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Endgame

By Samuel Beckett, directed by Bobbi Masters

Jun 13-Jun 29, 2025

Fridays June 13, 20 and 27 at 8:00
Saturdays June 14, 21 and 28 at 8:00
Sundays June 22 and 29 at 2:30
Thursday June 26 at 7:00

The director, Bobbi Masters is approaching her production of Endgame as a ghostly vaudeville set in a post-apocalyptic purgatory. Through elements of clowning and faded relics of lives post-lived, she imagines the piece as a tragicomic séance- a summoning of laughter from the ashes of meaning. Like his other works, it's both philosophical and very funny.

According to Beckett scholar, Ruby Cohn, Endgame was Beckett's favorite play, and he chose this play to be the first play that he directed.

The play, Fin de Partie, (Endgame) was written 1952, as a work in progress, but not completed until 1956. [ ... more ]

Coming Soon

Dear Jack, Dear Louise

By Ken Ludwig, Directed by Ceil Herman

Aug 15-Aug 31, 2025

Fridays 8/15, 8/22, and 8/29 at 8:00 pm
Saturdays 8/16, 8/23, and 8/30 at 8:00 pm
Sundays 8/24 and 8/31 at 2:30 pm
Thursday 8/28 at 7:00 pm

U.S. Army Captain Jack Ludwig, a military doctor stationed in Oregon, begins writing to Louise Rabiner, an aspiring actress and dancer in New York City, hoping to meet her someday if the war will allow. But as the war continues, it threatens to end their relationship before it even starts. Tony Award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig (Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Lend Me a Tenor) tells the joyous, heartwarming story of his parents’ courtship during World War II and the results are anything but expected! [ ... more ]

Home, I'm Darling

By Laura Wade, Directed by Autumn Gieb

Oct 03-Oct 19, 2025

Fridays 10/3, 10/10, and 10/17 at 8:00 pm
Saturdays 10/4, 10/11 and 10/18 at 8:00 pm
Sundays 10/12 and 10/19 at 2:30 pm
Thursday 10/16 at 7:00 pm

Every marriage needs a little fantasy to keep it sparkling. But behind the gingham curtains, being a domestic goddess isn't as easy as it looks... Home, I'm Darling is Laura Wade's new dark comedy about sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect 1950s housewife [ ... more ]

Yankee Tavern

By Steven Dietz, Directed by Ceil Herman

Nov 21-Dec 07, 2025


Fridays 11/21, 11/28, and 12/5 at 8:00 pm
Saturdays 11/22, 11/29, and 12/6 at 8:00pm
Sundays 11/30 and 12/7 at 2:30 pm
Thursday 12/4 at 7:00 pm

Just when you thought you’d heard every crazy 9/11 conspiracy theory, a stranger walks into the Yankee Tavern. There, inside the walls of this crumbling New York tavern, a young couple finds themselves caught up in what might be the biggest conspiracy of all. Steven Dietz’s acclaimed and already widely produced dramatic thriller—a selection of the National New Play Network’s Continued Life Project—is a fierce, funny, and ultimately mind-bending work of theatrical power that grips you until the final word. What you don’t know can hurt you. [ ... more ]

Misery

By William Goldman, based on the novel by Stephen King, Directed by Joshua Taulbee

Jan 23-Feb 08, 2026


Fridays 1/23, 1/30, and 2/6 at 8:00 pm
Saturdays 1/24, 1/31, and 2/7 at 8:00 pm
Sundays 2/1 and 2/8 at 2:30 pm
Thursday 2/5 at 7:pm

Misery follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive in her secluded home. While Paul is convalescing, Annie reads his latest book and becomes enraged when she discovers the author has killed off her favorite character, Misery Chastain. Annie forces Paul to write a new Misery novel, and he quickly realizes Annie has no intention of letting him go anywhere. The irate Annie has Paul writing as if his life depends on it, and it does. [ ... more ]

The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged

By Jessica Bedford, Kathryn MacMillan, Charlotte Northeast, and Meghan Winch, Directed by Melissa Munoz-Chavez

Mar 13-Mar 29, 2026


Fridays 3/13, 3/20, and 3/27 at 8:00 pm
Saturdays 3/14, 3/21, and 3/28 at 8:00 pm
Sundays 3/22 and 3/29 at 2:30 pm
Thursday 33/26 at 7:00 pm

Come along for a funny, fast-paced romp through the masterpieces of Jane Austen with The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged. Three actors take on all of Austen’s beloved heroines, friends, and love interests – and her incisive social satire – in just 80 minutes. But when they lose a cast member, the two remaining Janeites must teach an understudy about her work. It is a truth universally acknowledged that an audience in possession of high spirits must be in want of a ticket to this big-hearted comedy that will delight Austen fans and newcomers alike. [ ... more ]

Frankenstein

By R. N. Sandberg, Directed by Ceil Herman

May 01-May 17, 2026


Fridays 5/1, 5/8, and 5/15 at 8:00 pm
Saturdays 5/2, 5/9, and 5/16 at 8:00 pm
Sundays 5/10 and 5/17 at 2:30 pm
Thursday 5/14 at 7:pm

Set in the icy polar regions where scientist Victor Frankenstein has chased the creature he brought to life, this highly theatrical and emotional play traces Frankenstein's path to the final confrontation with his intelligent, articulate, sensitive, and powerfully violent child. [ ... more ]

One Flea Spare

By Naomi Wallace, Directed by Bobbi Masters

Jun 12-Jun 28, 2026


Fridays 6/12, 6/19, and 6/26 at 8:00 pm
Saturdays 6/13. 6/20, and 6/27 at 8:00 pm
Sundays 6/21 and 6/28 at 2:30 pm
Thursday 6/25 at 7:00 pm

A wealthy couple is preparing to flee their home when a mysterious sailor and a young girl appear sneaking into their boarded up house. Now, quarantined together for 28 days, the only thing these strangers fear more than the Plague is each other. Definitions of morality are up for grabs and survival takes many forms in this dark, fiercely intense & humorous play. [ ... more ]

Announcements

2024-2025
TICKET PRICING



After many years of holding the line on ticket prices, inflation has caught up with us and we need to increase them.
Starting with the new season, individual ticket prices will be $18 regular admission and $15 students and seniors over 65. Thursday performances $12
Coupon packs (5 admissions) $85/$70 PPP season tickets (7 admissions) $100/$90.



Once again we will be using an online ticketing system for your
convenience.
The cost of the service has been built into the ticket prices so you’ll see no additional fees.

The site is nostrings.booktix.com


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