Steel Magnolias | August 8-10, 2003

Written by Robert Harling
Directed by Michael W. Kobs

The story is set in Truvy's Louisiana beauty parlor where
women who are "anybody" come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle, the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to her customers, Miss Clairee, Ouiser, and M'Lynn, whose daughter Shelby, is about to wed. Filled with hilarious situations and revealing verbal collisions, the play moves toward tragedy when Shelby risks pregancy and forfeits her life. The realization of their mortality affects all, and gives the play and its characters the special qualities to make them truly touching, funny and good company in both good and bad times.

     

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Arsenic & Old Lace | August 20-22, 2004

A comedy written by Joseph Kesselring
Directed by Gail Possley

Arsenic & Old Lace is a farce. The story revolves around Mortimer Brewster, a theatre drama critic who must deal with his crazy family and local police in Brooklyn, New York, as he debates whether to go through with marrying Elaine Harper, the woman he loves. His family includes two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine and "just a pinch" of cyanide. Mortimer's brother, Teddy, believes he's Teddy Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home. Mortimer also has a criminally murderous brother, Jonathan, who has received plastic surgery from an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein, to conceal his identity and now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff.

     

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Rumors | August 18-21, 2005

Written by Neil Simon
Directed by Jeannie Pitsch

This farce follows the story of four couples who arrive one at a time at the townhouse of a deputy New York City mayor and his wife to celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. The party never begins because the host has shot himself in the head (it's only a flesh wound) and his wife is missing. His lawyer's cover-up gets progressively more difficult to sustain as the other guests arrive and nobody can remember who has been told what about whom as they speculate what has happened to the anniversary couple. Doors slam and hilarity abounds as the couples get more and more crazed, confused and frustrated with keeping their stories straight.

     

  

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The Curious Savage | August 17-20, 2006

A fanciful comedy written by John Patrick
Directed and designed by Greg Rindfleisch

Meet Mrs. Ethel Savage, an eccentric and very wealth widow who is intent on giving away as much of the family fortune as she can to those whose dreams are worthy but whose means are meager. Enter her three greedy, self-serving adult stepchildren who place her in "The Cloisters", a psychiatric "rest home" to "bring her to her senses." Here she meets a variety of quirky, slightly off-balanced patients who help her lead the avaricious siblings on a merry chase. Eventually, all of the patients appear more "sane" than those outside the walls of the institution, and the virtues of kindness and affection, in the end, outweigh the worldly motivations of greed and dishonesty.

     

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Love is Contagious | August 7-10, 2008

A romantic comedy written by Patricia McLaine
Directed by Gail Possley

Sally, a young farm girl from Kansas visits New York City with plans to become an actress or model. To her brother Robbie's surprise, she arrives at his Greenwich Village apartment and announces that she is staying with him and his roommate. Robbie, a newspaper reporter, and his roommate Sam, an artist, are not happy about her arrival because she "mothers" them and adds feminine touches to their apartment. She also plays matchmaker by reuniting them with their former girlfriends. Filled with tense moments, light-hearted laughs and a cast of colorful characters, the merriment never slackens. True love, as it should, triumphs in the end.

     

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Laughing Stock | August 6-9, 2009

by Charles Morey

An affectionate and whimsical look at the magic that holds theater companies together. It depicts the desperate efforts of theater director Gordon Page to produce a season that will appeal to all by rotating "Charley's Aunt", Dracula" and "Hamlet" for a thoroughly ambitious summer season set in an old barn.