FIDDLER ON THE ROOF – MainStage Musical – September 9 through 25, 2016. Music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein
Music and lyrics by Meredith Willson, Based on the movie of the same name.
The show, set in a closely knit Russian village in 1905, tells about a father’s efforts to preserve traditional values in the face of changing social mores and the growing anti- Semitism of Czarist Russia. The show premiered on Broadway in 1964 and was last performed at the CTC 17 years ago.
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award.
A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harboring shady little secrets. When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after Dad disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. Mix in Violet, the drugged-up, scathingly acidic matriarch, and you’ve got a major new play that unflinchingly—and uproariously—exposes the dark side of the Midwestern American family.
Hal Holbrook’s beloved portrayal of famed southern author Mark Twain graces the historic Tivoli Theatre for one night only. Winning the Tony Award for best actor, Hal Holbrook’s Mark Twain Tonight! holds the record for longest running theatrical performance having captivated audiences for over 60 years consecutively!
The roads are flooded, the bridges are washed out, and less generous souls are staying safely indoors, but it takes more than a little rain to keep the ladies of the Charitable Sisterhood from fulfilling their sworn mission. Come sit in on this month’s meeting in the basement of Second Trinity Victory Church; our five angels of mercy will leave you breathless with laughter as they do their best to help the victims of global disaster, spiritual deprivation, and, most of all, each other. Don’t miss this hilarious and heart-warming World Premiere by award winning Richmond playwright Bo Wilson.
Performances are 9/30, 10/1, 10/3, 10/6, 10/7, 10/8, 10/9.
In Eurydice, by Sarah Ruhl, the play reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story.
Performances run October 4-8 2016.
It’s a tale as old as time. Disney’s Beauty and the Beast features the animated film’s Academy Award®-winning score with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by the late Howard Ashman and additional songs with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Tim Rice.
The classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed into his former self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity.
Join Closed Door Entertainment for this enchanted tale and be our guest!
Performances are weekends Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2:30pm with a special midnight showing on Saturday, October 29.
No one would have truly believed, in the early years of the 20th century, that our world was being watched by intelligences greater than our own. As we busied ourselves, they were scrutinizing and studying us, as precisely as a scientist with a microscope might study the tiny bacteria that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency mankind went about our petty concerns, confident in our empire over this small, spinning fragment of cosmic driftwood, which, by chance or design, man has inherited out of the dark mystery of time and space. Meanwhile, across the dark gulf of the universe, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic looked down on our planet with envious eyes. And slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us.
THE LIBRARY – Circle Theatre (general seating) – Mystery
October 28 through November 6, 2016. By Scott Z. Burns
The Library is a ‘ripped from the headlines’ new play. First produced on Broadway in 2014, The Library is the story of a girl who survives a deadly shooting at her high school and struggles to tell her story but is painted in a different light by the media when other stories take hold. Renowned Hollywood screenwriter Scott Z. Burns has created a bold and chilling play that makes us evaluate who is telling the truth and what really happened that day.
Jason Robert Brown’s Drama Desk winner, The Last Five Years, was named one of TIME Magazine‘s ten best shows of 2001. An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years.
Hay Fever is a comedy by Noël Coward.
Hoping for a quiet weekend in the country with some guests, David Bliss, a novelist and his wife Judith, a retired actress, find that an impossible dream when their high-spirited children Simon and Sorel appear with guests of their own. A housefull of drama waits to be ignited as misunderstandings and tempers flare. With Judith’s new flame and David’s newest literary ‘inspiration’ keeping company as the children follow suit, the Bliss family lives up to its name as the ‘quiet weekend’ comes to an exhausting and hilarious finale worthy of Feydeau.