2027 Season

A 16:9 collage poster for a theater season, showcasing five distinct theatrical show banners side-by-side. From left to right: "Murder in the Magnolias" (March 11-14) featuring a Southern mansion and characters; "A Time to Kill" (May 20-23) featuring a dramatic courtroom trial; "The House of Blue Leaves" (July 31 One Night Only) showing a crowded 1960s apartment; "Night of the Living Dead" (September 23-26) featuring a black-and-white zombie farmhouse siege; and "A Cricket on the Hearth" (December 16-19) showing a cozy Victorian toy shop. Each banner has its title and date clearly displayed.
A colorful, whimsical Facebook cover image for "Murder in the Magnolias," a spoof of Southern plays. On the left is the title in a distressed vintage font with the subtitle "A Hilarious Southern Spoof Play." The right features a chaotic, comedic scene on the overgrown veranda of a grand Southern mansion. Characters include a swooning Southern belle, a man juggling bowling balls, an older woman with a newspaper, and a sheriff with a magnifying glass, surrounded by moss-covered trees and creeping honeysuckle under a storm-threatened sunset sky.

A Lampoon of “Southern” Plays.What happens when you parody characters and plots from almost every Southern play imaginable, and sprinkle them with the flavor of Gone With the Wind? You get the hilarious Murder in the Magnolias. Colonel Rance Chickenwing has kicked the bucket, leaving the secret of his buried treasure for a houseful of demented relatives to discover. There’s Bubba Kamrowski, who juggles bowling balls in a luncheonette; the delicate Blanche De Blank, whose fiancé drowned in the quarry behind the Veronica Lake Casino; Thornbird, the flaky poet, whose personality is split so many ways, he’s fractured; the cartoonish Lawyer Possum whose only paying client is an alligator. There’s the movie queen, Princess Lotta Kargo, who claims she’s the Colonel’s wife. And Amanda Chickenwing, who attempts to sell subscriptions to the Tudball Tattler. Soon, there’s another death and the mystery at Belle Acres must be solved by Sheriff Billy Jerk. Toss in a prehistoric garden complete with murderous honeysuckle vines, yapping hound dogs, a Voodoo Woman, a menacing hurricane, a suspicious state engineer and a series of devastatingly hilarious “monologues,” and you’ve got a pretty good idea of the fun in this off-the-wall spoof.

Carl Lee Hailey shot two men in the very courtroom where he now stands trial. But attorney Jake Brigance sees Hailey’s act of vengeance against the racist men who attacked his daughter as a desperate bid for justice, and he’s willing to risk everything to defend his client’s life. As the trial heats up, the community is torn apart in this gripping adaptation of John Grisham’s incendiary novel about race, crime, and family in small-town America that asks the question: when is it right to take justice into your own hands?

A dramatic, gritty Facebook cover image for a theatrical stage production of John Grisham's "A Time to Kill." On the left, the title "A TIME TO KILL: A STAGE PLAY" is boldly displayed in weathered, distressed white lettering. The right side shows an intense, crowded 1980s Southern courtroom where defense attorney Jake Brigance is gesturing emphatically mid-argument, and the defendant, Carl Lee Hailey, is seated next to him at the defense table. The room is filled with deputies, spectators, and jurors under natural sunlight and dusty ceiling fans.
A chaotic, darkly comedic Facebook cover image for "The House of Blue Leaves: A Dinner Theatre Production." The title is shown on the left in large, distressed, retro hand-painted font. The illustration on the right captures a crammed, cluttered 1960s apartment in Queens, New York, where Artie Shaugnessy plays an upright piano, his wife Bananas sits disheveled on a sofa, and his mistress Bunny Flingus gestures dramatically. A soldier sneaking in the back and a couple in evening wear add to the frantic stage-like energy.
Artie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory. Toiling by day as a zookeeper, he suffers in seedy lounges by night, plying his wares at piano bars in Queens, New York, where he lives with his wife, Bananas, much to the chagrin of Artie’s downstairs mistress, Bunny Flingus, who’ll sleep with him anytime but refuses to cook until they are married. On the day the Pope is making his first visit to the city, Artie’s son Ronny goes AWOL from Fort Dix, stowing a homemade bomb intended to blow up the Pope in Yankee Stadium. Also arriving are Artie’s old school chum, now a successful Hollywood producer, Billy Einhorn, with starlet girlfriend in tow, who holds the key to Artie’s dreams of getting out of Queens and away from the life he so despises. But like many dreams, this promise of glory evaporates amid the chaos of ordinary lives.

Fallout from a satellite probe shot to Venus returns to Earth carrying a mysterious radiation that transforms the dead into flesh-eating zombies. Seven people trapped in an isolated farmhouse, held hostage by the ravenous ghouls, begin to turn on each other as the dead encroach. A gripping terror-filled monochromatic play that brings all the fright of the cult classic to life. This blend of thrilling horror laced with touches of dark humor envelops the audience in the action and unfolds into a shocking theatrical ending.

A high-contrast, black-and-white (monochromatic) Facebook cover image for the stage play "Night of the Living Dead." The left side displays the title in a jagged, distressed horror font, with text identifying it as "A Stage Play based on George A. Romero's Cult Classic Film." The main scene on the right shows terrified survivors inside an isolated, dark rural farmhouse frantically boarding up windows with wooden planks as shadowy zombie ghouls claw and press against the glass from the dark outside.
A Facebook cover image for the theatrical play "A Cricket on the Hearth." The left side features the title in a warm, ornate gold-and-red holiday font with the tagline "To have a cricket on your hearth brings great good luck...". The right side depicts a cozy Victorian-era toy shop adorned with Christmas garlands. An elderly toymaker (Caleb) watches his blind daughter (Bertha) reach toward an enchanted glowing toy harp on a workbench. Nearby, a tiny, magical cricket rests on the brick hearth of a roaring fireplace.

To have a cricket on your hearth brings great good luck. So goes the old folk belief. But it does not appear true for Caleb, the old toymaker, and his blind daughter, Bertha. For the cricket on the hearth of their wonderful toy shop is a peppery-tempered, interfering sort of chap. Nevertheless the cricket is willing to help Bertha in the most important search of her life—finding the truth. With the aid of the cricket and a magic toy harp, Bertha does at last find the secret … within her own heart. Enjoyable at any season and especially timely as a Christmas play.