The 1940's Radio Hour

October 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22

Musical | Rated PG
Book by Walton Jones
Based on an idea by Walton Jones and Carol Lees
Music by various composers

A different time is evoked in this marvelously theatrical and winning show, a live broadcast of The Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade from the Hotel Astor’s Algonquin Room on December 21, 1942. The spirit of that bygone era when the world was at war and pop music meant Strike Up the Band and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (both are featured in this show!) is accurately captured as the harassed producer copes with a drunk lead singer, the delivery boy who wants a chance in front of the mic, the second banana who dreams of singing a ballad, and the trumpet playing sound effects man who chooses a fighter plane over Glenn Miller.

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Friday & Saturday @ 8pm | $22.00 Adults
Sunday matinees @ 2:30pm | $22.00 Adults
Youth (up to 17): $15.00 | Seniors 65+ & Students (18-25): $19.00

The 1940's Radio Hour is staged by arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

Annie

presented by the Bennett Agency

November 30 | December 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10

Musical | Rated G
Presented by the Bennett Agency
Music by Charles Strouse Lyrics by Martin Charnin

Based on the popular comic strip by Harold Gray, Annie has become a worldwide phenomenon! Little orphan Annie charms everyone’s hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. She is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. With the help of the other girls in the orphanage, Annie escapes to the wondrous world of NYC, encountering adventure after fun-filled adventure!

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Friday & Saturday @ 8pm | $22.00 Adults
Sunday matinees @ 2:30pm | $22.00 Adults
Youth (up to 17): $15.00 | Seniors 65+ & Students (18-25): $19.00

Annie is staged by arrangement with Music Theatre International

Deadly Murder

February 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11

Drama | Rated Adult

By David Foley

Camille Dargus has fought her way up from humble beginnings to a glittering Manhattan lifestyle. She has beauty, brains, wealth, and a successful career as a jewelry designer for the leading lights of New York society. She also has a penchant for attractive young men. One night at a society gala she meets Billy, a handsome young waiter, and brings him back to her Soho apartment. But there’s more to Billy than meets the eye, and Camille finds herself held hostage at gunpoint by a man who seems frighteningly familiar with the past Camille has struggled to forget. Over the course of one explosive night, Camille must use all her wits and cunning to save her life--and to prevent the dark secrets of her past from destroying everything she’s worked for. Full of twists and turns, bluffs and double bluffs, this brilliantly intricate thriller will be one step ahead of you all the way!

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Friday & Saturday @ 8pm | $22.00 Adults
Sunday matinees @ 2:30pm | $22.00 Adults
Youth (up to 17): $15.00 | Seniors 65+ & Students (18-25): $19.00

Deadly Murder is staged by arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

The Last Round-Up of the Guacamole Queens

presented by Bank of CharlesTown

March 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18

Comedy | Rated PG13
By Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten

In this Southern-fried comedy, the Verdeen cousins are up against the clock as they attempt to produce the ultimate high school reunion before the old building is demolished. But Gaynelle is reeling from the demise of her ex-husband, Peaches’ romantic life has tanked because her dates are horrified by her job as a mortuarial cosmetologist, and Jimmie Wyvette is trying to live down her on-camera catfight with a local televangelist. To top it all off, the cousins have got to impress a governor’s aide with their party-planning, so that they can nab the job of throwing the governor’s birthday bash and keep their business afloat. And that’s before one of Peaches’ former classmates arrives with a malevolent hand puppet and a score to settle! Chaos is side-splittingly achieved! A gut-busting Jones Hope Wooten farce! The Last Round-Up of the Guacamole Queens is the third and final comedy in the Verdeen Cousins Texas Trilogy that began with The Red Velvet Cake War and Rex’s Exes.

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Friday & Saturday @ 8pm | $22.00 Adults
Sunday matinees @ 2:30pm | $22.00 Adults
Youth (up to 17): $15.00 | Seniors 65+ & Students (18-25): $19.00

The Last Round-Up of the Guacamole Queens is staged by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Cabaret

presented by: WVU Medicine and American Public University

April 27, 28, 29 | May 3, 4, 5, 6

Musical Drama | Rated PG13
Book by Joe Masteroff
Music by John Kander

In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920s draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. With the Emcee’s bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous life of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. Cliff, a young American writer newly arrived in Berlin, is immediately taken by English singer Sally Bowles. Meanwhile, Fräulein Schneider, proprietor of Cliff and Sally’s boardinghouse, tentatively begins a romance with Herr Schultz, a mild-mannered fruit seller who happens to be Jewish. The 1966 Broadway production became a hit, inspiring numerous subsequent productions in London and New York, as well as the 1972 film by the same name.

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Friday & Saturday @ 8pm | $22.00 Adults
Sunday matinees @ 2:30pm | $22.00 Adults
Youth (up to 17): $15.00 | Seniors 65+ & Students (18-25): $19.00

Cabaret is staged by arrangement with Tams-Witmark, Inc.