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2023-2024
season

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Popcorn Falls​

 

By James Hindman

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The sleepy town of Popcorn Falls is forced into bankruptcy when a neighboring town threatens to turn them into a sewage treatment plant. Their only hope – open a theater! Two actors play over twenty roles in a world of farce, love, and desperation, proving once and for all that art can save the world.

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Spring 2024

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A Dickens' Christmas Carol

A Traveling Travesty in Two Tumultuous Acts​

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By Mark Landon Smith

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From the bounty shores of England comes the Styckes-Upon-Thump Repertory Theatre Company, a stuffy old traveling troupe embarking on their fifteenth annual farewell tour of Dickens' tale.. On this fateful Christmas Eve night, various forms of mayhem ensue as this professional company scrambles to keep the show going and everything that could go possibly wrong does, with hilarious, ridiculous results!

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Winter 2023

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Radium Girls​

 

By D.W. Gregory

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In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court.

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Fall 2023

2022-2023 season

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The 39 Steps​

 

Adapted by Patrick Barlow

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a man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she's a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called “The 39 Steps” is hot on the man's trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale!

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Winter 2023

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Sherlock Holmes

and the case of the Christmas Goose​

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Adapted by John Weagly &

Michael Menendian

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Holmes' holiday is interrupted when a precious gem is found inside a Christmas goose ready for the oven. Holmes and Watson take on the case, travelling all over wintry London to find the jewel thief.

The play is based on the Arthur Conan Doyle's short story : The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (1892).

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Winter 2022

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Shirley Valentine​

 

Written by Willy Russel

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The heroine in this actor's tour-de-force is an ordinary middle class English housewife. As she prepares chips and egg for dinner, she ruminates on her life and tells the wall about her husband, her children, her past, and an invitation from a girlfriend to join her on holiday in Greece to search for romance and adventure.

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Summer 2022

2021-2022 season

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Birds of North America​

 

Written by Anna Ouyang Moench

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Birds of North America is a heartfelt examination of a father and daughter's relationship over the course of a decade as they struggle to understand the parts of one another that defy understanding.

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Spring 2022

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Denton the Dragon​

The musical

 

Written by Jeff Hutchins

 

Denton the Dragon the Musical is based on children’s stories by BMT resident Jeff Hutchins. Denton is a three-year-old dragon (that’s six in dragon years) who has just come to live in the city after growing up in a cave in the mountains.

 

Winter 2022

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It's a Wonderful Life​

A Live Radio Play

 

Written by Joe Landry

 

It's the holiday classic like you've never seen before: the story is staged as a live radio broadcast! Actors portray numerous characters, and sound effects are done through Foley artists.

 

Winter 2021

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Love, Linda​

The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter

 

Written by Gary William Friedman and Stevie Holland

 

Love, Linda: The Life Of Mrs. Cole Porter is a theatrical and musical adventure about the life of Linda Lee Thomas, the socialite wife of composer Cole Porter.

 

Fall 2021

2019-2020 season

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Wit

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Written by Margaret Edson

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Wit is a poignant and humorous look at life, death, poetry and compassion.

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Fall 2019

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The Santaland Diaries​

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Written by David Sedaris,

Adapted for State by Joe Mantello

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A down-on-his luck wannabe actor arrives in New York City at the end of the year, the only employment he can find is at Macy’s department store -- working in Santaland.

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Winter 2019

2018-2019 season

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As It Is In Heaven​

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Written by Arlene Hutton

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A searing drama about the upheaval brought to an 1830s Shaker community by the arrival of newcomers claiming to see angels.

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Spring 2019

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Midnight Lunch​

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Written by Edla Frankau Cusick

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A new drama about the young, tortured Thomas Wolfe - and the woman he couldn't live without (and written by that woman's granddaughter).

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Early Spring 2019

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A Christmas Pudding

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Written by David Birney

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A Christmas celebration in song, story, and poetry: tales by Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw, Shakespeare, Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, St. Luke and many others, collected with a host of traditional carols and holiday songs.

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Winter 2018

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The God Game

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Written by Suzanne Bradbeer

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A play about faith and politics, marriage and friendship, choices and consequences.

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Fall 2018

2017-2018 season:

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love, loss,

and what i wore

By Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron

Based on the book by Ilene Beckerman

 

Women, mothers, clothes and

memory - all the important subjects

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May 11-13 & 18-20, 2018

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a broadway romance

with Kara Lindsay & Kevin Massey

 

An evening of song, stories & love with

two of broadway's biggest stars

& one of black mountain's own

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March 17, 2018

It's a

wonderful

life: a live

radio play

By Joe Landry

 

The holiday classic brought to

life as you've never seen (or heard) it!

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December 15-16 & 22-23, 2017

 

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Freud's last session

By Mark St. Germain

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A riveting conversation between

sigmund freud & C.S. Lewis

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October 6-8 & 13-15, 2017

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