Announcing our 2026-2027 Season:
Parallel Lives
by Mo Gaffney and Kathy Najimy
Directed by Amanda Dorman
Performance Dates
Sept 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27,
Oct 2, 3, 4 2026
Fri & Sat 7:30 • Sun 3:00
Pay-What-You-Will Preview
Thu, Sept 17, 2026 • 7:30
From the first moment, the audience is whisked through the outrageous universe of Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney, where actresses play men and women struggling through the common rituals of modern life: teenagers on a date, sisters at their grandmother’s funeral, a man and a woman together in a country-western bar. With boundless humor, Parallel Lives reexamines the ongoing quest to find parity and love in a contest handicapped by capricious gods - or in this case, goddesses.
The Trip to Bountiful
by Horton Foote
Directed by Sydnie Grosberg
Auditions
Sept 21, 22 2026 • 7:30
Performance Dates
Dec 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 2026
Fri & Sat 7:30 • Sun 3:00
Pay-What-You-Will Preview
Thu, Dec 3, 2026 • 7:30
The Trip to Bountiful depicts an elderly woman, Carrie Satts, “who has to live with a daughter-in-law who hates her and a son who does not dare take her side.”
While residing with this unhappy family in a Houston apartment, Watts dreams of returning to the tiny town of Bountiful, Texas where she was raised. She manages to escape the apartment and embarks by bus to her destination. She meets several people along the way.
The Colored Museum
by George C. Wolfe
Directed by Aaron Moore
Auditions
Dec 7 and 8, 2026 • 7:30
Performance Dates
Feb 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28 2027
Fri & Sat 7:30 • Sun 3:00
Pay-What-You-Will Preview
Thu, Feb 11 2027 • 7:30
In George C. Wolfe’s groundbreaking and hilarious satire, a cast of five explorers present a series of 11 “exhibits” (sketches), the revue explores and satirizes prominent themes and identities of African-American culture. The Colored Museum explores contemporary African-American cultural identity, while at the same time revisits and reexamines the African American theatrical and cultural past. The play simultaneously celebrates, satirizes and subverts the African-American legacy. According to Wolfe, the legacy of the past must be both embraced and overcome.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee
Directed by Linda Shirey
Auditions
Feb 15, 16 2027 • 7:30
Performance Dates
May 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23 2027
Fri & Sat 7:30 • Sun 3:00
Pay-What-You-Will Preview
Thu, May 16, 2027 • 7:30
A dark comedy, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? examines the complexities of the marriage of middle-aged couple Martha and George. Late one evening, after a university faculty party, they receive unwitting younger couple Nick and Honey as guests, and draw them into their bitter and frustrated relationship and a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening’s end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years.
Introducing the 2025-2026 Board of Directors:
President - Peter Kantor
VP-Company Operations - Amanda Brinke-Dorman
VP-Public Relations - Michael Silvia
Artistic Director - Barbara Davis
VP-Production - John Quinan
VP-Membership Services - Kevin McNamara
Recording Secretary - Erin Zielinski
Treasurer - Oona Newman
Technical Director - Robert Healey
Trustees at Large - Nate Beynon, Cecelia Gray, Nellson Moore