October 2024
The Play That Goes Wrong
Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields
Directed by Brad Duffy, Mentored Director Ryan Colburn
Play Dates: Friday, Saturday: Oct. 4. 5, 11, 12, 18, 19 at 7:30pm and Sunday: Oct. 13, 20 at 1:30pm
Comedy – Fun for All
It’s opening night of the Comley Polytechnic University Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. The Drama Society sets out to open their run of this 1920s whodunit, but everything you never wanted in a show-an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines) – starts to ensue. Nevertheless, the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds, poison, and peril to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, this Olivier Award winning comedy is a global phenomenon that’s guaranteed to leave the cast exhausted and the audience aching with laughter.
November – December 2024
Nunset Boulevard
Written by Dan Goggins
Directed by Brad Duffy
Play Dates: Friday, Saturday: November 29, 30 and December 6, 7, 13, 14 at 7:30pm and Sunday: December 8, 15 at 1:30pm
Musical Comedy – Fun for All
The Little Sisters of Hoboken are off to Tinseltown. They are thrilled at the prospect of performing at the Hollywood Bowl until they discover they are booked into the Hollywood Bowl-A-Rama. But when they hear that a big-time producer is auditioning people for a new movie musical about the life of Dolores Hart, the movie star who became a nun, their spirits soar! Could this be their big break?
February – March 2025
These Shining Lives
By Melanie Marnich
Directed by Alex Eddy
Play Dates: Friday, Saturday: February 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28 and March 1 at 7:30pm and Sunday: March 2 at 1:30pm
Drama – Teens and Adults
These Shining Lives chronicies the strength and determination of women considered expendable in their day, exploring their true story and its continued resonance. Catherine and her friends are dying. It’s true, but theirs is a story of survival in its most transcendent sense, as they refuse to allow the company that stole their health to kill their spirits—or endanger the lives of those who come after them.
April – May 2025
She Kills Monsters
By Qui Nguyen
Directed by Libby Carrico, Mentored Director Alex Eddy
Play Dates: Friday, Saturday: April 26 and May 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17 at 7:30 pm and Sunday: May 18, at 1:30pm
Drama – Teens, Adults, Nerds and Geeks – Adult Language
She Kills Monsters tells the story of Agnes Evans, a young woman grieving for her deceased sister. The Evans sisters were never very close, but after Tilly’s death Agnes finds a notebook containing a game scenario created by her sister. She discovers that Tilly was a well-known Dungeons and Dragons player.