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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This play tells the story of Conservative Government MP, Richard Willey, who is attempting to have an affair with one of the secretaries of the leader of the Opposition in a top London hotel. However, with a conniving waiter, a suspicious hotel manager, an alert private detective, an angry wife, a furious husband, a bungling […]

Bosh & Moonshine at the Gaiety Saloon was specially written for the Company by Mike Craver.  Set in contemporary Dodge City, Bosh and Moonshine at the Gaiety Saloon tells the story of a young woman who has taken out a loan and turned a landmark hotel into a bed-and-breakfast. As she does the last-minute cleaning before […]

The story begins with the Bradleys, a typical family, preparing for their church program.  All the preparations go as schedule until the director has an unfortunate accident.  Grace Bradley agrees to direct the Christmas pageant and comes face to face with the Herdmans.  The whole pageant seems to come apart until the night of performance […]

(Original: February 1988).  This play by Larry Shue, is set in a resort-style fishing lodge in rural Georgia and revolves around two of its guests, Charlie Baker and Englishman Staff Sergeant Froggy LeSueur. Charlie is so pathologically shy that he is unable to speak. As way of explanation, Froggy claims his companion is the native […]

Pools Paradise by Philip King is set in Reverend Lionel Toop's vicarage in Merton cum Middlewick. Characters include Penelope, who dabbles in a football pool with the help of their maid, Ida, and Ida's suitor, Willie Briggs. The farce ensues when the triumvirate wins, or when they think they have won more than 20,000 pounds. […]