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Merely Players Presents

3785 King Avenue
DORAVILLE, GA 30340

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Italian American Reconciliation

Italian American Reconciliation

Sep 11 – Sep 27, 2026

From Academy Award-winning Moonstruck screenwriter John Patrick Shanley comes the play The New York Times hailed as “a sort of gritty, downtown version of sparkling drawing-room comedy.” Aldo Scalicki has a problem: his best friend, Huey, is about to make a terrible mistake...

Other Desert Cities

Other Desert Cities

Nov 6 – Nov 22, 2026

BY JON ROBIN BAITZ DIRECTED BY: KEVIN DEW Other Desert Cities is a gripping and intelligent family drama set during a holiday gathering in Palm Springs. When Brooke Wyeth returns home to celebrate Christmas with her well-connected, conservative family, she arrives with a memoir...

Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz

Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz

Nov 6 – Nov 22, 2026

Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her parents and bearing a manuscript which reveals a devastating

It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play

It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play

Dec 4 – Dec 20, 2026

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY BY JOE LANDRY DIRECTED BY: MARLA KROHN It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry brings the beloved holiday story to life in a fresh and charming way. Set inside a 1940s radio studio, a small group of actors performs the...

The Women of Willow Creek

The Women of Willow Creek

Feb 24 – Feb 27, 2027

THE WOMEN OF WILLOW CREEK BY JAMIE GOSS DIRECTED BY: JAMIE GOSS Set over the course of 28 days in a rehabilitation facility, this play captures a powerful moment in time. It follows Harper and five other women as they navigate the highs and lows of recovery. Through their...

The Clean House

The Clean House

Apr 9 – Apr 25, 2027

THE CLEAN HOUSE BY SARAH RUHL DIRECTED BY: JULIE SMITH This funny, imaginative, and unexpectedly poignant play is about relationships, purpose, and what it truly means to care for one another. The story centers on Lane, a successful doctor who hires a Brazilian housekeeper more...

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Jun 4 – Jun 20, 2027

GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER BY TODD KREIDLER DIRECTED BY: JACKSON TRENT Todd Kreidler reimagines the iconic story for the stage with warmth, humor, and sharp social insight. When a progressive couple’s daughter arrives home unexpectedly with her new fiancé, the family is forced...

Review: CHOIR BOY at Actor's Express

Review: CHOIR BOY at Actor's Express

by Joseph Harrison · August 11, 2026

Finding the courage to be yourself is rarely easy. Finding that courage in a place where tradition, expectation, and conformity are woven into the fabric of daily life can feel nearly impossible. That tension sits at the heart of CHOIR BOY, now on stage at Actor's Express. Tarell Alvin McCraney's po…

Review: BASURA at Alliance Theatre

Review: BASURA at Alliance Theatre

by Joseph Harrison · June 20, 2026

Featuring music and lyrics by Gloria Estefan and Emily Estefan, a book by Karen Zacarías, and direction by Michael Greif, BASURA is a vibrant, uplifting new musical filled with heart, hope, and the transformative power of music.…

REVIEW: Aurora Theatre’s IN THE HEIGHTS Soars

REVIEW: Aurora Theatre’s IN THE HEIGHTS Soars

by Amanda Theriot-Greenwell · June 12, 2026

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first musical In the Heights takes standard Broadway fare and moves it slightly more uptown - to 183rd Street, to be specific.  Lawrenceville's Aurora Theatre has its patrons do the same, moving a little further north outside the Perimeter to see their own new production of t…

REVIEW: Radical Royals Dazzle in SIX at the Fabulous Fox Theatre

REVIEW: Radical Royals Dazzle in SIX at the Fabulous Fox Theatre

by Amanda Theriot-Greenwell · May 3, 2026

Take six insanely talented songstresses, a four-piece all-female band, an intricate LED-based set piece, some glow-in-the-dark glasses and studded platform boots, and what have you got? Surely not a historical recreation of the tale of Henry VIII and his six infamous wives. Yet that is exactly what …

Review: CHICKEN AND BISCUITS at Springer Opera House

Review: CHICKEN AND BISCUITS at Springer Opera House

by Russell Warne · April 23, 2026

'Family is a loaded word.' This line from Douglas Lyons's script for Chicken & Biscuits epitomizes the play. At the funeral for the patriarch of the Jenkins clan, the question of 'family' loads every scene with meaning and humor. At the Springer Opera House, Chicken & Biscuits is a comedy about fa…

Past Shows

36 total · showing 31–36

The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps

Sep 23 – Oct 9, 2022

Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This two-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany...

The Fantasticks by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones

The Fantasticks by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones

Nov 5 – Nov 21, 2021

The Fantasticks is the longest-running musical in the world and with good reason: at the heart of its breathtaking poetry and subtle theatrical sophistication is a purity and simplicity that transcends cultural barriers. The result is a timeless fable of love that manages to be...

The Mother of God Visits Hell

The Mother of God Visits Hell

Apr 2 – Apr 3, 2021

Based on a poem described in "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the Virgin Mary travels to hell to comfort the souls in torment. While there, she becomes so moved by their plight that she pleads with God to forgive them. When he refuses, a war erupts between Heaven...

Spoonriver Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

FeaturedSpoonriver Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

Nov 20 – Nov 21, 2020

WhenSpoon River Anthologywaspublished in 1915, Edgar Lee Masters shattered the myth of small-town America as the bastion of American virtue. In his thinly veiled fictional town of Spoon River, situated in central Illinois near Lewistown, where Masters grew up, the honest...

The Meeting by Jeff Stetson

The Meeting by Jeff Stetson

Oct 9

Fascinating and dramatically compelling, this eloquent play depicts the supposed meeting of two of the most important men of modern times: Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Differing in their philosophies, but alike in their mutual respect, the two men debate their...

Un Lugar Para Sueños

Un Lugar Para Sueños

Sep 26

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage month with Merely Players Presents! September 26 at 7 p.m., Un Lugar Para Sueos (in English, A Place for Dreams) retells the courageous accounts of Cuban refugees who fled Dictator Fidel Castro, Communism, and the life they knew to the United States...

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