Christmas Dreams: A World of Wonder was the brain child of director and creator, Doug Austen. Christmas has always been a big deal in the Austen house, whether it was lots of decorations (Clark Griswold would be proud), or Mom's crocheted stocking (which Santa still fills e;very year), or lots of great comfort food (macaroni & […]
The complexities of relationships are oftentimes hard to convey. This show is brilliantly composed of mostly musical monologues, with the husband of a failed marriage telling his side of the relationship from the beginning to the end and the wife telling her story from the end to the beginning. PERFORMANCE DATES: January 21-30, 2011 CAST: […]
The Woman in Black written by Susan Hill and adapted for stage by Stephen Mallatratt. Hill set out to write a classic ghost story that included a haunted place like a lonely house or church, an appropriate atmosphere, weather, a ghost, and a reason for the ghost to haunt people. Mallatratt created the script for […]
Tom Kerwood and his wife, Linda, are on the verge of adopting a baby. It should be the happiest day of their lives — and it might be except Tom's brothers have decided to lend a hand. When Dick and Harry get involved, Tom and his wife find themselves mixed up with two illegal immigrants, […]
Eight sisters coming together every other week for bridge, sisterhood and gossip, The Octette Bridge Club takes us into the living room of one of eight sisters separated in ages by seventeen years, hidden secrets and personal desires. PERFORMANCE DATES: June 17 - 26, 2011 CAST: Martha - Dona Lancaster, Mary - Angie Hatton, Nora - Darleen […]
High energy, light-hearted, plenty of opportunity for the audience to laugh. A traveling vacuum salesman wanders into a marriage counselor's office. Susan and Tiger burst in, arguing so fiercely that the salesman can't get a word in edge wise. They mistake him for the counselor and he never gets a chance to enlighten them. And […]
Following the closing arguments in a murder trial, the 12 members of the jury must deliberate, with a guilty verdict meaning death for the accused, an inner-city teen. As the dozen men try to reach a unanimous decision while sequestered in a room, one juror casts considerable doubt on elements of the case. Personal issues […]
While on a lecture tour in Ohio, Sheridan Whiteside slips on the ice outside his hosts' home. Until his injured hip heals, the hosts are forced to put up (and put up with) the imperious Whiteside. PERFORMANCE DATES: December 2-17, 2011 CAST: Mrs. Stanley (Daisy) - Angie Hatton, Miss Preen - Margaret Butcher, Richard Stanley - […]
In Private Lives, passion, laughter, romance, anger, and love set the stage for a battle of the sexes as divorced couple, Amanda and Elyot, find themselves unwittingly thrown together in Coward’s classic comedy of manners. Unknowingly booking adjoining rooms while on honeymoon with their respective spouses, Victor and Sybil, Amanda and Elyot are forced to face […]
Harvey, a Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by Mary Chase, is the story of a perfect gentleman, Elwood P. Dowd, and his best friend, Harvey -- a pooka, who is a six-foot tall, invisible rabbit. When Elwood begins introducing Harvey around town, his embarrassed sister, Veta Louise, and her daughter, Myrtle Mae, determine to commit Elwood to […]
In this hilarious comedy, two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing "Scenes from Shakespeare" on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. When they hear that an old lady in York, PA is about to die and leave her fortune to […]
A hit comedy similar in vein to Shakespeare’s comedies of merry misadventures and mistaken identities, Boeing Boeing tells the exploits of French bachelor Bernard and his lovely female flight attendants. Three flight attendants, to be exact, from three different countries: and they all believe they’re engaged to Bernard! In the past, Bernard has been able to juggle […]
