Theatrical
Season

Songs for a New World

Directed by Jess Glass

September 23 & 24 8pm

September 25 2pm

$25

This contemporary song cycle weaves characters and history together, illuminating the timelessness of self-discovery.

It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice... or take a stand... or turn around and go back. These are the stories and characters of today, the Songs for a New World. The first musical from Tony Award winner, Jason Robert Brown (Parade, Bridges of Madison County), this moving collection of powerful songs examines life, love and the choices that we make.

Brown transports his audience from the deck of a 1492 Spanish sailing ship to a ledge, 57 stories above Fifth Avenue, to meet a startling array of characters that range from a young man who has determined that basketball is his ticket out of the ghetto to a woman whose dream of marrying rich nabs her the man of her dreams... and a soulless marriage.

With a small, powerhouse multi-ethnic cast and a driving, exquisitely crafted score that runs the gamut of today's popular music, Songs for a New World is a great way to bring the next generation into the theatre.

A Play Gets Murdered

November 11th & 12th 8pm

November 13th 2pm

Director: John Sallustio

Synopsis: It was a dark and stormy theater. Suddenly, a scream rings out!! The curtain opens to find a distraught woman. Her husband, the very wealthy Theodore Bodhi lay dead on the divan in his study. But who would have killed him, and why? Find out in this outrageous, unique comedy that will leave audiences laughing throughout.

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Cast:

Amy Lyn Howell

Laura Carpenter

Leah Conway

Marina Spears

John Sallustio

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Da

January 20th & 21st, 8pm

January, 22nd 2pm

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Middle-aged assimilated American Charlie returns home to his native Dublin to sort through and come to terms with his relationship to this thoroughly beguiling, maddening presence in his life: "Da." Reminiscence gives way to memory and illusion as an adolescent "Charlie Then" is brought back from the past, while the man who is "Charlie Now" grapples with his own mortality and the part of his life that will always be the irrasicible "Da." A great success in its original Broadway production, subsequent revivals have proven this play a classic.

Sherlock Holmes and the Portal of Time

February 3rd & 4th 8pm

February 5th 2pm

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Written and Directed by Michael Druce

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Only one man can change the outcome of World War II—Professor Moriarty. And only one man can stop this evil mastermind from changing the fate of the world—Sherlock Holmes. In this witty, fast-paced and wildly inventive adventure, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must travel from London in 1921 to Berlin in 1939 to stop Moriarty from changing the outcome of history. With the help of H.G. Wells, his delightful wife, Jane, and two Albert Einsteins, Holmes and Watson pursue Moriarty through time.

All Aboard and

Then Some 

March 3rd & 4th, 8pm

March 5th, 2pm

Written By John Smitherman

Directed By Susan Capicotto

If you have ever been on a cruise ship or if you ever plan on taking a cruise, you won't want to miss this laugh-filled comedy set on the high seas! Written by John D. Smitherman, this hilarious madcap show has received five stars from Philadelphia critics. Sail along as an over-worked talent agent from New York, embarks on what he thinks is a relaxing cruise to Hawaii. However, he soon realizes it's anything but. With a wannabe actor cabin steward, an Italian bell hop with very little English or work ethic, a washed-up lounge singer, an oil tycoon from Texas with his new fiancee and a Vegas dancer looking for a rich husband, the laughs continue from beginning to well after you're back on dry land. From the writer of Holy Cannoli, Take My Husband, Please!, Valentine Schmalentine, Is He Dead Again? And many more, All Aboard And Then Some! will take you on a voyage of comedy the way comedy was meant to be.

The Play That Goes Wrong

April 7th & 8th, 8pm

April 9th 2pm 

From Mischief, Broadway masters of comedy, comes the smash hit farce. Welcome to opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has 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). Nevertheless, the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds 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 you aching with laughter!

Matilda!!!

May 12th & 13th, 8pm

May 14th, 2pm

The story of an extraordinary girl who dares to take a stand and change her own destiny.

Inspired by the twisted genius of Roald Dahl, the Tony Award-winning Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical is the captivating masterpiece from the Royal Shakespeare Company that revels in the anarchy of childhood, the power of imagination and the inspiring story of a girl who dreams of a better life. With book by Dennis Kelly and original songs by Tim Minchin, Matilda has won 47 international awards and continues to thrill sold-out audiences of all ages around the world.

Matilda is a little girl with astonishing wit, intelligence and psychokinetic powers. She's unloved by her cruel parents but impresses her schoolteacher, the highly loveable Miss Honey. Over the course of her first term at school, Matilda and Miss Honey have a profound effect on each other's lives, as Miss Honey begins not only to recognize but also appreciate Matilda's extraordinary personality. Matilda's school life isn't completely smooth sailing, however – the school's mean headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, hates children and just loves thinking up new punishments for those who don't abide by her rules. But Matilda has courage and cleverness in equal amounts, and could be the school pupils' saving grace!