Set in 1934, this farce revolved around renowned tenor Tito Merelli, known to his fans as "Il Stupendo," who is scheduled to sing the lead in Otello, produced as a gala fundraiser for the Cleveland Opera Company. Unfortunately, even before the star leaves his hotel room, everything begins to unravel. Chaos ensues when Merelli's wife, […]

Forever Plaid is an off-Broadway musical comedy written by Stuart Ross in New York in 1990 and now performed internationally. The critically acclaimed show is an affectionate revue of the close-harmony "guy groups" (think The Four Aces or The Four Freshmen) that reached the height of their popularity during the 1950s. Personifying the clean-cut genre, […]

(Original: January 1992). "If you're going to tell a lie, tell a whopper," yells Dr. Mortimore as events begin to spin deliriously out of control in Ray Cooney's It Runs in the Family (originally presented by the Company in 1992). Inadvertently, he's identifying, in the midst of his panic, the motor that propels all the […]

It’s 1968 and two of America’s singin’ sweethearts unite for a live television special celebrating their hit parade career on TV and in Las Vegas showrooms.  But there’s just one catch – they haven’t spoken to each other since their breakup five years earlier.  This kitschy spoof follows Pete ‘n' Keely as they stroll down […]

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 […]