April 28 - May 23, 2021

Barefoot in the Park

A Comedy by Neil Simon

“A bubbling, rib-tickling comedy.” - The New York Times

“Critic weeps joyfully...I don't think anybody stopped laughing while the curtain was up last evening.” - New York Daily News

Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. He’s a straight-as-an-arrow lawyer and she’s a free spirit always looking for the latest kick. Their new apartment is her most recent find – too expensive with bad plumbing and in need of a paint job. After a six-day honeymoon, they get a surprise visit from Corie’s loopy mother and decide to play matchmaker during a dinner with their neighbor-in-the-attic, Velasco, where everything that can go wrong, does!

June 2-27, 2021
World Premiere!

Just Desserts

A Musical Comedy by Brad Ross and Barbara Campbell
Directed by Bert Bernardi

It’s sweet. It’s savory. It’s five strangers putting their hearts, reputations, and baking skills on the line to become the crème de la crème of bakers at a county fair.

A determined young woman dreaming of opening her own bakery. A sexy nail technician who wants to fit in. A shy school nurse who doesn’t want to be there at all. A mysterious man from Brooklyn who arouses suspicion about his past. And the reigning champion who is confident she’ll garner yet another victory this year.  

For some, the bake-off will mean the end of their dreams. For others, a new beginning. They’ll all get their just desserts – including the local meteorologist who is the emcee – but it’s the personal journey each contestant takes that will remain with audience members long after the winner is announced.

It’s all happening at the Jefferson County Bake-Off where the competition may be fierce, but the results are always satisfying!

Just Desserts features a score by Richard Rodgers Award-winning composer Brad Ross and book and lyrics by Barbara Campbell, whose musical adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd was optioned for Broadway. 

July 28- August 22, 2021

Oedipus Rex

A Play by Sophocles
Translation by Ian Johnston
Directed by Keely Baisden Knudsen

Sophocles’ ancient play, first performed in 429 BC, just after a plague that killed nearly one-third of the Athenian population, is a story of arrogant leadership, ignored prophecy, intergenerational curses, willful blindness, and a pestilence and ecological collapse that ravages the archaic city of Thebes. Although set in Ancient Greece, this play unravels a story with familiarities in our day. With a live cast of ten, choral movement, projection, and ancient costuming, this production is a crafty retelling of one of the first pieces of literature to enter Dramatic History.

September 1-26, 2021

The Last 5 Years

A Musical by Jason Robert Brown

The Last Five Years was named one of TIME Magazine’s ten best shows of 2001. This emotionally powerful and intimate musical ingeniously chronicles the five-year relationship between two New Yorkers: Cathy, a struggling actress and Jamie, a budding novelist. The Last Five Years is told through an unconventional structure in which Cathy tells her story in reverse-chronological order (beginning the show at the end of their marriage), while Jamie's is told in chronological order (starting just after the couple has met for the first time). With book, music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown (The Bridges of Madison County, Honeymoon in Vegas, 13), this modern 90-minute musical has enraptured audiences around the world with its spellbinding and emotional score and was adapted into a film in 2014, starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan.

NOTE: The Last 5 Years contains adult language and is recommended for audience members 13 years and older.

December 1-12, 2021

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens
Adapted & Directed by Keely Baisden Knudsen

This classic tale by Charles Dickens, whose forward in the novel states, “I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. - C. D.” is a timeless story that indeed has pleasantly haunted generations of audiences around the globe. Adapted and directed by Keely Baisden Knudsen, this story illuminates the journey of one Ebenezer Scrooge and his guided self-reflection amidst the Christmas season in 1800s England.

Performances:
Wednesdays at 7pm, Thursdays at 2 & 7pm, Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm, Saturday, December 4th at 8pm