A mild-mannered English shoe clerk named Harry Witherspoon gets mixed up with his murdered croupier uncle (Anthony Hendon) from Atlantic City and the lunacy that surrounded him. Harry will inherit $6M on the condition that he take his dead uncle’s corpse on one last vacation to Monte Carlo. If he doesn’t fulfill this requirement, the […]
Set in Terre Haute, Indiana in late 1979, The Nerd by Larry Shue presents the story of Willum Cubbert, an unassuming young architect, friends Tansy and Axel and unexpected houseguest Rick. During the course of the play, we learn that Rick had saved Willum's life in Vietnam. Over the years, Willum and Rick had exchanged […]
This play centers around middle-aged Henry Perkins who is going home to Fulham on the underground, looking forward to his birthday dinner, for which he and his wife Jean have invited their old friends, Vic and Betty Johnson. Nothing out of the ordinary has happened so far, but on the tube train he by mistake […]
On the night of his 35th birthday, Robert struggles to think of a wish to make as he blows out his birthday candles. The lone bachelor, surrounded by “those good and crazy people” -- his married friends -- Robert is uncertain whether he should simply be happy with his lot or whether he should wish […]
The story revolves around the various characters in the lives of the Vanderhof/Sycamore/Carmichael families and takes place in their family home in New York City. At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before you realize that if they are mad, then the rest of the world is madder. In contrast to […]
THE INAGURAL PRODUCTION OF THE NEW HOMESTEAD THEATER! You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown was a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts. Ten of Gesner's songs were first recorded as an "Original Album Musical" for MGM's Leo […]
A musical review by the Company for Christmas. PERFORMANCE DATES: December 12-15, 1996 CAST: Pete Bethke, Jennifer Fuller, Stephanie Groth, Kyle Hager, Deb Holuska, Alison Mahieu, Brittany Mahieu, Mark Mahieu, Barry Metcalf, Dee Miller, Kristina Morgan, Mara Morgan, Alisa Nickel, Jesse Peach, Connie Penick, Amy Reinert, Chad Reynolds, Liz Riegel, Casey Ross, Kent Ross, Sarah […]
The plot concerns two mismatched roommates, one neat and uptight, the other more easygoing but slovenly. Sources vary as to the origins of the play. Most sources claim that Simon was inspired to write the play when he saw his brother Danny Simon and theatrical agent Roy Gerber living together after recent divorces. However, in […]
Radio Gals is a musical by Mike Craver and Mark Hardwick, set in the late l920's, and concerning an enterprising woman, Hazel Hunt, of Cedar Ridge, Arkansas who, upon her retirement as the town music teacher, receives a Western Electric 500 watt radio transmitter and begins broadcasting as radio station "WGAL". What comes out over […]
Wait Until Dark is a play by Frederick Knott. The mystery thriller's heroine is Susy Hendrix, a blind Greenwich Village housewife who becomes the target of three thugs searching for the heroin hidden in a doll, which her husband transported from Canada as a favor to a woman who since has been murdered. The trio […]
Set the fictional town of Tuna, Texas, the "third-smallest" town in the state. The plays are at once an affectionate comment on small-town, Southern life and attitudes but also a withering satire of the same. The plays are notable in that generally, two men play the entire cast of over twenty eccentric characters of both […]
Set in various locations throughout present day Texas, Das Barbecü is loosely based on Richard Wagner's massive four-part 20-hour opera cycle DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN - neatly compressed into a fun little two-hour musical comedy. Opera-lovers and opera-haters alike enjoyed this witty fable of love conquering greed set in the Lone Star State. Hilarious scenes spin […]
