Monty Python’s Spamalot

Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Spamalot retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and features a bevy of beautiful show girls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits, and French people. Did we mention the bevy of beautiful showgirls? […]

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

This new dramatization of C.S. Lewis’ classic, set in the land of Narnia, faithfully recreates the magic and mystery of Aslan, the great lion, his struggle with the White Witch, and the adventures of four children who inadvertently wander from an old wardrobe into the exciting, never-to-be-forgotten Narnia. PERFORMANCE DATES: July 9-13, 2014 CAST: Aslan - […]

Gunsmoke: On the Air!

Gunsmoke on the Air Adapted by Sarah Schaeffer, Doug Austen, and Mark Vierthaler. At the end of its run in 1975, Los Angeles Times columnist Cecil Smith wrote “Gunsmoke was the dramatization of the American epic legend of the west. Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from standard elements of the dime novel and the […]

RED

As Ken and Rothko paint, they challenge each other to ask big questions about art: what it takes to create it and what its role should be in the world. Set in the 1950s, and based on a series of real events, Red takes a compelling look at the ever-changing relationship between an artist and his […]

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Diary of Anne Frank is one of the most famous and haunting stories to emerge from the 20th Century. The memoirs of this young Jewish girl, forced to hide for nearly two years to escape Nazi persecution, are an essential part of how we remember one of the darkest periods of our human history. Wendy […]

Blithe Spirit

When successful novelist Charles Condomine hires a psychic to research his new book, he ends up encountering the ghost of his first wife! Now he must balance his new (and very much alive!) wife with an increasingly incensed ghost in this witty comedy of manners from Noel Coward. Widely considered a theatrical masterpiece, and certainly […]

Bells are Ringing

This show takes us back to a time before answering machines and high technology, when a real person answered your ringing telephone for you, if you couldn't do it yourself. Welcome to Susanswerphone, where the lines are blurred between doing a job and eavesdropping. The story and musical are delightful and uplifting. PERFORMANCE DATES: February […]

Alive and Kicking

When Gloria Nix's last child announces that he and his girlfriend have just gotten married, Gloria panics. She tries to sell the house out from under her easygoing husband, John, because she decides that her life is over and it would be more comfortable to die in a small apartment located near a funeral home. […]

Arsenic and Old Lace

We meet the charming and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of socially and religiously "acceptable" roomers; the antics of their nephew who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt; and the activities of the other nephew -- these require no further description or amplification here. PERFORMANCE DATES: April 10-25, 2015 CAST: Abby Brewster […]

Treasure Island

This is the first adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island with great parts both male and female performers. Inspired by real-life female adventurers, Phil Willmott has changed the gender of several of the central characters without compromising the spirit of Stevenson's classic novel. Pirates, treasure maps, and Long John Silver mean this show is […]

The Harvey Girls

The Harvey House chain of restaurants got its start in Topeka when Fred Harvey opened a café for people traveling the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway. Preferring the term “Harvey Girl” to waitress, he recruited single women to work at his restaurants that gradually sprang up all the way to California and Texas. In […]

Haunted Hotel

What's the Halloween season without some screams? The infamous Depot Theater Haunted Hotel moves into the Homestead Theater and transforms into eight rooms sure to frighten you right into the mood for a spooky Halloween season. October 9-31, 2015