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BOOTLESS STAGEWORKS

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Wilmington, DE 19806


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I AM MY OWN WIFE Comes to Bootless Stageworks in October


by Stephi Wild - September 06, 2022

Bootless Stageworks presents I AM MY OWN WIFE by Doug Wright in October. I Am My Own Wife is an examination of the life of German antiquarian Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, born Lothar Berfelde, who killed her father when she was a young child and survived the Nazi and Communist regimes in East Berlin as ...

Previews: EVIL DEAD, THE MUSICAL at Bootless Stageworks


by Rosanne DellAversano - July 11, 2022

It's been a few years since Bootless staged its fan favorite production of Evil Dead, The Musical. And, now that COVID-19 is getting further in the rearview mirror, Bootless deemed it time to bring back the beloved annual Summer Horror Bloody Show, complete with an awesome Pit Splatter Zone....

BWW Feature: New Castle County Offerings For Holiday Theatre


by Rosanne DellAversano - December 01, 2021

Here's where to go to see that holiday show. A list of theaters in New Castle County offering Christmas themed productions and recommendations as to where to grab those pre-show eats....

Past Shows

THANK YOU, MOTHER - A Celebration Cabaret


THANK YOU, MOTHER A cabaret dedicated to the Mothers of Stage, Screen, Music, Literature and More. Join us for a one night only special event ...

[title of show] by Jeff Bowen & Hunter Bell


Prepare for 90 minutes of musical theater brilliance filled with gorgeous harmonies and a witty, laugh out loud script.   ony award nominated [title of ...

Evil Dead, The Musical
Evil Dead, The Musical
7/15 - 7/23/2022


EVIL DEAD, THE MUSICAL - The Deadites return for another Ash-kicking.Five college students spend the weekend in an abandoned cabin in the woods, accidentally unleashing ...

[title of show]
3/25 - 4/2/2022


Every Time A Bell Rings...
Every Time A Bell Rings...
12/9 - 12/12/2021


An original adaptation of the classic movie, Its A Wonderful Life, and the short story the movie was based upon, The Greatest Gift.George Pratt stands ...

I am My Own Wife
2/5 - 2/13/2021


Based on a true story, and inspired by interviews conducted by the playwright over several years, I AM MY OWN WIFE tells the fascinating tale ...

Bubble Boy
11/6 - 11/14/2020


Bootless Stageworks book by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, music and lyrics by Cinco Paul, based on the film Bubble Boy by Cinco Paul and ...

STELLA by Neil Bartlett
STELLA by Neil Bartlett
6/19 - 6/27/2020


Alone in a darkened room, a man waits for a knock on the door.A look back across a life filled with laughter, heartbreak and ragea ...

GRINDR: The Opera
GRINDR: The Opera
2/7 - 2/15/2020


GRINDR: The Opera puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera. With musical styles ranging from baroque to contemporary pop, ...

Calendar Girls
Calendar Girls
11/1 - 11/16/2019


Based on the true story of eleven Womens Institute (WI) members who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukemia Research Fund.When ...

Murderess by Anne Bertram
Murderess by Anne Bertram
9/13 - 9/14/2019


Six notorious killers from American history reveal their secrets in a suite of monologues written and woven together by Anne Bertram. Each woman offers her ...

Murderess by Anne Bertram
Murderess by Anne Bertram
9/13 - 9/14/2019


Six notorious killers from American history reveal their secrets in a suite of monologues written and woven together by Anne Bertram. Each woman offers her ...

You've Got Red on You - An Original Musical Parody


Shaun has coasted through life and still hasnt gotten very far. Friday nights, he usually winds up at the local pub, the Winchester, for a ...

Disenchanted: A Disney Princess Spoof-takular!


DISENCHANTED! A Disney Spoof-tacular princess musical!Poisoned apples. Glass slippers. Who needs'em?! Not Snow White and her posse of disenchanted princesses in the hilarious hit musical ...

DISENCHANTED!
DISENCHANTED!
3/29 - 4/6/2019


DISENCHANTED! A musical comedy that gives fairytales the bird.Poisoned apples. Glass slippers. Who needs em?! Not Snow White and her posse of disenchanted princesses in ...

STELLA - A Script Reading with Conversation


Alone in a darkened room, a man waits for a knock on the door. As the minutes tick by he looks back across a life ...

Oedipus for Kids!
Oedipus for Kids!
11/15 - 11/17/2018


Your pal Oedipus – a kid a lot like you – takes an exciting journey across ancient Greece to become king. Warning: May contain manslaughter, ...

[title of show]
[title of show]
9/28 - 10/6/2018


Prepare for 90 minutes of musical theater brilliance filled with gorgeous harmonies and a witty, laugh out loud script. Music and Lyrics by Jeff Bowen ...

EVIL DEAD, THE MUSICAL
EVIL DEAD, THE MUSICAL
7/13 - 7/21/2018


Bootless returns for another round of Ash-Kicking! Five college students spend the weekend in an abandoned cabin in the woods, accidentally unleashing an evil terror. ...

NEXT TO NORMAL
5/11 - 5/19/2018


Next to Normal delves into the raw and complex world of mental illness, specifically focusing on bipolar disorder. The story centers around Diana, a wife ...

TICK TICK BOOM!
10/6 - 10/14/2017


A musical look at the courage it takes to follow your dreams, strongTICK, TICK... BOOM!/strong is a href="http://mtishows.com/biography.asp?writerid=3622"Jonathan Larson/a's autobiographical tale of a young composer ...

tick,tick...BOOM!
tick,tick...BOOM!
9/29 - 10/14/2017


Before creating RENT, Jonathan Larson had another story to tell…his own. Jon is a soon-to-be 30 year old, rarely successful composer, on the brink of ...

YOU'VE GOT RED ON YOU
YOU'VE GOT RED ON YOU
7/14 - 7/22/2017


Shaun has coasted through life and still hasn’t gotten very far. Friday nights, he usually winds up at the local pub, the Winchester, for a ...

ORANGE IS THE NEW MUSICAL: THE UNAUTHORIZED PARODY


Direct from LA Fringe – making its East Coast premiere… Your favorite Netflix prison series, Orange Is The New Black, gets the full parody treatment, ...

THE NEWLYWED GAME & MORE


So many Bootless Artists got hitched in 2016, we just had to put together a way for them to share their wedding bliss with all ...

BODY & SOLD: TRUE STORIES OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING SURVIVORS


In the documentary play, BODY & SOLD, winner of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist’s Award, we hear the stories of eight teen survivors and the ...

THE TRUMP CARD by Mike Daisey
THE TRUMP CARD by Mike Daisey
10/28 - 10/29/2016


Does anyone really know Donald Trump? Through a monologue written by the incredible Mike Daisey, and as performed by local artist, Randall McCann, THE TRUMP ...

SPRING AWAKENING
SPRING AWAKENING
10/7 - 10/22/2016


Set in a small 19th century German town, Melchior, Wendla, Moritz, and their classmates begin to experience changes that confuse and fascinate them, but coming ...

Musical of the Living Dead
Musical of the Living Dead
7/15 - 7/23/2016


Musical of the Living Dead takes audiences on a rip-roaring journey beyond the grave with its satirical send-ups of classic zombie films and musical theater. ...

MUSICAL OF THE LIVING DEAD
MUSICAL OF THE LIVING DEAD
7/15 - 7/23/2016


Musical of the Living Dead is a hysterical, hummable, 4D zombie doomsday adventure complete with Bootless’ infamous The Pit Splatter Zone ever. Musical of the ...

IN THE NEXT ROOM (OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY)


Off come the corsets. Up go the petticoats. A comedy about marriage and intimacy of electric proportions. Set in the 1880s, just after the advent ...

BOOTLESS IN CONCERT - Elfman, Rosauro & More


Please join us for a one night only concert in support of our Artist Fund. This season, we’re going a bit off the track with ...

Freud's Last Session
Freud's Last Session
2/19 - 3/5/2016


reud’s Last Session centers on a hypothetical meeting between legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud and young, rising Oxford Don, C.S. Lewis, to his home in ...

Star Wars: A New Musical Hope
Star Wars: A New Musical Hope
10/9 - 10/17/2015


This semi-original work returns to Bootless in preparation for the new Star Wars movie, Episode VII: The Force Awakens. A musical parody of Episode IV: ...

Evil Dead: The Musical
Evil Dead: The Musical
7/10 - 7/18/2015


Bootless returns for a fourth round of Ash-Kicking! Five college students spend the weekend in an abandoned cabin in the woods, accidentally unleashing an evil ...

An Evening of Disasterous One Acts


In honor of our 10th anniversary, Bootless returns to its roots with an evening of one act plays. TITANTIC by Christopher Durang A play with ...

Chess - In Concert
Chess - In Concert
4/17 - 4/18/2015


CHESS by Benny Anderson & Bjorn Ulvaeus (Music) / Tim Rice (Lyrics) A romantic triangle between two top chess players, an American and a Russian, ...

Bug
Bug
2/27 - 3/14/2015


Set in a seedy Oklahoma City motel room, the play centers on the meeting between Agnes, a divorced waitress with a fondness for cocaine and ...

A Cabaret of Characters - Bootless Stageworks 10th Anniversary Celebration


Join Bootless in celebrating ten terrific years in theater. Bootless Alumni return to act, sing and dance their way down memory lane with highlights from ...

Musical of the Living Dead
Musical of the Living Dead
7/11 - 7/19/2014


THEY’RE COMING TO GET YOU, BARBRA! MOTLD - MasterNamed Chicago’s Best Musical, Best New Play and Funniest Show, Musical of the Living Dead makes it ...

Summer Stage
Summer Stage
7/11 - 7/19/2014


We can’t say yet what show will bring about the wrath of the undead but we can say with certainty that it will be bigger, ...

The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps
5/9 - 5/17/2014


Take four actors portraying over 150 characters (including inanimate objects), a melodrama adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan, a 1935 film by Alfred ...

Venus in Fur
Venus in Fur
3/13 - 3/22/2014


VENUS IN FUR by David Ives STORY LINE: Thomas Novachek is the writer-director of a new play, an adaptation of the 1870 novel Venus in ...

Not The Messiah
Not The Messiah
1/31 - 2/1/2014


Not The Messiah tells the tragic tale of Mandy, impregnated by a Roman soldier, giving birth to Brian, a reluctant revolutionary of the People’s Front ...

NOTM
1/17 - 1/25/2014


The Texas Chainsaw Musical!
The Texas Chainsaw Musical!
7/19 - 7/27/2013


The Texas Chainsaw Musical! comes to Delaware with tons more bloody fun and body parts too. Let the chainsaw roar again this summer. The Texas ...

NEXT TO NORMAL
5/9 - 5/19/2013


Bootless Stageworks presents the Tony Award Winning and Pulitzer Prize winning hit musical, "Next to Normal", in support of Delaware Mental Health Awareness Month. Its ...


The Wild Women of Winedale in Delaware The Wild Women of Winedale
Patchwork Playhouse (5/3 - 5/18)
Meredith Willson's THE MUSIC MAN in Delaware Meredith Willson's THE MUSIC MAN
Milford's Second Street Players at the Riverfront Theater (7/12 - 7/21)
The Simon & Garfunkel Songbook: An Evening of Songs & Stories featuring Aztec Two-Step 2.0 with narration by Tony Traguardo in Delaware The Simon & Garfunkel Songbook: An Evening of Songs & Stories featuring Aztec Two-Step 2.0 with narration by Tony Traguardo
The Baby Grand (5/11 - 5/11)
Wild Women of Winedale
Highlight of Vacation (3/5 - 5/17)
A Murder, A Mystery, A Marriage in Delaware A Murder, A Mystery, A Marriage
Patchwork Playhouse (7/12 - 7/27)
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