You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Original script/score: Clark Gesner & John Gordon
June 19 – June 29

2:00 Shows: June 19, 22, 26, 29
7:30 Shows: June 19, 20, 21, 26, 28

Remember the good old days when life seemed simple and happiness was easy to define? Nobody can help us explore the possibilities and pitfalls of life better than Charlie Brown. The original 1967 musical was revisited and new music added in the 1999 Tony award-winning revival that shares the troubles of true love, battles with bad grades and the Red Baron, and struggles with insecurity & self-absorption.

"You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown" provides a musical glimpse of what everyday life is like for Charlie Brown and his friends. Whether it’s Glee Club rehearsal or a Very Little League baseball game, we see the childhood struggles of friendship, honesty, loyalty and self-love.

Dates with a Nut
by Tom Johnson & Meg Merckens
July 10 – August 10

2:00 Shows: July 10, 13, 24, 27, 31, August 3, 7, 10
7:30 Shows: July 10, 11, 12, 24, 25, 26, 31, August 1, 2, 7, 9, 14, 15, 16, 21, 23

Dating was difficult enough as a teenager – who needs to go through it again?! Dates with a Nut follows the efforts of a computer programmer trying to find Ms. Right. His initial dates at the local restaurant serve up nothing but 'nuts' with the only steady hand being the waitress pouring the coffee.

A hilarious and humbling look at dating in the 21st century. Audiences will be delighted and fascinated by the quick changes completed by the actress who plays the waitress and every date who comes to meet her potential “match” in the safety of the restaurant.

Sea Marks
by Gardner McKay
August 14 – August 24

2:00 Shows: August 14, 17, 21, 24
7:30 Shows: August 14, 15, 16, 21, 23

Winner of L.A. Drama Critics Circle Best Play Award, this is the touching story of a fisherman living on a remote Irish island who has fallen in love with a woman he spots while at a wedding. Unschooled in letter writing, Colm begins a correspondence, trying his utmost to court Timothea by mail.

After a year and a half, he succeeds in arranging a rendezvous at which, to his surprise, she persuades him to leave a place where there are no last names and no electricity and live with her in Liverpool. Colm is a man divided between passions as he pines for the sea and struggles to acknowledge his unexpected success as a poet.

From our Children’s Theatre Series…

Ama & The White Crane
By Maureen O’Toole
September 13 - September 21

Set in 17th Century Japan, Ama & The White Crane is a Kabuki-style adventure that celebrates strong family values in an imaginative and expert blend of mime, movement, music and comed. The adventures of Ama and her hand-puppet companion, White Crane, unfold as they journey to the Legendary Center of the Universe. A pair of bombastic but good-hearted samurai befriend Ama as she seeks to save her village from a powerful Demon, whose disguises create suspense and humor. The Demon is inevitably overcome by the ingenuity of young Ama.

Arsenic & Old Lace
by Joseph Kesslering
October 9 – November 2

2:00 Shows: October 9, 12, 16, 19, 23, 26, 30, November 2
7:30 Shows: October 9, 10, 11, 25, 30, November 1

A clever combination of the farcical and the macabre, Arsenic & Old Lace centers on two elderly sisters, famous in their 1940’s Brooklyn neighborhood for numerous acts of charity. Unfortunately, their kind-heartedness includes poisoning lonely old men who come looking for lodging! The sisters are assisted by an eccentric nephew who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt.

Matters get complicated when a second nephew discovers the murders and an estranged third nephew appears unexpectedly. An immediate hit when it opened on Broadway in 1941, Arsenic and Old Lace ran for 1,444 performances and a film version starring Cary Grant became a huge box office success in 1945.

A Christmas Story
by Jean Shepherd & adapted by Philip Grecian
November 29 – December 28

2:00 Shows: November 30, December 4, 7, 11, 14, 18, 21, 28
7:30 Shows: November 29, December 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 26, 27

Humorist Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in the midwest in the 1940’s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself at Goldblatt's Department Store.

The consistent response: "You'll shoot your eye out." All the elements from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family's temperamental exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the school bully; the boys' experiment with a wet tongue on a cold lamppost; the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin; and Ralphie's father winning a lamp shaped like a woman's leg in a net stocking.

From our Children’s Theatre Series…

Charlotte’s Web
From the story by E.B. White
Adapted for the stage by Joseph Robinette
March 6 - March 9

2:00 performances: March 6, 9
7:30 performances: March 6, 7, 8

Featuring over 35 area youth! Wilbur, the runt of a litter of pigs, is doomed until Fern, the farmer's daughter, saves him. Happy with his life, Wilbur seems to have all he needs, until he discovers he is destined for the dining room table. The innocent pig is befriended by a wise spider named Charlotte, who, by spelling words in her web, brings fame to Wilbur and thus guarantees him a long and natural life.