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 […]
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. […]
A fun-filled night of food and entertainment. A great home-cooked dinner before the show. Then, entertainment by members of the Company with songs and comedy, and cheers for the hero and boos for the villain as good triumphs over evil in a rousing melodrama. PERFORMANCE DATES: July 1999 CAST: ORCHESTRA/BAND: CREW: MENU:
Set in one of the nation’s finer landfills, three middle-aged white guys decide to take one last chance to salvage their slice of American culture. But when God gets angry, salvation can be painfully funny. This hilarious satire airs America’s dirty laundry and probes the most sensitive of place – what it means to be […]
Those crazy nuns from the Little Sisters of Hoboken return in Nuncrackers!: The Nunsense Christmas Musical. This production was the first “TV Special” taped by the sisters in their convent basement studio for Cable Access. It starred the nuns from Nunsense plus Father Virgil and some of Mt. Saint Helen’s most talented students. It featured […]
In Cash on Delivery!, author Michael Cooney weaves a particularly tangled web as he introduces a young Englishman who has been playing fast and loose with the Social Security system ever since he lost his job a few years prior. This crafty fellow has invented dozens of imaginary boarders at his home to receive generous […]
