Directed by Roberta Steve
January 17 – February 2
A Pulitzer Prize winner and one of Tennessee Williams’ most important plays, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was made into a memorable film with Burl Ives, Paul Newman, and Elizabeth Taylor playing the three central characters: Big Daddy, a wealthy Southern farmer; his youngest son, Brick, an alcoholic who won’t sleep with his wife; and Maggie “the Cat”, the wife who is desperate to have a child to ensure Brick shares in his dying father’s inheritance. A memorable tale about greed, love, and deception.
** Please note: this show contains some offensive language. **
Directed by Todd Bennington
March 7 – March 23
Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey. His parents retired and moved to Florida. That doesn’t mean his family isn’t still in Jersey. In fact, he sees both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until he has to tell them that he’s been offered a dream job. The job he’s been waiting for—marketing executive—would take him away from his beloved, but annoying, grandparents. He tells them. The news doesn’t sit so well. Thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around. How could he betray his family’s love to move to Seattle, for a job, wonder his grandparents? Well, Frank, Aida, Nunzio and Emma do their level best, and that includes bringing to dinner the lovely—and single—Caitlin O’Hare as bait…we won’t give the ending away here.
Directed by Holly J. Kowalenko
May 2 – May 18
Rachel Watson longs for a different life. Her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window every day, happy and in love. Or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.
Directed by Michael A. Muller
June 13 – June 29
The day after their friend Catherine’s funeral, Margot, Tate, and Connie gather for a round of golf in honor of their recently departed fourth. There, they are joined by another woman, an old friend of Cathy’s they’d never met. Over the course of eighteen holes, secrets and confessions unravel as the women discuss love, sex, children, relationships, careers, and everything else in between. A funny, fast-paced, heartwarming story of friendship and life.
* Please note, this show contains adult language. *
Directed by Tori Clemens
July 25 – August 10
This hilariously suspenseful musical comedy whodunit is set in the brassy, bright, and promising year of 1959 when Boston’s Colonial Theatre is playing host to the opening night performance of a new musical. When the leading lady mysteriously dies on stage…the entire cast and crew are suspects. Enter a local detective, who just happens to be a musical theatre fan!
Directed by Linda Viel
September 5 – September 21
Never has this master of farce been frenetically funnier! Henry A. Perkins, a mild- mannered CPA, accidentally picks up the wrong briefcase – one full of money. Henry assumes it is illicit cash and decides to keep it and run away to Barcelona with his wife, Jean. Jean doesn’t want to go and while he tries to change her mind, the criminal to whom the money belongs keeps calling on the phone and two police detectives arrive, each for a different reason. Add Henry and Jean’s closest friends and a taxi driver to the mix, and Henry’s inept attempts to extricate himself from this impossible situation lead to increasingly hysterical situations. Do he and Jean ever make it to Barcelona?
Directed by Richard Butler
October 17 – November 2
A modern-day classic with sibling rivalry, adultery, and dungeons. Comedic in tone, dramatic in action – the play tells the story of the Plantagenet family, who are locked in a free-for-all of competing ambitions to inherit a kingdom.
Directed by Emily M. Muller
December 5 – December 21
The Austin family has a cherished tradition of doing something special every day counting down to Christmas – from baking cookies to decorating the tree. This year is a stressful one for Vicky Austin, as she’s cast as the youngest angel in the Christmas Pageant. Plus, the family is preparing for the birth of a new brother or sister. Will the baby wait until January? Will Vicky mess up her big role? Will Christmas be ruined? Filled with elves, carols, and laughter, this timeless adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s The 24 Days Before Christmas is sure to bring a smile to your face and a tear to your eye.
Made possible by funds from the Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Commission, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.