2025-26 Season
It's our FOURTH season as a community theatre and we're updating our calendar and adding two fundraiser shows to help us grow! When you get season tickets you won't miss a SINGLE show in this fantastic season...so mark your calendars and make plans to see all the drama, comedy, and functionally dysfunctional relationships in our next season!
October 24 - 7:00pm
Death Pledge
Performance held at Fletcher Warren Civic Center
Kenowa University, the most exclusive university in the country, sits deep within the Poconos in Pennsylvania. During the fall of 1984, bodies begin to pile up. With a growing connection between the dead and the oldest fraternity on campus, Epsilon Omega Alpha. As a loyal and dedicated trustee, you are being summoned to help the President of Kenowa track down who is killing these people and why. Packed with twists, turns, and plenty of audience interaction, GTW's first annual murder mystery dinner is sure to be one you won't forget.
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Death Pledge is written by Greenville native Avery Arnold, and features local actors, as well as a three course meal catered by GTW favorite: Beth Swindell.
November 14-16 & 21-23
The Importance of Being Earnest
Performances held at the Greenville Municipal Auditorium
What better way to highlight the mistaken identities and subterfuge of Oscar Wilde's classic comedy than to set it against the backdrop of the 1980s legendary soap opera - Dallas. This unique take on the comedy of manners will have you laughing all night long.
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John Worthing, a carefree young gentleman, is the inventor of a fictitious brother, “Ernest,” whose wicked ways afford John an excuse to leave his country home in East Texas from time to time and journey to Dallas, where he stays with his close friend and confidant, Algernon Moncrieff.
Algernon has a cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax, with whom John is deeply in love. During his Dallas sojourns, John, under the name Ernest, has won Gwendolen’s love, for she strongly desires to marry someone with the confidence-inspiring name of Ernest. But when he asks for Gwendolen’s hand from the formidable Mrs. Bracknell, John finds he must reveal he is an orphan who was left in a handbag at the train station. This is very disturbing to Mrs. Bracknell, who insists that he produce at least one parent before she consents to the marriage.
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Returning to the country home where he lives with his ward Cecily Cardew and her governess Miss Prism, John finds that Algernon has also arrived under the identity of the nonexistent brother Ernest. Algernon falls madly in love with the beautiful Cecily, who has long been enamored of the mysterious, fascinating brother Ernest.
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With the arrival of Mrs. Bracknell and Gwendolen, chaos erupts. It is discovered that Miss Prism is the absent-minded nurse who twenty years ago misplaced the baby of Mrs. Bracknell’s brother at the train station. Thus John, whose name is indeed Ernest, is Algernon’s elder brother, and the play ends with the two couples in a joyous embrace.
February 14 - One Night Only
Finishing the Hat
An Evening of Broadway
Performance held at the Greenville Municipal Auditorium
Featuring local singers that you've seen on stage with GTW in the past, this new fundraiser show is a must-see for lovers of Broadway. Sharing favorite Broadway tunes and some new ones that you may not know as well, this fun evening is a great way to spend your Valentine's Day with a spouse, partner, loved one, best friend, or whoever you'd like to bring to the show!
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Enjoy an evening out with a fabulous dinner in downtown Greenville before heading to the GMA for our Broadway revue. It's a great way to support the work of GTW while enjoying an evening of great music and song. You'll even find out what we mean by "Finishing the Hat"...if you haven't already guessed!
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Make plans now to attend the inaugural event and tell your friends so they can join in the fun!
March 6-8 & 13-15
The Lion in Winter
Performances held at the Greenville Municipal Auditorium
Sibling rivalry, adultery, and dungeons – The Lion in Winter, by James Goldman, is a modern-day classic. Comedic in tone, dramatic in action – the play tells the story of the Plantagenet family, who are locked in a free-for-all of competing ambitions to inherit a kingdom. The queen, and wealthiest woman in the world, Eleanor of Aquitaine, has been kept in prison since raising an army against her husband, King Henry II. Let out only for holidays, the play centers around the inner conflicts of the royal family as they fight over both a kingdom and King Henry’s paramour during the Christmas of 1183. As Eleanor says, “Every family has its ups and downs,” and this royal family is no exception.
June 12-14 & 19-21
9 to 5
Performances held at the Greenville Municipal Auditorium
9 to 5 centers on the lives of three women: Violet, Judy, and Doralee, as they work at Consolidated Industries, presided over by Franklin Hart. Violet has worked at Consolidated for many years but has never been given senior supervisor status. Judy is newly separated and joins the company having never worked before. Doralee is a sexy, happily married country girl, but she is ostracized from the other female workers. After Judy has an awful first day, Hart passes Violet over for yet another promotion, and Doralee finds out that Hart has been telling everyone they are having an affair, the three women unite in their hatred of Hart and fantasize about how they would kill him. Through a hilarious series of events, the trio discover just how much can change between the hours of
9 to 5.
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Hey, a girl can scheme, can’t she?
September 4-6 & 11-13
The Cottage
Performances held at the Greenville Municipal Auditorium
Sylvia and Beau find themselves in an English countryside cottage for their yearly rendezvous, and Sylvia knows this time it will be the beginning of their new life together. But when Beau demurs on a shared future, and their spouses arrive at the cottage, she realizes that this home-away-from-home is a refuge for determining a new path forward. With a tip of the hat to Noël Coward and sex comedies of the past, THE COTTAGE offers a perfect showcase for six actors with endless laughs, hilarious twists, daring physical comedy, and a happy ending for lovers everywhere.
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