What do you get when you take five women with nothing better to do than put on a show, combine that with murder mystery, and add in an over-abundance of errors and missed cues? You get a play that required five of the company's seasoned veterans to put on a show that looked like an […]
When four housewives are desperately seeking a change in their lives, what do they do? In the old days they used to get together and it was called kaffee-klatsch, in the 80's they turn their lives around by forming a hard rock band and entering a talent contest! Angry Housewives was a big, fun splash […]
The main characters of the play are George and Maggie Antrobus, their two children, Henry and Gladys, and Sabina, who appears as the family's maid in the first and third acts, and as a beauty queen temptress in the second act. The play's action takes place in a modern setting, but is full of anachronisms […]
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 discover that their cook, Sister Julia - Child of God, accidentally killed the other fifty-two residents of the convent with her tainted vichyssoise while they were off […]
The play focuses on aging Al Lewis and Willy Clark, a one-time vaudevillian team known as "Lewis and Clark" who, over the course of forty-odd years, not only grew to hate each other but never spoke to each other off-stage throughout the final year of their act. The stubborn Clark, who was not ready for […]
The play centers on the lives of three Jewish widows. Lifetime friends - Ida, Doris and Lucille are part of a club, The Cemetery Club. Every month they meet at Ida's house in New York for tea then trundle off to the cemetery to remember the good times and gossip with deceased husbands. Ida is […]
"If you're going to tell a lie, tell a whopper," yells Dr. Mortimore as events begin to spin deliriously out of control. Inadvertently, he's identifying, in the midst of his panic, the motor that propels all the best farces. Deception, mistaken identities, double-entendres, puns and flapping doors fuel this high octane comedy. Set in the […]
The play, written by Rick Lewis, is the male version of his earlier piece – The Taffetas. At the time it was selected by the Repertory Company, it was as yet unpublished and still in development. The company had hoped to produce a similar boy-group piece but it was not available for community theater yet […]
The Boot Hill Museum Repertory Company Student Division presents an evening of monologues and scenes. This intriguing collection of theatrical pieces was created by the Walden Theater Playwright in Residence program in Louisville, KY. The playwright conducted a workshop for young writers which followed the dramatic process from the first idea through readings and discussion […]
The play, written by Rick Lewis, is a tribute to the great girl groups of the 1950’s. Set in 1950-something, three singing sisters – Peggy, Cheryl, & Donna – from Muncie, Indiana are making their national television singing debut. This nostalgic piece pays homage to the harmony of The Maguire Sisters, The Fontane Sisters, the […]
This farce takes place inside an American Embassy behind the Iron Curtain. Returning from a European tour, Newark, New Jersey, caterer Walter Hollander, wife Marion, and daughter Susan, accidentally wander into a restricted area and take photos for Walter's new hobby of photography and are caught by Krojack, the head of the secret police, who […]
Man of La Mancha, based on Cervantes’ epic 17th-century novel, Don Quixote, is a remarkable, poignant, moving musical that was one of the first shows to musicalize a piece of historical literature. Set in the context of the Spanish Inquisition, Man of La Mancha is presented as a play-within-a-play. We encounter historical author Miguel de Cervantes in prison, […]
