09-10 Season

Man of La Mancha

September 25, 26, Oct 2, 3 at 8:00pm

September 27 & Oct. 4 at 2:30pm

Five time Tony Award winning Man of La Mancha is a remarkable piece of theatre and one of the great theatrical successes of our time. The original production of this play-within-a-play based on Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote ran for 2,328 performances. Man of La Mancha is the poignant story of a dying old man whose dreams take over his mind. His dream is everyman’s. His tilting at windmills is everyman’s great adventure. Filled with beautiful musical numbers like “The Impossible Dream” and “Dulcinea”, Man of La Mancha remains in your thoughts and your soul well after the final curtain falls.

Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite

November 13,14,20,21 at 8:00pm

November 22 at 2:30pm

Hilarity abounds in Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite as three couples successively occupy Suite 719 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. According to the NY Times, Plaza Suite "Set the town laughing." In the Visitor From Mamaronecka suburban couple take the suite while their house is being painted and it turns out to be the one in which they honeymooned 23 (or was it 24?) years before and was yesterday the anniversary, or is it today? This wry tale of marriage in tatters is followed by the exploits of a Hollywood producer who, after three marriages, is looking for fresh fields in the Visitor from Hollywood. His rendezvous with a childhood sweetheart, now a suburban housewife, turns out to be more than he bargained for. In the Visitor from Forest Hillsthe last couple is a mother and father fighting about the best way to get their daughter out of the bathroom and down to the ballroom where guests await her wedding. The N.Y. Daily News called Plaza Suite "Wonderfully funny.... The blockbuster (3rd playlet) is the wildest and most uproarious farce I have seen on a stage."

Bye Bye Birdie

February 12,13,19,20 at 8:00pm

February 14 & 21 at 2:30pm

What do you do when you’ve gone into debt to turn an unknown singer into a superstar and he gets drafted? Well, if you’re agent Albert Peterson you stage the biggest farewell kiss ever given to a new G.I by his biggest fan. Never mind that your girlfriend is threatening to leave you. Your Mother wants you to give it all up and become an English teacher or that the fan chosen to deliver that last kiss has a jealous boy friend and an irate father. What do you get when all of this starts to boil over on the Ed Sullivan Show? You get Bye Bye Birdie. Winner of 4 Tony Awards including Best Musical of 1961, Bye Bye Birdie brought to the stage such memorable tunes as Put on a Happy Face and Hymn to a Sunday Evening(Ed Sullivan). Grab your dancing shoes, Birdie is coming to town at the Halton Theatre.

The Piano Lesson by August Wilson

April 9,10,16,17 at 8:00pm

April 18 at 2:30pm

August Wilson won his second Pulitzer Prize, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play for this haunting drama The Piano Lesson. It is 1936 and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he has to come up with the money right quick. He wants to sell an old piano that has been in his family for generations, but he shares ownership with his sister and it sits in her living room. She has already rejected several offers because the antique piano is covered with incredible carvings detailing the family's rise from slavery. Boy Willie tries to persuade his stubborn sister that the past is past, but she is more formidable than he anticipated. The Drama critic of The New York Times wrote “Like other Wilson plays, it (The Piano Lesson) seems to sing even when it is talking."— ". Don’t miss this classic American drama from one America’s most exciting dramatists.