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Ken Ludwig's A Fox on the Fairway 09/01/2023-09/17/2023

A tribute from Ken Ludwig to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940s, A Fox On the Fairway takes audiences on a hilarious romp, which pulls the rug out from underneath the stuffy denizens of a private country club. Filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors, and over-the-top romantic shenanigans, it's a furiously paced comedy that recalls the Marx Brothers' classics. A charmingly madcap adventure about love, life, and man's eternal love affair with...golf.

Night of the Living Dead Live Written by Christopher Bond, Dale Boyer and Trevor Martin, Created by Christopher Harrison and Phil Pattison 10/13/2023-10/29/2023

Six strangers in a lonely farmhouse, surrounded by brain-eating zombies – what could go wrong?

A Tuna Christmas by Ed Howard, Joe Sears, Jaston Williams 11/24/2023-12/10/2023

In this hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna, it’s Christmas in the third-smallest town in Texas. Many colorful Tuna denizens, some you will recognize from Greater Tuna and some appearing here for the first time, join in the holiday fun. Audiences who have and who have not seen Greater Tuna will enjoy this laugh-filled evening.

The Lion in Winter by James Goldman 01/12/2024-01/28/2024

Sibling rivalry, adultery, and dungeons – The Lion in Winter 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.

Cactus Flower by Abe Burrows  03/08/2024-03/24/2024

Abe Burrows' crowd-pleasing comedy—about a philandering dentist who avoids commitment by claiming to be married—was a Broadway and Hollywood smash.

'Art' by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton  04/19/2024-05/05/2024

The comedy, which raises questions about art and friendship, concerns three long-time friends, Serge, Marc, and Yvan. Serge, indulging his penchant for modern art, buys a large, expensive, completely white painting. Marc is horrified, and their relationship suffers considerable strain as a result of their differing opinions about what constitutes "art". Yvan, caught in the middle of the conflict, tries to please and mollify both of them.

The Foreigner by Larry Shue  05/31/2024-06/16/2024

The Foreigner is a fun, two-act comedy. The story takes place in a fishing lodge in rural Georgia where two Englishmen, Froggy and Charlie, arrive as guests. The shy Charlie agreed to accompany Froggy on the trip after his sick wife begged him to go. Froggy claims that Charlie cannot talk because he is a "foreigner" from an exotic country, and does not understand English. Taking the explanation that he's a non-English speaker as fact, the lodge's guests quickly begin revealing their secrets, and Charlie soon discovers scandals amongst some of the residents of the lodge.

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