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Development (a world premiere by Warren Doody)

Walter, 50s-60s, a formerly successful businessman, who, twenty years earlier, disappeared, re-appears on his deathbed in a hospital in the middle of the California desert.  His two sons – Cliff, 20s-30s; Travis, 30s-40s – are notified, and they converge upon the desert to say their goodbyes and make peace with their father. 

Godspell, Jr.

Godspell Junior is the young performer’s edition of John-Michael Tebelak and Stephen Schwartz’s groundbreaking and unique reflection on the life of Jesus, with a message of kindness, tolerance and love, and is one of the most well-loved musicals of all time. Based on the Gospel of St. Matthew, GODSPELL musically weaves together a series of [...]

A Christmas Carol

A faithful rendition of the Dickens classic in which Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by the ghosts of his late partner, Jacob Marley, Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come. Faced with his own mortality, and the evil results of his misanthropic, miserly ways, Scrooge is redeemed, reconciled with his nephew [...]

A Doll’s House

Nora is a vibrant young housewife who nonetheless suffers from a crippling dependency on her husband, Torvald. In order to save him from a debt, and to spare his masculine pride, Nora arranges a loan without his knowledge, and does so by forging a signature. The inevitable revelation of the crime results in an unexpected [...]

Out of Order

When Richard Willey, a U.S. Congressman, plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the opposition’s administrative aides, things go disastrously wrong – beginning with the discovery of a “body” trapped in the hotel’s only unreliable window. Desperately trying to get out of a potentially headline-making situation, Richard calls for his assistant, George.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Randle P. McMurphy is a charming rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather than in a prison. This, he learns, was a mistake. After clashing with the head nurse he takes over the ward, accomplishing what the medical profession has been unable to do;

Love, Sex and the I.R.S.

Jon Trachtman and Leslie Arthur are out of work musicians who room together in New York City. To save money, Jon has been filing tax returns listing the pair as married. The day of reckoning comes when the Internal Revenue Service informs the “couple” they’re going to be investigated by a Mr. Spinner.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mainstage Junior production)by William Shakespeare Directed by Joe Maniglia, William McDonald and Alisa Davis February 23rd through 26th This is one of the great comedy plays by William Shakespeare. The revolves around adventures of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors and their interactions with the fairies who inhabit a [...]

Cabaret

Winner of 12 Tony Awards and eight Academy Awards, this musical from the creators of Chicago and Kiss of the Spider Woman brings to life the dark, sexually charged decadence of 1930′s Berlin, beckoning the audience into the Kit Kat Klub on the eve of Hitler’s rise to power in Germany. Defiant and melancholy, brazen [...]