2025 Season
It's our THIRD season as a community theatre and we couldn't be more excited about the fantastic shows we've got lined up for you in 2025! From classic musicals staged in unique settings, to classic comedies set right here in East Texas, to our first spooky thriller, there's no shortage of great theatre coming your way this year!
February 14 - 7:30pm
Love Letters
Performance held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Our first ever fundraiser/dinner theatre, this unique show is perfect for couples on Valentine's Day. Come out with your spouse or partner, or bring a great friend or family member. Enjoy a fantastic meal and a great show!
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Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner, both born to wealth and position, are childhood friends whose lifelong correspondence begins with birthday party thank-you notes and summer camp postcards. Romantically attached, they continue to exchange letters through the boarding school and college years—where Andy goes on to excel at Yale and law school, while Melissa flunks out of a series of “good schools.” While Andy is off at war Melissa marries, but her attachment to Andy remains strong and she continues to keep in touch as he marries, becomes a successful attorney, gets involved in politics and, eventually, is elected to the U.S. Senate. Meanwhile, her marriage in tatters, Melissa dabbles in art and gigolos, drinks more than she should, and becomes estranged from her children. Eventually she and Andy do become involved in a brief affair, but it is really too late for both of them. However Andy’s last letter, written to her mother after Melissa’s untimely death, makes it eloquently clear how much they really meant, and gave to, each other over the years—physically apart, perhaps, but spiritually as close as only true lovers can be.
April 25-27 & May 2-4
Into the Woods
Performances held at the Fletcher Warren Civic Center
James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take everyone's favorite storybook characters and bring them together for a timeless, yet relevant, piece... and a rare modern classic. The Tony Award-winning book and score are both enchanting and touching.
The story follows a Baker and his wife, who wish to have a child; Cinderella, who wishes to attend the King's Festival; and Jack, who wishes his cow would give milk. When the Baker and his wife learn that they cannot have a child because of a Witch's curse, the two set off on a journey to break the curse. Everyone's wish is granted, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later with disastrous results.
June 20-22 & 27-29
The Haunting of Hill House
Performances held at the Fletcher Warren Civic Center
Cut off from the outside world by its remote location and shunned by all who know its forbidding and sinister reputation, Hill House has remained empty and silent except for the daily visits of its grumbling caretaker, Mrs. Dudley. Its isolation is broken by the arrival of Dr. Montague, an investigator of supernatural phenomena who has been granted a short lease by the present owner. His mission is to delve into the morbid history of the house and to come to grips with the occult forces that have made it uninhabitable for many years.
He is joined by three others, all unacquainted, but all having their particular reasons for accepting Dr. Montague’s invitation to share his Hill House sojourn. Their visit begins with jovial informality, but their sensibilities are soon jolted by strange and eerie occurrences. As they struggle to disguise their mounting fears they are joined by Dr. Montague’s wife and a friend, who have come to Hill House for purposes of their own.
They too are absorbed by the supernatural, but their approach is via direct communication with the departed spirits—a type of psychic research which is regarded fearfully by Dr. Montague and which, as subsequent events bear out, brings on a crisis in which the evil forces of Hill House are goaded to a new and, for one of those present, fatal fury.
Sept. 26-28 & Oct. 3-5
Romeo & Juliet
Performances held at the W.Walworth Harrison Public Library
In the shadows of the East Texas pines, whispers of danger echo across the land. The year is 1925, a time of clinking glass and clandestine deals, where the roar of engines on dusty backroads signals another forbidden shipment.
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Two families, their hatred as strong as the liquor they brew, vie for control of a Prohibition-fueled empire. By day they smile and trade in public, but by night the darkness conceals betrayals, bloodshed and secret meetings.
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In this word of hidden passions and deadly feuds, a forbidden love emerges, threatening to upend everything. This October we invite you to the moonlit stages of Shakespeare in the Park for a tale of love and loss set against the intoxicating haze of East Texas' roaring twenties.
Nov. 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.