Current Plays

2007-2008 Season

PLEASE NOTE:  The dates for the 2007-08 season have been set.  This season (our 20th), we will continue to host our afternoon matinee on SATURDAY.  This change is to help our matinee patrons avoid the parking problems caused by the Band concerts on the North end of Cambier Park on Sundays.

Before we finish the 2007-08 season come and join us for a special afternoon!  In collaboration with Brambles Tearoom we are presenting a comedy named "Tea A Ria!  Join us for a royal tea and a show!

The story: 

Tea time goes Italian in this comical story of a young Italian woman who tries to open a tea room but her family keeps showing up to help.  Add a British couple observing the madness, a love struck suitor and grandmother trying to put meatballs in the tea sandwiches and you have an afternoon of fun.

For more information, or to book a reservation, call Brambles Tearoom at 262-7894.

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All shows will be performed at 7:30 p.m. EXCEPT Saturday Matinees which will be at 2:30 p.m.

The May '08 Show is: "Tender Lies,” a comedy by Nancy Pahl Gilsenan.
performance rights pending

This is the show that started it all in April 1989.

The story:  A tribute to the human spirit, this is the story of Arlo Gibson's unusual care and preservation of the waning dignity in each of the people who populate his porch. Among them are: an old woman whose once-elegant existence has deteriorated into an impoverished wait for life to end; a young woman who longs to be an artist but who works pitting apricots to support her alcoholic mother; and a man of strong religious conviction who killed his son's rabbit in a fit of rage and does not know how to find forgiveness. Arlo suggests that an insecure girl stop wearing dark glasses because... "You'll feel safe talking to strangers in broad daylight." He must also deal with a neurotic who buys lotions for rashes that have yet to happen! Like an archaeologist, Arlo can, with time, make even his dullest and most pathetic discovery sparkle. His method is simple—he tells "tender" lies. Or, as a critic covering the opening of the play in California wrote in his rave review, "He cajoles his tenants out of counterproductive behavior by creative prevarication." This critic continues speaking for himself and for the audience about the special beauty of this play. "It gets to you." Let your actors and your audience experience the theatrical magic of human understanding. Let this gentle yet extraordinary power get to them, too!

Our Cast for this show is:

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