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
Christmas 1183. England's King Henry II has released his imprisoned wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, from captivity for the holidays. But this is no ordinary family reunion.
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With three ambitious sons vying for the throne, a young French king demanding his promised bride, and a kingdom hanging in the balance, the royal couple engages in a spectacular battle of wits, barbs, and betrayals. Over one legendary holiday, they'll scheme, manipulate, and spar with razor-sharp dialogue—all while grappling with the love and resentment that still binds them together.
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James Goldman's masterpiece is a wickedly funny, deeply moving portrait of power, family, and the games we play with those we love most. Witty, intelligent, and surprisingly modern, The Lion in Winter proves that the greatest conflicts aren't fought with swords—they're fought across the dinner table.
"[A] work of staggering power and beauty." – Variety
Don't miss this electrifying drama that won the Tony Award and inspired the Oscar-winning film. Crowns will be contested. Alliances will shift. And you'll be riveted from the first royal barb to the final devastating blow.
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
It was supposed to be a romantic getaway weekend. It has become... complicated.
When Sylvia arrives at a charming English cottage for a secret rendezvous with her not-quite-ex-husband, she's ready for passion, intrigue, and maybe a little light reconciliation. What she gets instead is a weekend of escalating chaos, mistaken identities, slamming doors, and more people showing up than any cottage—no matter how charming—was ever meant to hold.
There's her husband. And his wife. Wait—his OTHER wife? And who's that in the cupboard? Why is someone hiding under the bed? IS THAT A BODY?!
Sandy Rustin's The Cottage is a love letter to classic British farce—think Noël Coward meets a runaway train. It's a whip-smart, breakneck comedy where every entrance makes things exponentially worse (in the best possible way), every secret spawns three more secrets, and the lies pile up faster than the characters can keep track of them.
Expect impeccable comic timing, spectacular misunderstandings, and the kind of laughter that makes your face hurt. This is theatre at its most gleefully ridiculous—sophisticated, silly, and absolutely irresistible.
Warning: May cause uncontrollable giggling, admiration for anyone who can keep a straight face onstage, and a sudden desire to check your own closets for stowaways.
Pack your bags for the cottage. Just... maybe don't tell anyone you're going.
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