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ATC’s latest project, The Shakespeare Underground, is an exuberant, fun, unpredictable take on classic plays from Shakespeare and a variety of authors. The concept of the project is a combination of guerrilla street theater and traditional Elizabethan staging methods. What’s more “underground” than that? Please join us the first Monday of the month as we return in person to hear something that you’ve probably never heard before!

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May 2, 2022 - THE BEAU DEFEATED

Directed by Ollie Worden

A biting satire on the social aspiration, the play follows two women in their search for respectable husbands. The unfortunate Mrs. Rich makes a desperate attempt to land herself an aristocratic husband. For witty Lady Landsworth, the problem is to discover whether the man she loves is quite as good as he looks. From the nobles to the servants, no one is what they appear to be. Imposters are unmasked, confidences betrayed, and a great deal of money changes hands as the story careens towards its disastrous conclusion.

April 4, 2022 - NOBODY: A COMEDY IN TWO ACTS

Directed by Jabari Johnson

One of Mary Robinson’s most remarkable productions was her two-act farce Nobody (Drury Lane, 1794), though now, even among scholars of the Romantic period, it is a play almost completely unknown. A biting satire on female gamblers, Nobody documents the financial ruin and rescue of the recently widowed aristocrat, Lady Languid, who, having become caught up in a world of fashionable dissipation, squanders her fortune while playing faro, vingt-et-un, and rouge et noir, among other high-stakes games.

March 7, 2022 - THE ROARING GIRL

Directed by Nina Martin

Jacobean comedy The Roaring Girl is a fictionalized dramatization of the life of Mary Frith, known as “Moll Cutpurse,” a woman who had gained a reputation as a virago in the early 17th century. (The term “roaring girl” was adapted from the slang term “roaring boy,” which was applied to a young man who caroused publicly, brawled, and committed petty crimes.).

January 4, 2021 - THE KNIGHTS

The Knights was the fourth play written by Aristophanes, who is considered the master of an ancient form of drama known as Old Comedy. The play is a satire on the social and political life of classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War and in this respect it is typical of all the dramatist’s early plays. It won first prize at the Lenaia festival when it was produced in 424 BCE. The play is a satire on political and social life in 5th Century BCE Athens, and in particular a diatribe against the pro-war populist politician, Cleon. In the play, a sausage-seller, Agoracritus, vies with Paphlagonian (representing Cleon) for the confidence and approval of Demos (an elderly man who symbolizes the Athenian citizenry) and Agoracritus emerges triumphant from a series of contests and miraculously restores Demos to his former youth and glory.

December 7, 2020 - STORYTIME WITH SANTA

Whether you’re on the nice list or naughty list this year, join us for a virtual reading from a very special guest.

November 2, 2020 - ENCORE PRESENTATION: JULIUS CAESAR
October 5, 2020 - POLITIAN

Politian is the only play known to have been written by Edgar Allan Poe, composed in 1835, but never completed. The play is a fictionalized version of a true event in Kentucky: the murder of Solomon P. Sharp by Jereboam O. Beauchamp in 1825.

September 7, 2020 - SHAKESPEARE'S SHORTS VOL. 4
A collection of loving local quaran-tributes to the Bard.
August 31, 2020 - A KNACK TO KNOW A KNAVE
A Knack to Know a Knave is a 1592 comic morality tale closely associated with the principal performers Edward Alleyn and William Kempe. The play tells the story of the four sons of the mortally ill bailiff of Hexham living in 10th century England. On his deathbed the bailiff advises his sons “Live to yourselves while you have time to live / Get what you can, but see you nothing give.” Each of the sons pursues knavery in his own way, but honesty in the end both exposes their stratagems and inflicts a series of painful punishments.
August 24, 2020 - LOCRINE
Locrine, or The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine, is an Elizabethan play portraying the legendary Trojan founders of the nation of England and of Troynovant (London). The play presents a cluster of complicated and unresolved problems for scholars of English Renaissance theatre and is assumed to be part of the Shakespearean Apocrypha.
August 17, 2020 - ENCORE PRESENTATION: THE COUNTESS OF MONTE CRISTO
August 10, 2020 - THE BIRTH OF MERLIN
The Birth of Merlin, or, The Child Hath Found his Father is a Jacobean play, probably written in whole or part by William Rowley. First performed in 1622, it contains a comic depiction of the birth of the fully grown Merlin to a country girl, and also features figures from Arthurian legend, including Uther Pendragon, Vortigern, and Aurelius Ambrosius.
August 3, 2020 - THE PURITAN
The Puritan, or the Widow of Watling Street, also known as The Puritan Widow, is an anonymous Jacobean stage comedy, first published in 1607. It is often attributed to Thomas Middleton, but also belongs to the Shakespeare Apocrypha due to its title page attribution to “W.S.”
July 27, 2020 - SHAKESPEARE'S SHORTS VOL. 3
A collection of loving local quaran-tributes to the Bard.
July 20, 2020 - MUCEDORUS with eMBer Women's Theatre

Mucedorus, written and first performed in London in the early 1590s, is a play about a prince who adopts a disguise and undertakes a journey to see if a princess is as beautiful as he has heard. Along the way he eliminates threats to himself and her, finally revealing his identity and proposing marriage. Attributed in whole and in part to Shakespeare, it was one of the most performed plays of its age, and 16 quarto editions were published between 1598 and 1668 making it the most widely printed play from the time.

July 13, 2020 - FAIR EM, THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER
The plot derives in part from an Elizabethan ballad titled, “The Blind Beggar’s Daughter of Bednal-Green.” Like many plays of the time, the title of Fair Em alludes to a popular subplot, that of the beautiful Em; however, William the Conqueror, the first Norman King of England, might claim the title as the play’s main protagonist. In the subplot, Em, the beautiful daughter of the miller of Manchester, is wooed by three suitors, Valingford, Mountney, and Manvile. Preferring Manvile, she pretends blindness to evade Valingford, and deafness to avoid Mountney. But Manvile proves unfaithful to Em.
July 6, 2020 - SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE
Sir John Oldcastle is an Elizabethan play about John Oldcastle, a controversial 14th-/15th-century rebel and Lollard who was seen by some of Shakespeare’s contemporaries as a proto-Protestant martyr.
June 29, 2020 - THE LONDON PRODIGAL
The London Prodigal is a play in English Renaissance theatre, a city comedy set in London, in which a prodigal son learns the error of his ways. The play was published in quarto in 1605 by the stationer Nathaniel Butter, and printed by Thomas Cotes. In 1664 it was one of the seven plays that publisher Philip Chetwinde added to the second impression of his Third Folio of Shakespeare’s plays.
June 22, 2020 - A YORKSHIRE TRAGEDY
A Yorkshire Tragedy tells the true story of Walter Calverley, and how in 1605, spiraling debt, alcoholism, and despair drove him to murder his family. Published in 1608, the title pages of the play attribute it to William Shakespeare, although academics believe it is actually the work of another playwright, Thomas Middleton. The play was first acted at the Globe Theatre.
June 15, 2020 - EDWARD III
The Reign of King Edward the Third, commonly shortened to Edward III, is an Elizabethan play printed anonymously in 1596 attributed in part to William Shakespeare. A play that is deeply concerned with the themes of honor, duty, and chivalry, Edward III follows the war-time triumphs of its titular character, who ruled England from 1327-1377. Beginning in the midst of the Scottish War of Independence, King Edward extinguishes a Scottish uprising, and in the process, becomes enchanted by the wife of one of his lords, the Countess of Salisbury. But, before their forbidden longing can lead to disaster, Edward and his army must travel to France to continue the two countries’ long and embittered conflict over the French throne.
June 8, 2020 - SHAKESPEARE'S SHORTS VOL. 2
A collection of loving local quaran-tributes to the Bard.
June 1, 2020 - SHAKESPEARE'S SHORTS VOL. 1
A collection of loving local quaran-tributes to the Bard.
May 26, 2020 - CGA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
In partnership with the Columbus Gifted Academy, ATC’s “Shakespeare in Schools” program highlights CGA’s annual 8th grade “Shakespeare Festival” featuring performances of Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, and King Lear.
May 18, 2020 - CHARLES II

Considered one of the best early American comedies, Charles II; Or, The Merry Monarch is based on the French play, La Jeunesse de Henri V,  by Alexandre Duval. The simple plot involves Lady Clara and the Earl of Rochester plotting to reform King Charles II by leaving him in a common tavern without money to contend with real life.

May 11, 2020 - MISS JULIE with Columbus Civic Theatre

Miss Julie is Strindberg’s examination of power, sex, and class, set on a Midsummer’s Eve in a nobleman’s house and focusing on the shifting relationship between Miss Julie, the daughter of the house, and Jean, her father’s manservant.

Actors’ Theatre is proud to collaborate with the Columbus Civic Theater for this live virtual broadcast of Miss Julie. When the theatres can open again, this production will finally be back on the CCT stage. Check www.columbuscivic.org for updates on this production and others.

May 4, 2020 - LOVE FOR LOVE

In William Congreve’s witty farce, love and money square off as two brothers attempt to follow their hearts without losing their inheritance. Populated by a lover named Valentine; his clever beloved, Angelica; a less-than-virtuous Miss Frail; and a braggart, Tattle, Love for Love takes a satirical and sardonic look into Restoration-era romance.

April 27, 2020 - THE OLD LADY SHOWS HER MEDALS

First published in his collection Echoes of the War in 1918, J.M. Barrie’s The Old Lady Shows Her Medals is about a London charwoman and the surprising consequences of her lies to keep up with the Joneses.

April 20, 2020 - AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT

Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce (1916) is a comic one-act play by George Bernard Shaw about a dim-witted aristocrat who is outwitted by a female spy during World War I.

April 6, 2020 - ARIA DA CAPO

In her response to World War I, Edna St. Vincent Millay discusses class issues, human greed, selfishness, moral decay, and the pettiness of war and its causes in this poetic farce.

March 2, 2020 - MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL

First performed in 1935, Murder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by T.S. Eliot that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral during the reign of Henry II in 1170. Eliot drew heavily on the writing of Edward Grim, a clerk who was an eyewitness to the event. The play, dealing with an individual’s opposition to authority, was written at the time of rising fascism in central Europe.

February 3, 2020 - LOA TO DIVINE NARCISSUS

Legendary Mexican poet and playwright Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Loa to Divine Narcissus (1689) is an allegorical play that depicts the arrival of the Spanish in Mexico. Known as the Tenth Muse and the Mexican Sphinx, Sor Juana was a nun famous for her secular writings, early feminism, and egalitarian ideals. She remains a national hero in Mexico and a figure of intense critical interest today.

January 6, 2020 - THE DUCHESS OF MALFI

Inspired by a true story, The Duchess of Malfi follows the tragic efforts of a noblewoman to marry for love and to free herself of the writhing political, religious, and erotic web spun by her family. This macabre, punk beauty of a play draws together extraordinary language, violent delights, humanity and humor, and some of the most complex and memorable characters in Jacobean drama.

December 2, 2019 - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL

We get in the holiday “spirit” with William Shakespeare’s A Christmas Carol by Ian Doescher.

From The Muppets to Mickey Mouse & Friends, The Flintstones to Looney Tunes, interpretations of A Christmas Carol have featured some of pop culture’s most recognizable figures. Now, in Ian Doescher’s delightful adaptation, a troupe of Shakespearean characters get to play in Dickens’ fanciful and frightening fable, telling the story as if the Bard himself had penned it. For Shakespeare buffs, the script is stuffed like a Christmas turkey with references and inside jokes. But no matter your background, the timeless transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge is sure to warm your heart!

November 4, 2019 - LOVE FOR LOVE: ACT ONE

 

The Shakespeare Underground returns for the 2020 season at a new venue – The Studio @ The Kitchen – with William Congreve’s Love for Love.

In William Congreve’s witty farce, love and money square off as two brothers attempt to follow their hearts without losing their inheritance. Populated by a lover named Valentine; his clever beloved, Angelica; a less-than-virtuous Miss Frail; and a braggart, Tattle, Love for Love takes a satirical and sardonic look into Restoration-era romance.

November 2, 2019 - NO HOLDS BARD!: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S FIGHT NIGHT 2

NO HOLDS BARD!: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S FIGHT NIGHT 2

A TSU SPECIAL EVENT! Kings and Clowns will duke it out in swaggy, saucy Shakespearean swordplay with wrothful wit and warlike wordplay. Place your bets with Bard Bucks on who you think will drink from the cup of victory! Will Petruchio keep the title and the belt?

May 2, 2019 - THE DRUNKEN UNDERGROUND: ROMEO AND JULIET

ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare

A TSU SPECIAL EVENT! The Drunken Underground is a time to make merry and tackle some of the Bard’s greatest works with a little liquid courage. Actors and audience can enjoy the alchemy of Shakespeare and Pretentious Barrel House’s craft beers in a bit of a live radio environment. TDU is just the thing to lift the spirit(s) as a handful of actors perform a live reading of Shakespeare’s classic plays while imbibing some of Columbus’s best brew. It’s a fun, unpredictable way to make Shakespeare saucy again!

Director- Adam Simon

April 4, 2019 - THE DRUNKEN UNDERGROUND: AS YOU LIKE IT

AS YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare

A TSU SPECIAL EVENT! The Drunken Underground is a time to make merry and tackle some of the Bard’s greatest works with a little liquid courage. Actors and audience can enjoy the alchemy of Shakespeare and Pretentious Barrel House’s craft beers in a bit of a live radio environment. TDU is just the thing to lift the spirit(s) as a handful of actors perform a live reading of Shakespeare’s classic plays while imbibing some of Columbus’s best brew. It’s a fun, unpredictable way to make Shakespeare saucy again!

Director- Adam Simon

March 18, 2019 - RHINOCEROS

RHINOCEROS by Eugene Ionesco

One of Eugene Ionesco’s early full-length absurdist plays, Rhinoceros is a satirical, darkly comic examination of the dangers of conformity. Inspired by Ionesco’s personal experiences with fascism during World War II, Rhinoceros shows a town trampled as more and more of its citizens are curiously transformed.

Director- Elizabeth Falter

March 7, 2019 - THE DRUNKEN UNDERGROUND: HENRY V

HENRY V by William Shakespeare

A TSU SPECIAL EVENT! The Drunken Underground is a time to make merry and tackle some of the Bard’s greatest works with a little liquid courage. Actors and audience can enjoy the alchemy of Shakespeare and Pretentious Barrel House’s craft beers in a bit of a live radio environment. TDU is just the thing to lift the spirit(s) as a handful of actors perform a live reading of Shakespeare’s classic plays while imbibing some of Columbus’s best brew. It’s a fun, unpredictable way to make Shakespeare saucy again!

Director- Philip J. Hickman

February 18, 2019 - THE BUSY BODY

THE BUSY BODY by Susanna Centlivre

Written in 1709 by English poet, actress, and playwright Susanna Centlivre, this Restoration-era play centers around two women who want to escape the wishes of their guardians, find love, and keep their inheritances in the process.

Director- Maddie Oslejsek

February 7, 2019 - THE DRUNKEN UNDERGROUND: KING LEAR

KING LEAR by William Shakespeare

A TSU SPECIAL EVENT! The Drunken Underground is a time to make merry and tackle some of the Bard’s greatest works with a little liquid courage. Actors and audience can enjoy the alchemy of Shakespeare and Pretentious Barrel House’s craft beers in a bit of a live radio environment. TDU is just the thing to lift the spirit(s) as a handful of actors perform a live reading of Shakespeare’s classic plays while imbibing some of Columbus’s best brew. It’s a fun, unpredictable way to make Shakespeare saucy again!

Director- Adam Simon

January 10, 2019 - THE DRUNKEN UNDERGROUND: HAMLET

HAMLET by William Shakespeare

A TSU SPECIAL EVENT! The Drunken Underground is a time to make merry and tackle some of the Bard’s greatest works with a little liquid courage. Actors and audience can enjoy the alchemy of Shakespeare and Pretentious Barrel House’s craft beers in a bit of a live radio environment. TDU is just the thing to lift the spirit(s) as a handful of actors perform a live reading of Shakespeare’s classic plays while imbibing some of Columbus’s best brew. It’s a fun, unpredictable way to make Shakespeare saucy again!

Hamlet, a tale filled with death, vengeance, and a decent into madness, is one of William Shakespeare’s most popular tragedies. After returning to Denmark to discover his father has been murdered, Hamlet seeks revenge on the murderer, the new king of Denmark, his uncle Claudius. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is still one of Shakespeare’s most influential works and regularly performed even today, although usually sober.

Director- Sara Bodde

December 17, 2018 - EXILES

EXILES by James Joyce: Exiles is James Joyce’s only extant play and draws on the story of “The Dead,” the final short story in Joyce’s story collection Dubliners. The play was rejected by W. B. Yeats for production by the Abbey Theatre. Its first major London performance was in 1970, when Harold Pinter directed it at the Mermaid Theatre.

Director- David Harewood

November 19, 2018 - MYSTERY-BOUFFE

MYSTERY-BOUFFE by Vladimir Mayakovsky: Written on the first anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Mystery-Bouffe is an absurdist, satirical take on early 20th century Russian class struggles. The play follows fourteen proletarians and fourteen bourgeois fleeing flooding in their home countries from around the world as they embark on an epic biblical journey to find Paradise – or at least, something to eat. Along the way, we meet all-too-familiar characters such as the obnoxiously apolitical Compromiser, who can’t understand why everyone won’t just get along, and the know-it-all Intellectual, who would rather pontificate on the meaning of the world’s problems rather than enact change. The play balances its socialist morals with dark humor, witty aphorisms, and a healthy dose of over-the-top musical numbers, creating a script that still feels relevant and side-splittingly funny a century after it was written.

Director- Rowan Winterwood

November 10, 2018 - NO HOLDS BARD!: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S FIGHT NIGHT

NO HOLDS BARD!: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S FIGHT NIGHT

A TSU SPECIAL EVENT! Kings and Clowns will duke it out in swaggy, saucy Shakespearean swordplay with wrothful wit and warlike wordplay. Place your bets with Bard Bucks on who you think will drink from the cup of victory!

October 29, 2018 - THE VAMPIRE
THE VAMPIRE by James Robinson Planche’: 201 years ago, on a rainy evening in Geneva, Lord Byron challenged his guests to a contest to see who can pen the most enthralling “ghostly tale.” Most people know that on this night a 19-year-old Mary Shelley would conceive her iconic Frankenstein. What is lesser know is that evening in Switzerland, Byron would plant the seed for the modern Vampire as we know him. Basing the melodramatic play, The Vampire, on Byron and Polidori’s short story, Planche’ drags the vampire lore out of the damp and cold shadows of the Hungarian grave and drops him in the heart of Scotland. For the first time the world is introduced to a vampire with style, breeding, manner, and charm. Using highland folklore, low brow comedy, romance, spectacle, drama, and music, Planche’ creates the blockbuster hit of 1820 and forever changes how we perceive The Vampire.

Director- Amanda Phillips

September 17, 2018 - JEHANNE d'ARC
JEHANNE d’ARC by Mercedes de Acosta: This dramatization of Joan of Arc’s life was written in 1922, prompted by the feminist cultural upheaval surrounding the women’s suffragette movement, which coincided with the long-overdue recognition of Joan’s sainthood by the Catholic Church in 1920 – nearly half a millennium after Joan was burned at the stake for crimes of heresy and cross-dressing. The playwright, Mercedes de Acosta, was an outspoken women’s rights activist and a “notorious lesbian” who wrote the role of Jehanne for her then-lover, actress Eva Le Gallienne.

Director- Sonda Staley

August 20, 2018 - RAM-ALLEY: OR MERRY TRICKS
RAM-ALLEY: OR MERRY TRICKS by Lording Barry: This bawdy comedy by Lording Barry, a contemporary of Shakespeare, takes place in a disreputable London lane where lawyers, lords, and ladies rub shoulders with prostitutes and vagabonds. The play is full of crazy antics including a man scheming to get his inheritance back from a crooked lawyer, a rich widow looking for her new husband, and a young lady masquerading as a page to follow around the man she loves. The production bankrupted Barry, landed him in debtor’s jail, and set him off on a life of piracy. Ram-Alley has only been revived three times since 1611, but recently came close to topping a poll of academics to find the best “forgotten” play by an Elizabethan/Jacobean dramatist.

Director- Sara Bodde

July 16, 2018 - THE RECRUITING OFFICER
THE RECRUITING OFFICER by George Farquhar: Come join us for a hilarious Monday night! This comedy, one of the most popular of the 18th century, follows the feats, failures, and foibles of a group of officers in England.

Director- Andy Falter

June 18, 2018 - ELECTRA
ELECTRA by Benito Perez Galdos: Originally staged in the Teatro Español in 1901, Electra is a controversial Spanish drama that documents the trials and tribulations of its innocent heroine. Electra is a young woman of unknown parentage who is raised in a convent in France and, after the death of her mother Eleuteria, adopted by her aunt and uncle. Electra soon falls in love with the scientist Maximo, but an intricate web of rumors and lies threatens to ruin their relationship. In this play, Benito Pérez Galdós tackles a number of hot-button themes: fanaticism, superstition, social justice, rationalism, and the powers of science.

Director- Jennifer Feather Youngblood

May 21, 2018 - THE WOMAN'S PRIZE
THE WOMAN’S PRIZE by John Fletcher: The Woman’s Prize; or The Tamer Tamed, is John Fletcher’s classic Jacobian comedy. It is a witty response to Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, at once a sequel and a re-empowerment of the women of Shakespeare’s problematic story of power and control in marriage.

Director- Adam Simon

April 16, 2018 - UBU ROI
UBU ROI by Alfred Jarry: Come celebrate the absurdities of politics by seeing our rendition of Ubu Roi this spring! Alfred Jarry’s 1896 satirical farce was originally performed as a puppet show and pilloried contemporary politics, literature, and stage convention. Nominally about a selfish, cowardly, gluttonous, vulgar, hot-tempered dotard compelled to violently overtake Poland by his ambitious wife, the play’s free-form nature guarantees a zany evening.

Viewer discretion advised: This reading might not be suitable for children under the age of 13 or adults with any sense of decency or civility.

Director- David Harewood

March 19, 2018 - MACHINAL
MACHINAL by Sophie Treadwell: Machinal is a 1928 play by American playwright and journalist Sophie Treadwell, inspired by the real-life case of convicted and executed murderer Ruth Snyder. Its Broadway premiere, directed by Arthur Hopkins, is considered one of the highpoints of Expressionist theatre on the American stage.

Director- Jennifer Feather Youngblood

February 19, 2018 - R.U.R.
R. U. R. by Karel Capek: R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) by Karel Capek is the influential 1920 science fiction play that introduced the word “robot” to the English lexicon in its sense of “artificial intelligence.” The comic-tragic script deals with issues of growing automation, oppression of the working class, the future, and what it means to be a person.

Producer- Adam Simon
Director- Philip J. Hickman
Stage Manager- Megan Lear
House Manager- Jordan Estose
Cast-
Harry Domin- Scott Douglas Wilson
Sulla & Other Robots- Christina Yoho
Marius & Radius- Ben Sostrom
Helena Glory- Beth Josephsen
Dr. Gall & Primus- Jordan Fehr
Dr. Fabry- Jason Speicher
Dr. Hallemeier & Other Robots- Samuel Bowen Partridge
Mr. Alquist- Chris Austin
Counsul Busman- Ken Erney
Nana- Cat Erney

November 20, 2017 - THE WITCH OF EDMONTON
THE WITCH OF EDMONTON by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford: This 1621 play was inspired by the true story of the trial and execution of Elizabeth Sawyer, accused of practicing witchcraft in the town of Edmonton, England. Persecuted by the repressive Puritan community in which she lives, Elizabeth Sawyer summons the Devil in the guise of a dog to seek revenge on her tormentors.

Produced with Tipping Point Theatre Company

Director- Sonda Staley
Stage Manager- Ellie Allen
Cast-
Anne Ratcliffe- Michelle Weiser
Cuddy Banks- Stephen Hanna
Elizabeth Sawyer- Josie Merkle
Frank Thorney- Scott Douglas
Wilson Winnifred- Nikki Davis
Kate Carter- Michelle Sandler
Master Carter- Greg Hoffman
Master Ratcliffe- Bob Stein
Master Thorney- Ken Erney
Sir Arthur- Scott Wilson
Sommerton- Philip J. Hickman
Susan Carter- Ella Palardi
The Devil Dog- Ben Sostrom
Warbeck- Adam Simon

October 16, 2017 - VOTES FOR WOMEN!
VOTES FOR WOMEN! by Elizabeth Robins: The first suffragette play, Votes for Women! was Elizabeth Robins’ most famous work for the stage.  Set in England in 1907 the protagonist, Jean, is engaged to an older politician, Stoner, who is up for election.  At a society gathering Jean meets the mysterious Miss Levering, who shocks Jean by telling her about the plight of poor and homeless women in England.  This leads Jean to attend a suffragette rally and experience the politics of her day up close and personal for the first time. The rally wakes Jean to more than just politics, though, as Miss Levering’s past is revealed.

Director- Beth Josephsen
Stage Manager- Rebecca Sharrer

September 18, 2017 - OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD
OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD by Timberlake Wertenbaker: This Tony-nominated play is the true story of the first convicts transported to Australia – and their production of The Recruiting Officer, the hit comedy of the 1780s. It is a profound story on the nature of justice and class, and is deeply invested in how the “theater can be a humanizing force.”

Director- Philip J. Hickman
Stage Manager- Ellie Allen
House Manager- Grace Reinhart
Cast-
Capt. Arthur Phillip/John Wisehammer- Shaun Brown
Maj. Robbie Ross/Ketch Freeman- Casey Merkey
Capt. David Collins/Robert Sideway- Adam Simon
Capt. Watkin Tench/Black Caesar/Aborigine- Chris Casanova Jones
Capt. Jeremy Campbell/Harry Brewer/John Arscott- David Harewood
Rev. Johnson/Liz Morden- Colleen Nerney
Lt. George Johnston/Mary Brenham- Alison Brogan
Lt. Will Dawes/Meg Long/ Duckling Smith- Beth Josephsen
2nd Lt. Ralph Clark- Samuel Bowen Partridge
2nd Lt. William Faddy/Dabby Bryan- Ayla Stirnaman

August 21, 2017 - FASHION, OR, LIFE IN NEW YORK
FASHION, OR LIFE IN NEW YORK by Anna Cora Mowatt (1845): A social satire on a young country and the follies that can befall a nation trying to find its identity. Fashion features social-climbing New Yorkers trying to imitate European manners, scoundrels trying to escape their misdeeds by fleeing to America, and a scattering of honest men and women chipping away at the affected pretensions of their countrymen. Although this play was written over 170 years ago, its ideas still hold true—all that glitters is not gold, sometimes what seems like coal is truly a diamond in the rough, and what’s in fashion can’t always be trusted.

Director- Andy Falter
Stage Management- Rebecca Sharrer
House Management- Keely Heyl
Cast-
Adam Trueman- Robert “Mac” McDannold
Count Jolimaitre- Stefan Langer
Colonel Howard- John Vincent Quigley
Mr. Tiffany- Victor Little
T. Tennyson Twinkle- Stefan Farrenkopf
Augustus Fogg- Jeb Bigelow
Snobson- Justin Nawman
Zeke- David Harewood
Mrs. Tiffany- Alycia Yates
Prudence- Emily Turner
Millinette- Natalia White
Gertrude- Chloe Beck
Seraphina Tiffany- McLane Nagy

July 17, 2017 - A BOLD STROKE FOR A WIFE
A BOLD STROKE FOR A WIFE by Susanna Centlivre (1717): In this comedy, Centlivre evaluates the social obstacles that come with money, power, and love. Four guardians, each possessing contradictory opinions and attitudes, hold Anne Lovely under their protection and refuse her to wed until they each approve of the same man. A spirited military officer is determined to outwit them all. Lovely joins his pursuit, and together they form a plan to manipulate the men. Centlivre writes with satirical, bold strokes. She critiques political and social systems in eighteenth-century England and reimagines the role of marriage in A Bold Stroke for a Wife.

Director- Allison Brogan
Stage Management- Alexa Raasch
House Management- Grace Rinehart
Cast-
Freeman/Simon Pure- Shane Egan
Mrs. Prim- Beth Josephsen
Periwinkle- Stewart Bender
Tradelove- Colton Weiss
Col. Fainwell- Justin King
Anne Lovely- Aileen Targett
Obediah Prim- Trenton Weaver
Betty- Karlie Kaizer
Sir Phillip Modelove- Shaun Brown
Sackbut- Jason Speicher

June 19, 2017 - A MAN'S WORLD
A MAN’S WORLD by Rachel Crothers (1910): A great lead-in to this series, A Man’s World is the story of Frank Ware, a female author in Greenwich Village in 1910, who publishes under a man’s name in order to get ahead.

Director- Adam Simon
Stage Management- Alexa Raasch
House Management- Ayla Stirnaman and Grace Rinehart
Cast-
Frank Ware- Susan Wismar
Lione Brune- Aileen Targett
Clara Oakes- Allison Brogan
Kiddie- Gretchen Reed
Malcolm Gaskell- Ross Shirley
Fritz Bahn- Philip J. Hickman
Wells Trevor- David Harewood
Emile Grimeaux- Ben Sostrom