OUR 2024-2025 SEASON
California Suite
by Neil Simon
August 23 - September 8, 2024
A humorous confection divided into four parts: In Visitor from New York, Hannah, a magazine writer, is joined by her ex-husband, the question being with whom should their daughter spend the next six months? The banter flies fast and furious, but Hannah’s well-wrought artifice crumbles as her fears take hold. The Visitor from Philadelphia is a wife who arrives at the suite, catching her husband “en flagrante delicto”; with a drunken hooker. Visitors from London Academy Award nominee Diana returns from the ceremony empty-handed to her husband, Sidney, who will be no comfort tonight. The Visitors from Chicago are two couples ending a disastrous vacation they should not have shared. Neil Simon at his most humane, compassionate best.
Little Women the Musical
Book by Allan Knee, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, and music by Jason Howland
based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott
November 29 - December 15, 2024
Produced nationally and internationally, Little Women has been praised by critics for its ambition in adapting such a well-known story for the stage. This timeless, captivating story is brought to life in this glorious musical filled with personal discovery, heartache, hope and everlasting love. The original production starred the unparalleled Sutton Foster, who received Tony, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominations for her performance. Based on Louisa May Alcott’s life, Little Women follows the adventures of sisters, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March. Jo is trying to sell her stories for publication, but the publishers are not interested – her friend, Professor Bhaer, tells her that she has to do better and write more from herself. Begrudgingly taking this advice, Jo weaves the story of herself and her sisters and their experience growing up in Civil War America.
Alabama Story
by Kenneth Jones
February 7 - March 2, 2025
A controversial children’s book about a black rabbit marrying a white rabbit stirs the passions of a segregationist State Senator and a no-nonsense State Librarian in 1959 Montgomery, Alabama. Meanwhile, the reunion of two childhood friends — a black man and a white woman — provides a private counterpoint to the public events swirling in the state capital. Political foes, star-crossed lovers, and one feisty children’s author inhabit the same page in a Deep South of the imagination that brims with humor, heartbreak and hope. Inspired by true events. A finalist in the 2014 National Playwrights Conference of the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center and a nominee for the ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award.
Bright Ideas
by Eric Cobel
April 11 - May 4, 2025
How far would you go for your child? Their toddler, Mac, is next on the waiting list at Bright Ideas Early Childhood Development - and everyone knows that once you’re in there, your life will unfold with glorious ease. Josh and Gen have had to scramble all their lives to get this far... and now they are one fatal dinner party away from the ultimate success as parents. Loosely based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, this hilarious play is about a mother and father who are obsessed with getting their three-year-old son into a highly exclusive toddler prep school. They will do ANYTHING to get him in, and eventually they go too far, resulting in madness and a murder most foul. This dark comedy sees two parents follow a path toward destruction in pursuit of their irrational desires, or at least irrational expectations. You may never look at pre-school - or pesto - the same way again!
Second-stage shows
The Invisible Man: A Live Radio Play
by Matt Fernandez
based on the sci-fi novella by H.G. Wells
September 14 & 15, 2024
A stranger has arrived in a small town. He stays at the inn at the Coach and Horses. Day and night he’s in his room conducting experiments, planning his reign of terror, the Epoch of the Invisible Man. Based on the classic H.G. Wells Science-Fiction Thriller, of the scientist who turned himself into a monster. This show will be performed in the lower level of the 49th State Brewing Company this Fall.
The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A Live Radio Play
by P. Shane Mitchell
based on the gothic novella by Robert Louis Stevenson
October 26 & 27, 2024
Written by local playwright and co-founder of TBA Theatre, P. Shane Mitchell. This tale of horror based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson tells the tale Dr. Henry Jekyll is a brilliant scientist frustrated by dull “respectable” life in 1888 Victorian London. He creates a formula to unleash his inner bestial nature, transforming him into the brutish but oddly compassionate Edward Hyde. Hyde lives the high life while Jekyll’s middle-aged normalcy continues -- until Hyde’s passions begin to turn up a body count. This intimate, easy-to-stage version of Robert Louis Stevenson's science fiction classic features two haunting chorus characters, who speed along the action, play many supporting roles, and speak to Jekyll as the voices in his head, spurring him toward triumph and tragedy. The play will performed before a live audience and aired on Halloween Night!
The Time Machine: A Live Radio Play
by John de Lancie from the script by Nat Segaloff
based on the original story by H.G. Wells
November 9 & 10, 2024
Written by John de Lancie, from a script by Nat Segaloff. From the first great novel to imagine time travel. A scientist has made a great discovery that will take him on the greatest adventure in all of history. His machine will take him year 802,701, where mankind has evolved into a society of harmony and tranquility, but that’s only on the surface. Will our time traveler make it back to his own time, with his life?
A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play
by Carrie Smith
based on the timeless classic by Charles Dickens
December 21 & 22, 2024
Ghost stories have long been part of the oral tradition, leaving much to the imagination, and A Christmas Carol is the greatest ghost story of all time. Enjoy this timeless holiday tale like never before with this riveting live radio play. The Charles Dickens holiday classic comes to life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. Featuring the magic of live sound effects and musical underscoring. A handful of actors bring dozens of characters to the stage, as the familiar story unfolds: Three ghosts take Ebenezer Scrooge on a thrilling journey to teach him the true meaning of Christmas. A charming take on a family favorite that will leave no one saying “Bah Humbug!”
The Crossword Play (Or Ezmaranda’s Gift)
by Donna Hoke
January 3 – 5, 2025
The Puzzlemaker is holding a workshop to teach you how to make a crossword puzzle. As the Puzzlemaker embarks on his creation, he reveals the tricks of the trade, but also something unexpected: there is power in puzzles. With the Puzzlemaker use his powers for good-- or evil? And which choice means making a puzzle that will solve his life? Written by Donna Hoke. This play will premier will have its Anchorage premier in January 2025 and throughout the rest of the year.