minks in the London fur salon of Bodley, Bodley, and Crouch. Gilbert Bodley plans to sell an expensive mink to a mobster dirt cheap for his wife, because the wife is Gilbert's mistress and he wants to "Close […]
The first production in the new Depot Theater is Anyone Can Whistle, a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Set in an imaginary town that has gone bankrupt, it focuses on the unpopular, manipulative and corrupt mayoress, Cora Hoover Hooper and the practical but idealistic nurse, Fay […]
(Original: February 1987). The Company reprised Noises Off! in their new theater at the Santa Fe Depot complex. Noises Off! is a “play within a play” written by Michael Frayn and follows the foibles of the cast of “Nothing On”. Each of the three acts of Noises Off! contains a performance of the first act […]
PERFORMANCE DATES: December 2004 CAST: Connie Penick, Shamus Hager, Cynthia Thomas, Kelly Carroll, Haley Ashcroft, Ed Bethea, Amy Reinert, Barry Metcalf, Dee Burke, Joni Clark, Gayla Kirmer, Jordan Baltazor, Louise Tegarden, Taza Ricke, Jana Ross, Teri Hawkins, Kent Ross, Karen Carroll, Kyle Hager CREW: Light Design - Seth Eckelman, Sound Design - Alan Stukenholtz, Set Design - […]
The Dresser by Ronald Harwood was a play based on the author’s experiences as dresser to distinguished English Shakespearean actor-manager Sir Donald Wolfit, who is the "Sir" in the play. An aging lead actor named Sir is touring with a troupe of thespians who perform "King Lear" throughout war-ravaged England. Sir's devoted dresser, Norman, is […]
A fun show about the blues, put together using some of the great old blues songs and a few new ones. PERFORMANCE DATES: February 25 - 27, 2005 CAST: Violet Sue "Poor Girl" Dyer - Wendy Nelson, "Baby Blue" - Traza Ricke, Sally - Erin Jones, Sophie Bailey - Connie Penick, Rebecca Kay Garret, :The […]
(Original: January 1991). Those wacky nuns from the Little Sisters of Hoboken returned in NUNSENSE, a musical comedy with a book, music, and lyrics by Dan Goggin. The story follows five of the 19 surviving Little Sisters of Hoboken, a one-time missionary order that ran a leper colony on an island south of France, who […]
(Original: October 1986). The Company reprised another hit from their early years at Boot Hill with Little Shop of Horrors. This rock musical by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, tells the story of a nerdy florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood. The musical is based on the […]
Author Ray Cooney can always be counted on for an evening fun – and Caught in the Net is another of his fine scripts. If you think your life is complicated, imagine the life of two-timing taxi driver John Smith who keeps two separate families! When his teenage children (a girl from one family and […]
